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Help fund a documentary about breaking the cycle of homelessness in Milwaukee

June 17, 2015

It’s rare to find a Kickstarter campaign that’s both worthwhile and financially feasible. Ridiculous ideas paired with ridiculous funding goals are all too common on the popular crowdfunding site. But every now...

Exclusive: Stream Brett Newski’s cassette-only B-side “Everybody Knows You Can’t Sleep With Your Eyes Closed”

Tyler Maas

June 17, 2015

Following an 11-week, 73-show European tour, during which he ate “Space Cake” and declined a post-massage HJ, Brett Newski likely wouldn’t be the first person you’d expect to issue a new release within two week...

In search of Milwaukee’s most authentic Mexican restaurants

Todd Lazarski

June 16, 2015

We’ve all been there: sleeves rolled up, paper napkins scrunched in palm, grease trail trickling dangerously down the forearm as you angle another tortilla torpedo of mystery meat at your mouth, all the time th...

Old Earth treads new ground in California

Tyler Maas

June 16, 2015

Since New Berlin native Todd Umhoefer moved back to the region in 2012 after two years in San Francisco, the mastermind of experimental folk project Old Earth locked himself away in his downtown Milwaukee studi...

Klassik completes the seasonal cycle with Autumn EP

Matt Wild

June 16, 2015

Klassik has always been a man for all seasons—he’s a musician, rapper, producer, and video director, among other things—but now he’s literally a man for all seasons. With the release of his new Autumn EP, Klass...

Tracklist: 13 Milwaukee music-inspired beers we’d totally drink

Tyler Maas

June 15, 2015

In one of the cooler and more boozy bits of cross-promotion in recent memory, Sprecher Brewing Company and WMSE recently joined forces to release SMASH Ale. The “single malt and single hop” (the first letters o...

Locust Street Festival 2015: A minute-by-minute recap

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 15, 2015

If the 39th installment of the Locust Street Festival of Music & Art & Sigmund Snopek proved anything—beyond the fact that even dogs are wearing MilwaukeeHome shirts these days—it was that bad weather i...

Olivia Chaney captivates at inaugural Back Room show at Colectivo Coffee

Phillip Martinez

June 15, 2015

Sunday night, prior to singing her beautifully crafted interpretation of a 13th century French poem, English folk-artist Olivia Chaney discussed the idea of harboring nostalgia for something you’ve never had or...

Exclusive: Listen to the Dashcam remix of Klassik’s “STAGESlayer”

Matt Wild

June 12, 2015

Klassik has always been a man ahead of the curve. Since bursting on the scene with 2012’s In The Making and 2013’s YRP (Young Rising Phenoms), the rapper/singer/musician/producer has continually raised the bar ...

The Violet Hours’ “Beeze” music video masters public domain

Tyler Maas

June 12, 2015

Less than a month ago, The Violet Hour put its sophomore album, Fragments, out into the world. The 10-song follow-up to 2013 debut, Not Haunted, sees Karen Muehlbauer's formidable pipes coalescing with a wall o...

Here’s the Bandsketball 2015 bracket

Tyler Maas

June 12, 2015

Last year's inaugural Bandsketball tournament was nothing short of a rousing success. Musicians hailing from all corners of Milwaukee and a number of different genres came together in Riverwest on the courts at...

Kyle Dunnigan somewhat entertains a patchwork Turner Hall

Tyler Maas

June 12, 2015

Kyle Dunnigan is a tough sell at the ballroom level. Though the comic's work is certainly recognizable, the fact that the best known components of his comic catalog come in the form of a little-known character ...

I finally saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live cast at the Oriental Theater

Matt Wild

June 11, 2015

Prior to last month, I had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show only once, when I was 15. My friends and I were gathered in the wood-paneled basement of the only girl who would give us the time of day, watching m...

Bad Comedy Theatre squeezes laughs from lemons

Tyler Maas

June 11, 2015

Not unlike having sex or driving, performing stand-up comedy is something that's the most exciting for the person doing it when they're new to it. Unfortunately, for those in the bed, in the passenger's seat or...

Exclusive: Stream the single off the LMNtlyst and Rusty P’s collaborative album, LMNoP’s

Tyler Maas

June 11, 2015

Last August, Rusty P's released their seventh studio album, Pull The Trigger, which the veteran Milwaukee hip-hop outfit wrote and recorded as a two-piece. By November, Count Classic and Phantom Channel had ann...

Postmodern Jukebox brings YouTube razzmatazz to Turner Hall

Rob Wieland

June 11, 2015

Novelty acts have it rough. Not only must they catch a popular song before it hits saturation, they have to come up with a clever riff on it, record it, and get it out to the public just long enough to have it ...

On The Record Episode 22: Milwaukee record labels

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 10, 2015

Besides a few exceptions, the days of a band or rapper being “discovered” and inked to a record deal on a major label are long gone. Lately, musicians and other music aficionados are taking a much more active r...

A-side/B-side: Why is it okay for Wisconsin to like the Chicago Blackhawks?

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 10, 2015

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. Tyler Maas: ...

Get some cheap thrills from The Hullmen’s new record, Expensive Taste

Matt Wild

June 9, 2015

Down-and-dirty rock and roll served with a side of gutter-punk edge isn’t very fashionable these days, what with all the kids and their electro-pop EDM projects or whatever. Still, that very lack of hipness giv...

First Impression: Agave Southwest Bar & Grill

Kristina Byas

June 9, 2015

When it was rumored back in January that Espana Tapas House would be replaced by a Southwestern-themed restaurant, many were interested to see just what cuisine the new establishment planned to bring to Milwauk...

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