Tagged Cactus Club

Cactus Club tries to adapt, evolve in order to survive

July 23, 2020

It's been said over and over again, but it's worth repeating: music venues were the first businesses to close when the COVID-19 crisis hit America, and they'll be among the last to reopen. Among venues in and a...

Cactus Club has been sold to Kelsey Kaufmann

Tyler Maas

February 10, 2020

Beginning this Wednesday, Cactus Club will be under new ownership. Longtime owner Eric Uecke has agreed to sell the Bay View bar and music venue to manager Kelsey Kaufmann, who will officially take over pending...

Cactus Club becomes first Milwaukee venue to apply for new all-ages license

Matt Wild

January 28, 2020

Bay View's venerable Cactus Club will be the first Milwaukee venue to take advantage of a new (or updated, rather) license that makes it easier to host all-ages shows. Tuesday morning at a Licenses Committee he...

Milwaukee Record Halftime Show concert series returns to Cactus Club

Tyler Maas

August 13, 2019

Most fans of the Green and Gold probably aren’t in a hurry to look back at last season. However, one of the few bright spots (other than Davante Adams, the emergence of Aaron Jones, and doing away with Mike McC...

My First Band: Restorations

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 19, 2019

Even though this is technically the seventh My First Band episode, this was the first interview recorded for the show...by a long shot. Last October, host Tyler Maas asked Restorations if any members wanted to ...

Maya Ophelia’s puts a vegan twist on Filipino, Mexican, and Puerto Rican food favorites

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2019

It's safe to say there's never been a better time to be vegan in Milwaukee.But as good as things have become for local vegans of late, there's still lots of room for improvement. Yes, even though the city i...

Hear Klassik reinterpret time-tested material on his ‘American Klassiks’ live album

Tyler Maas

March 7, 2019

On November 16, a sold-out crowd packed Cactus Club to hear Milwaukee singer, rapper, producer, multi-instrumentalist and all-around visionary Klassik reinterpret time-tested spirituals, hymns, and anthems in w...

Milo says goodbye to Milo at sold-out Cactus Club show

Tanner Owen

February 15, 2019

On the heels of his latest album, Budding Ornithologists Are Weary Of Tired Analogies, Rory Ferreira, a.k.a. Milo, rapped for a sold-out crowd at Cactus Club Thursday night. Milo has dubbed this tour "MILO'S FI...

METZ will return to Cactus Club on May 27

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2019

METZ isn’t a particularly difficult band to understand. Amid a modern music landscape that’s rife with clunky sub-genre descriptors and acts haphazardly piling 10 pounds of influences into five-pound bags, the ...

Green Day songs and football-focused lyrics come together in “Green Day Packers”

Tyler Maas

December 10, 2018

Way back in August, we announced the lineup of our Milwaukee Record Halftime Show series at Cactus Club. At that time, many of you asked about the "Secret Band" that was slated to perform on December 16. In all...

Public Domain: PEARS perform “Camptown Races”

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 23, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features adapting some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been heard before. Watch the entire series here.It's...

Relive Beet Street Harvest Festival 2018 with these photos

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 15, 2018

Though rain put a damper on last year's festivities, Beet Street Harvest Festival, thankfully, came back for a third year. And it was amazing! Spearheaded by Cactus Club and in association with Goodkind and Pal...

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

Tyler Maas

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...

Restorations talk time away, new direction, Philadelphia’s music scene

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2018

Much has changed since the last time Restorations were on tour. Not long after the Philadelphia rock outfit's tour stop in Milwaukee in early 2015, the band took lengthy break, they parted ways with their label...

Beet Street Harvest Festival returns October 13

Tyler Maas

September 13, 2018

It's been quite a run, but this weekend's Bay View Bash pretty much concludes summer festival season here in Milwaukee, right? Wrong. The city will officially be festing into fall with Beet Street Harvest Festi...

Milwaukee Record Halftime Show concert series returns to Cactus Club

Tyler Maas

August 27, 2018

Most fans of the Green and Gold probably aren't in a hurry to look back at last season. However, one of the few bright spots (other than Davante Adams, that is) in a painful and injury-riddled 7-9 campaign was ...

Next week’s Hot Snakes show is moving to Mad Planet

Tyler Maas

March 7, 2018

Back in January, we anxiously reported that Hot Snakes (of "Holy shit, the motherfucking Hot Snakes!" fame) would be playing at the cozy confines of Cactus Club on Thursday, March 15. Predictably, the show sold...

Cactus Club has moved Ty Segall’s April 9 show to Mad Planet

Tyler Maas

January 25, 2018

Last week, Ty Segall's April 9 show at Cactus Club sold out in mere minutes, making it one of the fastest sellouts in the cozy Bay View bar's history. In effort to meet the unprecedented demand of customers, Ca...

Holy shit! Hot Snakes are coming to Cactus Club

Tyler Maas

January 3, 2018

We're just three days into the year and it's already been made abundantly clear 2018 is going to be better than 2017 was. How can we be so certain? That's simple. You see, Cactus Club just announced Hot Snakes ...

Public Domain: Queen Hilma performs “Come Josephine In My Flying Machine”

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 29, 2017

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features musicians adapting some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been heard before. Watch the entire series her...