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Prepare for the Big Gig with My First Band episodes featuring 2022 Summerfest performers

June 23, 2022

broadstreet.zone(81112); Each and every year (with the obvious exception of 2020, of course), Summerfest brings some of the planet’s biggest entertainers to Milwaukee. In addition to the dozens of world-renown...

That time I went to a real ‘Blade’ blood rave

Rob Wieland

June 22, 2022

Blade has one of the best opening action sequences of all time. (Chances are, if you've seen the movie, "Confusion" by New Order is already playing in your head.) It introduces the daywalker wordlessly. It sets...

Only 8 summertime standbys remain in our Milwaukee Summer Bracket

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 22, 2022

broadstreet.zone(98321); With three full rounds of our Milwaukee Summer Bracket now in the books, more than 30,000 total votes have been cast and our hand-selected field of 64 Milwaukee summer standbys has bee...

Milwaukee approves return of those darn scooters for 2022 and 2023

Matt Wild

June 22, 2022

Those darn scooters are officially coming back! Beginning in early August! And sticking around until at least the end of 2023! Yes, following approval from the Public Works Committee on Monday, the full Comm...

A guide to Milwaukee acts playing Summerfest

Tyler Maas

June 21, 2022

Thursday marks the official start of another Summerfest. Now in its 54th year, the "Big Gig" has long been home to deep fried delicacies, prime people watching, and hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from a...

Where to play D&D in MKE

Rob Wieland

June 21, 2022

As is the custom of this weird-ass place called the internet, Milwaukee Record is required by law to mention the latest season of Stranger Things. (It's back! In pog form!) What does this have to do with local ...

Lake Park will celebrate 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted with parade, cake, more

Matt Wild

June 21, 2022

Fredrick Law Olmsted, born in 1822, is known as the father of American landscape architecture. His most famous projects include New York's Central Park and the grounds outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D....

Tom Nelson would like to defeat Ron Johnson, and the Spin Doctors are gonna help him

Matt Wild

June 21, 2022

In Wisconsin, one of the big stories of the upcoming U.S. Senate election is who, if anyone, can defeat former folk music fan and current human shit stain Sen. Ron Johnson. There are plenty of big names in the ...

Make it a sleazy summer with The Grovelers’ new record, ‘Misplaced Cars And Blackouts’

Matt Wild

June 21, 2022

The Grovelers don't mess with the formula. For the past seven years, the Milwaukee group has delivered album after album of greasy, grimy rock 'n' roll, all shot through with dashes of rockabilly, garage, and p...

Malakai Black talks NXT, Forbidden Door, mist, and heavy metal before AEW’s Milwaukee show

Vince Morales

June 20, 2022

A lot has changed in the world of All Elite Wrestling since the last time they came to Milwaukee. UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena was the last stop before AEW's All Out in Chicago. That show featured the AEW in-ring...

Those darn scooters could return to Milwaukee streets by early August

Matt Wild

June 20, 2022

How many "pilot studies" will it take for Milwaukee to decide whether or not to allow those dockless electric scooters to roam/litter the streets? At least three, apparently. On Monday morning, the Common...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (June 12-18)

Matt Wild

June 20, 2022

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it’s a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Relive a slice of the 2022 Summer Soulstice Music Festival with these photos

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 20, 2022

After two pandemic years away, the East Side's long-running Summer Soulstice Music Festival looked a little different in 2022. Instead of a giant chunk of the North/Prospect/Farwell area serving as the fest's f...

Lap steel metal band Velocihamster covers “Ace Of Spades,” more on ‘Uncaged’

Matt Wild

June 20, 2022

As we all know, there can be only one lap steel metal band in the world. Luckily, Milwaukee is home to that lap steel metal band, Velocihamster. Yes, we've covered the unlikely band in these digital pages be...

The I-94/Stadium Interchange project is improving. But its future remains uncertain

Dan Shafer

June 17, 2022

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) he...

My First Band: Eric W. Krueger (Sunday Flood, Leading The Blind)

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 17, 2022

broadstreet.zone(81112); This week's guest is Eric W. Krueger, who has been a musical mainstay in the Fox Cities—a region in northeast Wisconsin—for close to 30 years. Though he's been active in a wide range o...

Stuff We Missed: Brewers unveil City Connect uniforms! Basketball coming to AmFam Field?

Matt Wild

June 17, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: • Do you like alternate sports uniforms? Do you like alternate spor...

New and open now at 3rd St. Market Hall: Kompali Tacos y Tortas

Matt Wild

June 17, 2022

It's Friday, so you know what that means: downtown food hall 3rd St. Market Hall has added 17 new vendors! (Seriously, we think we missed a few in the past week alone.) Today, 3rd St. has added Kompali Tacos...

I asked my mom to review the new Leinenkugel’s “Lodge Pack”

Tyler Maas

June 16, 2022

With all due respect to Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company—the seventh oldest brewery in the country, which single-handedly carried Chippewa Falls to national consciousness—and its storied history, the western W...

Here’s the Milwaukee “News Clues” category from last night’s ‘Jeopardy!’

Matt Wild

June 16, 2022

In case you missed it, Milwaukee had its own "News Clues" category on last night's episode of Jeopardy! And just barely, too—it was thankfully the first category chosen, and Jeopardy! was subsequently preempted...

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