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Exclusive: Stream Hot Coffin’s new single, “Whistle, Hawk & Spit”

December 8, 2015

// It’s fitting that within 24 hours of rounding up what we consider to be the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015, Milwaukee’s Hot Coffin unveils a song that, if any indication of the caliber of the other sev...

The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 7, 2015

// Assembling our annual list of the best Milwaukee albums of the year is both a joy and a challenge. A joy because there’s nothing better than immersing yourself in a year’s worth of terrific music and red...

Amy Schumer finishes strong year with BMO Harris Bradley Center victory lap

Tyler Maas

December 7, 2015

// It's safe to say Amy Schumer had a pretty big 2015. In a year that found the comedian starring in a well-received major motion picture, taking home an Emmy for her Comedy Central series, hosting SNL, put...

Reunited Naked Raygun has strong Turner Hall showing

Cal Roach

December 5, 2015

In some ways, the Naked Raygun story is a string of rock and roll clichés. They were massively influential on the U.S. post-punk era but, like their Milwaukee contemporaries in Die Kreuzen, they never really go...

Relive last night’s insane Packers win with these delightfully angry Kato Kaelin tweets

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

// As you may or may not know, infamous O.J. Simpson house guest Kato Kaelin is a big Wisconsin sports nut. Though now living and working (apparently) in Los Angeles, the 56-year-old Kaelin originally hails...

Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 13: The Winchester

Maggie Iken

December 4, 2015

// In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will play the BMO Harris Bradley Center March 3

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

// Bruce Springsteen may be forever linked to Milwaukee (hello, infamous bomb threat show at the Uptown Theater in 1975), but he hasn’t played the Brew City since 2009. That’s six years without “Born To Run...

This is what the Journal Sentinel’s website will look like next year

Matt Wild

December 4, 2015

The don’t-call-it-a-buyout buyout of Journal Communications Inc. by Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co., the subsequent spinning off of the company’s newspapers into the locally controlled Journal Media Gr...

Liza Marie aims to finish 2015 strong

Tyler Maas

December 3, 2015

// In a year that has seen an unprecedented exodus of talented comedians leaving Milwaukee in search of increased opportunities in more established comedy communities, it's refreshing to see a stand-up come...

Take a trip on Trolley’s latest tripped-out album, ‘Caught In The Darkness’

Matt Wild

December 3, 2015

// Like a black-and-white striped T-shirt or a pair of white mod pants, Trolley is of a time but timeless. Since 1995 (!) the Milwaukee band has thrown itself willy-nilly into the golden age of psychedelia—...

First Impression: Point Burger Bar

Tyler Maas

December 2, 2015

// With so, so many great breweries in Milwaukee and the exponential growth in excellent craft beer being made throughout the country, it's tough not to empathize with some Wisconsin brewing operations tryi...

Exclusive: Spend 7 (or so) minutes in heaven with Midwives’ ‘Cowboy Songs’ EP

Tyler Maas

December 2, 2015

// Back in February, Midwives delivered its third release in under a year's time. At a trim 16 minutes spread between a 10-pack of songs, the blistering self-titled release displayed the band's uncommon abi...

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

Tyler Maas

December 1, 2015

// After 11 months of fun, it's almost time for Milwaukee's events calendar to flip to a new year. Not even counting the city's six-month run of festival and block parties, it's been a hell of a year for mu...

Watch a short film about Kumar Pallana and his unlikely ties to the Milwaukee film scene

Matt Wild

December 1, 2015

// The name “Kumar Pallana” may not ring any bells with Joe Q. Moviegoer, but savvy film fans will recognize the quirky Indian actor from his brief but memorable roles in a handful of Wes Anderson classics,...

Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ cover of The Beach Boys’ “All I Wanna Do”

Tyler Maas

December 1, 2015

// It’s a fine line, really. While most can agree there are few things in music that are more loathsome than watching a true blue cover band perform earnest bastardizations of other musicians’ material on s...

The Vanguard just added 5 new sausages to its menu

Matt Wild

November 30, 2015

// Is there anything better than The Vanguard, Bay View’s preeminent sausage-slinging and Packer-watching hot spot? No. Well, scratch that: The only thing better than The Vanguard is The Vanguard with five ...

Exclusive: Stream Buffalo Gospel’s tragic EP, ‘Waiting For The Lights To Go Out’

Tyler Maas

November 30, 2015

// Buffalo Gospel possesses the uncanny ability of writing material that manages to be both immensely gorgeous and devastatingly sad. With an unmistakable nod to classic country and a penchant for bleary, b...

Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee T-shirts for people who hate Milwaukee T-shirts

Matt Wild

November 30, 2015

// Nothing beats showing off your local pride via a snazzy, locally focused T-shirt. It’s cheap, easy, and keeps the upper half of your body free of nakedness. In Milwaukee, however, locally focused T-shirt...

Moon Curse transcends stoner rock with ‘The Spirit Remains’

Cal Roach

November 27, 2015

When stoner rock first bubbled up in the ’90s, it basically stood for Black Sabbath-worship. It was retro by definition and seemed like an untenable fad. Who could’ve guessed it would outlast grunge? As its roo...

Comedy, tragedy, time: Jon Kuderer builds humor out of hardship

Tyler Maas

November 25, 2015

// In stand-up comedy, "the light" is a common tool used to warn a comedian their time on stage is close to running out. Milwaukee comedian Jon Kuderer estimates he ran the light by at least five minutes th...

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