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January 9, 2019

It seems like we’re just days removed from celebrating the best albums and EPs Milwaukee managed in 2018. With all the promise a new year brings also comes the promise of new music. In the same way many of us r...

Streetcars, the State of Wisconsin, and standing up for Milwaukee

December 19, 2018

Twenty-eighteen was kind of a big year for Milwaukee, wasn't it? Like, an honest-to-goodness, no-kidding, no-hyperbole "transformative" year? Seriously! There was the long-awaited opening of the Fiserv Forum, a...

Report: Wisconsin drinks a lot

December 14, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • It's that time of year again—the time to round up the best music of the year,...

Watch Milwaukee BMX rider Tim Knoll take to the streets, do some unbelievable stuff

December 13, 2018

If your last exposure to freestyle BMX was Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX for the PS1, you'll be surprised to see how far the sport has progressed. Or, rather, how far Milwaukee BMX rider Tim Knoll has progressed it....

Christopher Porterfield talks about the long road to ‘Summertime Songs’

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