19 Milwaukee Halloween weekend shows
Even though there's still close to two weeks between now and Halloween weekend, there's so much going on in the Milwaukee from October 28 through October 31, you'll probably need time to set your plans. With ...
It’s National Taco Day, so here’s everything we’ve ever written about tacos
Today, Tuesday, October 4, 2016, is National Taco Day. It's a day for celebration, reverence, and tacos. According to the National Taco Day website, "Last year Americans ate over 4.5 billion tacos! That's 490...
MFF2016: Inside The Milwaukee Show II
Here is our second and final round of interviews with local directors participating in the Milwaukee Film Festival's Milwaukee Show series. The second installment screens Sunday, October 2 at the Oriental T...
Exclusive: Stream Gauss’ shape-shifting EP, ‘Thalweg’
Milwaukee's Gauss calls itself a punk band. Perhaps that was accurate for a time, but oh boy, have things changed. In 2012, guitarist-singer Eddie Chapman (currently in Cairns), Andy Grygiel (Absolutely), and...
Here’s the lineup for Rush-Mor’s Bay View Bash stage
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Occurring just days before the autumnal equinox, Bay View Bash is technically the last summer festival on Milwaukee's massive collection of warm weather festivities. As such, the Bash is perennially the ...
Girls Rock alums, Negative/Positive, make a statement on debut EP
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Since 2013, Girls Rock Milwaukee has given girls age 8-16 a chance to learn the ins and outs of starting their very own rock bands. More importantly, the summer-camp-style crash course has aimed to empow...
Welcome to August: Here’s what you’re doing this month
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Though it feels like summer just started, we've now entered the last full month of the season. Summer isn't going out with a whimper, though. Quite the opposite. Though the vast majority of the city's fe...
Milwaukee Record’s guide to $1 beer specials
With literally thousands of bars in and around Milwaukee vying for limited drinking dollars, business owners need to get creative to stay ahead of the competition. Some bar owners draw in customers with great f...
Record Recommended: July 25-31
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Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here ar...
Avast! Showoff to shove off as Concert Cruise opener
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If this were pop-punk Jeopardy, "Who is Showoff?" would be a response destined for at least the $800 category. Still, the Illinois-born quartet was once signed to Maverick Records (Madonna's label), the ...
Tracklist: 19 bygone Milwaukee festivals
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As can be expected for a place with the "City Of Festivals" nickname, Milwaukee isn't exactly hurting for fun, unique, and downright strange events. Though residents always seem open to getting out and c...
Welcome to July: Here’s what you’re doing this month
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Where has the summer gone? Okay, okay, so there's still a ton of summer left, but the bleakness of autumn will be upon us before you know it. Thus, it's important to use your limited summer entertainment...
The best Milwaukee albums of 2016 (so far)
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Believe it or not (we choose not), 2016 is halfway over. Summer may have just begun and winter may seem like a distant nightmare, but the fact remains that the year is currently on the downward slide. It...
Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bands with food names
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With Downtown Dining Week set to run June 2-9, Milwaukee Record decided to spend the next eight days devoting at least some of our bandwidth to covering local dining, both downtown and beyond. Before all...
Milwaukee Record’s 2016 summer festival guide
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Is there anything better than summer in Milwaukee? No, no there is not. For four months out of the year, Milwaukee becomes a warm and joyous place stocked with an improbable number of summer festivals, s...
Tracklist: 16 quintessential Milwaukee patios
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If we Milwaukeeans seem overly patio-happy come springtime, can we really be blamed? The weather finally starts to get its shit together, the previous 8,000 years of winter begin to fade away, and the on...
Tracklist: 14 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2016
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Love it or hate it, it's safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were su...
Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee record labels weathering the storm
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Tonight, Rush-Mor Records will welcome Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore, who will discuss his new book, How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. The book tracks the origin of Livermore's label, the growt...
Ladies Rock Milwaukee bands women together through collaboration
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Last year, the inaugural Ladies Rock Milwaukee camp brought 16 women together for a weekend anchored on the principles of positivity and collaboration. Four bands worth of first-time musicians picked up ...
Liar’s Trial get dark on new album
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On Friday, outlaw country combo Liar's Trial will celebrate an album release three years in the making, as Songs About Mama, Trains, Trucks, Prison & Gettin' Drunk finally sees the light of day after...