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Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bars and restaurants with multiple locations

March 2, 2016

// Last week, owners of Milwaukee's venerable and forever-awesome Fuel Cafe announced plans to open a second Fuel in Walker's Point. Not only was it big news, it revealed just how much Fuel's reputation had...

Exclusive: Stream Slow Walker’s ‘Robert Plantain’s Grunge Lords’

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2016

// Milwaukee is hurting for rock and roll. Despite the positive state of local punk rock and (evidently) heavy metal, and there being no shortage of "indie rock" bands clustered beneath the catch-all classi...

Get ready for Thursday’s Bruce Springsteen show with a synthwave cover of “Dancing In The Dark”

Matt Wild

March 2, 2016

// On Thursday, March 3, Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will pitch their tent at the BMO Harris Bradley Center and deliver a fiery, delirious, three-hour sermon on the life-affirming power of Rock ...

Welcome To March: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

March 1, 2016

// March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season chang...

Help make Rob Wieland’s new comic book, ‘Girls’ Heist Out,’ a kickass reality

Matt Wild

March 1, 2016

// Throw a rock and you'll hit at least 8,000 local crowdfunding campaigns hoping to save a bar, save some domes, or finally get some men's underwear with waterproof pockets to market. There's an almost end...

Yeah, Bro! Episode 45: Gay superheroes with Alan Guszkowski

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 1, 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" with straight men. You can also stream our partner podcast on ...

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Dead Man’ resurrected as grade school play ‘The Bully, The Liar & The Thief’

Matt Wild

February 29, 2016

// In Jim Jarmusch's 1995 "psychedelic Western" Dead Man, William Blake (Johnny Depp) travels to the dystopian town of Machine for a new job. Things don't go as planned, unfortunately, and Blake ends up sho...

I went to the new Whole Foods and Metro Market in one day

Monica Reida

February 29, 2016

// The Milwaukee area has been graced by the opening of two grocery stores in little more than a week with the mammoth (and initially controversial) Metro Market opening on Oakland Ave. in Shorewood, and Wh...

Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder talks feminism, the Midwest, cat films

Ashley Altadonna

February 29, 2016

// In Jennifer Reeder's film A Million Miles Away, we witness teenage girls communicating with one another via subtitles, and sometimes wittily cryptic emojis. They whisper plans of starting bands, revoluti...

Odd Duck owners to open new Middle Eastern restaurant in Bay View

Matt Wild

February 28, 2016

Since opening in 2012, Odd Duck has consistently set a high bar in Milwaukee's constantly evolving and increasingly top-notch restaurant scene. Now, Odd Duck owners Ross Bachhuber and...

Reading Carrie Schneider’s “Reading Women”

Marielle Allschwang

February 26, 2016

Last week, I was shown a photograph of Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce's Ulysses. She is near the end, seemingly lost in Molly Bloom's punctuation-less, sensual reverie, immersed in the flows and throes ...

MKE SEX: The name game

Lucky Tomaszek

February 26, 2016

// Dear MKE SEX, This is kind of weird. I didn't used to think it was weird, but I guess maybe it is. I started seeing a new woman recently, and one day after sex we were taking a shower together. During t...

Hear Space Raft’s soaring new ‘Paper Airplanes’ 45

Tyler Maas

February 25, 2016

// To say Space Raft started strong would be a massive understatement. In late 2014, the band—which features current and former members of Whips, Call Me Lightning, Temper Temper, and Green Bay-based The My...

Liar’s Trial get dark on new album

DJ Hostettler

February 25, 2016

// On Friday, outlaw country combo Liar's Trial will celebrate an album release three years in the making, as Songs About Mama, Trains, Trucks, Prison & Gettin' Drunk finally sees the light of day after...

Tracklist: Milwaukee’s 15 best bar and restaurant puns

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2016

// Milwaukee could arguably be considered the nation's bar capital. Simultaneously, a cavalcade of new and exciting restaurants are popping up around town on a monthly basis, helping to bolster the city's c...

On The Record Episode 56: Author and Milwaukier Than Thou’s Adam Carr

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 24, 2016

// Nobody knows Milwaukee quite like Adam Carr. Born and raised in the city, he's taken his love of his hometown and made it into his livelihood. The Milwaukier Than Thou founder/photographer, civic activis...

Exclusive: Stream WORK’s new LP, ‘Doing The Lords’

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2016

// WORK is a tough band to pin down. With toes dipped in the divergent waters of punk, folk, and even on the surface country, the trio manages to subtly nod to a wide breadth of acts that range from Lucero ...

Jason Isbell soars, celebrates at sold-out Pabst Theater

Rachel Seis

February 24, 2016

// Jason Isbell has been through a lot since his first few solo outings at Milwaukee's Shank Hall nearly a decade ago. After being kicked out of the seminal alt-country band Drive-By Truckers—allegedly due ...

Damon Millard talks ‘Shame, Pain, And Love’ before album recording

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2016

// Though he currently lives in Reno, Nevada (at least until his roving stand-up career takes him to yet another city), comedian Damon Millard got his start in Milwaukee. When he was, as he says, "learning ...

Listen to the glorious debut single from Milwaukee’s Pharo

Matt Wild

February 23, 2016

// When he's not drumming for shimmering electro-pop juggernaut GGOOLLDD, Mark Stewart is busy making music of his own. What kind of music, you ask? Well, under his newly minted moniker Pharo, Stewart has j...

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