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MFF2014: Inside The Milwaukee Show (part one)

September 29, 2014

They don’t call it the Milwaukee Film Festival for nothing. In addition to screening some of the best films in the world, the annual fest gives plenty of love to local films and filmmakers. The highlight of the...

Allison Dunne preps for Nick Thune opening slot

Tyler Maas

September 29, 2014

Having just celebrated her one-year anniversary doing comedy, Allison Dunne has accomplished quite a lot in a short time. With her ability to fearlessly tackle heavy topics in a lighthearted way, she’s quickly ...

Lorde punches above her weight at BMO Harris Pavilion

Matt Wild

September 27, 2014

Ever since becoming a worldwide pop sensation at 16 with last year’s Pure Heroine, New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has straddled the line between “aw-shucks” teenager and canny superstar-in-the-making. She’...

Extra Points: The ups and downs of a cheesehead in the land of Bears

Erik Niewiarowski

September 26, 2014

Recently, I celebrated my fourth anniversary of being a Milwaukee expat living in Chicago. I really do miss living in my beloved Milwaukee and her many treasures. I grew up in Waukesha, and lived in the 414 are...

Tim And Eric & Dr. Steve Brule do a great job in awesome Pabst Theater show

Tyler Maas

September 26, 2014

There was a moment near the end of Thursday’s sold-out Tim & Eric with Dr. Steve Brule show at Pabst Theater where John C. Reilly (deep in his Brule character) summed up the 150-some previous minutes with o...

Aaron Freeman leaves Ween behind at Turner Hall

Cal Roach

September 26, 2014

One could almost look at Aaron Freeman in child-star terms. The erstwhile Gene Ween began making prank music with partner Mickey Melchiondo (a.k.a. Dean Ween) in eighth grade, eventually scoring a novelty hit w...

Caught on tapes: Milwaukee’s place in Cassette Store Day

Tyler Maas

September 25, 2014

The vinyl resurgence is no secret. However, as audiophiles returned to the forgotten format in droves, most leapfrogged over another musical medium that stood squarely between wax and mp3s on the recorded music...

MFF2014: 1971 taps into political paranoia of the past, present

Steven Franz

September 25, 2014

Within minutes of Johanna Hamilton’s documentary 1971, we are told via intertitle that the film’s subjects—a group of eight anti-war activists who broke into an FBI office and “stole every file”—acted as a kind...

Dave Chappelle will perform two—no, make that six—shows at Pabst Theater this October

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 24, 2014

Current-generation comedians don’t come any more iconic, game-changing, and confounding (oh, and funny) than Dave Chappelle. His Chappelle’s Show for Comedy Central in the mid ’00s is the stuff of sketch comedy...

Exclusive: Stream Grasping At Straws’ debut full-length

Tyler Maas

September 24, 2014

Riverwest is presently riding a wave of talented twenty-somethings who are pitching in oodles of enthusiasm, classical training, and a host of styles that are equally eclectic and inventive to forge an understa...

What to listen for at the 2014 Milwaukee Noise Fest

DJ Hostettler

September 24, 2014

Of all the musical genres forced to endure willfully ignorant “it all sounds the same to me” comments, one would assume that noise would be the one for which it’s tragically apt. Of course, anyone who actually ...

Female comics take center stage in Ragtime Variety Hour

Tyler Maas

September 24, 2014

Amid the ongoing comedy boom that finds the art of stand-up growing worldwide and gaining recognition in even the snootiest crannies of society, female comics as a whole remain a largely marginalized group. Eve...

Ben Conrad puts care and collaboration in concert for MACC Fund benefit

Tyler Maas

September 23, 2014

Among the hundreds of people likely to be in attendance for Friday night’s Concert 4 MACC at Turner Hall, most will undoubtedly be on hand because they want to see noted Wisconsin-sired heavyhitters Cory Chisel...

MFF2014: Psychopath explores oversized ambition, haunted theme parks

Matt Wild

September 23, 2014

There’s no better subject for a documentary than a tragic, constantly put-upon hero fighting for his or her dreams in the face of insurmountable odds. If those dreams involve filmmaking, even better: Francis Fo...

The drinking dead: A movie and drink guide to the Bay View Zombie Apocalypse

Rob Wieland

September 23, 2014

The Bay View Zombie Apocalypse features a string of Bay View pubs mixing the sweets of a pub crawl with the bitters of shambling through the streets dressed as zombies. $25 gets access to a celebratory t-shirt,...

Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ self-titled debut album

Tyler Maas

September 22, 2014

We’re living in an age where an artist can conceivably wake up, write a song, record that song on a personal computer, and make the hours-old rendering available to listeners in any Internet-equipped nook of th...

Tracklist: 10 reasons to get excited for the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

September 22, 2014

// Beginning Thursday, September 25 and running through Thursday, October 9, the 6th annual Milwaukee Film Festival promises to be a can’t-miss event. A total of 276 films will light up the screens of the L...

Milwaukee’s once-mighty “Bring PBR Home” campaign defeated by Russia

Matt Wild

September 19, 2014

It seems like only last April when local and national media outlets were crapping themselves over a story of a group of Milwaukeeans determined to bring Pabst Brewing Company back to the Brew City. The incredib...

Off Base: John Axford’s career, as told through 7 movies

Tyler Maas

September 19, 2014

It’s hard to stop loving John Axford. Even after a messy exodus from his perch as Brewers closer and the fact that he has twice pitched for division rivals (though both came as the result of trades), the Ax-Man...

Iron & Wine calls for requests in solo Pabst Theater outing

Tyler Maas

September 19, 2014

Though it’s close to a decade removed from its commercial peak as go-to indie flick score and default audio accompaniment for that “play an entire song and show different characters doing stuff at the end of th...

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