Author Matt Wild

Get a jump on Bastille Days with a screening of ‘Amélie’ at Avalon Theater July 11

June 19, 2018

You know you're in the thick of another Milwaukee summer when Bastille Days rolls around. The ever-popular French festival returns for its 37th year July 12-15 at Cathedral Square Park, bringing with it all the...

Greetings, Professor Falken: SafeHouse will screen 1983’s ‘WarGames’ June 25

Matt Wild

June 19, 2018

10 PRINT "Remember 1983's WarGames? You know, the one with Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy? The one where Broderick hacks a NORAD supercomputer and almost starts World War III because he thinks he's playing a...

MKE Music Rewind: Fahri, “The Island Cannibal King”

Matt Wild

June 19, 2018

In our weekly MKE Music Rewind, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.For someone who works with words for a living, I've never been much...

Look on the 8 finalists for best “unique and unusual foods” at the 2018 Wisconsin State Fair and despair

Matt Wild

June 18, 2018

Three words: Wisconsin State Fair. From August 2-12, the annual celebration of all things Wisconsin will offer up oodles of entertainment, animals of every kind, that DNR shack where you can renew your hunting ...

Someone paid $25,000 for a signed Prince guitar that probably wasn’t owned or played by Prince

Matt Wild

June 15, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• The BMO Harris Bradley Center is in its final days. The soon-to-be-replaced are...

Marielle Allschwang explains themes of family and identity behind new song “Marcus & Ramona”

Matt Wild

June 14, 2018

Mention the name "Marielle Allschwang" and you're mentioning a member of some of the best groups in Milwaukee. The singer-guitarist counts Hello Death and Collections Of Colonies Of Bees as two of her gigs; on ...

With a new single and tell-all documentary, it’s the summer of Coo Coo Cal

Matt Wild

June 13, 2018

Has it really been 15—no, make that nearly 17—years since the release of Coo Coo Cal's Disturbed? Yep. In September 2001, the Milwaukee rapper (a.k.a. Calvin Bellamy) released his sophomore album on Tommy Boy R...

Zoinks! Edgar Cantero and Milwaukee Record will talk ‘Meddling Kids’ June 14 at Boswell Book Company

Matt Wild

June 12, 2018

For readers of a certain age and sensibility, Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids will go down as easy as a bowl of sugar-choked cereal on a Saturday morning. In the summer of 1977, a group of Scooby-Doo-esque teen d...

Watch Brett Newski play a show at Walmart, get kicked out

Matt Wild

June 12, 2018

Love him or refuse to listen to him, Brett Newski is a man of the people. Dude will do anything, play anywhere, and pull whatever stunt is needed to bring his bright-eyed indie rock to the masses. Travel the wo...

MKE Music Rewind: Sugar Stems, “Love You To Pieces”

Matt Wild

June 12, 2018

In our weekly MKE Music Rewind, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.Is there a subgenre of rock music more elusive than power pop? Prob...

Locust Street Festival 2018: A waterlogged and increasingly sporadic minute-by-minute recap

Matt Wild

June 11, 2018

Let's just get this out of the way: the weather was pretty lousy for Locust Street Festival of Music & Art 2018. It was cold (low 50s), it was cloudy (the sun was entirely absent), and it rained for a good ...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (June 3-9)

Matt Wild

June 11, 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...

Hannibal Buress will return to Riverside Theater September 22

Matt Wild

June 11, 2018

When Milwaukee last saw Hannibal Buress in 2016, the wildly popular Chicago-born comedian/writer/actor was DJing at Tonic Tavern under his "DJ Burger Feet" moniker, following a sold-out Eric Andre Live! show at...

And this year’s “Cheers to Milwaukee” secret band is…[insert band name here]

Matt Wild

June 8, 2018

After a week of feverish speculation, whispered rumors, and "It's gonna be Elton John" jokes, the identity of the band playing tonight's "Cheers to Milwaukee" show at Riverside Theater can finally be revealed. ...

Let’s recap Giannis Antetokounmpo’s delightful reviews of American junk food, shall we?

Matt Wild

June 8, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week—or, thank god for yo...

Gobble up The Unitaskers’ “Tide Pods”

Matt Wild

June 8, 2018

Remember 8,000 years ago when people were eating/not really eating Tide Pods? Truly a more innocent time. Well, goofball Milwaukee indie rock outfit The Unitaskers remember. Last week, the band released its fir...

What’s new, and what’s coming soon to the East Side

Matt Wild

June 7, 2018

Back in July 2016, we asked a simple question: Is the East Side dying? Alarmist and eye-catching to be sure ("Is the East Side slowly changing in order to better accommodate current and ever-shifting trends in ...

Jalisco, Thai Kitchen, and ghosts of Milwaukee dining past

Matt Wild

June 7, 2018

broadstreet.zone(66112); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Milwaukee's new favorite import, Bofferding. From May 31 through June 7, belly up and enjoy a fresh smattering of rest...

Bucks Senior VP: You’re “damn right” the new arena will have gender-neutral bathrooms

Matt Wild

June 6, 2018

The new Milwaukee Bucks arena—brought to you by Fiserv, okay definitely not Fiserv, okay probably Fiserv—is more or less complete. It opens this fall. And when it does, it'll have something that few NBA arenas ...

We demand to know more about this 1984 commercial for Giggles nightclub

Matt Wild

June 6, 2018

The internet is a wonderful and awful place. Wonderful because a near-infinite amount of human knowledge is instantly available at our fingertips; awful because despite that near-infinite amount of human knowle...