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April 7, 2015

It’s simple: modern music would not be what it is today without Quincy Jones. The 82-year-old musician/producer/arranger/composer/entrepreneur/humanitarian has worked with everyone from Michael Jackson and Fran...

Tracklist: 9 ways the 1990s are still alive in Milwaukee

March 25, 2015

These days, ’90s nostalgia is all the rage. It makes sense, really: In this fast-paced, invasive world utterly devoid of mystery, who can blame folks for seeking some small refuge in an era when the Internet wa...

Tracklist: 9 ways Milwaukee will be represented at SXSW 2015

March 16, 2015

Let's just forgo the lengthy thinkpiece about how South By Southwest (or "SXSW") has gone from a once-significant means of independent musicians get discovered to a cheapened corporate cash-grab whose lineup in...

Tracklist: 4 highlights from Kaleidoscope, Milwaukee’s legendary underground newspaper

Thomas Michalski

March 3, 2015

As the counterculture swelled in the latter half of the 1960s, the underground press filled an essential role, disseminating information and ideas that the mainstream media would consider pinko propaganda. Loca...

Tracklist: 6 reasons to care about the Milwaukee Bucks

February 16, 2015

This season has seen the Milwaukee Bucks receiving exponentially more local attention than any year in recent history. Of course, the majority of that attention is funneled into the heated and deeply divisive d...

Tracklist: 8 couples in Milwaukee bands

February 9, 2015

Love is in the air. Even if you don't buy into the fabricated sham holiday that is Valentine’s Day, the sheer volume of mushy, emotional stuff permeating your senses the second week of each February causes even...

Streetcar rape, chicken sacrifices, and 5 more Milwaukee scare stories of 2015

February 2, 2015

// The world is a vast and wonderful place, full of people, places, and experiences just waiting to be discovered. Every day holds the possibility of a new beginning; every hour, minute, and second ripe wit...

10 notable figures from Milwaukee’s TV news past

January 26, 2015

This article was originally published in January 2015. Tune into the local TV news these days and you’ll find a dizzying array of Milwaukee stars. Yes, these anchors and reporters are bona fide Milwaukee cel...

Tracklist: 6 things to take your mind off a Packers-less Super Bowl

January 19, 2015

Yesterday’s Green Bay Packers loss to the Seattle Seahawks was the kind of game that could only be described thusly: crushing, upsetting, heartbreaking, horrendous, pathetic, stupefying, un-fucking-believable. ...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee-on-Milwaukee covers

January 12, 2015

If you haven’t heard, Milwaukee Record is putting on a little show Friday, January 16. Essentially, the inaugural Local Coverage will feature some great local bands playing at Club Garibaldi as part of a Girls ...

Tracklist: 5 things Milwaukee needs to accomplish in 2015

January 7, 2015

Milwaukee used to be a city stuck in the past, content to enjoy a few cold ones after work and shoot down any new or interesting ideas that threatened the status quo. That has changed in recent years, but not c...

Tracklist: 12 things you’re doing New Year’s Eve

December 29, 2014

Though it's billed as a night of celebration, New Year's Eve can actually be quite a stressful ordeal. Between the crowded bars, escalated Lyft and Uber fees, knowing you're going to fuck up the date on your Ja...

Tracklist: 10 amazingly tolerable Milwaukee-made holiday songs

December 23, 2014

Along with unending department store lines, wrapping gifts, trying (and inevitably failing) to attend every holiday gathering you’re supposed to, and the threat of receiving an Arby’s gift card, the constant wa...

Tracklist: 10 final Bar Rescue takeaways

December 17, 2014

And so it’s come to this. Okay, so it’s not quite Woodward and Bernstein-level journalism. No, we didn’t compile an irrefutable report that a Heisman trophy candidate’s deceased girlfriend never existed, nor di...

Tracklist: 12 Bar Rescue takeaways

December 8, 2014

// It finally happened. Months after revealing Spike TV “reality” series Bar Rescue was scouting locations in the city, then subsequently breaking the news of what bar would be featured on the show and when...

Tracklist: 8 pop-culture institutions with Milwaukee ties

December 1, 2014

// In the bright, gleaming Milwaukee of the 21st century, the only thing more tired than huffing about how the city is so much more than beer and cheese is, well, claiming the city is nothing more than beer...

Tracklist: 7 things Milwaukee can be thankful for

November 24, 2014

Thanksgiving is a time for taking stock of the year gone by; stuffing your face; and participating in an elaborate, multi-family holiday bowling tournament that has gone on for seven years now, and involves det...

Tracklist: 8 Milwaukee reinventions we’d welcome

November 18, 2014

// You don’t have to be a hot-shit real estate developer or a car-loathing urban enthusiast to know Downtown Milwaukee is on the verge of some major changes. As rounded up in a comprehensive Milwaukee Magaz...

Tracklist: 20 bands that played Milwaukee before breaking out