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On The Record Episode 78: Mondo Lucha! and wrestling in Milwaukee

September 7, 2016

At this point, Mondo Lucha! is one of those distinctly Milwaukee events. Though some may struggle to recall a time before Turner Hall was transformed into a wrestling and variety show facility, the local bl...

Exclusive: Stream Something To Do’s ‘Not Making A Sound’

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2016

When we last checked in with Something To Do, the band was riding high, having recorded the music for an Adult Swim show. With the money the band earned scoring Gigglefudge USA, the state's premier ska outf...

Back to school: Milwaukee Record reads a poem about a “giant masturbating machine” at UWM

Matt Wild

September 6, 2016

Let's take a moment to remember Bob Watt: poet, artist, self-styled "dirty old man." After moving to Milwaukee in 1951, Watt established himself as a counterculture poet and outsider artist, focusing on "so bad...

Green Bay Juggalo cuts off woman’s finger, drinks her blood

Tyler Maas

September 6, 2016

If nothing else, Insane Clown Posse's fans are devoted. It's not uncommon to see members of the brood—commonly called "Juggalos"—with the Detroit rap duo's hatchet-wielding logo tattooed on their skin. Last...

Steel your nerves for the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference

Matt Wild

September 6, 2016

Despite the recent rash of 80-degree weather, fall is in the air. Leaves are changing, sweaters are appearing, and CVS is going all-in on the Halloween junk. Oh, and the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 4, 2016

September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. This month also signals the end of Milwaukee's festival season. Though the seasonal shift essentially puts a nine-mo...

Great job, Milwaukee! We’re the 5th least attractive city in America

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2016

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, or any time a national publication deigns to ...

Palomino is hosting an adult pinewood derby

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2016

Remember the pinewood derby? For more than 60 years, Cub Scouts have been racing painted blocks of wood on plastic wheels down tracks with their sights set on pack bragging rights and a merit badge. Some of...

Guided By Voices played Turner Hall, and shit yeah, it was cool

Sahan Jayasuriya

September 2, 2016

Dayton Ohio's Guided by Voices have come to epitomize the sound of '90s indie rock, a remarkable feat considering their near-dissolution after years of failed successes. Fueled by the prolific songwriting p...

Public Domain: Rio Turbo performs “Hush, Little Baby”

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 1, 2016

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo's new Back Room performance space at its Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt some of the world...

Brooklyn’s Smallest Penis Pageant winner and Shrekfest co-founder discusses schlongs, Smash Mouth, ‘Shrek’

Tyler Maas

September 1, 2016

Much like the very film the event honors, Shrekfest is an underdog story. In 2014, after learning a Madison festival dedicated to the hit DreamWorks series—which spawned four successful motion pictures, two...

Listen to the new Sylvan Esso single, “Radio”

Matt Wild

September 1, 2016

Sylvan Esso may hail from Durham, North Carolina, but the hot-as-shit two-piece electro act has some serious Milwaukee connections. Nick Sanborn, of course, is a former Milwaukeean and former member of the ...

Here’s the 2016 Bay View Bash lineup

Tyler Maas

August 31, 2016

As August gives way to September, Milwaukee's once-bountiful batch of summer festivals has dwindled to just one. Saturday, September 17 doubles as the unofficial end of summer and all its opportunities to l...

Sex, drugs, and vaudeville: All In Productions throws a really ‘Wild Party’

Jeff Grygny

August 31, 2016

Queenie was a blonde and her age stood still, And she danced twice a day in vaudeville. The Wild Party, by Joseph Moncure March From ancient Rome to today’s hip-hop, vibrant cultures have always come wi...

On The Record Episode 77: ‘LGBT Milwaukee’ author Michail Takach

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 31, 2016

A few weeks ago, we ran a Q&A with Michail Takach, a local researcher, historian, and freelance journalist who just released his first book, LGBT Milwaukee. Since Michail gave us too much great informat...

Sign up for Milwaukee Record’s “There Will Be Bowling,” coming to the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

August 30, 2016

Is there anything better than the annual Milwaukee Film Festival? No. Is there anything better than bowling? Strangely, also no. So why not combine the two? From September 22 through October 6, the screens ...

MGD Day: In search of a dying domestic beer

Mark Flehmer

August 30, 2016

Yes, I understand. There is a new brewery going in here. There is a new brewery going in there. Every bar you go to has a long tap list of all the new cool brews they have rotating in from all across the co...

Milwaukee County Parks would like to clear up the “confusion” surrounding Pokemon Go

Matt Wild

August 30, 2016

To recap: Last Tuesday, it was revealed that Milwaukee County Parks had written a letter to the developer of Pokemon Go, Niantic, Inc., asking for the removal of PokeStops from Lake Park. Later that day, th...

Here’s UWM Union Cinema’s fall 2016 lineup

Matt Wild

August 30, 2016

The UWM Union Cinema has been a hidden-not-really-hidden gem of Milwaukee's East Side since 1972. Located inside the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union, the unassuming theater has long served a...

POEK runs from “Indifference Machine” in new music video

Tyler Maas

August 30, 2016

With At Latl on the shelf until further notice, the band's frontman Kent Watson has redirected some of his artistic focus to POEK. The cross-country recording project—an acronym for "Property Of Eric and Ke...

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