Author Matt Wild

Great Job, Milwaukee! Our rent is increasing faster than any other U.S. city

July 12, 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, as well as any time a national publication...

Milwaukee Public Museum will host an adult sleepover in September

Matt Wild

July 12, 2016

//The idea of sleeping overnight in a museum is a strangely irresistible one, having been explored in everything from The Royal Tenenbaums and From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler to the Ni...

Poor turnout at “People’s Flag” meeting points to potential problems with “People’s Flag” movement

Matt Wild

July 7, 2016

Wednesday night, in a show of community support not seen since that time 71 people signed a Change.org petition to book DJ Paris Hilton at every Summerfest until the apocalypse, a dozen people, three journali...

Here’s the music lineup for the inaugural Milwaukee Fringe Festival

Matt Wild

July 7, 2016

//On Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28, the inaugural Milwaukee Fringe Festival will throw its hat into the delightfully crowded Milwaukee summer festival ring. The fest will showcase more than 50 ...

Nick’s House / Y-Not III has been demolished

Matt Wild

July 5, 2016

The building of the former Nick's House—the ultimately ill-fated Bar Rescue experiment that turned the Y-Not III into a '70s-themed bar—has been demolished. Per a photo from Urban Milwaukee, the property at 185...

Revel in the public domain weirdness of Scrimshaw’s “Town Lazer” video

Matt Wild

July 5, 2016

//There's no other Milwaukee band like Scrimshaw. Hell, there may be no other band anywhere like Scrimshaw. The delightfully weirdo art-rock band has been kicking it for more than a decade now, releasing alb...

Here’s the lineup for the inaugural Synth Fest MKE

Matt Wild

June 30, 2016

//Milwaukee, as you may have heard, is the "City of Festivals." It doesn't take that title lightly. Between June and August the city is absolutely stuffed with events bearing the "fest" suffix, from big-ti...

“American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood” gets its close-up at MAM

Matt Wild

June 30, 2016

//There's a scene in the Coen brothers' underrated 2016 film Hail, Caesar! when brassy 1950s starlet DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) is shooting a synchronized swimming film. She rises from the water, c...

Celebrate the first day of Summerfest with a bunch of videos of “Weird Al” playing Summerfest

Matt Wild

June 29, 2016

//Hey! It's Summerfest! Fun! From June 29-July 3, and July 5-July 10, the 49th annual Big Gig will fill the sprawling Henry Maier Festival Park with hundreds of thousands of attendees, hundreds of musical ...

30th anniversary screening of ‘Blue Velvet,’ more announced for 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

June 28, 2016

//By our count, the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival is roughly three months away. That's three months of anticipation, mental planning, and more anticipation. Oh, and don't forget announcements: Today, Milwau...

Summer Soulstice 2016: A minute-by-minute, soul-searching recap

Matt Wild

June 27, 2016

//This past Saturday, the Summer Soulstice Music Festival celebrated its 16th year on the East Side. This fall, I'll celebrate my 20th. By all living-in-Milwaukee logic (not to mention all good sense), I s...

Exclusive: Suit up for Devil Met Contention’s debut full-length, ‘Fuel The Lights’

Matt Wild

June 27, 2016

//Devil Met Contention cut a distinctive figure in the Milwaukee music scene. Catch them live and it's impossible to miss their impeccably styled suit-and-tie aesthetic, cribbed straight from the dress cod...

Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 8th best city for Fourth of July celebrations

Matt Wild

June 27, 2016

//Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot (similar to OnMilwaukee's Jeff Sherman Bot 8000) to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online ...

South Shore Frolics’ “Blow Up The Beach” fireworks finale has been un-canceled

Matt Wild

June 24, 2016

//The South Shore Frolics have been a Bay View staple for more than six decades, treating residents to an old-fashioned parade, an old-fashioned fireworks display, and other old-fashioned summer festival a...

15 (mostly extinct) East Side institutions on that North Ave. “Compass” sculpture

Matt Wild

June 22, 2016

//Near the corner of North and Cambridge avenues on Milwaukee's East Side stands a curious piece of public art. A 22-foot-tall light pole juts out from a median in the middle of the road, its body adorned ...

Watch Reuben Glaser troll an Appleton Trump rally

Matt Wild

June 21, 2016

//When we last talked with Reuben Glaser, the Milwaukee-area funnyman was contemplating the meaning of life via his "Tiny Face Trump" meme—a creation similar to, but sadly not as successful as, his "Little...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The New York Times thinks we’re a “cursed sports city”

Matt Wild

June 20, 2016

Here’s the winner of the “People’s Flag of Milwaukee” contest, available now for $50

Matt Wild

June 14, 2016

//Tuesday night, at an event at 88Nine Radio Milwaukee, the "People's Flag of Milwaukee" was finally unveiled. The winning design was "Sunrise Over the Lake," designed by Robert Lenz. According to Lenz, "t...

Milwaukee’s Veterans Park is an occult mating-ritual site, apparently

Matt Wild

June 14, 2016

//Milwaukee County's celebrated park system has been called an "emerald necklace"—a sea of sparkling green that enriches and nourishes the community it surrounds. Looked at another way, however, and that n...

Take one small step with psyched-out Calliope side project, Moon Rats

Matt Wild

June 14, 2016

//Type "Milwaukee psych-rock" into the search engine of your choice, and you'll quickly land on Calliope. (Go ahead, try it!) The group has been blasting the city with it's heavy, bluesy, Doors-channeling ...