Author Matt Wild

Keep the summer rolling with the 7th annual Silver City InterNational Festival

July 18, 2018

We're entering the dog days of summer, and it's tempting to simply sit the rest of the season out and enjoy some AC and season 2 of GLOW or something. But wait! There's more summer in store! On Saturday, Septem...

Go inside the machine with new retro-minded VR game, ‘Trakker’

Matt Wild

July 17, 2018

Take a little bit of Pac-Man and combine it with a little bit of Tron, and what do you get? Wait, scratch that: Take a little bit of Pac-Man and combine it with a lot of Tron—like, the whole "living and fightin...

Help make unofficial “People’s Flag of Milwaukee” merchandise official this Thursday

Matt Wild

July 17, 2018

After years languishing as unofficial Milwaukee merchandise that could be purchased for $50-$180, so-called "People's Flag of Milwaukee" merchandise may finally become official Milwaukee merchandise. "If the he...

Nickel&Rose challenge the color of “Americana”

Matt Wild

July 16, 2018

What do you see when you picture Americana music? Maybe some acoustic guitars, some banjos, a fiddle. Ironic and non-ironic cowboy hats. Beards. Bluegrass. Lots of flannel. Trampled By Turtles or whatever. Also...

Von Trier sets 40th anniversary party for July 22

Matt Wild

July 16, 2018

If you haven't stopped by Von Trier lately, change that. (You remember what happens when you don't stop by.) The longtime East Side bar is still its charming, German-themed self, but it's also a wee bit brighte...

Make room, Chick-fil-A, these Milwaukee restaurants are coming to new Bucks arena, too

Matt Wild

July 13, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• The new (still-unnamed) Milwaukee Bucks arena is pretty much done. The new (s...

Please don’t move to Milwaukee, sings Milwaukee musician in response to that Vogue article

Matt Wild

July 12, 2018

This article is from 2018.We're entering Day 3 of every Milwaukee man, woman, and child sharing that Vogue article on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. You know the article: "Why Milwaukee Is the Midwest's ...

The Grand Ave. Rocky Rococo is closed and oh god, what’s the point anymore?

Matt Wild

July 11, 2018

We're not exactly sure when it happened (some say it's been a month), and we're not exactly sure why it happened (okay, we have a pretty good idea), but the Rocky Rococo in the Shops of Grand Avenue has closed....

“C’mon, movie, what are we doing here?” An interview with We Hate Movies co-host Stephen Sajdak

Matt Wild

July 11, 2018

Throw a stone and you'll hit 8,000 "bad movie" review shows on the internet. These shows range from the good (Milwaukee's own Red Letter Media) to the unwatchable (insert random YouTuber here). Near the top of ...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Vogue thinks Milwaukee is “cool and underrated”

Matt Wild

July 10, 2018

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication deigns ...

Soup Moat gets sludgy, seedy, silly on terrific ‘Harvester Of Likes’

Matt Wild

July 10, 2018

The penultimate track of Soup Moat's third full-length album, Harvester Of Likes, is called "Porn In The Woods." A tribute to the small-town, pre-internet phenomenon of finding a stash of weathered Playboys und...

Some dude “rescued” hundreds of old photos from Northridge Mall and they’re amazing

Matt Wild

July 10, 2018

What is it about dead malls that fascinates us so? More specifically: What is it about Northridge Mall that fascinates us so? Hardly a month seems to go by without another group of "urban explorers" puttering a...

Lowlands Group announces exclusive “hyper-local” beers for Lowlands Locals series

Matt Wild

July 9, 2018

Do you like ubiquitous Wisconsin restaurant group Lowlands Group (Café Benelux, Café Bavaria, Café Centraal, all 8,000 Café Hollanders)? Do you like beer? Do you like local beer? Then you're in luck, because Lo...

Platinum Boys take Chicago in candid clip for “Oblivious/Obvious”

Matt Wild

July 9, 2018

Those good-time rapscallions in the Platinum Boys are at it again. The hard-partying Milwaukee band is in the midst of a week-long summer tour that includes a show at Junker's in Cincinnati on Monday, a show at...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (July 1-7)

Matt Wild

July 9, 2018

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...

Let’s watch old videos of Milwaukee poet Matt Cook explaining Milwaukee history

Matt Wild

July 9, 2018

Milwaukee has some serious—and some seriously weird—history. From its indigenous roots to its European settlement to the time we all had to boil our water because of that Cryptosporidium thing, the Brew City ha...

Potawatomi is covering up its ads at Miller Park because the Atlanta Braves are in town

Matt Wild

July 6, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Thursday night, the Milwaukee Brewers continued their hot streak by defeating...

Pixies played Summerfest and they were great and here’s what they played and said between songs

Matt Wild

July 5, 2018

Legendary alternative rock band Pixies headlined the BMO Harris Pavilion Wednesday night at Summerfest. Legendary alternative rock band Pixies—Black Francis/Frank Black, Joey Santiago, David Lovering, new-ish b...

Bob Uecker got up, got out of last night’s Brewers game after being injured by a contact lens

Matt Wild

July 3, 2018

UPDATE (7/5/18): Uecker is still out with a scratched eye, though Levering says he has been at Miller Park the past few days, "hanging out" and "telling stories."UPDATE (7/3/18): According to Levering, Ueck...

Rocket Paloma wonders if it’s the victim or the crime in “Ghosted”

Matt Wild

July 3, 2018

There's nothing simple about Rocket Paloma. Take the band's winding backstory: singer Joey Kerner played under the name as a solo act soon after taking a composition class at Cardinal Stritch, then remade the g...