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Nu metal lives on at X-Ray Arcade’s Freak On A Leash Friday

July 19, 2019

In the late '90s and early aughts, mainstream music was all the rage with a new form of heavy metal that—quite fittingly—was called "nu metal." Bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Crazy Town, and Linkin Par...

Here are some dumb pictures from the best Dummerfest to date

Tyler Maas

June 24, 2019

Last Saturday, while thousands flocked Summer Soulstice on Milwaukee's East Side and Lakefront Festival Of Art outside Milwaukee Art Museum, a few hundred folks made their way to a Cudahy venue for a different ...

A guide to Dummerfest 2019, the biggest and dumbest one yet

Tyler Maas

June 20, 2019

After two awesome Dummerfest installments that brought bands like Off With Their Heads, Negative Approach, 88 Fingers Louie, The Copyrights, PEARS, Meat Wave, Masked Intruder, Direct Hit!, and many more to The ...

All killer, no filler: Classic B-movies go “Under The Knife” at X-Ray Arcade

Matt Wild

June 5, 2019

It's a tale as old as time: You're watching an ancient public domain horror movie—maybe one of those Roger Corman flicks where Boris Karloff putters around a castle for 80 minutes—and you wish the thing would j...

My First Band: Stacey Dee and Jennie Cotterill (Bad Cop/Bad Cop)

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 17, 2019

Though the members have all been involved in a variety of projects through the years, Bad Cop/Bad Cop seems like a case of the right band with the right people happening at the right time in life. The Fat Wreck...

Here’s the Dummerfest 2019 lineup

Tyler Maas

May 10, 2019

Last month, we announced that following a one-year hiatus (which organizers spent acquiring the former Metal Grill and renovating it to re-open as X-Ray Arcade), Dummerfest would be returning and The Lawrence A...

Dummerfest will return to Cudahy June 22, The Lawrence Arms announced as headliner

Tyler Maas

April 26, 2019

Back in June of 2015, a dozen (primarily) punk and hardcore bands hailing from five states came to The Metal Grill in Cudahy for an unforgettable day of all-ages fun known as Dummerfest. The festival returned t...

My First Band: Nick Woods (Direct Hit!, The Box Social)

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 26, 2019

Before Nick Woods was the singer, guitarist, and founding member of Direct Hit! and the co-owner of X-Ray Arcade, the punk rock front man and all-ages venue owner/operator was a suburban kid with an insatiable ...

An interview with Tunic, a Winnipeg noise rock machine

Dan Agacki

April 17, 2019

Tunic is a noise rock machine.The Winnipeg band’s recently-released debut album, Complexion, is a nuanced assault on your senses. The dissonant guitars and shouted vocals collide with a thick rhythmic pulse...

X-Ray Arcade will bring gaming, all-ages events to Cudahy starting February 9

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2019

Last September, we told you about an all-ages music venue and mini-arcade coming to the former site of The Metal Grill and Vnuk’s Lounge in Cudahy. Today, that exciting venture publicly announced its name and o...

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