Author Matt Wild

Weird Al Week begins with, well, an interview with Weird Al

April 3, 2018

Hey! Welcome to Weird Al Week! For the next seven weekdays, Milwaukee Record will be filling your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all leads up to the two Weird Al shows at...

Vote today, Milwaukee, because the NRA and Joe Biden are all up in this thing

Matt Wild

April 3, 2018

Back in February, when we last did the whole voting thing, Wisconsin decided that Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Rebecca Dallet and Sauk County Circuit Judge Michael Screnock would go head to head in the race f...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (March 25-31)

Matt Wild

April 2, 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...

On the third day Dad rose again with the video for “Infinite”

Matt Wild

April 1, 2018

Hey! It's Easter! Happy Easter! And what would the most hallowed of Christian holidays be without a blessed new video from Milwaukee rapper Dad? Yes, Dad has risen again (in accordance with the Scriptures) in t...

Mayor Barrett’s DNC bid letter is dull, contain a grammatical errors

Matt Wild

March 30, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Thursday afternoon, in a letter that displayed all the panache of a book repo...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Von Trier remains the same, yet somehow better than ever

Matt Wild

March 28, 2018

Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure...

88Nine wants to make Milwaukee an “emerging music city,” will give four groups $20,000

Matt Wild

March 28, 2018

Today, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee announced it intends to put the city's film scene on the map by blowing up a car put the city's music scene on the map by launching an ambitious project called Backline. One of the...

Calliope returns with psychedelic, end-of-the-world ‘Chapel Perilous’

Matt Wild

March 26, 2018

Early on in Chapel Perilous, the third psyched-out full-length album from Milwaukee's Calliope, things slow down. "The Dunes" is a three-minute-plus drone of noise and feedback, with wisps of riffs and hints of...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the Milwaukee streetcar

Matt Wild

March 26, 2018

Today, in an event akin to the arrival of a President, a Pope, or Jesus Christ himself come back to spread the good word about public transportation, the first of Milwaukee's new streetcars arrived downtown. Co...

Humboldt Park and Estabrook beer gardens will open May 3

Matt Wild

March 23, 2018

Good news, day-drinking-outside-at-Milwaukee's-8,000-wonderful-beer-gardens fans: Humboldt Park Beer Garden, 3000 S. Howell Ave., and Estabrook Beer Garden, 4600 Estabrook Dr., have announced they will open for...

Bob Uecker survived a deadly spider bite and he has pictures of the open wound on his phone

Matt Wild

March 23, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• One of Milwaukee's most hallowed traditions isn't the return of festival seas...

Move over, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dave Begel is back with The New Milwaukee Journal

Matt Wild

March 22, 2018

Two words: Dave Begel. You may remember Dave Begel as a longtime Milwaukee theater critic and a longtime media person. You may remember Dave Begel as a former writer for OnMilwaukee and an unabashed strip club ...

“Domestic Animals” Makeal Flammini and Colin Matthes bring joint exhibition to galerie Kenilworth

Matt Wild

March 21, 2018

There's no greater threat to the creative process, the common thinking goes, than "settling down." Marriage, parenthood, and home ownership couldn't be more different than making art, thinking about art, and li...

“Milkwaukee” is your number one source for pictures (and reviews) of milk in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

March 21, 2018

Milwaukeeans of a certain age may remember Milk Magazine, a pre-internet publication that served as a guide to Milwaukee music and beyond. Milkwaukee is not Milk Magazine. Instead, Milkwaukee is an Instagram ac...

Summerfest announces Klement’s partnership, new Klement’s-sponsored local stage

Matt Wild

March 20, 2018

It's been a few years since the demise of Summerfest's "local stage." Though the Big Gig is pretty good about including Milwaukee acts in its annual lineups, the last truly "local" stage, the KNE New Music Stag...

Dick has gone CRAZY in these old commercials for Dick’s Place

Matt Wild

March 20, 2018

Sift through the history of advertising and you'll find a strange subgenre: the CRAZY home electronics salesman. New York's "Crazy Eddie" was probably the most (in)famous, with his IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE prices and ...

c.1880 will close April 28

Matt Wild

March 19, 2018

Sad news, one-of-the-best-restaurants-in-town fans: c.1880, a longtime Walker's Point favorite and one of the most celebrated restaurants in Milwaukee, will close April 28. Earlier this morning, chef/owner Thom...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (March 11-17)

Matt Wild

March 19, 2018

They Might Be Giants bring damn good times to Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

March 17, 2018

"My excellence at parkour might be unexpected / At the age of 58, it comes as quite a surprise." So sings John Flansburgh on the title track to They Might Be Giants' new album, I Like Fun. It's a typically oddb...

Who’s to blame for the closing of Wolf Peach?

Matt Wild

March 16, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• First, the facts: Popular farm-to-table restaurant Wolf Peach, 1818 N. Hubbar...