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June 17, 2024

While most music can be enjoyed all year long, we're firm believers in so-called "summer songs." Perhaps they were written and recorded during a different part of the year and, yeah, they can absolutely be list...

Scenes from Summer Soulstice Music Festival 2024

June 17, 2024

The summer solstice isn't until this Thursday; this past Saturday, however, was the East Side's Summer Soulstice Music Festival. Five stages, one DJ alley, dozens of bands and artists, too many vendors to count...

Comedian Mike Hanford is coming to Cactus Club in August

June 17, 2024

Remember when The Sloppy Boys played two sold-out shows at Cactus Club in April? Man, that was fun! (Even though Tim Kalpakis scolded me for blocking the band's fan. It was an accident, Kalpy!) Apparently the b...

Urban Beets will close its Wauwatosa location on June 30

June 17, 2024

Urban Beets, the vegan cafe and juicery that first opened in Milwaukee in 2016 and later expanded to Wauwatosa and Brown Deer, announced Monday that it will close its Wauwatosa location (3077 N. Mayfair Rd.) on...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Jazz

June 14, 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...

Listen to us talk about 10 years of Milwaukee Record on Experience Milwaukee podcast

June 14, 2024

If you missed the news back in April, Milwaukee Record is 10 now! We've been celebrating hitting the decade milestone with a series of events, new product releases, and what qualifies as a "media blitz" (at lea...

Old-world service meets new-school grocery at Wioletta’s Polish Market

Juan Miguel Martinez

June 13, 2024

One of the major sites in Milwaukee when it comes to European immigration is not our beloved life-size dioramas in the Milwaukee Public Museum, but on the intersection of 6th and Lincoln. There is where the tou...

Milwaukee’s Dan Jacobs moves on to tropical, penultimate ‘Top Chef: Wisconsin’

Carmella D'Acquisto

June 13, 2024

Welcome back cheftestants! Last time on Top Chef, they wrapped in Wisconsin. That's right, the final four chefs—Laura Ozyilmaz, Danny Gacia, Milwaukee's Dan Jacobs, and Savannah Miller—left the dairyland and he...

Get ready for The Sugar Maple’s “Warm Apple Nights” ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’ pop-up with these photos

June 13, 2024

In case you missed the news, The Sugar Maple (441 E. Lincoln Ave.)—with a mini assist by your friends at Milwaukee Record—is paying tribute to Joe Pera Talks With You with a multifaceted pop-up experience relat...

Meet A Brewer: Get to know George Bluvas from Water Street Brewery

June 13, 2024

broadstreet.zone(160166); In Milwaukee Record’s “Meet A Brewer” series, we aim to introduce you to some of the professionals behind the scenes who are responsible for making your favorite local beers. The recu...

The High Crowd Café to bring infused beverages and bakery goods to Brady Street

June 13, 2024

Brady Street pretty much has it all. The nine-block stretch on the East Side is home to bars and restaurants for all tastes, oodles of retail shops, a cat cafe, and even a dedicated "dart mart and juggling empo...

Wilco kicks off summer tour, smooths over brief crowd fracas at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

June 13, 2024

Last month, the Chicago folk-rock veterans of Wilco celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band. Again. Yes, although many fans will recall the band's 2014 Milwaukee stop on its 20th anniversary tour, plenty do...

State Fair’s 2024 Sporkies: Cool Ranch Doritos Pickle, Hot Ham & Glazers, more

June 12, 2024

It's almost time for the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair! (It runs August 1-11.) And that means it's time to unveil, ponder, drool over, and/or worry about this year's Sporkies finalists! You know, the Sporkies! The ...

Opposites attract on Combustor and Tron Jovi’s ‘Bent & Snapped’ remix EP

June 12, 2024

As Milwaukee's music scene continues to strengthen and unify, we're seeing more instances of local artists covering, remixing, and otherwise re-imagining each other's material. Just a few semi-recent examples t...

New beach party series will feature live music, “gargantuan fluorescent tentacles”

June 12, 2024

Nothing says "SUMMER" quite like the beach. And yet Milwaukee's beaches can feel strangely underutilized during the summer months. Sure, Bradford Beach is loaded with volleyball players and random sunbathers, b...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (May 29 – June 11)

June 12, 2024

broadstreet.zone(154824); Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Def Harmonic

June 12, 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, June 11, 2024: Def H...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Find the road to Barnacle Bud’s, find yourself at a hidden waterfront gem

Vince Morales

June 11, 2024

Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some Milwaukee things become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Barnacle Bud's! On the island of Maui in Hawaii, there is something called...

A guide to finding former Bucks players on BIG3 rosters