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April 25, 2016

// No matter where you fall on the all-important/clickable "Is political correctness ruining comedy?" debate, it's safe to say a movie like Mel Brooks' 1974 opus Blazing Saddles could never be made today. T...

Tracklist: 16 quintessential Milwaukee patios

April 20, 2016

// 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...

Record Recommended: April 18-24

April 18, 2016

// 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...

On The Record Episode 61: The state of all-ages music in Milwaukee

April 15, 2016

// Ever since The Globe's last days and the end of the era of the Bay View and Shorewood legion halls doubling as makeshift venues, Milwaukee has struggled to foster and maintain an all-ages music scene. Wi...

Get inside Mark Borchardt’s head with two-song Soup Moat video

April 12, 2016

// There's a moment in 1999's American Movie when forever-put-upon Milwaukee film director Mark Borchardt recounts cleaning a shit-covered cemetery bathroom. "I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for...

Tracklist: 14 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2016

April 11, 2016

// 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: The 31 most uplifting Danny Gokey song names, ranked

April 8, 2016

// According to a loose college friend's Facebook status, American Idol's final episode aired last night, following a long and inescapable run that spanned who gives a shit how many seasons and launched the...

Listen to the entire 16-track “Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker” comp

April 8, 2016

// Back in July 2015, IfIHadAHiFi and Body Futures drummer (and occasional Milwaukee Record contributor) DJ Hostettler announced an ambitious project called "Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott...

It’s our 2nd anniversary, so here are some terrible site names we considered before settling on Milwaukee Record

April 7, 2016

// Back in 2012, Historic Milwaukee and the Pabst Theater staged an event called "Envisioning The Seen," a roundtable discussion featuring a group of local movers and shakers pondering the future of Milwauk...

John Carpenter will perform music from his films this summer at Pabst Theater

April 4, 2016

// Over the course of five decades (!), master filmmaker John Carpenter has left an indelible and idiosyncratic mark on horror and sci-fi with films like Halloween, Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trou...

Tucked Away: Kawa Japanese Restaurant

Tommy Ciaccio

March 31, 2016

// The 2006 evolution of Bayshore from "mall" into "town center" saw the monolithic, one-building format scrapped in exchange for an open-air makeshift village shopping experience. The change made way for g...

I went to Wisconsin’s first “cat cafe” and it was pretty weird

March 30, 2016

// Excluding my dumb food- or drinking-related cries for help and whatever bullshit points I try to make on our podcast, I usually make a concerted effort to keep my personal life far away from this website...

Grand Ave. barber Tony Pullara wants to cut your hair (and be your mayor)

March 29, 2016

Tucked away in a far-off corner of the cavernous Shops of Grand Avenue, above the T.J. Maxx and facing the second-story Chase Bank skywalk, is a barbershop called Shear Perfection. Floor-to-ceiling windows reve...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee record labels weathering the storm

March 28, 2016

// 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...

Grand Ave.’s upcoming name change, Summerfest’s 2016 headliners

March 24, 2016

// Every Wednesday at noon, Ryan Schleicher, Evan Rytlewski, and Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called The Disclaimer, so named because none ...

Record Recommended: March 21-27

March 21, 2016

// 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 "Record Recommended" (patent pending) honor. Here are o...

Tracklist: 11 notable (active) comedians with Wisconsin roots

March 21, 2016

// On Saturday night, the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center played host to Jackie Kashian, a now-Los Angeles based comedian and—with all due respect to NBA journeyman power forward Kurt Nimphius—probab...

Sheriff Clarke is “not encouraging” Trump supporters to “hit first,” except he totally is

March 21, 2016

// Over the weekend, Milwaukee's favorite political troll who occasionally moonlights as a county sheriff, David Clarke, appeared on Fox And Friends to squeeze out his no-holds-barred, straight-shootin', co...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with “Real Pat McCurdy drinking song or fake Pat McCurdy drinking song?”