10 standout Milwaukee EPs of 2018
In the post-everything world of 2018, there's little distinction left between "albums" and "EPs." And yet distinguish we do, dedicating our annual 25 best Milwaukee albums list to releases with five or more son...
How one Milwaukee couple is helping transform the East Side into a destination
Two-ish years later, and it seems all that "The East Side is dying" rhetoric may have been a bit of an overreaction.
In 2016 and 2017, the supposed demise of the neighborhood was the talk of the town, sparke...
On The Record #145: Gareth Reynolds (‘The Dollop’ and ‘You’re The Worst’)
Brown Deer, Wisconsin native and realistic Packers fan Gareth Reynolds is best known as the co-host of The Dollop, a popular American history podcast that has landed him a book deal and has brought him to perfo...
The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 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
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
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)
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
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
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 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
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’
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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”?
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
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...