Temple is breaking up
Friday, Milwaukee post-punk quartet Temple announced the band will be ending.
After forming early iterations of the project almost a decade ago when the members were high school students in Green Bay, the lo...
Extra Points: Projecting John Kuhn’s next beard
Congratulations! If you're reading this, you survived the Packers bye week. Hopefully you found some bullshit to help occupy you last Sunday as you waited for the green and gold to return to action. Green Bay p...
Update: New Bucks arena, streetcar (OH GOD THE STREETCAR) coming in 2018
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• The city-, state-, and world-changing power of the new downtown Bucks arena w...
Ozmi Osbourne talks comedy, honesty, Palestine
With about a year to his credit, Azmi Abdel-Hamid (better known as "Ozmi Osbourne") has no problem admitting he's new to doing stand-up. However, he's no stranger to the Milwaukee comedy scene. Before he steppe...
Update: Rejoice, ladies, for Wisconsin is one step closer to legalizing blaze pink hunting gear
UPDATE: Yes, the dreams of millions of Wisconsin women who have long refrained from deer hunting due to the decidedly un-ladylike clothing requirements are coming closer to reality. According to the Journal Sen...
On The Record Episode 41: Milwaukee Bucks season preview
Today marks the beginning of another Milwaukee Bucks season. Unlike many recent years, this particular campaign comes with a great deal of intrigue and expectation. After a franchise-worst 2013-14, the promisin...
Sheriff Clarke breaks news that Black Lives Matter, ISIS will “join forces,” bring down government
Tired and weary from another day of serving as Milwaukee County Sheriff joylessly trolling the Internet, David A. Clarke, Jr. broke the shocking news last night that the grassroots Black Lives Matter movement a...
Bill Burr takes Riverside Theater on a wild ride
In this ongoing epoch of never-before-seen comic saturation that finds Netflix and iTunes releasing new stand-up specials at an astounding rate, every person who has ever told a joke beginning a podcast to talk...
Addie Blanchard starts strong in Milwaukee stand-up scene
During a six-month stint of comedic mass exodus that saw four of the city's strongest stand-up comics relocating to Chicago, another four funnymen heading to L.A., and one comedian even moving to Washington D.C...
‘Night Of The Living Dead: The Puppet Show’ is coming to get you (again)
Brother and sister Barbra and Johnny are driving to put flowers on their father’s grave at a cemetery apparently in the middle of nowhere, per their mother’s request. We hear a few squeals from the radio. The a...
Say goodbye to The Midwestern Charm and hello to Bad Wig
There's a pivotal moment many bands face in which they must decide whether to trudge on with a name they no longer enjoy or risk confusing (or downright upsetting) loyal listeners and bookers by keeping an iden...
Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear captivate Colectivo
Writing captivating stories is a tough gig, and pairing those stories with song composition only increases the room for error. When done right, though, these musical narratives are able to take the listener on ...
First Impression: Camino
Ah, the Walker's Point restaurant renaissance! These days, the transitional neighborhood's culinary and cocktail climate is all but indistinguishable when compared to the dining and drinking options available b...
Tracklist: 11 spooktacular Milwaukee music videos
Music videos come in all shapes and sizes: high-concept, lo-fi, jokey, performance-y, that one U2 video where it was just The Edge staring at the camera for five minutes, etc. But ever since Micheal Jackson thr...
Amy Schumer is coming to BMO Harris Bradley Center December 4
In a year that saw Amy Schumer partnering with Judd Apatow on Trainwreck, hosting SNL, winning an Emmy for her eponymous Comedy Central series, putting out her Live At The Apollo special on HBO, and crossing th...
Exclusive: Stream HoneyBee’s gorgeous ‘The Hollow Tree EP’
Milwaukee music is in the midst of a renaissance. Much of the rapid growth, inarguable improvement, and increased national attention to which the city has been privy lately can be largely explained by the ongoi...
Extra Points: 25 bullshit things you can do during the Packers bye
Though Packers season is only six weeks old, we've already grown quite accustomed to the weekly ritual of gathering with friends and loved ones in living rooms or a wealth of Wisconsin bars to watch Green Bay w...
Yep, Milwaukee showed up on another “most dangerous cities in America” list
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.
• Is it Friday? Yes, it’s Friday. That means it’s time to put yet another week ...
“Larry Sultan: Here And Home” brings suburban ennui, flaming oranges to MAM
There’s a moment in the Manos: The Hands Of Fate episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where Joel comments on the unnerving nature of the infamously terrible film: “Every frame of this movie looks like someon...
Tucked Away: Blue Star Cafe
Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally get lo...