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April 27, 2016

// Aside from being a bastion of cat memes, poorly researched political discourse, and adult content, the Internet can be used to archive and access a wealth of information. Some of that information stretch...

Exclusive: Traverse Rx Drugs’ first single, “Mountain Of Dreams”

April 27, 2016

// When we first checked in with Rx Drugs last October, the Milwaukee super group fronted by The Championship singer-guitarist Joe Crockett and featuring members of Dashboard Confessional, Hugh Bob & Th...

Board game bender: 5 places to enjoy a game and a drink on International Tabletop Day

Rob Wieland

April 27, 2016

// Not long ago, playing a board game at a bar was an exercise in sadness. It was usually some beat-up old copy of Trivial Pursuit with 90 percent of the questions about Richard Nixon or Mork & Mindy. B...

R.I.P. Summerfest’s locally focused KNE New Music Stage

April 27, 2016

// Remember last year when we enjoyed an entirely local weekend at Summerfest? A similar feat will be much harder to pull off this year, as news has broke that the KNE New Music Stage—long home to the vast ...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2016

April 26, 2016

// Last year's inaugural Arte Para Todos—or "art for everyone"—set loose approximately 80 Milwaukee bands and artists in 15 venues across three neighborhoods over the course of three nights, ultimately rais...

Here’s the first single from the final Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes album

April 26, 2016

// Beyond her set at Arte Para Todos last weekend, a performance at FemFest, and a scant few outings around her Riverwest home, Caley Conway has been uncharacteristically quiet of late. There are two good r...

Hear haunting new songs from Ghost Cuts’ forthcoming album

April 26, 2016

// You've never heard of Ghost Cuts? Don't worry, it's cool. After all, none of the members live in Milwaukee (Glendale, Cedarburg, Sheboygan). Moreover, they've played exactly zero shows in their near-two-...

Yeah, Bro! Episode 53: Matt Garnaas discusses John Waters

April 26, 2016

// Every week, we'll be posting a new episode of Yeah, Bro! Podcast, the show where host/local gay treasure Jacob Bach talks about "gay things" (usually) with straight men. You can also stream our partner p...

No, the next ‘Star Wars’ movie will NOT be filmed near Green Bay

April 25, 2016

We have a bad feeling about this: Have you seen that article floating around Facebook about how the next Star Wars movie will be filmed near Green Bay, Wisconsin? Have you "liked" or shared said article about h...

Exclusive: Feast your ears on Paper Holland’s new EP, ‘Fast Food’

April 25, 2016

// Last month, we premiered "Jazzy Jeff," the new single and first-recorded peep indie-pop project Paper Holland has made since 2013's Happy Belated. In the three-plus years since its impressive and emotive...

Here are pictures of the redesigned and reimagined Grand Avenue

April 25, 2016

// Ever since a new ownership group took control of The Shops of Grand Avenue back in December 2015, speculation has been high as to what, exactly, that ownership group will do with the long-struggling down...

Take a look at Milwaukee Boat Line’s Concert Cruise lineup, mateys

April 25, 2016

// Despite the dozens of festivals, block parties, and weekly outdoor music series taking place on Milwaukee soil every summer, Milwaukee Boat Line sees fit to extend the city's celebratory spirit to the wa...

It’s twue, it’s twue! Mel Brooks will host a screening of ‘Blazing Saddles’ at Riverside Theater

April 25, 2016

// No matter where you fall on the all-important/clickable "Is political correctness ruining comedy?" debate, it's safe to say a movie like Mel Brooks' 1974 opus Blazing Saddles could never be made today. T...

Hear Jack Tell’s finger-tapping cover of The Fatty Acids’ “Flamingo Graveyard”

April 23, 2016

// One of the best byproducts of Arte Para Todos is the way the benefit brings musicians—oftentimes performers from entirely different ends of the music landscape who would otherwise never perform on the sa...

A different kind of Purple Rain: Prince’s damp message to a Milwaukee fan

Justin Kern

April 22, 2016

Your own office parties can carry an air of forced interaction. Attending someone else's office get-together removes one layer of humanity from this equation and in its place slaps on all the enjoyment of apply...

It takes two to tango in Devil Met Contention’s longing “Used To Be” video

April 22, 2016

// Since last year's short-but-sweet American Times EP, the perpetually-suit-clad gentlemen in Devil Met Contention have been routinely bestowing their genre-melding construct of "dark Americana" all over t...

Light Music breaks the silence with “Don’t Go Quietly” music video

April 22, 2016

// Light Music takes its time. Formed in 2012, the indie rock project with a decidedly electronic bent spent the better part of two years meticulously writing, perfecting, and recording material for a debut...

Bite into the bizarro video for Iron Pizza’s “The End”

April 22, 2016

// Milwaukee's Iron Pizza occupies a warped, whacked-out wavelength where every broken thrift shop kiddie keyboard is an instrument to be treasured, and where songs like "Stoopid Drugged Up Monkees" exist. ...

NEWaukee president Angela Damiani talks Grand Avenue redevelopment, social architecture, more