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

July 27, 2015

Every summer weekend in Milwaukee is one that’s abound with activity and causes to celebrate, usually outside and in close proximity to live music and a beer stand. However, there are a select few days each sum...

Watch some videos of UFOs—a.k.a. the U.S. Army Golden Knights—flying over Milwaukee

Matt Wild

July 27, 2015

// In case you needed a reminder, this past Saturday was bonkers. In one 24-hour period, Milwaukee played host to the Riverwest 24, Brady Street Festival, the Milwaukee Air & Water Show, Milwaukee Brewf...

Todd Barry quietly kills at Turner Hall

Tyler Maas

July 25, 2015

For 27 years, beginning long before the term "alternative comedy" was in circulation, Todd Barry has managed to stand out in the world of stand-up with his dry, sardonic witticisms delivered in his patented sof...

Watch Twin Brother’s “Fire Fire Fire” music video, filmed at Club Garibaldi

Tyler Maas

July 24, 2015

Last August, Twin Brother came to true local music consciousness with its second album, Swallow The Anchor. By years end, the emotional opus to adolescence earned lofty placement on nearly every Milwaukee publi...

Inconceivable: The Princess Bride screening at Riverside Theater with Cary Elwes has been canceled

Matt Wild

July 24, 2015

The Princess Bride is one of those movies that isn’t just beloved by countless fans, it’s internalized. The absurdist quotes (“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,”) the plethora of l...

Tracklist: 62 things to do in the 62 remaining days of summer

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 23, 2015

As we slowly crawl into the dog days of summer, it’s tempting to simply stay inside, crank the AC, and watch Richie Rich on Netflix or whatever. But no! This is Milwaukee! Home of the insanely long winters and ...

Lineup, tickets for Dusty Medical 10th Anniversary Fest now available

Tyler Maas

July 23, 2015

Way back in 2005, long before everyone and their brother had their own record label, Mistreaters guitarist Kevin Meyer berthed Dusty Medical Records. Since the label's outset, Dusty Medical has released approxi...

Let’s remember the Cadillac Escalade that was swallowed by an East Side sinkhole in 2010

Matt Wild

July 23, 2015

Back in 2010, Milwaukee was hit with not one, but two nights of flash flooding in a single week. The night of July 15/16 saw basements and streets overflowing with rain, but it was the second night, July 22/23,...

High Dive coming soon to former Impala Lounge

Matt Wild

July 22, 2015

Since December 2014, the building at 701 E. Center St.—formerly Impala Lounge, and before that River Horse—has been empty. What was once a lively and quintessentially Riverwest-y Riverwest bar has been little m...

Milwaukee Record presents “Extra Laughs” Milwaukee Comedy Festival pre- and post-show series

Tyler Maas

July 22, 2015

Entering its 10th year, the Milwaukee Comedy Festival is a true local treasure. A four-day celebration (August 6-9) of stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy that melds some of Milwaukee's best and a cluster of th...

On The Record Episode 28: Milwaukee bike culture and the Riverwest 24

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 22, 2015

For this week’s two-wheeled, fixed-gear, helmet-required installment of On The Record, Matt and Tyler decided to salute Friday’s big Riverwest 24 bike “race” by chatting about Milwaukee’s ever-growing and ever-...

End of an error: Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe scales back

Tyler Maas

July 21, 2015

Last week, a new era dawned upon Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe. Though it was “consistently rated as one of the best comedy clubs in the country for two decades” (source: a Shepherd Express print ad that gave no attr...

Exclusive: Punctuate your summer with two songs from (ORB)’s Inside Voices

Matt Wild

July 21, 2015

Take one glance at the curious punctuation surrounding the name of Milwaukee/Chicago synth-rock duo (ORB), and you wouldn’t be blamed for dismissing the band as an aside, an afterthought. Both of the band’s mem...

We uploaded some Bob Uecker photos to Google’s “Deep Dream” network

Tyler Maas

July 20, 2015

Last month, Google announced a research team was experimenting with "training" artificial neural networks. They called it, "Inceptionism" and, um, we don't really understand it entirely beyond that. (Gizmodo do...

Eaux Claires festival celebrates Midwest music, points to something greater

Cal Roach

July 20, 2015

The organizers of the inaugural Eaux Claires festival did their homework. The first year of a large-scale event like this is usually a logistical nightmare; who could forget the 12-hour interstate backup welcom...

Hannibal Buress is coming to Riverside Theater on September 19

Tyler Maas

July 20, 2015

In February of 2014, Chicago-born comic Hannibal Buress filled Turner Hall Ballroom on the weight of his role in the new Broad City series, his co-hosting gig on the incomparable cult classic The Eric Andre Sho...

Anything happen in Milwaukee lately? Kind of a boring week, huh?

Matt Wild

July 17, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • So, anything new in Milwaukee? Kind of a boring week, huh? Yawn. Sure, there ...

Lady Lamb is gracious and great in Turner Hall return

Tyler Maas

July 17, 2015

Last April, Maine-based musician Aly Spaltro stood on Turner Hall's stage for the first time, as her project—then called Lady Lamb The Beekeeper—played in support of Typhoon. Just over 15 months later, the mayb...

11 famous skeletons the new Milwaukee Admirals logo resembles

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 16, 2015

Yesterday, lost in the noise of the Bucks arena vote and the news that Pabst will be relocating hundreds of jobs back to Milwaukee opening a microbrewery and restaurant, was a small but significant announcement...

Comedian J.J. Harris comes clean about going dirty

Tyler Maas

July 16, 2015

No matter how you cut it, stand-up comedy isn't easy. That said, you're unlikely to have a smoother entrance to this altogether difficult art form than Christian comedy. Just ask Milwaukee comic "Loveable Mr." ...

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