Author Matt Wild

Cue up Cree Myles’ first song and video, “Crave Me”

April 21, 2016

//Cree Myles is a familiar name at venues like the Jazz Gallery and Company Brewing, but the singer behind that name, Maria Cree Myles, has spent the past year making her presence known citywide. The Alver...

Here are the Harley-Davidson Roadhouse headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild

April 20, 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, ...

New Grand Avenue will be mostly office space, maybe a grocery store

Matt Wild

April 20, 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...

Now you can own the original soundtrack to Mark Borchardt’s ‘Coven’ (on vinyl!)

Matt Wild

April 20, 2016

//"Coven is a 35-minute direct-market thriller film shot on 16mm black and white reversal. It's an alcoholic, man, compelled to go to this group meeting by his one and only friend left. But they're not tha...

Here are the BMO Harris Pavilion headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild

April 19, 2016

Here are your 2016 WAMI winners

Matt Wild

April 18, 2016

//The 36th annual Wisconsin Area Music Industry Awards (or WAMIs, if you're nasty) took over Appleton's Performing Arts Center Sunday night, and what a night it was. WebsterX, IshDARR, Midnight Reruns, Kii...

Here are the Miller Lite Oasis headliners for Summerfest 2016

Matt Wild

April 18, 2016

Now there’s a “Freeway” McCarter bobblehead

Matt Wild

April 15, 2016

//In all of yesterday's Milwaukee Day hubbub, we somehow missed this one: Milwaukee legend Michael/Roosevelt "Freeway" McCarter, a familiar face and delightfully unique presence at nearly every sporting ev...

Watch Lex Allen perform “This Is Our Year” for 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and Cream City Soundcheck

Matt Wild

April 14, 2016

//If you're looking to enjoy the best and brightest in live Milwaukee music but can't swing the late hours, 88Nine Radio Milwaukee's 414 Music Live is for you. The Thursday afternoon series has featured ev...

Here’s the venue-by-venue schedule for Tasty Fest 2016

Matt Wild

April 14, 2016

//Last month we revealed the rock-solid lineup for the inaugural Tasty Fest, a four-day, three-venue musical blowout coming this summer from local DIY label Tasty Tapes. Now, we're ready to dole out the fu...

Great Job, Milwaukee! The New York Times thinks we’re good and cheap

Matt Wild

April 13, 2016

//Dusty and long-dormant, Milwaukee Record's sentient Great Job, Milwaukee Bot 8000 has whizzed and whirred back to life—R2-D2-in-The-Force-Awakens-style—to bring you this important news: In a New York Tim...

Brett Newski exhales in anxious “Cigaretiquette” video

Matt Wild

April 13, 2016

//Milwaukee-by-way-of-the-world troubadour Brett Newski has done it all—penned tampon commercial jingles in Vietnam, angered Shaquille O'Neal as a young boy. It's enough to set anyone on edge. Perhaps that...

Here’s the shocking, inevitable connection between Gov. Scott Walker and Dustin Diamond

Matt Wild

April 12, 2016

//The state of Wisconsin was rocked by two big, ridiculous stories yesterday. The first involved Gov. Scott Walker suggesting folks could help him pay off his failed presidential campaign debt by purchasin...

Milwaukee Taco Fest is under fire for cultural appropriation

Matt Wild

April 12, 2016

//On Sunday, June 5, the third annual Milwaukee Taco Fest will set up shop at the Harley-Davidson Museum. Presented by SWARMM Events (creators of Milwaukee's Shamrock Shuffle), the fest aims to " together ...

Get inside Mark Borchardt’s head with two-song Soup Moat video

Matt Wild

April 12, 2016

//There's a moment in 1999's American Movie when forever-put-upon Milwaukee film director Mark Borchardt recounts cleaning a shit-covered cemetery bathroom. "I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for...

“Mini-golf tavern” coming to vacant space below Beans & Barley

Matt Wild

April 11, 2016

//Earlier this year we rounded up eight "cursed" Milwaukee business locations—locations that, for one reason or another, can't seem to hold on to steady tenants. One of them was the space below Beans &...

Pizza Man is opening a new location in Oak Creek

Matt Wild

April 11, 2016

//Last month we rounded up 15 Milwaukee bars and restaurants with multiple locations. The venerable Pizza Man made the list with it's East Side location and its Tosa spot. Now, the Milwaukee staple that wa...

Record Recommended: April 11-17

Matt Wild

April 11, 2016

//Our fat-free, dolphin-safe Milwaukee calendar is chock-full of things to do, but only a handful of events contained therein are worthy of the lofty honor of "Record Recommended" (patent pending). Here ar...

Milwaukee-themed emojis are now a thing

Matt Wild

April 10, 2016

//Depending on who you are, the emoji-fication of modern communication is best represented by either an adorable whistling smiley face, or an equally adorable pile of poop with eyes. Now, the word-wary phe...

Listen to the entire 16-track “Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott Walker” comp

Matt Wild

April 8, 2016

//Back in July 2015, IfIHadAHiFi and Body Futures drummer (and occasional Milwaukee Record contributor) DJ Hostettler announced an ambitious project called "Unintimidated: Wisconsin Musicians Against Scott...