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Sylvan Esso plays it right at Pabst Theater

September 6, 2014

On the wings of its outstanding self-titled debut album, Durham dream-pop duo Sylvan Esso has enjoyed a swift and well-deserved rise to prominence that’s included ample NPR attention, an unforgettable performan...

Here’s the complete lineup for the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 5, 2014

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the annual Milwaukee Film Festival is one of the city’s finest events, hands down. For the 2014 fest—which runs September 25 through October 9—a total of 276 films w...

The future of Milwaukee’s lakefront just got more futuristic (maybe)

Matt Wild

September 5, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • For a city that prides itself on its proximity to Lake Michigan, Milwaukee’s downtown lake...

Unrehearsed MKE is a practice in improvisation

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2014

For close to two years, an eclectic cast of classically trained musicians hailing from Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, and as far away as New York has convened on stage the first Sunday of each month to collaborat...

Drop kicks, dancing girls, and dangerous bands: A beginner’s guide to Mondo Lucha

Matt Wild

September 3, 2014

Since 2008, Milwaukee’s Mondo Lucha has whipped the city’s wrestling nerds (and closet wrestling nerds) into the turnbuckles with over-the-top, high-flying, masked lucha libre wrestling extravaganzas. The homeg...

Milwaukee River, four ways: Making the most of the city’s urban waterway

Rachel Seis

September 3, 2014

It’s a posh time to be water in Milwaukee. In the past couple weeks alone, the city’s water sources have made headlines: MillerCoors is donating $500,000 in an effort to improve the water quality and shoreline ...

Extra Points: What the Packer on your fantasy team says about you

Tyler Maas

September 3, 2014

Thursday’s regular season opener between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks marks the true beginning of the NFL season. As exciting as the return of football makes millions of people, a significant port...

On living in Milwaukee for half your life and never wanting to leave

Matt Wild

September 2, 2014

Beginning this fall, I will have lived in Milwaukee for half my life. I moved here in 1996, an incoming UWM film student with a part-time job and a questionable haircut. I played in an equally questionable rock...

Exclusive: Stream The Midwest Beat’s new album, Free Of Being

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2014

The Midwest Beat has been around for close to 10 years. During that lengthy tenure—in which the band has amassed three full-length albums (and nine releases in all)—its sound has shifted, augmented, and develop...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 1, 2014

In Milwaukee, the end of summer is a bittersweet thing. The weather cools, the festivals shut down, and the Brewers start to blow it. But the end of the season also marks the beginning of the city’s typically s...

Deadspin’s Drew Magary elaborates on why the Packers suck

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2014

By now you’ve likely read the latest Packers-pummeling installment of Deadspin’s second annual “Why Your Team Sucks” series. Like it or lump it, the mean-spirited and brutally honest written roast has quickly b...

Is the hipster zombie apocalypse headed for Milwaukee?

Matt Wild

August 29, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • “What is a city for?” That’s the opening question of a recent Washington Post piece, “T...

WC Tank discusses his musical mixed media assemblage, Almost Forever

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2014

It would be a disservice to merely refer to WC Tank as a rapper without also making mention of the artsy emcee’s body of work that finds him providing visuals for nationally recognized rappers, making excellent...

Exclusive: Stream the self-titled debut EP by Ugly Brothers

Tyler Maas

August 28, 2014

Founded in 2011 by brothers Alex and Palmer Shah—two Milwaukee transplants of debatable attractiveness from Green Bay—Ugly Brothers kept its original emo-meets-Delta-blues output confined to house shows and Riv...

Great job, Milwaukee! Milwaukee is “underrated but intriguing,” we guess

Matt Wild

August 28, 2014

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee!-Bot (similar to OnMilwaukee’s Jeff Sherman-Bot 8000) to keep track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists....

Milwaukee Film’s 2014 Cream City Cinema to feature Hamlet A.D.D., two-part “Milwaukee Show”

Matt Wild

August 28, 2014

Just when you thought it was safe to write about the upcoming 6th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival without mentioning yet another fest highlight, along comes Cream City Cinema. Today, Milwaukee Film revealed the ...

First Impression: Refuge Smoothie Cafe (Bay View)

Tyler Maas

August 27, 2014

Bay View's a-changing. It's hard to muster vitriol against the outstanding restaurants popping up (and those soon to open) in the transitional southeastern Milwaukee neighborhood, but some longtime residents st...

Tupac has always been “dead” for incoming college freshmen, notes dumb Beloit Mindset List

Matt Wild

August 26, 2014

For the past 17 years, Beloit College’s annual Mindset List has attempted to give college professors and administrators a peek inside the minds and world-views of incoming college freshmen. “So-and-so has never...

Exclusive: Stream the new Old Earth album, A Wake In The Wells

Tyler Maas

August 26, 2014

Todd Umhoefer is that rare breed of modern artist who thrusts his work in front of everything else. Regular income, consistent housing, and any semblance of security be damned. It amounts to shit if the music i...

Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee acts that changed their names

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 25, 2014

// Unlike one’s birth name, a musical artist has a say in what their project will be called. So if you wind up with a name like Diarrhea Planet, Anal Cunt, or Foxygen, you can’t blame your parents. It’s you...

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