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Enjoy Every Fish Fry: Give the gift of perch at J&B’s Sports Bar & Blue Ribbon Taproom

December 19, 2025

broadstreet.zone(156201); Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures—sponsored by Miller High Life—HERE. This week: fish fry #624, at J&B's Sports Bar &am...

We’re down to 8 Milwaukee things in our Best Milwaukee Thing of 2025 Bracket

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 19, 2025

Round 3 of our very important Best Milwaukee Thing of 2025 Bracket was one for the ages. The Newport smoked Gold Rush Chicken! Oriental Theatre beached The Boat! Linda The General Manager At The Capitol Drive O...

Our new “Milwaukee Record Club” DJ series is a collaborative vinyl spin

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 19, 2025

Bay View's Wiggle Room (2988 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) has thousands upon thousands of LPs and 45s in its collection. On top of that, Milwaukee's first dedicated vinyl bar routinely outsources its turntables to a w...

Hear some of the season’s best local music with our “Autumn 2025” playlist

Tyler Maas

December 19, 2025

Believe it or not, despite enduring weeks of frigid temperatures, steady snowfall, and icy sidewalks, it's technically not even winter yet. The new season officially begins on Sunday, meaning we're currently in...

Holly, jolly, and haunted? I attended the first night of The Rave’s Haunted Holidays

Lily Mihelich

December 18, 2025

The Rave is no stranger to suspected unearthly history. When its uncanny past meets the joyful traditions of the holiday season, you get Haunted Holidays, a four-day series of self-guided tours of The Rave's in...

MKE Music Rewind: ‘Song Sung Blue’ documentary (2008)

Matt Wild

December 18, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: the original Song Sung Blue documentary from ...

Mentally prepare yourself to watch ‘Children Of Men’ with us at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

December 18, 2025

Imagine, if you can, a bleak and dystopian version of the world in the mid-2020s in which violence and division run rampant. Inhumane and deplorable immigration policies enacted by a totalitarian government are...

I dropped by ‘What’s Brewing Wisconsin’ to talk about Christmas food traditions (including raw beef sandwiches)

Matt Wild

December 18, 2025

We're exactly one week away from Christmas, which means it's almost time for uniquely "Wisconsin" Christmas food traditions! You know the traditions I'm talking about: the overflowing snack tables, the raw beef...

Milwaukee Metal Monthly: Shadows Taller Than Souls, plus recent releases from 11 more MKE bands

Steve Lampiris

December 17, 2025

Welcome back to Milwaukee Metal Monthly, the column where I discuss the metal scene in the headbanging-est city in Wisconsin. This month we’re gonna do things a lil’ different. Half of the column will be an int...

Here are the vendor lineups for both of our N/A Day “Dry January” beverage festivals

Tyler Maas

December 17, 2025

Are you looking to start 2026 on a sober note? Planning to make a lasting lifestyle change? Hoping to put a pause on partying after the holidays? Interested in sampling a wide range of products in the rapidly-g...

Birch owners’ new restaurant, CASSIS, will open January 5. Here’s info on the food, drinks, more.

Matt Wild

December 17, 2025

Late last year, husband-and-wife duo Kyle and Meghan Knall—a.k.a. the couple behind nationally celebrated Milwaukee restaurant Birch—announced plans to open a new restaurant, CASSIS. Now, the opening date for t...

WMSE’s Local/Live: Social Cig

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 17, 2025

WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist. milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, December 16, 2025: S...

Let’s remember some former Milwaukee music venues

Tyler Maas

December 16, 2025

This article is NOT in any way intended to be a complete list of every former Milwaukee (and suburban Milwaukee) music venue that has ever existed. It's honestly just a list of some places that came to mind. Co...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Buying local, getting something back via Visit Milwaukee

Matt Wild

December 16, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: buying local. Buy local. We said it in 2020. We said it in Nove...

BLAX dives into dreams in “Oneirology” video, preps new album and tour

Matt Wild

December 16, 2025

There doesn't seem to be much downtime for BLAX. The veteran Milwaukee hip-hop artist has spent the past few years alone releasing numerous albums, singles, videos, podcasts, and more. Oh, and don't forget abou...

Spotify, Liz Pelly’s ‘Mood Machine,’ and human connection as algorithm antidote

Jasmine Gonzalez

December 15, 2025

I was sitting at the Anodyne in Bay View one afternoon this past summer when a song caught my attention. It was a cover of a song I’d grown up listening to. I hit the song search button on my phone and got a re...

Ridiculously brief updates on 8 ridiculous Milwaukee controversies of 2025

Matt Wild

December 15, 2025

The ridiculous thing about ridiculous controversies is that they tend to go on for so long. Take these ridiculous Milwaukee controversies of 2025—a few of them are unique to this year or to last year, but many ...

Stuff your stocking with a new video for Fuzzysurf’s power pop holiday banger

Tyler Maas

December 15, 2025

It's been quite a year for Fuzzysurf. Following a self-imposed two-year hiatus, the accomplished Milwaukee indie rock outfit released its sprawling and genre-hopping Chameleons double LP (one of our favorite lo...

Jelly Roll will headline Summerfest on July 4

Matt Wild

December 15, 2025

In the latest "not really my thing but still a big 'get' for Summerfest" news, crossover star Jelly Roll will headline the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on the final day of Summerfest 2026, Saturday, J...

Here’s when Milwaukee will release its “Vision Report” for former Northridge Mall site, and that’s it

Matt Wild

December 15, 2025

Thursday, December 18 at 10 a.m. Okay, okay, here's a little more info from a press release: The site of the former Northridge Mall, now known as Granville Station, represents the largest development site i...

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