Milwaukee Music Roundup: January 2025
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LPs AND EPs OF NOTE
Alicia Rytlewski - When We Were Bears
When We Were Bears by Alicia...
Golden Gyros still serves up timeless, tasty eats in West Allis
There's nothing quite like a good old fashioned gyro joint. The Milwaukee area is fortunate to have so great ones in its midst. Between Oakland Gyros, Gyro Palace, Cosmos Cafe, Apollo Cafe, The Gyros Stand, and...
Hop in and watch the trailer for the Milwaukee-made TW Hansen doc ‘Now! More! Yes!’
"A legally blind used car salesman drunkenly purchases an ambulance online with his boss's credit card."
If you live outside Milwaukee, that sentence may sound like a Mad Lib tagline to a zany madcap comedy....
The Estate set to reopen (with music!) on weekends
The last four years have been bumpy ones for beloved East Side club The Estate (2423 N. Murray Ave). There were openings and closings, kinda-sorta name changes (it was The Jazz Estate but it's just The Estate n...
Andrew Jambura laments state of society, Pro Bowl, in video for “My God”
The last time we checked in with Milwaukee musician and Silver City Studios engineer Andrew Jambura, the former Sat. Nite Duets member was releasing his first solo song in nearly a decade, "Can U Spell God?" Fa...
Shapes of Milwaukee County cities and villages, ranked
Shapes! The world is full of 'em. Triangles! Rectangles! Circles! We could go on, but you probably get the idea. Everything in the universe, from the country you live in, the device you're currently reading thi...
Northridge Mall demolition continues; former JCPenney razed this week
Last summer we took a tour of the long-empty, super-trashed, and soon-to-be-demolished Northridge Mall. It was the last time folks could (legally) take a look inside the once-mighty mall before it started to (l...
Spring has sprung with the artwork for the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival
Have you been outside today? It's pretty nice! True, spring is still months away, but at least it kinda-sorta feels like spring today. And here's another taste of spring: the just-released artwork for the 2025 ...
MKE Music Rewind: 1984, ‘Rock Drill’ (2000)
In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: 1984's Rock Drill from 2000.
There's a great line from Stephen King n...
Madison locations of Milwaukee-based restaurant chains: The Milwaukee Record Review
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Let me start this article by saying that I really like Madison. Though I personally love Milwaukee far more, Wisconsin's second-most populous city and its capital is home to some very...
Milwaukee made $559K from those darn electric scooters in 2024
The last time we heard from the Milwaukee Department of Public Works on the issue of those darn electric scooters, the city had netted nearly $500,000 from the things. Now, at the beginning of 2025, the DPW has...
Here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (January 15-28, 2025)
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Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." However you want to define it, it's safe to say that Milwaukee is cur...
WMSE’s Local/Live: Genesis Renji
WMSE's local and live in-studio showcase, Local/Live, airs Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. You can find past episodes HERE, or on this handy Soundcloud playlist.
milwaukeerecord · WMSE's Local/Live, January 28, 2025: Ge...
Mandatory Milwaukee: Remembering Bob Uecker (and everything else)
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Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Uecker.
On the morning of Thursday, January 16, I was planning on...
SereniTea Lounge will open this week in long-vacant Downer Avenue space
For the first time in nearly two decades, a business will occupy a high-profile spot on the 2500 block of Downer Avenue. Well, a portion of that spot, anyway.
SereniTea Lounge, a boba/bubble tea and cocktail...
Go “Swimming In The Sun” with VLNTYN
Last February, Jorge Vallentine released Grace, For Those Who Need It, a four-song EP that chronicles his "journey through the unraveling of a difficult relationship been in for 12 years.” A few months later, ...
The Catered Quiz: Gabe Mollica answers questions about Stephen Sondheim and ‘Seinfeld’
On this week’s episode of The Catered Quiz, comedian and storyteller Gabe Mollica joins the show to answer questions about Stephen Sondheim and the TV show Seinfeld. We also chat about his acclaimed one-man sho...
Wückfinter will return to Ray’s Wine & Spirits on February 23
In early 2019, Wauwatosa beverage bastion Ray’s Wine & Spirits and Indiana’s 3 Floyds Brewing joined forces to help metro Milwaukee battle the winter blues with an outdoor celebration of beer done in defian...
Meshell Ndegeocello brings ‘Gospel Of James Baldwin’ to Vivarium
For the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy created three new competitive categories; one of these, Best Alternative Jazz Album, went to Meshell Ndegeocello in its inaugural year, for her 2023 reco...
10 Milwaukee names that are easy to get technically wrong
In our semi-regular Tracklist feature we round up a bunch of Milwaukee things and present them in list form. Do people still enjoy lists? Yes? Well, enjoy!
What's in a name? A sense of self, a sense of ident...