Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re horny
Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication deigns ...
Oh god, the Milwaukee area is getting not one, but TWO “selfie studios”
To quote Nate Gunray from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND. NOW THERE ARE TWO OF THEM. (Two Milwaukee-area selfie studios, that is.)
You've probably already read about S...
“Hardest festival tickets to buy in the world”? According to one website: Summerfest
Here at Milwaukee Record, we regularly employ our Great Job, Milwaukee! bot to cover the city's many appearances in online travel stories and dopey online listicles. Did you know that Milwaukee is one of the "5...
Milwaukee Music Roundup: May 2021
Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup. (Want to hear us discuss a few selections on WUWM’s Lake Effect? Click HERE.)
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Foo Fighters will play American Family Insurance Amphitheater July 30
And the NATURE IS HEALING concert announcements keep on comin': Yes, the Foo Fighters will play Milwaukee's American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Friday, July 30. They'll be joined by Radkey. Tickets go on ...
Today: Milwaukee’s mask mandate ends, Milwaukee’s electric scooter season begins
It's the day the prophesies warned us about: Today—June 1, 2021—sees the end of Milwaukee's mask mandate, and the beginning of its electric scooter season. It's Doomsday, the Apocalypse, the End Times, and the ...
Shah Jee’s on Downer Avenue is closed
Heads up, all 17 of you (including us) who frequented the Shah Jee's on Downer Avenue: it's closed. For good. "Closed. For good," reads a sign on the front door:
The Downer Avenue Shah Jee's—located at 3...
Watch Myles Coyne take a spin around town in video for “Digital Age”
There's an interesting push-and-pull in the video for Myles Coyne's latest single, "Digital Age." The song deals with the pleasures of pandemic-era domestic life: staying in and binging Netflix ("Can we just st...
Ventura’s Taco will open Bay View restaurant May 30
Those living in or around Bay View might know Ventura's Taco as the popular taco truck that's perpetually parked near the post office on Oklahoma Ave. Well, following months of planning, preparation, and renova...
The fruits on Wisconsin’s state flag, ranked
Today is Wisconsin's birthday. Yes, on the 29th day of May way back in 1848, the land that was previously in the Northwest Territory (and briefly part of Massachusetts for some reason) became the 30th state adm...
My favorite taco trucks in Milwaukee
Summer is just about here, which means people are becoming nostalgic for eating food while standing in the sun. I get many requests for taco truck suggestions that will scratch that itch, so here are four stapl...
My First Band: Shane Hochstetler (Call Me Lightning, Howl Street Recordings)
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These days, listeners probably know Shane Hochstetler as the owner, operator, and recording engineer at Howl Street Recordings. In addition to recording hundreds of projects from all c...
Brendan Kelly is coming to The Cooperage July 30
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 Ni...
Matt & Kristin Talk About MKE & WI Stuff #5: Medicaid, county funding, mask burning
If you don’t follow As Goes Wisconsin on your favorite social media platforms, go ahead and change that now. The brainchild of Wisconsin-born writer/comedian Kristin Brey, As Goes Wisconsin examines the many, m...
Supertentacles embraces nature in “No Creature Left Behind” music video
Whether you're currently reading this article on your phone, on a computer or tablet at home, or while hunched over a desk in your office, there's a good chance you're currently looking for a momentary distract...
Carryout Chronicles: Triskele’s
It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. Wanting to highlight local establishments who are keeping food quality high while also keeping its customers and employees as safe ...
Fuzzysurf’s streak of outstanding music videos continues with “Surfana”
Death, taxes, and next-level Fuzzysurf music videos. Those are the three certainties in life. You probably know about the first two things existence guarantees us, but if you're unfamiliar with the third, we'll...
Get vaccinated at drive-thru Summerfest clinic, get a free Summerfest ticket
Still looking to get vaccinated? Want to check out Wilco, Nelly, ZZ Top, and/or a bunch of other grounds stage headliners at this year's Summerfest? Then head over to the Summerfest parking lot on June 5 or Jun...
Johanna Rose embraces change with ‘Lunar Eclipse’
"Who in this past year did not face the reckoning of no escape, and the gentle fears of surrender? Who did not look themselves in the mirror and find new selves, some of them uglier than they knew, and some sur...
Here’s the 2021 Tosa Tonight concert series lineup, schedule
Since 2000, the Tosa Tonight summer concert series has brought free and family-friendly live music to Rotary Performance Pavilion in Wauwatosa's Hart Park. Like most large-scale events in and around Milwaukee, ...