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Join author Steven Hyden at the first “Milwaukee Record Book Club” on June 24

April 29, 2016

// For those who don't know Milwaukee Record's backstory, this noble endeavor in mid-market entertainment journalism started as a result of A.V. Club Milwaukee's demise. Then-City Editor Matt Wild and frequ...

Listen to a “Hip-Hop Hates Cancer” mixtape before tonight’s show at Cactus Club

Matt Wild

April 29, 2016

// Tonight at the Cactus Club, some of the city's best hip-hop artists, both old and new, will perform for the fifth (and possibly last) installment of Milwaukee's "Hip-Hop Hates" series. Past installments ...

MKE SEX: Old cat, new tricks

Lucky Tomaszek

April 29, 2016

// Dear MKE SEX, I have a little problem. Okay, a medium-sized problem. I'm in a long term relationship with someone I really dig. Basically things between us are great, except for one thing: I don't reall...

Exclusive: Batten down the hatches for Antler House’s stormy ‘Across The Waves’

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2016

// Two years ago (almost to the day), we streamed Through The Dirt, a collection of a dozen emotionally devastating and beyond-their-years indie-tinged folk renderings crafted by an unknown trio called Antl...

Here’s the Cream City Comedy Festival lineup

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2016

// Last month, Milwaukee Record (a proud event sponsor) announced the existence of Cream City Comedy Festival. Founded by up-and-coming Chicago comics, Milwaukee comedy scene expats Sammy Arechar and Liz Zi...

“Martial Arts May” kicks off at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2016

// With tonight's showing of A Clockwork Orange being the final screening of Avalon Theater's well-received "Antihero April" film series, the Bay View cinema (that also brought you "Shocktoberfest" last Oct...

On The Record Episode 63: Yelp and online criticism

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 27, 2016

// Aside from being a bastion of cat memes, poorly researched political discourse, and adult content, the Internet can be used to archive and access a wealth of information. Some of that information stretch...

Exclusive: Traverse Rx Drugs’ first single, “Mountain Of Dreams”

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2016

// When we first checked in with Rx Drugs last October, the Milwaukee super group fronted by The Championship singer-guitarist Joe Crockett and featuring members of Dashboard Confessional, Hugh Bob & Th...

Board game bender: 5 places to enjoy a game and a drink on International Tabletop Day

Rob Wieland

April 27, 2016

// Not long ago, playing a board game at a bar was an exercise in sadness. It was usually some beat-up old copy of Trivial Pursuit with 90 percent of the questions about Richard Nixon or Mork & Mindy. B...

R.I.P. Summerfest’s locally focused KNE New Music Stage

Matt Wild

April 27, 2016

// Remember last year when we enjoyed an entirely local weekend at Summerfest? A similar feat will be much harder to pull off this year, as news has broke that the KNE New Music Stage—long home to the vast ...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2016

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 26, 2016

// Last year's inaugural Arte Para Todos—or "art for everyone"—set loose approximately 80 Milwaukee bands and artists in 15 venues across three neighborhoods over the course of three nights, ultimately rais...

Here’s the first single from the final Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes album

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2016

// Beyond her set at Arte Para Todos last weekend, a performance at FemFest, and a scant few outings around her Riverwest home, Caley Conway has been uncharacteristically quiet of late. There are two good r...

Hear haunting new songs from Ghost Cuts’ forthcoming album

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2016

// You've never heard of Ghost Cuts? Don't worry, it's cool. After all, none of the members live in Milwaukee (Glendale, Cedarburg, Sheboygan). Moreover, they've played exactly zero shows in their near-two-...

Yeah, Bro! Episode 53: Matt Garnaas discusses John Waters

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 26, 2016

// Every week, we'll be posting a new episode of Yeah, Bro! Podcast, the show where host/local gay treasure Jacob Bach talks about "gay things" (usually) with straight men. You can also stream our partner p...

No, the next ‘Star Wars’ movie will NOT be filmed near Green Bay

Matt Wild

April 25, 2016

We have a bad feeling about this: Have you seen that article floating around Facebook about how the next Star Wars movie will be filmed near Green Bay, Wisconsin? Have you "liked" or shared said article about h...

Exclusive: Feast your ears on Paper Holland’s new EP, ‘Fast Food’

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2016

// Last month, we premiered "Jazzy Jeff," the new single and first-recorded peep indie-pop project Paper Holland has made since 2013's Happy Belated. In the three-plus years since its impressive and emotive...

Here are pictures of the redesigned and reimagined Grand Avenue

Matt Wild

April 25, 2016

// Ever since a new ownership group took control of The Shops of Grand Avenue back in December 2015, speculation has been high as to what, exactly, that ownership group will do with the long-struggling down...

Take a look at Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise lineup, mateys

Tyler Maas

April 25, 2016

// Despite the dozens of festivals, block parties, and weekly outdoor music series taking place on Milwaukee soil every summer, Milwaukee Boat Line sees fit to extend the city's celebratory spirit to the wa...

It’s twue, it’s twue! Mel Brooks will host a screening of ‘Blazing Saddles’ at Riverside Theater

Matt Wild

April 25, 2016

// No matter where you fall on the all-important/clickable "Is political correctness ruining comedy?" debate, it's safe to say a movie like Mel Brooks' 1974 opus Blazing Saddles could never be made today. T...

Hear Jack Tell’s finger-tapping cover of The Fatty Acids’ “Flamingo Graveyard”

Tyler Maas

April 23, 2016

// One of the best byproducts of Arte Para Todos is the way the benefit brings musicians—oftentimes performers from entirely different ends of the music landscape who would otherwise never perform on the sa...

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