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Merry Figgsmas! An oral history of the Midwest’s love affair with The Figgs

August 7, 2019

The Figgs have been a motivating and binding force in the Wisconsin/Midwest music scene for over two decades. They travel exclusively to satiate the Wisconsin audiences with multiple back-to-back shows every fe...

6 more (mostly) dead websites from Milwaukee’s past

Matt Wild

August 7, 2019

It's been said that the internet is written in ink, not pencil. Nothing ever truly disappears, even (and some might say especially) the embarrassing stuff. Thanks to handy tools like the Internet Archive's Wayb...

Pack your bags, travel light, and let the “twinkly emo” of Burmecia’s ‘Placeholder’ take you on a trip to the early 2000s

Tyler Maas

August 7, 2019

Like nu metal and swing, screamo is a musical sub-genre that people might attach to a specific moment in time. Though it was a loud and guttural blip in the collective consciousness of listeners in the early au...

It’s Wednesday, so there’s another giant mural coming to Milwaukee

Matt Wild

August 7, 2019

Do you like murals? Well, Milwaukee certainly does. It seems a week can't go by without another giant mural popping up somewhere in town. Last month it was the gorgeous "Gateway Mural" on West Wisconsin Avenue....

Even Furthur marks the 25th anniversary of an essential Wisconsin rave

Tone Madison

August 6, 2019

The following piece by Evan Woodward was originally published on Tone Madison. This year’s installment of the Even Furthur festival marks the 25th anniversary of an event that literally put the Midwest rave ...

People will swim/brave the Milwaukee River (again) this Saturday at the Cream City Classic

Matt Wild

August 6, 2019

The Milwaukee River is a lot of things: a playground for boats, pontoons, kayaks, and...swimmers? Yes, this weekend, up to 100 people will take part in the second annual Cream City Classic, an open swim in the ...

Coming soon to Cinema Hooligante: ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and ‘Shrek Retold’

Matt Wild

August 6, 2019

If you’ve been to the Milwaukee Film Festival in the past five years, you've probably encountered a peculiar set of films called Cinema Hooligante. This often bloody, disturbing, sick, subversive, and just plai...

The state of the art of knock offs: An interview with Dan Schierl, founder of the Generic Dr Pepper Knockoffs Facebook page

Peter Woods

August 5, 2019

To know the work of Dan Schierl is to know a collection of oddities, rooted in a deep respect for the archives and archival process with a strong penchant for the ridiculous and absurd. As a musician, Shierl cr...

Some highlights, observations, and takeaways from BIG3’s Milwaukee debut

Tyler Maas

August 5, 2019

Sunday afternoon, Fiserv Forum was alive with the sounds of squeaking sneakers, emphatic cheers, and bass thumps from backing music during the BIG3's Milwaukee stop. Now in the midst of its third season, the 3-...

Lime scooter app lets you email Mayor Barrett and tell him how much you love Lime

Matt Wild

August 5, 2019

Is there any frivolous city issue more exhausting than electric scooters? With the flag debate taking the summer off, the answer is no, no there is not. But in case you've been living under a "micromobility" ro...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (July 28-August 3)

Matt Wild

August 5, 2019

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...

Go down a rabbit hole with Saebra & Carlyle in this dark and dazzling one-shot music video

Tyler Maas

August 3, 2019

Much has changed since we first introduced you to the “apocalyptic western” stylings of Saebra & Carlyle in January of 2018. After officially starting out in late 2017, the duo consisting of longtime friend...

NO/NO prepares to say goodbye with new song, final album

Matt Wild

August 2, 2019

Search the stratosphere for stellar Milwaukee music and you'll find NO/NO. In the past five years, the new wave-y synth-rock outfit has dished up a number of defining moments: a pair of cool and sexy EPs in 201...

My First Band: Sarah Vos (Dead Horses, Ocean View)

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 2, 2019

This week's guest is Sarah Vos of Dead Horses. The singer, guitarist, and founding member of the up-and-coming Americana/bluegrass outfit continually tours the country to play concerts at bars, theaters, festiv...

A last-minute guide to Ice Cube’s BIG3, which comes to Fiserv Forum on Sunday and is awesome

Tyler Maas

August 2, 2019

Though the regular seasons of the Milwaukee Bucks and Marquette Golden Eagles are both so painfully far away, Fiserv Forum is doing its part to hold over hoops enthusiasts with a few basketball-based events thi...

Mama if that’s movin’ up then the Journal Sentinel is movin’ out

Matt Wild

August 2, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 1, 2019

Though it feels like summer just started, we’ve now entered the last full month of the season. Summer isn’t going out with a whimper, though. Quite the opposite. Though the vast majority of the city’s festivals...

Soul Low, which is not a band anymore, has a new album

Matt Wild

August 1, 2019

Back in November 2018, one of Milwaukee's best indie rock bands, Soul Low, called it quits. The writing had been on the wall for some time (band members had moved to different parts of the country the previous ...

Celebrate the first day of the 2019 Wisconsin State Fair with 7 years of ride-inspection videos

Matt Wild

August 1, 2019

Today marks the glorious first day of the 2019 Wisconsin State Fair. From August 1-11, hundreds of thousands of proud Wisconsinites will flock to the State Fair Grounds in West Allis to take in all the sights, ...

Cancel that millipede shipment: X-Ray Arcade is showing the Longmont Potion Castle doc, ‘Where In The Hell Is The Lavender House’

Tyler Maas

August 1, 2019

Hey listen, I ain’t jokin’, dickface. X-Ray Arcade is going to show a documentary about Longmont Potion Castle on Friday, August 30 as part of the Cudahy bar's "Movies Under The Knife" series. If you're stil...

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