Tag: Direct Hit!

MKE Music Rewind: Direct Hit!, ‘Brainless God’ (2013)

November 30, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: Direct Hit!'s apocalyptic pop-punk masterpiec...

My First Band: Devon Kay (Direct Hit!, Devon Kay & The Solutions)

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 19, 2021

broadstreet.zone(81112); If you're a fan of punk, ska, or any sub-genre in between, you probably know Devon Kay as a member of Direct Hit! and/or the namesake of Devon Kay & The Solutions. Over the past 10...

My First Band: Nick Woods (Direct Hit!, The Box Social)

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 26, 2019

Before Nick Woods was the singer, guitarist, and founding member of Direct Hit! and the co-owner of X-Ray Arcade, the punk rock front man and all-ages venue owner/operator was a suburban kid with an insatiable ...

My First Band: Officer Bradford (Masked Intruder)

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 29, 2019

Jackson Bradford might have the most interesting job in music. The Milwaukee native spends at least half of each year wearing a cop costume and short-shorts while sporting a mustache as part of his lovable “hee...

Hear Direct Hit! cover Nickel&Rose before Local Coverage 2019

Tyler Maas

January 18, 2019

Tonight is the night! Following months of planning and preparation, Local Coverage will take over Turner Hall Ballroom for another evening of fun philanthropy. If you're unfamiliar with our annual benefit conce...

Watch Direct Hit!’s new “Perfect Black” video

Tyler Maas

September 25, 2018

Direct Hit! won't slow down. Since putting out its outstanding Wasted Mind on Fat Wreck Chords in the summer of 2016, the band has not only toured relentlessly, but they've also found time to write, record, ...

Music venue and mini-arcade to open in former site of The Metal Grill and Vnuk’s in Cudahy

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2018

Last June, The Metal Grill—a bar and music venue at 5036 S. Packard Ave. in Cudahy—abruptly closed its doors. In its roughly four-year run, the venue hosted performances by such notables as Off With Their Heads...

What the hell, here are some more Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2017

Almost every December of Milwaukee Record's existence, we've rounded up a mess of amazingly tolerable local songs that are helping to improve the predominately terrible holiday music genre. This year was no dif...

Cactus Club hosted an all-ages show and nothing terrible happened

Lauren Keene

April 24, 2017

Last weekend, Direct Hit! formally released its Fat Wreck Chords reissue of the 2011 album Domesplitter with a hometown show at Cactus Club. In addition to the release show circumstance (and the fact that it wa...

Public Domain: Direct Hit! performs “There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood”

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 30, 2017

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they've never been heard be...

WMSE will release a live Direct Hit! 7-inch for Record Store Day 2017

Tyler Maas

March 6, 2017

Since 2015, local radio institution and chili competition curator WMSE has helped spread the good will and wonder of Record Store Day with a limited-edition release of a 7-inch from a Milwaukee (or Milwaukee-re...

I’m with the band: The ins and outs of Milwaukee music management

Tyler Maas

February 10, 2017

In this era of staggering technological advancement, utter convenience, and clear connection to all corners of the globe, musicians have more say in how, when, and where they're heard than ever before. An art...

Beloved Johnson’s Park dinosaur statue just sold for $11 at auction

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2016

Back in its heyday, Johnson's Park had a Go Kart track, bumper cars, batting cages, a water slide, an arcade, and two 18-hole miniature golf courses that were decorated with massive ceramic statues of a varie...

NOFX’s Fat Mike discusses election night, makes Trump presidency predictions

Nick Woods

November 11, 2016

Last week, when Milwaukee Record asked if I wanted to interview "Fat Mike" Burkett (pictured far right), frontman and bassist for NOFX, and founder and owner of Fat Wreck Chords—the label that released my own...

Headliner for Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party announced

Tyler Maas

June 26, 2016

// Back in May, we announced the stacked lineup for the 9th Annual Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party, which is taking place on Bay View's Potter Avenue on Saturday, July 2. Well, most of the lineup. Today, Milw...

Direct Hit! mixes opportunity with execution on ‘Wasted Mind’

Tyler Maas

June 23, 2016

// Down Appleton Avenue on Milwaukee's far northwest end sits what appears to be an abandoned building. You'd miss it if you weren't looking for it. You might miss it if you were. Next door is Midpoint Mote...

Direct Hit! spots (and becomes?) the East Side Turkey in new video

Tyler Maas

June 8, 2016

// Just over two weeks from now, Direct Hit! will release Wasted Mind, its new full-length and debut record on Fat Wreck Chords, into the world. As one could maybe glean from the title, the album centers on...

Direct Hit! breaks down fourth wall in “Chemical Ability” video

Tyler Maas

April 13, 2016

// Among of the most overdone music video tropes is the one in which a band is filmed rocking out in a dingy practice space. The singer lip-syncs along to the pre-recorded song with fabricated intensity as ...

Direct Hit! signs to Fat Wreck Chords

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2016

// About two weeks ago, Direct Hit! was announced as touring support for NOFX's "Hepatitis Bathtub Tour," which will span 14 shows in nine states this April. Today, the tour mates officially became label ma...

Direct Hit! now has its own hot sauce

Tyler Maas

September 17, 2015

// It’s been a big 2015 for Direct Hit! This year, the Milwaukee pop-punk quartet toured Europe, headlined a stage at Summerfest, created a widely successful all-ages festival of their own, released a re-reco...

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