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It’s our 2nd anniversary, so here are some terrible site names we considered before settling on Milwaukee Record

April 7, 2016

// Back in 2012, Historic Milwaukee and the Pabst Theater staged an event called "Envisioning The Seen," a roundtable discussion featuring a group of local movers and shakers pondering the future of Milwauk...

Exclusive: Stream Low Down Sound’s “Sugar Sweet”

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2016

// Little over a year ago, we formally introduced you to Low Down Sound by way of the Milwaukee classic rock outfit's debut EP Ride Into The Sun, which we called "a five-song sampling of American-made class...

Maharaja owners review restaurant reviewers

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2016

// At a time in which people entrust their dining dollar on the opinions of strangers with Yelp accounts, Google usernames, or posting privileges on websites operated out of their mother's basement, the fat...

Kurt Vile presides over listless, occasionally lively show at Pabst Theater

Cal Roach

April 6, 2016

// "Don't know much about history," Kurt Vile sang in his opening number, "Dust Bunnies," Tuesday night at the Pabst Theater. Indeed, despite the smattering of "I Voted" stickers on lapels throughout the crow...

Space Raft talks about opening for Bernie Sanders

Tyler Maas

April 5, 2016

// Bands typically try to avoid playing out in the final days before they're to release a new record. However, that unwritten rule can be broken when a band has been asked to play on the same stage as its p...

Gaze upon the glorious lineup for Gloss Records’ Gloss Weekend

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

// Milwaukee is currently home to many DIY record labels, and one of the best is Gloss Records. Founded in February 2015 by Harrison Colby (NO/NO) and Joe Peterson (Rio Turbo, Platinum Boys), Gloss has spen...

Get your garden on and sign up for the Great Milwaukee Victory Garden BLITZ

Matt Wild

April 5, 2016

// Since 2009, Milwaukee's Victory Garden Initiative has built more than 2,500 raised-bed urban gardens for the city and its residents. The group's goal of creating a "community-based, socially just, enviro...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 4, 2016

// April is typically a period of rebirth. Baseball season begins, the first full month of spring is upon us, and rampant festival announcements combine with extended daylight and occasional days of unseaso...

John Carpenter will perform music from his films this summer at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

April 4, 2016

// Over the course of five decades (!), master filmmaker John Carpenter has left an indelible and idiosyncratic mark on horror and sci-fi with films like Halloween, Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trou...

Lucky Cat is closed

Tyler Maas

April 4, 2016

// Within nine months of Cocoon Room's closing and fewer than two months after Borg Ward's abrupt end, Milwaukee is down yet another all-ages venue. Lucky Cat is no more. The Riverwest art space's closing w...

Yeah, Bro! Episode 50: Sports with Nick Young

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 4, 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...

Try our “Milwaukee Wrecker” sausage at The Vanguard

Tyler Maas

April 1, 2016

// Mid-market regional web-only entertainment journalism can be a largely thankless industry. The pay isn't great, the hours are long, and the comments can be vicious. But every now and then, something happ...

Revisiting 4th Base, the West Milwaukee bar from the end of ‘Major League’

Matt Wild

April 1, 2016

// The semi-raunchy 1989 baseball flick Major League is known for a lot of things: star turns from Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Renee Russo, and Corbin Bernsen; a glorious and endlessly quota...

Here’s video of a fox (with prey) roaming downtown Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

// Despite all its amenities and hit-and-miss "placemaking" efforts, it's not unfair to suggest downtown Milwaukee's nightlife can be a little lacking at times. In the early hours of Thursday morning—within...

We checked out the Trump rally in Janesville and it was a shit show

Tea Krulos

March 31, 2016

// Photos by Wendy Schreier, captions by Tea Krulos Presidential candidates were running every which way through the state on Tuesday: Sanders was at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, Clinton was cruisi...

Tucked Away: Kawa Japanese Restaurant

Tommy Ciaccio

March 31, 2016

// The 2006 evolution of Bayshore from "mall" into "town center" saw the monolithic, one-building format scrapped in exchange for an open-air makeshift village shopping experience. The change made way for g...

Exclusive: Stream Midwest Death Rattle’s “Feed Them To Each Other”

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

// Last month, Midwest Death Rattle broke more than three years of silence (at least in the recorded sense) with a public domain footage-packed lyric video for "Post-Apocalypso," the first single and title ...

Listen to the dreamy/dreary goodness of Genau

Matt Wild

March 31, 2016

// For all its sunny reinvention and chipper boosterism, Milwaukee can be a cold and gloomy place. Maybe that's why so many Brew City bands take inspiration from the dreamy-but-dreary shoegaze sound of the ...

I went to Wisconsin’s first “cat cafe” and it was pretty weird

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2016

// Excluding my dumb food- or drinking-related cries for help and whatever bullshit points I try to make on our podcast, I usually make a concerted effort to keep my personal life far away from this website...

On The Record Episode 60: 2016 Milwaukee Brewers season preview

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 30, 2016

// After another long and unforgiving winter, spring has sprung. With the new season comes the return of baseball. The crack of the bat! The smell of the grass! A ramshackle squad likely to lose about 100 g...

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