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Sleater-Kinney to reunite, release new album, play Turner Hall in February

October 20, 2014

The Internet was set abuzz last week with news that an upcoming Sleater-Kinney vinyl box set (due Tuesday, October 21 on Sub Pop) contains a mysterious 7” with a new song entitled “Bury Our Friends,” and labele...

Brian Regan comes clean in hilarious, wholesome Riverside Theater show

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2014

Clean comedy is something of an oxymoron these days. In an age that finds stand-up at its crudest, most brazen and experimental, and with little in the way of limitations, the clean, folksy, identifiable comic ...

Exclusive: Stream Wealthy Ghost’s EP, Cold Hands

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2014

Much like the catchall “indie rock” classification that’s often applied to bands on major labels that don’t play rock and roll, “bedroom pop” seems to be the sub-genre du jour to describe delicate, exposed sing...

Pop-culture blind spots, Patti Smith, and the unique pleasures of the unknown

Matt Wild

October 17, 2014

There’s a moment in The Blair Witch Project when Heather, stumbling aimlessly in the woods and refusing to admit she’s lost, calmly explains, “It’s very hard to get lost in America these days, and even harder t...

Chris D’Elia plays the part of Pabst Theater headliner

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2014

Though he’s been performing stand-up comedy for eight years, Chris D’Elia is far better known for his comedic efforts in two immensely different formats. The comic got his start in acting, which yielded a regul...

Greg Bach makes up for lost stage time

Tyler Maas

October 16, 2014

Stand-up comedy is widely considered to be among the most difficult forms of entertainment to master. Like anything, the earlier one starts, the more lumps he or she can incur on the way to developing a set tha...

Haunted Heads’ Andrew Johnson talks Oshkosh-Milwaukee connection, Shepard Fairey

Tyler Maas

October 16, 2014

For more than 15 years, Andrew Johnson (right) has been a pillar of northeast Wisconsin music. The former singer and guitarist of seminal Oshkosh (by way of Portland) rock band h. Chinaski, longtime Oshvegas li...

Milwaukee Record presents “Local Coverage” January 16

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 15, 2014

Milwaukee’s music scene can be somewhat insular at times. Think about how many times you see the same three to four bands or rappers booking shows at that one venue in their own neighborhood. Conversely, how of...

Bar Rescue opens latest Milwaukee project, Campbell’s Irish Pub

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2014

// Last week, we broke the story that SPIKE TV’s Bar Rescue remained in Milwaukee after turning Y-Not III into Nick’s House, and was in the process of transforming Howell Avenue dive Packy’s Pub as well. Sa...

Ryan Adams captivates crowd, serenades security guard at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

October 15, 2014

If your first impression of Ryan Adams’ new self-titled album is that it sounds more like Bryan Adams than usual, you’re not alone: the younger, hipper Adams has taken to covering Bryan’s “Run To You” on his cu...

The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival, by the numbers

Matt Wild

October 14, 2014

It’s easy to say things like, “The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was great!” or, “Holy shit! The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was the best damn f*#@ing film festival ever! Shit.” But for all those easy and obsce...

Dance, dance, dance! (To new Scrimshaw and Heavy Hand videos)

Matt Wild

October 14, 2014

Music videos can be used to communicate many things: the meaning of a song, the subtext of a song, or an elaborate story that has little or nothing to do with a song. Then there are music videos like the new on...

Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival: Something Must Break

Ashley Altadonna

October 14, 2014

All of us, at one point or another, are destined to feel the impetus of life calling. It’s that driving, crashing unstoppable force of nature whose gravity we cannot escape. This dynamism is at the heart of Swe...

Tracklist: 8 questionable local rebrandings

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2014

Within the last two weeks, a pair of Milwaukee bars—Y-Not III and Packy’s Pub—have experienced extensive renovations and thematic overhauls as a result of Bar Rescue coming to town. Now known as Nick’s House an...

First Impression: District 14 Brewery & Pub

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2014

For every Milwaukee-area restaurant that promptly opens without warning or anticipation, approximately one dozen land nowhere near the neighborhood of their projected launch date. It’s not as much a Milwaukee-s...

Jerry Seinfeld pleases the Riverside Theater with a show about nothing

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2014

As the titular character of his long-running and culturally influential sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld—with the help of co-creator Larry David and a marvelous supporting cast—mastered observational humor, and coined in...

10 standout moments from the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 10, 2014

And that’s a wrap: After 15 days of movies, more movies, and even more movies, the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival has come to a close. Bookended by an opening-night screening of 1971 and last night’s sendoff from...

2015 Midwest Gaming Classic announces dates

Tyler Maas

October 10, 2014

Since 2001, gamers, pinball nuts, tabletop competitors, and cosplayers alike have had an electronic oasis near Milwaukee each spring, as the Midwest Gaming Classic has taken root in a suburban hotel and become ...

Personal pan’s labyrinth: A story of Book It! redemption

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2014

Like any literate pizza-eater who grew up anywhere near a Pizza Hut restaurant, I was happy to recently hear the pizza franchise was instituting a "Book It! Alumni," as part of the reading program's 30th year o...

Exclusive: Get pummeled by Volunteer’s four-song EP, Goner

Matt Wild

October 9, 2014

In a time when the number of bands on planet Earth rivals the amount of water on planet Earth, it’s rare to find a “band’s band.” You know, a band that other bands respect, regardless of style or genre. Milwauk...

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