Tagged Feature

July 30, 2018

broadstreet.zone(66838); Summer in Milwaukee is the best; summer in the Midwest is even better. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. UPDATE (...

Mile Of Music and 11 more non-Milwaukee music festivals worth the trip

July 30, 2018

broadstreet.zone(66838); Summer in Milwaukee is the best; summer in the Midwest is even better. Join Milwaukee Record and Miller High Life as we search the city and beyond for the Spirit Of Summer. From Aug...

“It has all been an accumulation and a fucking wild ride”: An interview with Uniform vocalist Michael Berdan

Dan Agacki

July 30, 2018

The underground punk scene can be a fickle beast with rigid puritanical guidelines. Bands are expected to grow organically and slog their way through years of touring before attaining anything approaching succe...

72 hours with Milwaukee’s favorite DJ: DJ Bizzon

Damon "Jank" Joy

July 30, 2018

Milwaukee has its share of remarkable DJs, but few have reached the level of skill and adoration as DJ and 88Nine Radio Milwaukee personality DJ Bizzon. The self-taught and extraordinarily tall Bizzon has becom...

On The Record #135: Milwaukee Comedy Festival

July 30, 2018

Originating long before the city had anything even resembling a sustainable comedy community, Milwaukee Comedy Festival has grown and evolved in kind with Milwaukee's humor scene. From August 1-5, the Milwaukee...

As Milwaukee grapples with real problems, $2B California-based scooter company pleads for help

July 27, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • File this one under "Yeah, we know people can be concerned about different th...

Here’s what the new Milwaukee Public Museum might look like

July 27, 2018

The Milwaukee Public Museum as we know it is not long for this world. Last year, MPM announced it would being moving to a new, four-story, $100 million downtown home sometime in the next decade. Today, it relea...

238 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: A.J. O’Brady’s Irish Pub & Grill

Caleb Westphal

July 27, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. As I looped around the back parking lot of A.J. O'Brady's (N88 W16495 Main St., Menomonee Fa...

Public Domain: Trapper Schoepp performs “Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)”

July 26, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

Here’s the lineup for Rush-Mor’s Bay View Bash stage

July 26, 2018

Earlier this month, we unveiled the lineup for the brand new Milwaukee Record Stage at this year's Bay View Bash. Our announcement was just an appetizer for the entertainment happening on six stages. Though we ...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the THIRD Milwaukee streetcar

July 26, 2018

Thursday morning, in an event that could only be described as the Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban of Milwaukee public transportation, the THIRD of the city's new streetcars arrived downtown. Like its p...

Lou Barlow’s intimate URSA in-store performance was worth every penny

Dan Agacki

July 26, 2018

Inspired by the house shows where many artists took the first steps toward honing their craft, limited ticket small show tours have become the thing to do. From Pedro The Lion’s David Bazan, to Eric Bachman of ...

New Milwaukee Bucks arena will be called Fiserv Forum

July 26, 2018

It finally happened: Multiple sources are reporting that naming rights to the new, $524 million Milwaukee Bucks arena have been awarded to Brookfield-based financial services technology developer Fiserv. The co...

We took Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn on a Rush-Mor Records shopping spree

July 25, 2018

Last weekend, electro-pop superstars Sylvan Esso came to town to play a pair of sold-out shows at the Pabst Theater. Not only was the two-night, two-show residency chance for the project to return to where it a...

Shah Jee’s on Downer Avenue is open

July 25, 2018

For more than a decade, downtown denizens have enjoyed the deliciousness that is Shah Jee's. The Pakistani restaurant is located in the basement of a Jefferson Street office building (770 N. Jefferson St., to b...

On The Record #134: Milwaukee beer with Kathy Flanigan

July 25, 2018

This isn't our first podcast about beer and it probably won't be the last. The reason for the topic repetition is simple: Milwaukee brewing is continuing to grow, change, evolve, and improve. Recently, Milwauke...

First Impression: Vennture Brew Co

July 24, 2018

We've now reached a point in which there's a new brewery opening in Milwaukee every month. An incredibly busy 2017 in local microbrewing—the likes of which had never been seen before in Milwaukee—now looks to b...

Relive Vans Warped Tour’s final Milwaukee stop with these photos