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Soul Low’s “Blatz Beat” video will make you happy, thirsty

October 31, 2014

After Soul Low came out of nowhere with its incredible debut, UNEASY (a debut that’s firmly a top 10 local album this decade) in the summer of 2013, the city that had just met the indie rock prodigies—who, at t...

The Olives take to the woods in the “Haunt Me” video

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

The Olives have been delighting gallery spaces, clubs, and Riverwest basements (and upcoming Milwaukee Record benefit shows) with its instantly-fun brand of Great Lakes surf punk for a few years now. The all-fe...

Halloween Comedy Show is set to scare up some laughs

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2014

Long after one’s acceptable trick-or-treating years have elapsed, Halloween weekend remains intriguing in adulthood because it offers a hiatus from all things ordinary. It grants a grace period from behaving as...

Jayke Orvis returns to Milwaukee on his own

Jared Blohm

October 30, 2014

Milwaukee native Jayke Orvis reached a crossroads in 2007. While his band—the .357 String Band—was beginning to garner attention outside of Wisconsin, his personal life was crashing around him. He was going thr...

Crack a beer and watch the new Platinum Boys video for “Candy”

Tyler Maas

October 30, 2014

Those rapscallions in Platinum Boys are fresh off a mischievous summer that saw the Riverwest rock quartet dosing Milwaukee’s festivals, block parties, and clubs with pristine party anthems about indulging in t...

Ramie Makhlouf: From sports talk to stand-up

Tyler Maas

October 29, 2014

For thousands of listeners spread from Fond du Lac to Kenosha and all around metro Milwaukee, Ramie Makhlouf's voice is a part of the afternoon drive time commute, a trusted source of athletic information, and ...

The return (and unwritten future) of All Messed Up

Thomas Michalski

October 29, 2014

Taking 64 Milwaukee-area musicians and randomly shuffling them into 16 ad hoc ensembles, All Messed Up, now entering its fifth year, has transformed from a creative way for local players to stave off the winter...

Exclusive: Listen to Drag, the debut EP from NO/NO (ex-Delphines)

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

The Delphines were one of the best Milwaukee bands of the 2010s, firing forth a series of EPs and singles stuffed with jittery, sexy, reverb-drenched gloom-rock. But soon after the group finally got around to r...

Dave Chappelle (and Milwaukee) triumph at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

Two questions dominated the conversation leading up to Dave Chappelle’s three-night, six-show stint at Pabst Theater, so let’s just get them out of the way: Q: Would Chappelle—somewhat notorious in recent ye...

Exclusive: Listen to Ladders’ excellent debut album, Suha

Matt Wild

October 24, 2014

In just five short years, the Riverwest-based Breadking collective has made its mark on the city’s music scene by nurturing a seemingly endless number of young bands, and by providing an informal support networ...

Extra Points: Milwaukee Record’s completely arbitrary NFL city rankings

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2014

Despite their differing performance, the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints have been two very similar organizations this season. Each are perennial NFC favorites who usually rely on their Hall Of Fame-ca...

A Monday in Cudahy: My third-shift bar crawl

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2014

There’s no getting around it: Cudahy is Milwaukee’s punching bag. If you live anywhere in southeastern Wisconsin, you’ve undoubtedly heard dozens of jokes, putdowns, and generalizations cast in the direction of...

Help fund Christopher Darling, a local film about the underbelly of rock and roll

Matt Wild

October 23, 2014

On the surface, the life of a successful musician would seem to be one filled with endless pleasures, creative and emotional fulfillment, and “backstage changing tents” stocked with eager-to-please fans (Van Ha...

That Wisconsin Ebola thing is a hoax (but here are a bunch of alarmist local stories anyway)

Matt Wild

October 22, 2014

Staying true to its motto of “Leading the way with important local coverage of stuff we saw on Facebook,” WISN 12 assured viewers yesterday that a series of social media posts claiming Ebola had broken out in W...

Milwaukee bikers gear up for winter, cyclocross season

Leah Wynalek

October 22, 2014

The warm, beer-filled nights of underwear rides and bike-in movies have come to an end, but that doesn't mean your fixed gear has to go into hibernation. The most hardcore cyclists pedal through frigid fall rai...

El-Shareef’s Nonchalant EP is anything but

Matt Wild

October 22, 2014

The digital age has made it possible for artists to record and release their music at a stunningly rapid rate. Hip-hop, in particular, has embraced this accelerated production schedule in the form of mixtapes—q...

Field Report goes all in on Marigolden

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2014

You could hear it from the chapel steps. As the volume of the acoustic guitar and the lone singer’s wavering, vulnerable voice subsided, it was overtaken with thunderous applause of close to 500 people seate...

Here’s what Neil deGrasse Tyson will talk about at his Riverside shows this December

Matt Wild

October 21, 2014

In a time when ignorance is celebrated and grown adults camp out in parking lots for free chicken sandwiches, a public figure like Neil deGrasse Tyson is not only welcome, but needed. The celebrated astrophysic...

Spocktoberfest: Fantasticon to bring geeks, nerds, dorks together this weekend

Rob Wieland

October 21, 2014

Milwaukee is flush with celebrations during the summer, ranging from big lakefront ordeals to neighborhood events full of carny food. That leaves a lot of time to fill the rest of the year, with recent summers ...

Tracklist: 15 random “best of Milwaukee” awards we’d like to see

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 20, 2014

Along with cooler weather and a never-ending parade of people who can’t stop talking about how much they love this time of year, autumn in Milwaukee means one thing: awards season. Yes, October and November are...

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