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      November 26, 2024
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Louis C.K. is coming to the BMO Harris Bradley Center August 1

Matt Wild
May 16, 2016
//If you had to choose a single comedian to represent an entire generation, you could do worse than Louis C.K. From his incisive and hilariously honest stand-up to his critically adored FX series, C.K. has...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Locust Street Festival

Matt Wild
May 15, 2016
//The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 12, the 40th (!) installm...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Rolling Stone likes Summerfest

Matt Wild
May 13, 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...

Milwaukee Film Festival unveils 2016 campaign art, launches early ticket sales

Matt Wild
May 12, 2016
//It's practically obscene to think about fall when summer is still around the corner (and during our Summer Preview Week, no less), but it's easy to let things slide when it comes to the Milwaukee Film Fe...

Celebrate our Summer Preview Week with videos of people cruising Hwy 100

Matt Wild
May 9, 2016
//Summer in Milwaukee is the shit. After a seemingly never-ending winter that leaves you wondering why you choose to live in such a godforsaken place, and a frustrating spring that leaves you wading in sea...

Listen to a heavy new NO/NO track, “Television,” and pre-order ‘Sound And Light’ now

Matt Wild
May 6, 2016
//A lot of what makes the current Milwaukee music scene so vital and exceptional can be found in NO/NO. The alternately hard-edged and dreamy electro pop group, fronted by Harrison Colby and formed from th...

Listen to Nineteen Thirteen’s mournful, all-too-brief “The Reason Why”

Matt Wild
May 5, 2016
//Nineteen Thirteen, as its name suggests, is a band out of time. The duo of Violent Femmes founding member Victor DeLorenzo and cellist Janet Schiff has been slowly creeping its way through the Milwaukee ...

May the 4th be with you: Celebrating “Star Wars Day” in Milwaukee and beyond

Matt Wild
May 3, 2016
//We used to think "Star Wars Day" was a bunch of mumbo-jumbo. A magical faux-holiday celebrated on May 4, held together by a date-related pun, "May the 4th/Force be with you"? Crazy thing is...it's true. ...

Pfister Hotel still haunted as fuck, reports Angels rookie Ji-Man Choi

Matt Wild
May 3, 2016
//It's no secret that Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel is haunted as fuck. Built in 1893, the historic downtown hotel has spooked everyone from the incomparable Joey Lawrence to pretty much every visiting Major L...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Summer Soulstice Music Festival

Matt Wild
May 3, 2016
//For the past 16 years, the East Side's annual Summer Soulstice Music Festival has celebrated the first day of summer with music, food, drinks, and that one guy who always shows up carrying a giant lizard...

The bands of the 4th annual Milwaukee Psych Fest, in 4 words each

Matt Wild
May 3, 2016
Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp has given the city a loud, fuzzed-out, and reverb-drenched gift every spring: Milwaukee Psych Fest. The multi-day shindig has become a welcome staple on the city's ...

Listen to a “Hip-Hop Hates Cancer” mixtape before tonight’s show at Cactus Club

Matt Wild
April 29, 2016
//Tonight at the Cactus Club, some of the city's best hip-hop artists, both old and new, will perform for the fifth (and possibly last) installment of Milwaukee's "Hip-Hop Hates" series. Past installments ...

Holy fucking shit here’s that Bob Uecker talking alarm clock in action

Matt Wild
April 27, 2016
// // Last November we brought you the news that holy fucking shit the Brewers are giving away a Bob Uecker talking alarm clock this season. The All-Fan Giveaway will be available at the July 10, 2016 Brewers/C...

R.I.P. Summerfest’s locally focused KNE New Music Stage

Matt Wild
April 27, 2016
//Remember last year when we enjoyed an entirely local weekend at Summerfest? A similar feat will be much harder to pull off this year, as news has broke that the KNE New Music Stage—long home to the vast ...

Here are the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild
April 25, 2016
//Back in March, Summerfest released its giant list of 2016 grounds stage headliners. It was a typically wonderful/ridiculous list that included the likes of Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Adams, ...

No, the next ‘Star Wars’ movie will NOT be filmed near Green Bay

Matt Wild
April 25, 2016
We have a bad feeling about this: Have you seen that article floating around Facebook about how the next Star Wars movie will be filmed near Green Bay, Wisconsin? Have you "liked" or shared said article about h...

Here are pictures of the redesigned and reimagined Grand Avenue

Matt Wild
April 25, 2016
//Ever since a new ownership group took control of The Shops of Grand Avenue back in December 2015, speculation has been high as to what, exactly, that ownership group will do with the long-struggling down...

It’s twue, it’s twue! Mel Brooks will host a screening of ‘Blazing Saddles’ at Riverside Theater

Matt Wild
April 25, 2016
//No matter where you fall on the all-important/clickable "Is political correctness ruining comedy?" debate, it's safe to say a movie like Mel Brooks' 1974 opus Blazing Saddles could never be made today. T...

Here are the U.S. Cellular Connection Stage headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild
April 22, 2016
//Back in March, Summerfest released its giant list of 2016 grounds stage headliners. It was a typically wonderful/ridiculous list that included the likes of Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Adams, ...

Bite into the bizarro video for Iron Pizza’s “The End”

Matt Wild
April 22, 2016
//Milwaukee's Iron Pizza occupies a warped, whacked-out wavelength where every broken thrift shop kiddie keyboard is an instrument to be treasured, and where songs like "Stoopid Drugged Up Monkees" exist. ...
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