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Welcome to May: Here’s what you’re doing this month

May 1, 2026

broadstreet.zone(159870); May in Milwaukee usually serves as the calm before the storm that is summer festival season. By this time next month, we’ll be inundated with block parties, weekly concerts, and a mas...

A clue-by-clue solution to our 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival treasure hunt

Matt Wild

May 1, 2026

In case you missed it, the 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped up Thursday night. It was a blast! (The Closing Night film, Power Ballad, was great!) Oh, and something else wrapped up earlier in the week: our e...

The Lemon Twigs at Turner Hall: I came for monkey rock opera but stayed for great guitars and harmony

Tad Kriofske Mainella

May 1, 2026

One comes to things in so many ways. One comes to The Lemon Twigs by having a friend loco enough to teach for 30 years with an open mind and ears, all three wide enough ajar for a rock opera about a couple adop...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Sassafras

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 1, 2026

broadstreet.zone(174293); Milwaukee Record is working in partnership with Urban Cat Coalition to help find loving homes for area cats. Each week, we—with generous sponsorship from Skilos, A Family Pet Store—pl...

Here’s the lineup for the 2026 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild

April 30, 2026

The Milwaukee summer festival season is just around the corner, and with it, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival. The 2026 installment of Summer Soulstice is set for Saturday, June 13 from no...

Let’s remember some former Milwaukee festivals

Tyler Maas

April 30, 2026

Earlier this week, we posted our annual summer festival guide. The extensive collection of fests, fairs, music series, block parties, and other in-person happenings is a massive (and regularly updated) list tha...

Ponder life’s questions with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel headline poetry

Matt Wild

April 30, 2026

Why are we here? What happens when we die? Why is the world in love again? Yes, life is full of questions. Luckily, Wisconsin's newspaper of record, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is here to answer them. And a...

Milwaukee Music Roundup: April 2026

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 30, 2026

broadstreet.zone(159870); Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup! LPs AND EPs OF NOTE Bitch Creek - s/t Bitch Creek by Bitch ...

The Gig to host “25 Year Block Party” on June 28

Tyler Maas

April 30, 2026

Milwaukee is blessed to have an overwhelming abundance of personality-laden, no-frills taverns situated on unassuming street corners and tucked away in neighborhoods. Riverwest is home to a bunch of bars that f...

Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman make sold-out Riverside Theater their home

CJ Johnson

April 29, 2026

After walking into The Riverside Theater for Tuesday night's sold-out Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman show, I momentarily thought perhaps I was in the wrong venue. Rather than the usual gaudy trappings of most tou...

Milwaukee Brewers fans enjoying a full carry-in spaghetti dinner at American Family Field

Watch hungry Brewers fans test AmFam Field’s carry-in spaghetti policy

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 29, 2026

The list of things you can and cannot bring into a ballpark is long and confusing. But at Milwaukee's American Family Field, a few permitted items stand out: personal size food items and one-gallon clear sealab...

MKE Music Rewind: Remembering Sd Laika’s transgressive ‘That’s Harikari’ (2014)

Harrison Colby

April 29, 2026

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. In this installment: Sd Laika's 2014 LP That's Harikari....

Milwaukee's Public Works Committee discussing creating security zones around entertainment districts

Milwaukee may explore creating ‘security zones’ around Water Street, other entertainment districts

Matt Wild

April 29, 2026

It seems hardly a day goes by without news of violence and unrest in Milwaukee's downtown entertainment districts like Water Street. And while the Common Council and Mayor Cavalier Johnson have received plenty ...

Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (April 15-28, 2026)

Matt Wild

April 29, 2026

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...

Raise a glass at these 7 Milwaukee beer festivals

Tyler Maas

April 29, 2026

broadstreet.zone(185613); Milwaukee is known and widely celebrated for two very specific things: festivals and beer. Sometimes the city's two most famous and beloved attributes come together in the form of a f...

WMSE’s Local/Live: World I Hate

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 29, 2026

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 28, 2026: Worl...

Unaccompanied, unbothered, unforgettable: The pleasures of going to concerts alone

Annie Raab

April 28, 2026

Does anyone remember Bucket Works? Or maybe Bucketworks? Bucket Worx? I don't remember if it was the name of a music series, or the venue, or—and this is not unlikely—not a name at all and something my friend m...

Here’s the 2026 lineup for Boerner Botanical Gardens’ Concerts In The Garden music series

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 28, 2026

Boerner Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners (9400 Boerner Dr.) is more than just a gorgeous Milwaukee County park (and the site of the wildly popular China Lights). It’s also a great place to take in a free conc...

State Fair’s 2026 Sporkies and Drinkies: Bayou Crunch Cup, Color-Changing Swamp Juice, more

Matt Wild

April 28, 2026

It's only April, but the Wisconsin State Fair (August 6-16) is already in a mood. How can we tell? Because today, the State Fair announced its Sporkies and Drinkies finalists for 2026. That's an early announcem...

The Catered Quiz: Allen Strickland Williams answers questions about ‘NewsRadio’ and Kurt Vonnegut

Rick Katschke

April 28, 2026

On this week’s episode of The Catered Quiz, comedian Allen Strickland Williams joins the show to answer questions about NewsRadio and Kurt Vonnegut. We also talk about Dr. Demento, Tom Lehrer, and Franz Kafka. ...

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