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December 22, 2025

Your Milwaukee Brewers have it all: two mascots, two statues of Bob Uecker, and one competitive team. But what they don't have is an official dance team. What gives? Happily, that'll change in the 2026 season w...

Milwaukee Record Cat Of The Week: Clover

December 20, 2025

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...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Give the gift of perch at J&B’s Sports Bar & Blue Ribbon Taproom

Caleb Westphal

December 19, 2025

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week: fish fry #624, at J&B's Sports Bar &am...

We’re down to 8 Milwaukee things in our Best Milwaukee Thing of 2025 Bracket

December 19, 2025

Round 3 of our very important Best Milwaukee Thing of 2025 Bracket was one for the ages. The Newport smoked Gold Rush Chicken! Oriental Theatre beached The Boat! Linda The General Manager At The Capitol Drive O...

Our new “Milwaukee Record Club” DJ series is a collaborative vinyl spin

December 19, 2025

Bay View's Wiggle Room (2988 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) has thousands upon thousands of LPs and 45s in its collection. On top of that, Milwaukee's first dedicated vinyl bar routinely outsources its turntables to a w...

Hear some of the season’s best local music with our “Autumn 2025” playlist

December 19, 2025

Believe it or not, despite enduring weeks of frigid temperatures, steady snowfall, and icy sidewalks, it's technically not even winter yet. The new season officially begins on Sunday, meaning we're currently in...

Holly, jolly, and haunted? I attended the first night of The Rave’s Haunted Holidays

Lily Mihelich

December 18, 2025

The Rave is no stranger to suspected unearthly history. When its uncanny past meets the joyful traditions of the holiday season, you get Haunted Holidays, a four-day series of self-guided tours of The Rave's in...

MKE Music Rewind: ‘Song Sung Blue’ documentary (2008)

December 18, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: the original Song Sung Blue documentary from ...

Mentally prepare yourself to watch ‘Children Of Men’ with us at Avalon Theater

December 18, 2025

Imagine, if you can, a bleak and dystopian version of the world in the mid-2020s in which violence and division run rampant. Inhumane and deplorable immigration policies enacted by a totalitarian government are...

I dropped by ‘What’s Brewing Wisconsin’ to talk about Christmas food traditions (including raw beef sandwiches)

December 18, 2025

We're exactly one week away from Christmas, which means it's almost time for uniquely "Wisconsin" Christmas food traditions! You know the traditions I'm talking about: the overflowing snack tables, the raw beef...

Milwaukee Metal Monthly: Shadows Taller Than Souls, plus recent releases from 11 more MKE bands

Steve Lampiris

December 17, 2025

Welcome back to Milwaukee Metal Monthly, the column where I discuss the metal scene in the headbanging-est city in Wisconsin. This month we’re gonna do things a lil’ different. Half of the column will be an int...

Here are the vendor lineups for both of our N/A Day “Dry January” beverage festivals

December 17, 2025

Are you looking to start 2026 on a sober note? Planning to make a lasting lifestyle change? Hoping to put a pause on partying after the holidays? Interested in sampling a wide range of products in the rapidly-g...

Birch owners’ new restaurant, CASSIS, will open January 5. Here’s info on the food, drinks, more.

December 17, 2025

Late last year, husband-and-wife duo Kyle and Meghan Knall—a.k.a. the couple behind nationally celebrated Milwaukee restaurant Birch—announced plans to open a new restaurant, CASSIS. Now, the opening date for t...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Social Cig

December 17, 2025

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, December 16, 2025: S...

Let’s remember some former Milwaukee music venues

December 16, 2025

This article is NOT in any way intended to be a complete list of every former Milwaukee (and suburban Milwaukee) music venue that has ever existed. It's honestly just a list of some places that came to mind. Co...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Buying local, getting something back via Visit Milwaukee

December 16, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: buying local. Buy local. We said it in 2020. We said it in Nove...

BLAX dives into dreams in “Oneirology” video, preps new album and tour

December 16, 2025

There doesn't seem to be much downtime for BLAX. The veteran Milwaukee hip-hop artist has spent the past few years alone releasing numerous albums, singles, videos, podcasts, and more. Oh, and don't forget abou...

Spotify, Liz Pelly’s ‘Mood Machine,’ and human connection as algorithm antidote

Jasmine Gonzalez

December 15, 2025

I was sitting at the Anodyne in Bay View one afternoon this past summer when a song caught my attention. It was a cover of a song I’d grown up listening to. I hit the song search button on my phone and got a re...

Ridiculously brief updates on 8 ridiculous Milwaukee controversies of 2025