Tagged Feature

June 3, 2016

// Today is National Donut Day. Though virtually everyone is prone to enjoying the sugary breakfast pastry from time to time, no group is more aligned with the donut—for better or worse—than police officers...

On The Record Episode 67: Summer festivals and Ask Us Anything (Live!)

June 3, 2016

// For this endearingly slipshod episode, hosts Matt Wild and Tyler Maas (that's us) decided to try something a little different and do an "Ask Us Anything" kind of deal via Facebook Live. So yes, as we wer...

Here’s the 2016 Milwaukee Bike-In Movie Series schedule

June 3, 2016

// We aren't sure how we (and seemingly everyone else) missed this, but arguably the best summer movie series in the city released its film lineup late last month. Between the third Friday of each June thro...

I ate Dave Begel’s “Top 10 Milwaukee foods to eat while you are driving” while I was driving

Kevin Mueller

June 2, 2016

// A growing (yet still rarely followed) tenet of internet culture is that you should avoid spreading articles you don't like on social media. A comically oblivious article can generate more traffic through...

A-side/B-side: So what do we think of this year’s Summerfest lineup?

June 2, 2016

// In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle various city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe. Matt ...

The spot of the former “Spot 4MKE” is for sale, will be used to pay for streetcar expansion

June 2, 2016

// Back in March, we wrote about the end of "The Spot 4MKE," an ill-fated "placemaking" project from Creative Alliance Milwaukee that sought to inject some life into a disused downtown parking lot on the co...

Listen to our “Ode to Bob Uecker” on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Wisconsin Life”

June 2, 2016

// Back in April, Milwaukee Record co-founder, co-editor, and all-around co-person Matt Wild penned a "Milwaukee Day ode to Bob Uecker." Using the 414-based holiday as a handy excuse to once again write abo...

Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bands with food names

June 1, 2016

// With Downtown Dining Week set to run June 2-9, Milwaukee Record decided to spend the next eight days devoting at least some of our bandwidth to covering local dining, both downtown and beyond. Before all...

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

June 1, 2016

Though July comes close to matching it, there’s simply no month in Milwaukee that’s more jam-packed with entertainment than June. Festival season officially kicks off with PrideFest, which gives way to Polish F...

Watch Trapper Schoepp party with Richard “Office Space” Riehle in “Settlin’ Or Sleepin’ Around”

June 1, 2016

// Trapper Schoepp's new Rangers & Valentines is the kind of big, bold, brassy album that practically begs to be played at porch parties nationwide. (It would have made our "22 Milwaukee summer songs" T...

Public Domain: Joseph Huber performs “Oh Shenandoah”

May 31, 2016

// Milwaukee Record is proud to introduce "Public Domain." The video series will feature Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo's new Back Room performance space at its Prospect Avenue cafe to adapt so...

Say yes to NO/NO’s gorgeous ‘Sound And Light’ LP

May 31, 2016

// The origin story of Milwaukee electro-pop project NO/NO is well-worn territory, but it's worth repeating one last time: The group formed from the ashes of The Delphines in 2014, keeping that band's sense...

Yeah, Bro! Episode 58: Cock and balls with Brock Burczyk

May 31, 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...

Tracklist: 22 Milwaukee summer songs

May 30, 2016

// Memorial Day is a time to pause, give thanks to all those who have served our country, and compete in a makeshift fishing tournament where you need to catch at least 20 points worth of fish before you ca...

Exclusive: Stream Tigernite’s rip-roaring ‘Blood Moon’ EP

May 27, 2016

// After a whirlwind 11-plus months in which Tigernite opened for The Offspring, released its outstanding and critically acclaimed debut full-length, stole the show at the most recent Local Coverage, broke in...

Yield Bar has closed

May 27, 2016

// After more than a decade in business, Yield Bar screeched to an abrupt stop at bar time this morning. According to sources within the business, Thursday night (or bar time Friday morning) was the end of ...

MKE SEX: Age of consent

Lucky Tomaszek

May 27, 2016

// Over brunch with a group of like-minded mothers recently, one woman asked what she should be telling her newly pubescent daughter about Wisconsin's age of consent laws. This mom isn't from America, and o...

I humiliated myself in front of one of the dudes from Cherry Pie