Author Matt Wild

Brewcity Bruisers invite the public inside their practice facility for Doors Open Milwaukee

September 26, 2019

In a nondescript building in Walker's Point, something is going on. Muffled sounds of whistling, yelling, and crashing can be heard. Long moments of silence—then, chaos. It goes on like this for a while. Quiet,...

Feel the sting of the new Indonesian Junk record, ‘Spiderbites’

Matt Wild

September 25, 2019

Is it possible to feel a warm sense of contentment as you listen to a song called "Headbanger"? Can one take comfort in a song called "Animal Eyes"? How about "Wild, Wild Party"? If these songs are some of the ...

Coming this October to an internet near you: Milwaukee Record LiveSCREAM Theater!

Matt Wild

September 24, 2019

From October 17 through the 31st, the 2019 Milwaukee Film Festival will light up local screens with more than 300 films. Milwaukee Record is once again the proud sponsor of the festival's "Cinema Hooligante" pr...

MTV and Apollo documentaries will open and close 2019 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

September 24, 2019

From October 17 through the 31st, the 2019 Milwaukee Film Festival will light up local screens with more than 300 films. You already know about the "Cinema Hooligante" program (sponsored by Milwaukee Record!) a...

Indeed Brewing announces inaugural street party, The Lowdown, coming to Walker’s Point October 19

Matt Wild

September 23, 2019

It's only been a few weeks since Minneapolis-based brewery Indeed Brewing Company opened its Milwaukee location at 530 S. 2nd St. in Walker's Point. So what better way to celebrate than with an all-day street p...

The Avalon and Rosebud have such sights to show you at this year’s Shocktoberfest

Matt Wild

September 20, 2019

The link. You clicked it, we gave you the lineup for Shocktoberfest.That's right, horror hounds, Avalon Theater and Rosebud Cinema's annual celebration of all things spooky, gory, and Halloween-y is back! T...

NEWaukee will host a masquerade ball at Saint Kate Arts Hotel

Matt Wild

September 20, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed (formerly Off The Record, which is now the name of our print-only Colectivo publication) looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout th...

Milwaukee media’s “sneak peeks” of the new Wahlburgers in Brookfield, ranked

Matt Wild

September 19, 2019

Before anyone says it, fine: we're super pissed we weren't invited for a "sneak peek" of the new Wahlburgers coming to The Corners of Brookfield. What did we do to deserve this fate, Wahlburgers? We dutifully c...

Best cities for singles: Milwaukee, really bad; Madison, really good

Matt Wild

September 19, 2019

As we all know, this coming Saturday is National Singles Day. How to celebrate? You know the drill: bust out the decorations and buckle up for Apartment List's annual ranking of the "Best & Worst Cities for...

A brief history of Milwaukee-area landmarks that were vandalized by turkeynecks

Matt Wild

September 18, 2019

This past June, thousands of fans gathered in South Milwaukee to witness the unveiling of a life-sized bronze statue of local wrestling legend Reggie "Da Crusher" Lisowski. It was awesome. This past August, a g...

Serb Hall removes presidential portraits, Ald. Bob Donovan fires off “PC culture run amok” statement

Matt Wild

September 18, 2019

UPDATE: Nothing to see here, folks! Serb Hall says the missing portraits have nothing to do with "political correctness," and everything to do with weddings.Today in Everyone's Angry And No One Wins news, M...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (September 8-14)

Matt Wild

September 16, 2019

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it’s a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Big bucks, heaven, hell, and the world according to Dad

Matt Wild

September 14, 2019

To hear Dad tell it, his recent round of inspiration was forged in fire, and sealed by a moonlit night."It felt like I was tripping," the Milwaukee rapper explains. "I had put into this fire a piece of pape...

Feed me! We’re screening the director’s cut of ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ at Avalon Theater

Matt Wild

September 13, 2019

On the 16th day in the month of October, in a late year of a decade that can just go ahead and end already, Milwaukee filmgoers will encounter a deadly threat to their very existence. And this terrifying enemy ...

Lakefront Brewery’s “Fall Fest of Ale” returns September 29

Matt Wild

September 13, 2019

We love fall. You love fall. Everyone loves fall. Similarly, we love Lakefront Brewery. You love Lakefront Brewery. Everyone loves Lakefront Brewery. Put the two together and you get...the return of Lakefront's...

It’s Friday, so let’s watch Michael McKean sing “Milwaukee Moon”

Matt Wild

September 13, 2019

MFF2019’s Cinema Hooligante program is ridiculously great, gloriously geeky

Matt Wild

September 12, 2019

Since the dawn of time (a.k.a. 2014), Milwaukee Record has been a proud sponsor of the Milwaukee Film Festival's Cinema Hooligante program. A place for all things weird, wacky, bloody, and bizarre, it's our kin...

Shout-out to Crossroads Collective for finally putting their (full) name on their sign

Matt Wild

September 12, 2019

Please forgive the following random and dorky introduction: In the DVD commentary track for 1988's The Naked Gun (told you!), one of the Zucker brothers complains about a director of photography who kept under-...

Streetcar ridership down from record-breaking July, so let’s just scrap the whole thing

Matt Wild

September 11, 2019

It's that time of the month, Milwaukee: the time when ridership numbers for the city's forever-controversial streetcar system, The Hop, are released, analyzed, and argued about. And you better buckle up for thi...

17 ways former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke describes his too-hot-for-Twitter takes

Matt Wild

September 10, 2019

broadstreet.zone(32806); On June 13, 2019, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (remember him?) officially quit Twitter. Sort of. "Folks I am thru with the TOTALITARIAN BIGOTS who run Twitter," Clarke ...