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December 12, 2018

Field Report is on the tail end of a prosperous and busy year in which the band released a well-received album, toured throughout the country, garnered considerable radio play, welcomed in some new members, and...

Get in the yuletide spirit with 7 more Milwaukee holiday releases

December 10, 2018

Milwaukee musicians can be quite festive from time to time. Through the years, local bands and solo artists have amassed an extensive playlist of amazingly tolerable holiday songs. There list grows more and mor...

257 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Butch’s Red Mill (Brookfield)

Caleb Westphal

December 7, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Have you ever gotten a fish fry in Brookfield? I hadn't. Hell, I've barely ever done anyth...

The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2018

December 5, 2018

As demonstrated in our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2018 (not to mention our list of 10 standout Milwaukee EPs from 2018), a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fai...

10 standout Milwaukee EPs of 2018

December 4, 2018

In the post-everything world of 2018, there's little distinction left between "albums" and "EPs." And yet distinguish we do, dedicating our annual 25 best Milwaukee albums list to releases with five or more son...

The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2018

December 3, 2018

It's tempting to call it a day for "the album." After all, who has time to sit down and listen to an entire record? Hell, who has time to record one? And yet, year after year, "the album" remains something that...

8 reasons you should jump on the Milwaukee Bucks bandwagon

Dan Shafer

November 27, 2018

As recently as a few years ago, if you wandered into a Milwaukee bar between October and April with the hopes of watching the local professional basketball team, you’d probably have had to ask the bartender, “h...

Better Xmas song: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” or Wham!’s “Last Christmas”?

November 27, 2018

It's a question as old as time (or, more accurately, as old as the mid-1990s): Which is the better Christmas song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You," or Wham!'s "Last Christmas"? Both tunes have ...

Requiem for a reluctant deer hunter

November 21, 2018

2014 I've been in my tree stand for an hour when a deer walks out in front of me. It appears from nowhere, absurd in its size, absurd in its very presence. It ambles its way to the dead center of my field of v...

It’s apparently National Fast Food Day, so here’s every chain restaurant adventure we’ve ever had

November 16, 2018

It's apparently National Fast Food Day. Though this fake holiday gives fast food-obsessed American consumers a feeble excuse to justify eating something that's bad for them today, we here at Milwaukee Record tr...

Zen and the art of riding the bus for the hell of it

October 30, 2018

In a country forever obsessed with the automobile, there persists the idea of the "freedom of the open road." Getting in your car—preferably a convertible—and just driving, man. Going where the road takes you. ...

26 Milwaukee Halloween weekend events

October 24, 2018

broadstreet.zone(32806); Our weekly Tracklist is brought to you by the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival. It technically isn’t Halloween until next Wednesday, but the vast majority of Milwaukee’s seasonal celebr...

The time we showed ‘The Human Centipede’ at Hotel Foster during the Milwaukee Film Festival: An oral history

Josh Hoppert

October 23, 2018

According to the nation's top scientists, 2013 occurred approximately five years ago. The Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl, Linda Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the Milwauke...

Courtney Barnett is a force to be reckoned with at sold-out Pabst Theater show

Lauren Keene

October 18, 2018

Australian native Courtney Barnett made a stop in Milwaukee Wednesday night, traveling halfway across the world from her hometown of Melbourne to perform in front of a sold-out crowd at the Pabst Theater. The f...

MKE Music Rewind: Scowler, “Tell Us, Mr. Sir”

Mike Holloway

October 17, 2018

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. It took a mere 12 seconds of listening to Scowler’s 2013 EP How To ...

Metallica follows simple, winning formula in Fiserv Forum debut

Cal Roach

October 17, 2018

The last bastion of music industry consumerism rolled through the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday night for the first of three consecutive nights of massive concerts at the new arena. Metallica hasn’t released a really...

We’re bringing Brendan Kelly to Cactus Club on January 11

October 11, 2018

Brendan Kelly is the best. While you certainly know and love the Chicago punk legend and former Slapstick and Broadways member's modern-day work in The Lawrence Arms, The Falcon, and on his hilariously bleak...

“If the ghost shows again, we are all going to fight together”: The Pfister Hotel All-Star Ghost Team

Tea Krulos

October 9, 2018

October is a time for baseball and spookiness, and nowhere on Earth do the two collide quite like Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. The historic hotel, completed in 1893 by Charles Pfister, has long been rumored to be...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Pizza Shuttle saved my life (and it could save yours)