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Listen to the first episode of our new podcast, On The Record

January 9, 2015

Do you enjoy the laughter, the tears, and the heartwarming life lessons of Milwaukee Record, but wish you could consume them in podcast form? Of course you do. So welcome to our brand-new weekly podcast, On The...

Extra Points: 7 dumb Packers-Cowboys storylines you’ll hear Sunday

Tyler Maas

January 9, 2015

Following the referee-assisted victory by the Dallas Cowboys last week, the storylines began to pile up. Close to 50 years removed from the unforgettable events of the Ice Bowl, the Dallas Cowboys will return t...

Mount Rush-Mor: An interview with Rush-Mor Records’ Dan DuChaine

Lauren Keene

January 8, 2015

Standing on the corner of Kinnickinnic and Potter, Rush-Mor Records is a landmark in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood. Founded in 1971, Rush-Mor is Milwaukee’s oldest and longest running record store. Since 19...

Paul Collins’ Milwaukee connection: As told by him and local musicians

Tyler Maas

January 8, 2015

Power-pop icon Paul Collins has strong ties to both New York and Los Angles with the 40-or-so years he’s spent on stage in noted projects on both coasts, including The Beat, The Nerves, and Paul Collins Beat. T...

Tracklist: 5 things Milwaukee needs to accomplish in 2015

Matt Wild

January 7, 2015

Milwaukee used to be a city stuck in the past, content to enjoy a few cold ones after work and shoot down any new or interesting ideas that threatened the status quo. That has changed in recent years, but not c...

Liz Ziner resolves to keep the comedy coming in 2015

Tyler Maas

January 7, 2015

What's your New Year's resolution? In 2013, ex-improvisor and then-workaholic Liz Ziner decided she was finally going to throw caution to the wind and give stand-up comedy a try. Sure, it took her 10 months of ...

Here’s the lineup for Mitten Fest 2015

Tyler Maas

January 6, 2015

You know a show is going to be great when close to a thousand people on Facebook have already committed to going without even knowing who’s playing. In its first two years, Burnhearts’ annual Mitten Fest ser...

Watch Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank on the set of Frankie Latina’s Snapshot

Matt Wild

January 6, 2015

Back in 2009, Milwaukee enfant terrible filmmaker Frankie Latina made a splash with Modus Operandi, a delightfully sleazy, Z-grade exploitation flick co-produced by Sasha Grey and starring Danny Trejo. It was t...

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

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

January is an exciting time: a time of renewal, a time of promise, and a time when we inevitably refuse to make New Year’s resolutions because we’ve been burned in the past and that shit never works anyway. It’...

Go on a Packers vision quest with Calliope’s Al Kraemer

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

On Sunday, January 11, the Green Bay Packers will square off against the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field for what will undoubtedly be a nail-biting, edge-of-your-bleacher-seat playoff game. At stake is the priv...

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Soul Low: Kind Spirit

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

If there were a war for Milwaukee’s most affable band—an exceedingly polite and well-mannered war, mind you—the victor would undoubtedly be Soul Low. On 2013’s excellent UNEASY, the young group offered up eight...

First Impression: The bar where Screech allegedly stabbed some dude on Christmas

Tyler Maas

December 31, 2014

Perhaps “Second Impression” would be a more accurate phrase for this piece, as readers throughout Wisconsin and the world as a whole initially became acquainted with Grand Avenue Saloon (550 W. Grand Ave. in Po...

Jim Gaffigan starts Pabst Theater run on funny, familiar note

Tyler Maas

December 30, 2014

Monday night marked the eighth consecutive year in which veteran comedian Jim Gaffigan bestowed his unique construct of everyman-isms upon Milwaukee. By this point, the comic’s annual post-holiday run of shows—...

The 15 best comedy shows we saw in 2014

Tyler Maas

December 29, 2014

Today marks the beginning of Jim Gaffigan's three-night run of shows at Pabst Theater. For going on eight years, the food-obsessed comedian's late December appearances at the venue have served as the unofficial...

Tracklist: 12 things you’re doing New Year’s Eve

Tyler Maas

December 29, 2014

Though it's billed as a night of celebration, New Year's Eve can actually be quite a stressful ordeal. Between the crowded bars, escalated Lyft and Uber fees, knowing you're going to fuck up the date on your Ja...

Klassik is poised for big things in 2015

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2014

Since hitting the scene in 2011, Kellen Abston (better known by his hip-hop moniker of "Klassik") has been in a state of perpetual motion. After making a name for himself in Milwaukee by way of 2012's In The Ma...

Tracklist: 10 amazingly tolerable Milwaukee-made holiday songs

Tyler Maas

December 23, 2014

Along with unending department store lines, wrapping gifts, trying (and inevitably failing) to attend every holiday gathering you’re supposed to, and the threat of receiving an Arby’s gift card, the constant wa...

Twin Brother’s Sean Raasch hits his stride in 2014

Tyler Maas

December 23, 2014

If you hadn't heard of Milwaukee indie-folk trio Twin Brother prior to this summer, not only do we forgive you for the oversight, we're ashamed to admit we were right there with you. It wasn't until the materia...

TARDIS party: Inside The Time Lords’ Ball at Turner Hall

Rob Wieland

December 23, 2014

Milwaukee rarely lacks options for celebrating the end of the year. From the bottle service pub-crawls on Water Street to the packages in the ’burbs that allow guests to get shitty in a ballroom and stumble bac...

The 25 best Milwaukee Record stories of 2014

Milwaukee Record Staff

December 22, 2014

On April 7, 2014, Milwaukee Record launched with a story entitled—appropriately enough—“Welcome to the Milwaukee Record.” Since that time, we’ve published over 600 stories, reached over one million readers (yes...

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