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      Mike Holloway
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      Matt Wild
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      Tyler Maas
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      Mitch DeSantis
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      December 8, 2025
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      Matt Wild
      May 26, 2026
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      May 21, 2026
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      May 7, 2026
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      May 20, 2026
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      May 15, 2026
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      May 14, 2026
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      May 14, 2026
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      May 26, 2026
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      May 7, 2026
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      April 29, 2026
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      Matt Wild
      April 9, 2026
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      April 7, 2026
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      September 20, 2019
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      May 19, 2026
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      May 12, 2026
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      May 5, 2026
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      April 28, 2026
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Exclusive: Listen to the putrid new Drugs Dragons album, II & I/II

Matt Wild
July 24, 2014
Some albums instantly reward listeners with big hooks, sparkling production, and an eagerness to please. Other albums offer up complex arrangements and knotty lyrics, challenging listeners to unlock the rewards...

Counting Crows go long, fall short at Riverside Theater

Tyler Maas
July 24, 2014
Just over two years ago, veteran pop-rock mainstay Counting Crows only filled the BMO Harris Pavilion to about a quarter of its capacity in one of the young venue’s first non-Summerfest bookings. This time arou...

A-side/B-side: Is the Milwaukee music scene too insular?

Milwaukee Record Staff
July 23, 2014
In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle important city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe. Matt Wild:...

Exclusive: Stream the debut GGOOLLDD EP, $TANDARD$

Milwaukee Record Staff
July 23, 2014
Since the project played its first show just over nine months ago, GGOOLLDD has been privy to a wealth of positive local attention and cherry gigs ranging from beer-celebrating block parties, concert cruises, a...

Jack White at The Rave or: In defense of good artists playing bad venues

Matt Wild
July 22, 2014
Walk into the Cactus Club and you’ll see a silk-screened 12” record created by Milwaukee artist Von Munz promoting The White Stripes’ first out-of-state show, November 13, 1999, in which they opened for The Mis...

Just 8 remain in Bandsketball championship contention

Tyler Maas
July 22, 2014
What started as a collection of 32 Milwaukee music acts taking the court to determine which is the best at basketball has now shrunk into single-digit contenders. Over the weekend, the second round of Bandsketb...

Tracklist: 8 bizarre Milwaukee Kickstarter campaigns

Matt Wild
July 21, 2014
Recently, the Internet has done what it does best—flip the fuck out—over a Kickstarter campaign dedicated to making potato salad. What started as a lark with a $10 goal (tagline: “Basically I’m just making pota...

We saw an experimental band at Treats Tavern at 6:30 a.m.

Tyler Maas
July 21, 2014
Most weekends in Milwaukee, the bounty of performances by local acts and touring talent forces music fans to face difficult decisions in regard to which of the many shows going on throughout the city at any giv...

Exclusive: Stream Bright Kind’s self-titled debut

Milwaukee Record Staff
July 18, 2014
The new self-titled album by Bright Kind is technically the indie-leaning pop project’s debut record. However, 75 percent of the quartet has played together since 2008. In 2012, Jeanna Salzer Trio subtracted th...

Let’s find some dumb ideas in the city’s “Action Agenda”

Matt Wild
July 18, 2014
Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Milwaukee has plenty of wonderful qualities—music, art, food, festivals, sports, cheap booze...

Off Base: 6 ultra-specific Brewers All-Star break awards

Tyler Maas
July 18, 2014
Though Major League’s All-Star break and its “mid-summer classic” nickname seem to imply an event that cuts the 162-game big league season in half, the Milwaukee Brewers have actually played 96 games to this po...

Here’s the lineup for the 2014 Center Street Daze Festival

Matt Wild
July 17, 2014
With many of the big street fests of 2014 already behind us (Locust Street, Burnhearts/PBR), and another taking place in a few weeks (Brady Street), it would seem that the curtain is slowly being drawn on anoth...

Caste Of Killers stands front and center in local comedy growth

Tyler Maas
July 16, 2014
While there’s always room for growth, Milwaukee’s stand-up comedy scene is in a very healthy place right now. This weekend alone, area comedians will perform in bar room variety shows, secret house gigs, late n...

Damn! Wisconsin ranks third on bullshit Reddit swearing list

Tyler Maas
July 16, 2014
Holy shit! From Redditor “Niehaus” comes some fucking interesting news that Reddit users in Wisconsin love the hell out of swearing. A pair of specific-ass graphs ranked swearing per subscriber in comments of 1...

Relive the Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party with this awesome video

Matt Wild
July 16, 2014
Is it too early to be reminiscing about summer 2014? Probably, but a snap of unseasonably cool weather has us thinking back to a time when we were young, idealistic, and a little bit warmer. You know, like last...

WC Tank announces new album, premieres new song/video

Tyler Maas
July 15, 2014
Save for occasional one-off shows in town, Milwaukee rapper, filmmaker, and visuals wizard WC Tank has kept things pretty quiet musically speaking since shortly after the release of Kisscry Patina some 18 month...

Spend a minute with the video for Heavy Hand’s “David Bowie Wants To Steal Your Baby”

Matt Wild
July 15, 2014
There was a time when music videos blurred the line between video and short film—think of all those ridiculous videos from Michael Jackson’s Dangerous—though there’s something to be said for videos that get in ...

Help keep Global Union free by contributing to “$15,000 in 15 days” campaign

Matt Wild
July 15, 2014
Let’s face it: being forced to think about the end of summer in the middle of July is downright cruel. But like all things, summer 2014 must pass, even though it feels like it started a week ago. Happily, there...

Tracklist: 14+ instances of “LeBron-ing” in Wisconsin sports

Tyler Maas
July 14, 2014
Unless you rely on Milwaukee Record as your only source of sports-related news (which you shouldn’t do), you’ve surely learned of LeBron James’ somewhat surprising decision to opt out of his contract with the r...

Check it out! Tim & Eric (and Dr. Steve Brule!) headed to Pabst Theater Sept. 25

Milwaukee Record Staff
July 14, 2014
There are certain shows that need some setup, some background information for fans re-familiarizing themselves with an artist’s body of work, or some context for non-fans who may not know what they’re missing. ...
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