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Throwback to the future: Cosplay Rave 3.0 vs. ’90s rave culture

July 15, 2015

Kids these days, with their hula hoops and their raps, might not realize it, but their parents may have spent their youth as part of the early ’90s rave culture, tracking down underground parties full of thuddi...

Tyler Menz talks Voyager, opening for Todd Barry

Tyler Maas

July 15, 2015

Milwaukee comedian Tyler Menz isn't the type of performer who's comfortable standing still. Sure, he's prone to dust off his now-classic "Muffins Milwaukee" joke from time to time, but the busy local comic reve...

We went to Scott Walker’s presidential announcement and this is what we saw

Tea Krulos

July 14, 2015

Photos by Wendy Schreier, captions by Tea Krulos The Waukesha County Fair opens its gates tomorrow, and similar to how the Stones warmed up the Summerfest grounds, Scott Walker—now an official 2016 preside...

Exclusive: Stream The Grovelers’ delightfully trashy debut, Derelicts And Screw-Ups

Matt Wild

July 14, 2015

If you’re looking for subtlety in your music—poetic and tender lyrics, intricate and feather-light instrumentation—The Grovelers are not the band for you. “When you wear your Sunday best / I tear you up and I e...

Get run down by Awkward Terrible’s “Return” music video

Tyler Maas

July 14, 2015

Technology moves fast. Music inspired by, and that samples from technology, however, doesn’t always progress as quickly. Excluding Horchata, a joint-band split with The Glowing Stars in 2012, Milwaukee chiptune...

Here’s the Brady Street Festival lineup

Tyler Maas

July 13, 2015

With the exception of Up & Over shows, the occasional Nomad event, and two years of the East Side Music Tour, Brady Street isn’t exactly the first place you’d think of when it comes to seeing live music in ...

Watch John Oliver take down Bucks arena in takedown-iest takedown ever

Matt Wild

July 13, 2015

How is it that Last Week Tonight host and indestructible “takedown” cyborg John Oliver hasn’t already ripped the idea of public financing for sports stadiums—and, by extension, the arena proposed by the Milwauk...

UWM Union Theatre announces new name, admission policy

Matt Wild

July 13, 2015

The UWM Union Theatre is one of those hidden-but-not-really-hidden gems that makes Milwaukee (and Milwaukee’s East Side, in particular) such a wonderful place to live. Since 1972, the unassuming movie theater l...

Off Base: Milwaukee Brewers mid-season awards

Tyler Maas

July 10, 2015

What an unforgettable season of Milwaukee Brewers baseball! After 87 games, numerous injuries, and two managers, the Brew Crew currently sits in last place in the National League Central and looking up at all b...

Here’s a picture of that new apartment complex planned for Brady Street

Matt Wild

July 10, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Take a look around town and you’ll notice that once-distinctive streets and c...

Talib Kweli shows Turner Hall why he’s lasted 20 years strong

Phillip Martinez

July 10, 2015

Brooklyn was in the house Thursday night as Milwaukee played host to one of independent hip-hop's most influential artists, Talib Kweli. With a career spanning 20 years, Kweli has pumped out six solo albums, ne...

First Impression: The Thirsty Duck

Tyler Maas

July 9, 2015

For hundreds of years, mankind has willingly left the comforts of home no matter the conditions and resigned itself to the concept of paying inflated bar prices for drinks that sometimes take upwards of five mi...

Cocoon Room is closing

Matt Wild

July 9, 2015

Lame news for Milwaukee’s music and art scenes: Riverwest’s Cocoon Room, located at 820 E. Locust St., has announced it will be closing up shop at the end of the month. The building’s landlord is electing not t...

Here’s the MishMash Fest 2015 lineup

Tyler Maas

July 9, 2015

One event we failed to mention in our otherwise thorough and exhaustive Summer Festival Guide was MishMash Fest. Since The Fatty Acids unofficially christened the inaugural event with an amp fire back in 2011, ...

Heed the call of Siren’s “Queen Medusa”

Matt Wild

July 9, 2015

Milwaukee event planners have a knack for cramming in as much entertainment as possible into the year’s three or four non-awful months—i.e. summer. The same can be said for Milwaukee artists. Take Siren, for ex...

On The Record Episode 26: Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 8, 2015

If you read Milwaukee Record with any regularity, you’ve no doubt seen ample mention of Sylvan Esso—almost exclusively flanked by glowing and well-deserved praise. Though the synth-pop duo is based in Durham, N...

Exclusive: Get lost in the childlike psychedelia of Ravi/Lola’s 20-song sophomore album

Matt Wild

July 8, 2015

The psych revival currently sweeping Milwaukee and the rest of the country tends to lean toward a heavier, rock-inspired sound. Reverb-drenched guitars, reverb-drenched vocals, reverb-drenched...well, you get t...

Milwaukee Film announces grant program for cash-strapped local filmmakers, i.e. all local filmmakers

Matt Wild

July 8, 2015

When it comes to things that are really, really expensive to do well, making a film ranks somewhere between building a house and raising a child. Even in the gleaming future of relatively inexpensive digital eq...

Regal definition: An audience with the queen of the Bristol Renaissance Faire, Jenny Higgins

Rob Wieland

July 7, 2015

By the time July rolls around, the itch to cram in as much summer fun as humanly possible usually means one thing: a road trip. For many Milwaukeeans, scratching that itch involves heading down to the Illinois ...

Let your freak flag fly with D’Amato’s awesome “BPA Free”

Matt Wild

July 7, 2015

With modern home recording technology and this thing we call the Internet, it’s entirely possible to write, record, and release a full-length album in the span of a long weekend. Whip up a few songs, track them...

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