Author Matt Wild

PrideFest Milwaukee will open summer festival season with Ani DiFranco, En Vogue

March 30, 2015

That low rumble emanating from the depths of Lake Michigan isn’t a storm and/or Godzilla, it’s Milwaukee’s summer festival season, soon to be back on our shores after 8,000 years of winter. And what better way ...

Pixies will play The Rave June 12

Matt Wild

March 30, 2015

Is it possible to get excited about a Pixies show in 2015? Maybe. On one hand, the endlessly influential alt band has been reformed and touring behind the same handful of classic albums longer than it was toget...

WAMI introduces “Global Honorary” Hall of Fame award, will give it to…Judas Priest?

Matt Wild

March 26, 2015

Say what you will about the Wisconsin Area Music Industry (or WAMI, if you’re nasty), but give credit where credit is due. The past few years have seen an uptick in the number of great local artists being nomin...

2015 Milwaukee Film Festival now accepting entries

Matt Wild

March 26, 2015

It may seem blasphemous to wish for autumn with summer still a few months off, but when it comes to the Milwaukee Film Festival, we’re happy to blaspheme away. Today, Milwaukee Film announced that it is accepti...

Now there’s a petition to book Paris Hilton at Summerfest every year until the end of time

Matt Wild

March 26, 2015

By now you’ve probably read about the outraged EDM fans who created a Change.org petition to have DJ Paris Hilton—a.k.a. Paris Hilton—removed from the 2015 Summerfest lineup. As originally reported by Evan Rytl...

Here are the top 10 most wonderful/ridiculous Summerfest 2015 headliners

Matt Wild

March 24, 2015

Do you like summer? Do you like music? Do you like bands that are both wonderful and ridiculous? Good, because then you’ll be over the moon with the just-announced list of grounds stage headliners for Summerfes...

Bublr Bikes come to Brady Street

Matt Wild

March 23, 2015

Since launching last year, Milwaukee bike-sharing system Bublr Bikes has set up shop in 10 locations in the Downtown area, providing affordable two-wheeled transportation for folks on their lunch breaks and/or ...

Someone please buy Reuben Glaser’s car

Matt Wild

March 23, 2015

When we last heard from our pal Reuben Glaser, he was giving the world the gift of Paul Ryan awkwardly milking a goat at the Racine County Fair. It was only fitting for the man responsible for that “Little Face...

Let’s all get worked up about the weird “Milwaukee” space on the new Monopoly board

Matt Wild

March 20, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Monopoly is one of those classic board games that is constantly being remade ...

Milwaukee filmmaker Erik Ljung produces Dontre Hamilton video for New York Times

Matt Wild

March 19, 2015

Today at 4:30 p.m., the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission will hear a disciplinary appeal for former Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher Manney—the officer who shot and killed Dontre Hamilton in Red Arrow P...

Is West Allis the “Worst City in the Universe”? This video seems to think so

Matt Wild

March 19, 2015

Last fall, we took a trip to Cudahy and went on a high-concept and ultimately ill-advised third-shift bar crawl. The experiment proved to be just as dispiriting as you’d expect, but also strangely enlightening....

Dustin Diamond allegedly threatened to stab someone else on Christmas for refusing to get “iced”

Matt Wild

March 19, 2015

When you wake up on Christmas morning, even if you’re former Saved By The Bell star Dustin Diamond, the thought of allegedly stabbing someone in a Port Washington bar is probably the furthest thing from your mi...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with these “Bad Drivers of Milwaukee” videos

Matt Wild

March 17, 2015

Today is St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish and of making variations on the "St. Amateur's Day" joke. It's also a day when police ramp up their presence looking for revelers who have ...

And lo, it came to pass that Scott Baio tweeted his support for Scott Walker

Matt Wild

March 13, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was 13 years old, he gave his life to Christ...

WMSE will release a Field Report 7-inch for Record Store Day

Matt Wild

March 12, 2015

Say what you will about the hoopla—good and bad—surrounding Record Store Day, but the fact remains that it's a great chance to score some pretty nifty vinyl shit. Adding to the list of RSD goodies are the good ...

Dream Attics resurface with new single, “You Had Me”

Matt Wild

March 11, 2015

Has it been nearly a year since we last heard from Dream Attics, the monumentally chill, spaced-out electro experiment from Nick Tovarek and Shane English? Yep, it has. But lest you think the duo simply floated...

Exclusive: Listen to two glam-tastic songs from Rio Turbo’s upcoming self-titled album

Matt Wild

March 10, 2015

Somewhere between a scuzzy basement party and a VIP champagne room resides Milwaukee’s preeminent party-pop outfit Rio Turbo. Led by the tireless, occasionally clothed Joe Peterson (who also does time as bassis...

The twisted world of David Lynch meets the grade school set in Judy Plays With Fire

Matt Wild

March 9, 2015

It’s a Saturday morning and a local theater group is running through a nightmarish dream sequence torn straight from the (secret diary) pages of seminal ’90s TV series Twin Peaks. A little person in a red suit ...

This VISIT Milwaukee parody site is brutally honest about life in the Brew City

Matt Wild

March 9, 2015

If the future of a city depends in part on the city’s ability to sell itself to the outside world, then Milwaukee’s future is frustratingly unclear. On one hand, there are smart, passionate community leaders an...

Did the mayor mention Milwaukee’s place on an online list in his State of the City speech? Of course he did

Matt Wild

March 9, 2015

This morning at Alverno College, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett delivered his 2015 State of the City speech. (You can find the entire text here, courtesy of Urban Milwaukee.) With a theme of “One Milwaukee,” it wa...