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May 6, 2014

With the fate of Humboldt Park's proposed beer garden still unknown, Bay Viewers can still enjoy the park's already existent amenity, the vastly popular Chill On The Hill. Back for its 10th season, the free mus...

New festival is the taco the town

May 6, 2014

The taco is a food that's deeply connected to Milwaukee's rich and distinct culinary tradition. With that in mind, Swarmm Entertainment Group—whose mission statement is "to ignite and fulfill the human imaginat...

Tracklist: 16 recommended Twitter unfollows

May 5, 2014

Twitter can be daunting. Literally every nanosecond of every day, somebody somewhere feels compelled to expend between one and 140 characters tweeting about something–anything–they want to express that particul...

Boney Fingers, GGOOLLDD, and mmoorree hop aboard Concert Cruise lineup

May 5, 2014

Early May is a trying time for Milwaukee music fans. On one hand, festivals, block parties, and the numerous other outdoor events that help make Milwaukee's momentary stint of warm weather special officially b...

Off Base: 11 Milwaukee Brewers beer pairings

May 2, 2014

As Milwaukee Beer Week nears its bleary and drunken conclusion, it’s only natural to turn our attention to the obvious connection between beer and the Milwaukee Brewers. After all, unless the Philly Phanatic wh...

Milwaukee’s best: Talking beer with local musician-bartenders

May 1, 2014

For many Milwaukee musicians, pursuing their passion isn’t enough to pay the bills—an additional day and/or night job is needed. (Note: This is true for most non-musicians, as well.) So what better gig to pursu...

Jake Kornely prepares for Kyle Kinane opening gig

May 1, 2014

Woody Allen is widely credited with saying “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” That figure seems a bit arbitrary, but it’s impossible to underscore the significance that simply being active and present h...

Brew Ha Ha! crafts comedy with local ingredients

April 30, 2014

The connection between stand-up comedy and alcohol is undeniable. Though the former doesn’t necessarily require the latter, “two-drink minimum” is a term firmly implanted in the vocabulary of anybody who’s ever...

Hamlet A.D.D. will make its Milwaukee premiere May 15 at the Oriental

April 30, 2014

Earlier this month, we hipped you to the fact that Special Entertainment’s long-, long-, long-in-the-works feature film, Hamlet A.D.D., would finally see the light of day. Andrew Swant and Bobby Ciraldo’s surre...

Exclusive: Listen to the debut album from Antler House, Through The Dirt

April 29, 2014

Don’t feel bad if the name Antler House doesn’t sound familiar. Though the Milwaukee trio has been kicking around Riverwest cafes and basements just shy of two years, the band has only recently upped its show s...

Watch the Super 8 video for Altos’ “Never Named”

April 29, 2014

Altos’ self-titled 2011 debut is a record that still hums and reverberates three years on, filling the air with a post-rock din that alternates between plainly gorgeous and deeply unnerving. It’s a record that ...

Tracklist: 10 beers* to avoid during Milwaukee Beer Week

April 28, 2014

Unofficially, every week of the year is Beer Week in Milwaukee. Between the staggering number of drinking establishments, ever-present standing among the drunkest cities in America on inane lists, rampant local...

Surgeons In Heat operational again, release two new cuts

April 28, 2014

Timeless power-poppers Surgeons In Heat have been fairly quiet since releasing their self-titled LP in 2012, which is well deserving of the No. 24 spot on our “50 best Milwaukee albums of the 2010s (so far)” li...

Here’s the list of the 2014 WAMI winners

April 28, 2014

Last week, we discussed whether or not the Wisconsin Area Music Industry awards (or WAMIs, if you’re nasty) were still relevant, whether or not they were ever relevant, and, more importantly, whether or not the...

Demetri Martin brings his heady, hilarious musings to Pabst Theater

April 26, 2014

Funnyman Demetri Martin isn’t quite a household name, but between his 2007 special Demetri Martin. Person. and the cancellation of his short-lived Comedy Central series Important Things With Demetri Martin in 2...

Nobody cares what you think about Ryan Braun

April 25, 2014

When Ryan Braun stepped to the plate for his first at-bat this season—his first Miller Park plate appearance since serving a 65-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s performance enhancing drug p...

Help make KPolly’s “Fake A$$ Rappers” a reality

April 25, 2014

The music world is filled with plenty of outsized personalities better suited to seizure-inducing Japanese cartoons (Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, etc.), and artists who blur the line between artist and...

The cheap buzz of “Bring PBR Home”