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On Milwaukee Day 2024, it’s time to “Reimagine Milwaukee”

April 14, 2024

It's April 14 (4/14), so happy Milwaukee Day / 414 Day / 414 Milwaukee Day / 414 MKE Day, Milwaukee. (Our area code is 414, dontcha know.) Get out there and do some some stuff and enjoy some deals. Also, it's t...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Quentin

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 13, 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...

Gold Steps take mansplainers to task in “Narcissist”

Tyler Maas

April 12, 2024

When Betty Mauritz isn't commanding crowds all over the country as the vocalist of Milwaukee pop-punk outfit Gold Steps, she's working a 9-to-5 at a brewery. Being a woman in those two male-dominated industries...

Scam Likely breaks through with terrific sophomore album, ‘Yolk’

Matt Wild

April 12, 2024

Roughly 10 minutes into Scam Likely's new album Yolk, an unexpected sound arrives: an acoustic guitar. Huh. This is a band whose excellent 2023 debut Getting Worse was stuffed with crunchy indie-rock rocker ...

Garden Home is a band in full bloom on self-titled debut album

Tyler Maas

April 12, 2024

Garden Home hasn't exactly been a stranger to our little parcel of digital real estate in recent years, but the Cream City screamo quartet has somehow managed to attract our attention (and fashion an impressive...

Make our “Milwaukee Daylist” playlist your official Milwaukee Day soundtrack

Tyler Maas

April 12, 2024

Sunday, April 14 marks another "Milwaukee Day" here in the Cream City. This holiday, which originated about 15 years ago as an inside joke between friends who realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking r...

All things Wisconsin (and Frank Lloyd Wright) in ‘Top Chef’ Episode 4

Carmella D'Acquisto

April 11, 2024

Welcome back cheftestants! Last time on Top Chef, the contestants participated in a Door County cherry-themed quickfire challenge where they had 20 minutes to create a dish that married the cherry and one of se...

18 pictures of people taking pictures of the opening of the streetcar’s Couture Transit Concourse

Matt Wild

April 11, 2024

A long-in-the-works Milwaukee public transportation project officially opened on Thursday: the Couture Transit Concourse. Located in the street-level belly of the just-about-finished Couture luxury apartment to...

We’re going back to the ‘Back To The Future’ franchise, screening Part II at the Avalon May 29

Matt Wild

April 11, 2024

Back in May 2023, we screened the 1985 classic Back To The Future at the Avalon Atmospheric Theater. You know, the first one with the whole "Marty's mom falls in love with him" thing. Now, one year later, we're...

Valerie Lighthart’s “Backwoods” video brings high fashion to “a vacuum of rural isolation”

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2024

When we last checked in with Valerie Lighthart, the multi-faceted Milwaukee musician was adding to her "By Moonlight" EP trilogy output by releasing a music video for her single "Monster," which we described as...

“Come on, we don’t get to play in Milwaukee every day!” Marc Ribot brings Jazz-Bins to Vivarium

Cal Roach

April 11, 2024

After years of honing his craft in obscurity, Marc Ribot got his big break in the mid-'80s playing guitar for Tom Waits. Listening to those records now—Rain Dogs and intermittently onward—you hear a restrained ...

16 reasons to get excited for the 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

April 10, 2024

Here we go! The 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to light up the city April 11-25. During that two-week stretch, a whopping 131 feature films and 169 shorts will screen at the Oriental Theatre, Downer Theatr...

Lilliput Records has big plans for this year’s Record Store Day

Tyler Maas

April 10, 2024

During last year’s Record Store Day festivities, Lilliput Records—an independent record retailer owned and operated by former Exclusive Company managers in the same property (1669 N. Farwell Ave.) that its pred...

Here are the Main Stage headliners for the 2024 Wisconsin State Fair

Matt Wild

April 10, 2024

Ah, the Wisconsin State Fair. The food, the animals, the food, the rides, the food, the dog-days-of-summer heat, and the food. We're still four months away from the 2024 installment of the Fair (August 1-11), b...

Royal Mill weathers cold conditions with warm companionship on “Winter In The South”

Tyler Maas

April 10, 2024

When we last checked in with Royal Mill back in January, the self-described "existential indie rock" outfit was chasing its self-titled 2023 debut EP with "Falls Apart," a exceptional single that earned the dis...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Cozy Danger

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 10, 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, April 9, 2024: Cozy ...

A guide to Milwaukee Day (or “414 Day”) 2024 events and deals

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2024

About 15 years ago, a group of friends realized Milwaukee’s 414 area code had a striking resemblance to the numerals in April 14 (or 4/14) and decided to turn that coincidence into a full-blown local holiday. S...

10 Milwaukee artists that had songs on motion picture soundtracks

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2024

This week marks the beginning of the 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival. The citywide celebration of cinema runs April 11-25. During that lengthy span of film-focused programming, Record Store Day will bring music lo...

Before ‘Late Night With The Devil’ at MFF2024, go “Bowling With The Devil” at Landmark Lanes

Matt Wild

April 9, 2024

The 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival kicks off Thursday, April 11, and runs through Thursday, April 25. (Get your tickets and passes HERE.) During that two-week stretch, your friendly neighborhood Milwaukee Record ...

Here’s the 2024 Washington Park Wednesdays lineup

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 9, 2024

It’s not quite summer music series season, but it is summer music series announcement season. The fine folks from Washington Park Wednesdays recently revealed their 2024 musical lineup. Want to know who’s playi...

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