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August 21, 2024

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, August 20, 2024: BLA...

Here’s who’s playing the WMSE Stage at Bay View Bash

August 20, 2024

While many of Milwaukee’s summer festivals, block parties, and other large scale happenings have already come and gone, one of the city’s best fests is still on the horizon. Bay View Bash will return to Kinnick...

Station 1846 brings new coffee shop, bar, event venue to Walker’s Point

Carmella D'Acquisto

August 20, 2024

Milwaukee's Walker’s Point neighborhood recently welcomed a new multi-hyphenated gathering space: Station 1846 (215 W. Bruce St.; 414-209-4808). The coffee shop, bar, co-working and event space celebrated its g...

Prost! Oktoberfest season is in full swing in Milwaukee (and beyond)

Rusty Drinkswell

August 20, 2024

Welcome one and all to my favorite time of year for beer…Oktoberfest season! Before we go further, I will immediately address the "it is too early for beer cans to don their iconic blue and white Rautenflagge a...

Dunk beloved locals, one of the goofs from Milwaukee Record, at WMSE’s Backyard BBQ

August 20, 2024

On Saturday, August 24 at Humboldt Park, Milwaukee independent radio station WMSE will say THANK YOU to its listeners and supporters with its annual Backyard BBQ. And yes, the all-caps THANK YOU is appropriate,...

That mural on Humboldt with Mrs. Incredible: The Milwaukee Record Review

August 19, 2024

What is art? Art is many things, of course. Art takes countless forms, is created in countless mediums, and serves countless purposes. Art is infinite. But perhaps the one thing that all art shares is a need...

Mulva advocates for individuality in new single, “Be You”

August 19, 2024

The last time we checked in on Mulva, we were watching the Milwaukee/Chicago pop-punk project with a Seinfeld-related name play at Cactus Club during halftime of a Packers playoff blowout against the Cowboys. I...

Relive the magic of the RNC with this lo-fi documentary

August 19, 2024

Remember the Republican National Convention? The Republican National Convention that was held in Milwaukee July 15-18? Who could forget! The weirdly empty downtown streets! The weirdly empty Milwaukee River! Th...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Tailgaters in Caledonia has great service, high-quality walleye

Caleb Westphal

August 16, 2024

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week, fish fry #554: Tailgaters Bar & Grill ...

Riverwest is getting its own renaissance faire

August 16, 2024

The Bristol Renaissance Faire is an iconic Wisconsin destination/experience/place to eat a turkey leg while watching a guy get pelted with tomatoes. And while there's still time to get ye olde arse to Bristol (...

The Stinkeyes push puns and pull no punches on debut full-length

August 16, 2024

We here at Milwaukee Record are fans of clever wordplay and well-crafted punk rock. You'll find both on display in a big way on Out Of Spite / Out Of Mind, the debut full-length by The Stinkeyes. The self-descr...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Moana

August 16, 2024

Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition—a local organization that’s dedicated to creating a no kill community by humanely reducing the cat population in the Milwaukee area through ta...

Pick the best Pack track in our Packers Song Bracket

August 15, 2024

Can you feel it in the air? Football is coming back! And with another Green Bay Packers season also comes other time-honored traditions throughout Wisconsin. There are Packers parties, snack spreads, day-drinki...

Double Dub’s takes flight, brings wings to the people

Juan Miguel Martinez

August 15, 2024

The process of making something unique out of something that has been made a million times before is a painstaking one. It requires attention to detail. You have to look at it from every side and experiment. Th...

Now you can play ‘Space Raft: The Game’ on your Nintendo Switch

August 15, 2024

If you look up "one of the best Milwaukee bands of the 2010s," you'll find Space Raft. The psych/stoner-tinged rock band released a handful of instant-classic albums between 2014 and 2020, played a ton of shows...

Sink your teeth into Pomona Cider Co.’s ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ pop-up

August 15, 2024

Sure, there's still more than a month of summer left, but Milwaukee is clearly already in the Halloween spirit. Today (10 days after we noticed Halloween goodies were starting to pop up at CVS), we learned abou...

Emmitt James talks Big Band BBQ, philanthropy, new album

August 14, 2024

Last August, we caught up with Emmitt James in advance of his "10 Year Big Band BBQ" show at Third Space Brewing. The show featured a 13-piece backing band and served as a means of both marking and celebrating ...

Relive Dana Ehrmann’s 2024 Wisconsin State Fair coverage with this video

August 14, 2024

In case you missed it, the Wisconsin State Fair drew a record-breaking 1,136,805 festival-goers in 2024. That's a lot of festival-goers! And one of those festival-goers was local stand-up comic (and West Allis ...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Something To Do + Combustor (Live from Chill On The Hill)