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The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2018

December 3, 2018

It's tempting to call it a day for "the album." After all, who has time to sit down and listen to an entire record? Hell, who has time to record one? And yet, year after year, "the album" remains something that...

Your guide to NXT’s best entrance songs

Sam Morales

December 3, 2018

NXT returns to Milwaukee this Thursday for the first time in over a year. As always, it's going to be a show you won't want to miss. This show sold out Turner Hall weeks ago, just as it did with a far different...

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

Tyler Maas

December 3, 2018

After 11 months of fun, it’s almost time for Milwaukee’s events calendar to flip to a new year. Not even counting the city’s six-month run of festivals, block parties, and Jake "The Snake" Roberts doing comedy ...

The insane clowns from Insane Clown Posse will play Club Garibaldi (separately)

Matt Wild

December 3, 2018

It's hard to believe now, but there was a moment when the most outrageous thing in pop culture was a song in which two rapping clowns from Detroit questioned the inner workings of magnets. "Fucking magnets, how...

15 years ago, a Cardinals receiver became a Wisconsin sports hero: Remembering Nathan Poole

Tyler Maas

November 30, 2018

You might not remember Nathan Poole. That's more than fair if you don't. After all, the wide receiver only played parts of four seasons in the NFL. More importantly, Poole never played a game for the Green B...

It’s time for Milwaukee to unite (and mask its bathroom odor) with POTTY Pearls

Matt Wild

November 30, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • "We all do it. Poop." So begins the "About" page for POTTY Pearls, a Milwa...

256 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Café Centraal

Caleb Westphal

November 30, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Chances are you've heard some variation of the joke, "When Riverwest hipsters get families...

Infrared sauna therapy takes hotboxing to the next level

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2018

In the fairly short existence of Milwaukee Record, I’ve made a point to chronicle foolish adventures that have damaged my spirit, tested my eating endurance, and depleted both my physical and emotional well-bei...

Get caught up in three gorgeous songs from Cairns’ latest, ‘Entanglement’

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2018

Back in March, Cairns released Cluttered Sky, a splendid sextet of songs that ranged from some previously unreleased "bedroom recordings" to intricate and vibrant new material with bandleader John Larkin (curre...

This is your favorite Green Bay Packer now

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2018

There hasn't been much for Packers fans to be happy about this year. It's still November and the team is already teetering on the edge of postseason elimination. Mike McCarthy's job is in jeopardy, injuries are...

There’s a Hallmark Channel movie that’s based in Wisconsin and it’s pretty great

Tyler Maas

November 28, 2018

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, it's safe to say that it's officially beginning to look (and feel) a lot like Christmas. The days are getting shorter, the temperature outside continues to dip, and the Hallm...

Will Rose prepares to pay tribute to Mac Miller and say goodbye to Airo Kwil

Tyler Maas

November 28, 2018

Mac Miller was supposed to perform in Milwaukee this month. Sadly, the rapper and producer died in September as a result of an accidental drug overdose. He was only 26 years old. On November 30—the very same ni...

Something To Do’s “That Good Life” video is just one huge, hilarious dance montage

Tyler Maas

November 28, 2018

When we last checked in with Something To Do, the veteran Milwaukee-Madison ska band was performing its Gob Bluth-channeling single, "I've Made A Huge Mistake," in the digitized presence of a bustling cityscape...

You can finally buy Mark Borchardt’s UFO documentary, ‘The Dundee Project’

Matt Wild

November 28, 2018

Back in January 2017, we spoke to Milwaukee filmmaker/icon Mark Borchardt about his latest film, The Dundee Project. The 40-minute documentary—which chronicles the sights, sounds, and people of Dundee, Wisconsi...

8 reasons you should jump on the Milwaukee Bucks bandwagon

Dan Shafer

November 27, 2018

As recently as a few years ago, if you wandered into a Milwaukee bar between October and April with the hopes of watching the local professional basketball team, you’d probably have had to ask the bartender, “h...

Better Xmas song: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” or Wham!’s “Last Christmas”?

Matt Wild

November 27, 2018

It's a question as old as time (or, more accurately, as old as the mid-1990s): Which is the better Christmas song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You," or Wham!'s "Last Christmas"? Both tunes have ...

Stream The Zach Pietrini Band’s ‘Denver Sessions’ EP

Tyler Maas

November 27, 2018

Zach Pietrini loves to write songs. “I wrote a lot—mainly because it’s my way of making sense of my world,” Pietrini says. “As a result, there are tons of songs that I finish, but don't always feel like they...

No shirt, no shoes, no streetcar: Hop on and read the new Streetcar Code of Conduct

Matt Wild

November 27, 2018

It's another big week for The Hop, a.k.a. the Milwaukee streetcar that launched earlier this month despite the hard work of those guys who made their own "STOP THE HOP" signs. Ridership numbers are better than ...

Here are 12 pictures of Café Benelux’s new Lux Domes, and 3 pictures of Steve, the bearded dragon who lives at the Mitchell Park Domes

Matt Wild

November 27, 2018

While the fate of Milwaukee's beloved/crumbling Mitchell Park Domes is still uncertain, Café Benelux is making sure the city's dome game remains strong. Tuesday afternoon, the Third Ward restaurant hosted a sne...

Help save Milwaukee County Parks by buying these button-up dog shirts

Matt Wild

November 26, 2018

Earlier this summer, a report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum painted a bleak portrait of all things Milwaukee County. "Almost every form of parks infrastructure has pressing needs," the report warned. "The cou...

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