Author Matt Wild

Here are your Milwaukee-area “creepy clown” updates for Wednesday, October 5

October 5, 2016

Plug "creepy clowns" into the ol' Google machine and you'll be flooded with countless headlines about mysterious and malevolent-looking clowns being spotted throughout the U.S. and beyond. Seriously, this shi...

Charlie Sykes is leaving Milwaukee radio, finally

Matt Wild

October 4, 2016

Charlie Sykes, insanely popular conservative talk show host, author, and full-time college hater, is leaving Milwaukee radio. According to the Milwaukee Business Journal, Sykes will depart from the WTMJ-AM (6...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee

Matt Wild

October 3, 2016

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "development boom" or a "construction boom." Or maybe it's a "reimagining," li...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 5th most dangerous city in America

Matt Wild

September 30, 2016

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. In the past, the infernal machine has brought ...

Fact-checking Lewis Black’s “Drinking in Wisconsin” rant

Matt Wild

September 27, 2016

Comedian Lewis Black is no stranger to Wisconsin. He's also no stranger to drinking in Wisconsin. On Black's first album, 1999's The White Album (recorded in Madison), the perpetually pissed-off stand-up goes...

Watch Maritime’s “Roaming Empire” video, featuring plenty of air guitar and Mark Waldoch

Matt Wild

September 26, 2016

In case you missed it, long-running Milwaukee rock outfit Maritime debuted a video for "Roaming Empire"—a track from 2015's Magnetic Bodies/Maps Of Bones—last week at the Milwaukee Film Festival. Now, Dangerb...

Exclusive: Listen to New Boyz Club’s three-song EP (the first in a trilogy), ‘G l O r Y g L o R y’

Matt Wild

September 26, 2016

Milwaukee's New Boyz Club describes itself as a "glitter folk punk" outfit, but that only hints at the group's expansive sound and its far-flung influences. The eight-piece band, formed in 2014 by upright bas...

Bob Watt exhibition, “The Last of the Bohemians,” coming to Grove Gallery

Matt Wild

September 23, 2016

Earlier this month, in observance of the new school year, we read a poem called "Giant Machine," which details the ins and outs of a fanciful "masturbating machine" for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee...

DanDan is serving lunch now and it’s great

Matt Wild

September 22, 2016

On the scale of recent Milwaukee hype, the opening of American-Chinese restaurant DanDan (360 E. Erie St. 414-488-8036), ranks somewhere between the impending streetcar (OH GOD THE STREETCAR) and that time ...

Brewcity Bruisers to be featured in feature-length documentary, ‘Roller Life’

Matt Wild

September 22, 2016

Believe it or not, Milwaukee's Brewcity Bruisers celebrated their 10th anniversary in 2016. That's a full decade of fast-paced, high-octane, and, well, bruising women's flat track roller derby action. And thoug...

“Creepy Green Bay clown” movie, ‘Gags,’ will screen at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference

Matt Wild

September 21, 2016

Wake up and waste another day with Dirty Dancing’s “Don’t Wanna Be Satisfied” video

Matt Wild

September 21, 2016

Does every day feel the same? Do you wake up, eat something, pay some bills, stare at your computer and phone, and maybe work out with your cat? Dirty Dancing can relate. The art-damaged post-punk project o...

Exclusive: Listen to three songs from Sugar Ransom’s bittersweet ‘Hopefiend’

Matt Wild

September 20, 2016

The title of Sugar Ransom's sophomore album, Hopefiend, can be read two ways. One implies something nefarious, a villain who preys on hope and the hopeful. The other is more upbeat, if only slightly, suggesti...

Hide your pets and make your out-of-town plans now: Milwaukee Air & Water Show will return in 2017

Matt Wild

September 19, 2016

If summer 2016 seemed more quiet than past summers, there's a good reason: the Milwaukee Air & Water Show, long a source of SCREAMING SUPERSONIC JETS BUZZING THE ENTIRE CITY FOR DAYS ON END took a break...

How did Kato Kaelin feel about last night’s Packers game? Glad you asked

Matt Wild

September 19, 2016

Hey! Remember Kato Kaelin? If you're a People v. O. J. Simpson fan, you probably know him as Simpson's former floppy-haired houseguest. If you're a Green Bay Packers fan, you probably know...

Listen to the new AUTOMatic single, “Talkin Bout Love”

Matt Wild

September 19, 2016

Has it really been four years since AUTOMatic released its last full-length album, Art Imitates Life? Yes, yes it has. Not that the Milwaukee hip-hop duo has been laying low: APRIME and Trellmatic released ...

Inside Black Cat Alley, the East Side’s new “street art destination”

Matt Wild

September 18, 2016

On Sunday, September 18, the East Side's new "street art destination," Black Cat Alley, celebrated its grand opening. The two-block alley, located between Kenilworth Blvd. and Ivanhoe Place between the Orie...

I went to NEWaukee’s Night Market and it was nice

Matt Wild

September 16, 2016

Wednesday night, as I surveyed the action of my very first NEWaukee Night Market from the balcony of the desolate Shops of Grand Avenue food court, a woman asked me what, exactly, my beef had been with the ...

Watch “We Like,” the new Rusty Pelicans’ video featuring GGOOLLDD’s Margaret Butler

Matt Wild

September 15, 2016

This Saturday, Milwaukee's venerable Rusty Pelicans will take to the stage of Company Brewing and celebrate the release of a new album, Apartment 7. Ahead of the show, the long-running group has unveiled a ...

Go back to the 18th century in Dad’s video for “17th Century”

Matt Wild

September 15, 2016

Born in the 1970s, hip-hop has become the dominant musical art form of the early 21st century. Fought between the years 1775–1783, the Revolutionary War has become the defining event in the early history of...