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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

Tyler Maas

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 24, 2018

Like it or lump it, Vans Warped Tour has been an important tool for bringing a pastiche of punk, hardcore, ska, and metalcore to music fans throughout the country every summer. Late last year, Warped Tour found...

Scenes from today’s World’s Largest Coffee Break in downtown Milwaukee

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 24, 2018

Milwaukee is currently neck-deep in Downtown Employee Appreciation Week, a five-day blowout filled with events, games, and lunchtime specials for the more than 83,000 folks who work downtown. On Tuesday morning...

MKE Music Rewind: The Shivvers, “Remember Tonight”

Lauren Keene

July 24, 2018

In our weekly MKE Music Rewind, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. It's sometimes said that the Midwest rocks the hardest. That may or...

Not watching Something To Do’s “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake” music video would be a huge mistake

Tyler Maas

July 23, 2018

Way back in early May (three days after "Cinco de Cuatro," to be exact), we debuted a Gob Bluth-channeling new single from Something To Do. The veteran Milwaukee-Madison ska band's "I've Made A Huge Mistake" in...

The War On Drugs bring beauty, boldness to sold-out Riverside show

Lauren Keene

July 23, 2018

Over the weekend, a congregation of the biggest and baddest names in indie music gathered in Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival. The three-day gig boasted an impressive lineup of artists who were fortunate en...

Sylvan Esso closes out Pabst Theater weekend in grand fashion

Tyler Maas

July 23, 2018

A lot has changed since the last time Sylvan Esso performed in Milwaukee. Between the electro-pop duo's 2015 outing at Summerfest and last weekend's two-night, two-show Pabst Theater residency, the group—which,...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (July 15-21)

Matt Wild

July 23, 2018

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

237 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Twisted Fisherman

Caleb Westphal

July 20, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Fish frys aren't always convenient. In an ideal world they would be the centerpiece of eve...

Fun fact: Ald. Bob Donovan was the first person to submit a design for the “People’s Flag of Milwaukee”

Matt Wild

July 20, 2018

Thursday's Steering and Rules Committee meeting about Milwaukee officially adopting the "People's Flag of Milwaukee" didn't go the way the folks behind the "People's Flag of Milwaukee" had planned. What started...

Mini Meltdowns rebuild old relationships in “Number On Me” video

Tyler Maas

July 20, 2018

Back in March, we introduced you to Mini Meltdowns—a new punk project that features current and former members of The Promise Ring, Limbeck, Dashboard Confessional, Rx Drugs, The Benjamins, and Sherbert—and deb...

It’s time for the Milwaukee Air & Water Show, so enjoy these links as you leave town

Matt Wild

July 20, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • That horrible screeching sound and the sight of your cat dying from heart fai...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Benji’s Deli & Restaurant has been a Shorewood landmark for 55 years (and counting)

Tyler Maas

July 19, 2018

Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure...

Flip out, man! We’re screening ‘Half Baked’ at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

July 19, 2018

Last night, we hosted two sold out screenings of Better Off Dead at Avalon Theater. Thanks to everyone who made it out! We had an awesome time. Though our July screening will be tough to top, we're still going ...

Decision to officially adopt “People’s Flag of Milwaukee” sent to Milwaukee Arts Board

Matt Wild

July 19, 2018

Thursday afternoon at Milwaukee City Hall, the Milwaukee Common Council's Steering and Rules Committee voted 6-2 to refer the matter of officially adopting the so-called "People's Flag of Milwaukee" to the Milw...

Shaker’s Cigar Bar will be featured on new Netflix series, ‘Dark Tourist’

Matt Wild

July 19, 2018

The fascinating thing about ghosts is that they don't exist. Like, they really, really don't exist. It's fun to pretend they exist, but c'mon, they don't. Seriously. Anyway, Milwaukee's very own ghostly Shak...

Red Light Ramen will now be open 6 days a week, which is awesome

Matt Wild

July 19, 2018

Like a real-deal psychic or those dogs that can sense when an earthquake is coming, Red Light Ramen anticipated Milwaukee's current ramenpalooza by several years. The popular noodle emporium began life as an af...

First Impression: Component Brewing Company

Tyler Maas

July 18, 2018

Though Milwaukee craft brewing has yet to hit a point of oversaturation, the city has reached a place in which breweries are literally opening on top of each other. In early 2017, Eagle Park Brewing opened a ta...

Ring of Honor wrestler Silas Young brings Midwest talent to Milwaukee

DJ Hostettler

July 18, 2018

For roughly five years now, Milwaukee wrestling fans have had a local rooting interest when dialing in to CW18 or My24 on the weekends to watch Ring of Honor's weekly TV program. Local wrestler Silas Young has ...

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