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Friends come together to make “apocalyptic western” music as Saebra & Carlyle

January 5, 2018

Though Saebra & Carlyle only started playing out in September, the duo's roots extend more than 10 years, all the way back to when the project's namesakes worked together at a shopping mall coffee chain. Th...

In case you missed it, Black Cat Alley’s newest mural features an alcoholic Santa Claus

Matt Wild

January 5, 2018

Since opening in September 2016, the East Side's Black Cat Alley has seen its fair share of controversy. Well, one of the pieces in the outdoor mural gallery has seen its fair share of controversy, at least. Ad...

Here’s the Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2018 lineup

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2018

Now that New Year’s festivities have come and gone, folks in Milwaukee are forced to come to terms with the harsh realization that winter is here in full force and there’s not much to do outside. Fortunately, w...

Abby Jeanne releases new single, announces “Fire In February” residency

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2018

Last Sunday night, Abby Jeanne capped off a breakout 2017 with her "Electric New Year" show, an unofficial culmination of a year in which the owner of Milwaukee's most captivating voice released her well-receiv...

Faux Fiction sheds and shreds in “Skin” music video

Tyler Maas

January 4, 2018

Milwaukee musicians don't seem to be wasting any time starting 2018 on a strong note. Adding to the handful of post-New Year releases and album announcements we've already seen in this young year is Faux Fictio...

Could Lake Michigan freeze over? And if so, could you bike or drive across it?

Matt Wild

January 4, 2018

Spend enough time on Facebook and you might come across an event titled "Bike or drive across Lake Michigan?" Set for Saturday, February 10, 2018 in the Milwaukee Harbor, the brazen event claims that "at some u...

Here’s what Milwaukee needs to accomplish in 2018 (according to 8 Milwaukeeans)

Matt Wild

January 3, 2018

Twenty-seventeen was...well, it was a year. The list of national outrages and horror stories could go on for days, and that's not even taking into account the international outrages and horror stories. Luckily,...

Witnessing the coldest Polar Plunge in more than 40 years (because I was too scared to actually do it)

Lauren Keene

January 3, 2018

Even though the Polar Plunge is a Milwaukee tradition spanning almost 100 years, I'll be honest: there's pretty much nothing that sounds appealing about it. Getting up bright and early on New Year's Day to…swim...

Mark Yencheske gets in the driver’s seat on ‘Be Easy’

Tyler Maas

January 3, 2018

"I'm a goal-oriented person," says Mark Yencheske. That's a bit of an understatement. On New Year's Eve, he played a total of three sets, split between Paper Holland and backing duties for Abby Jeanne. That ...

Brew City Brand T-shirt appears in new Dave Chappelle Netflix special

Josh Hoppert

January 3, 2018

If you were brave and bundled-up enough to attend one of the many, many cool events going on around town this past New Year's Eve, our hats are off to you. You are a truly hardy Milwaukeean! If you were not, di...

Look sharp in the new year with Kiss Critique’s ‘Allegations’

Matt Wild

January 2, 2018

One of the more idiosyncratic Milwaukee albums of 2017 was Ravi/Lola's Shape Up Shoulders, a swirling concoction of candy-colored psychedelia and blissed-out Sunday-morning pop. It was yet another winning colla...

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

Tyler Maas

January 2, 2018

It wasn’t too long ago that January was pretty much a vacant, blustery tundra of Milwaukee entertainment options. Between frigid conditions, uncertainties regarding Packers playoff seeding, and the post-holiday...

Hello Falafel will close January 6, become Odd Duck catering/private event space

Matt Wild

January 2, 2018

Sad news for fans of friendly falafel and/or good food: The owners of Bay View's Hello Falafel, 2301 S. Howell Ave., have announced they will close their vegetarian lunch spot on Saturday, January 6. The restau...

Body Futures ring in 2018 with ‘Maybe It’s Just The Weather’

Matt Wild

January 2, 2018

It takes a lot of nerve to release an album during the first few days of a new year. “Here you go, new year,” the move seems to say. “Top this.” In the case of Milwaukee’s Body Futures, it’s a move with guts to...

The best Milwaukee fish frys of 2017 (according to a guy who ate one every Friday this year)

Caleb Westphal

December 29, 2017

Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. In April 2017, he began writing a weekly column documenting and reviewing his latest fish fry destinations. Here are his top places for 2017, with exce...

208 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Ted’s Ice Cream & Restaurant

Caleb Westphal

December 29, 2017

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending quest here. About a year ago I was given a copy of the Directory Of Wisconsin's Best Ma & Pa Restaurants, a p...

Read Before Kickoff, Week 17: Packers vs. Lions

Nik Kovac

December 29, 2017

When the 7-8 Green Bay Packers travel to the 8-7 Detroit Lions this New Year’s Eve, it will be the last calendar day of 2017 and the last day of both teams’ 2017 seasons. The Lions were in the hunt longer, not...

It’s cold, so let’s watch this guy shotgun a can of Old Milwaukee Ice

Matt Wild

December 28, 2017

Good grief, it's cold outside. Remember that part in Planes, Trains & Automobiles where Steve Martin asks John Candy to take a guess at the temperature, and Candy replies "One." It's that cold. So let's wat...

Milwaukee Record’s New Year’s Eve entertainment guide

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

It’s been a rough year, Milwaukee. Still, between the celebrity deaths, frightening political developments, and various other sources for internet outrage, at least a few decent things happened. Come Sunday, mu...

Bar Rescue’s own Campbell’s Irish Pub is for sale

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

In 2014, we broke news that Bar Rescue would be using its infallible tactics of serving sliders and overly complicated Smirnoff Vodka shaker cocktails to save not one, but two Milwaukee bars. The first one, Y-N...

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