Author Matt Wild

Milwaukee continues to support working artists by getting rid of places where artists can work

March 6, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Throw a stone and you’ll surely hit a businessperson, developer, and/or marke...

What can a Milwaukee music compilation from 1980 tell us about the scene of today?

Matt Wild

March 4, 2015

At some point during last weekend’s ridiculously great Arte Para Todos festival—possibly while passing a block-long line for GGOOLLD at Company Brewing on my way to see Canopies at Club Timbuktu—I had a thought...

Plasticland, Sigmund Snopek, The Robbs to be inducted into WAMI Hall of Fame

Matt Wild

March 3, 2015

There’s nothing more tiresome than griping about the Wisconsin Area Music Industry awards—or the WAMIs, if you’re nasty—so let’s get down to brass tacks: the latest inductees to the WAMI Hall of Fame have just ...

Kids In The Hall will perform at Riverside Theater May 15

Matt Wild

March 3, 2015

The list of influential ’80s/’90s sketch comedy shows runs surprisingly long—The State, The Ben Stiller Show, Mr. Show, a season or two of Saturday Night Live—but nothing comes close to the influence and surrea...

Ariana Grande fans are really, really pissed at Journal Sentinel music critic Piet Levy

Matt Wild

March 2, 2015

A common misconception about Milwaukee Record is that we love to “hate.” But beyond some snarky shit we wrote about a crappy “reality show,” we dare you to find an example of us tearing down a local band, music...

Get pumped for WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili (and 8,000 other things going on this weekend)

Matt Wild

February 27, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Remember when WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser was the only light in an oth...

Scott Walker will use his experience battling Wisconsin protesters to battle ISIS

Matt Wild

February 26, 2015

Thursday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C., Wisconsin governor and presidential hopeful Scott Walker was asked how he would handle international threats to our country...

Let’s watch the anti-streetcar movement concede defeat, eat its own

Matt Wild

February 25, 2015

It’s been just over two weeks since the approval of the Greatest Thing In Milwaukee History (not including Channel 12’s “Hello Milwaukee” song): a 2.4-mile downtown streetcar line. Yes, after months of bizarrel...

Former Milwaukeean Rob Schrab will direct the Lego Movie sequel

Matt Wild

February 25, 2015

Still delirious from the delightfully bat-shit performance of The Lego Movie’s “Everything Is Awesome” at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony? Well, if you’re from Wisconsin, this shouldn’t help: as reported by pretty much...

Exclusive: Make a deal with Devil Met Contention’s new EP, American Times

Matt Wild

February 24, 2015

Ehson Rad has lived in New Mexico, Texas, Michigan, and now Milwaukee. That mileage, and plenty more, permeates American Times, the new EP from Rad and his pitch-black southern gothic outfit Devil Met Contentio...

Zoinks! Fox6 lands that exclusive Dustin Diamond interview you’ve been dying to see

Matt Wild

February 20, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• God bless the local TV news. Where else can you find endless chatter about th...

Here’s the lineup for the 2015 Milwaukee Psych Fest

Matt Wild

February 20, 2015

Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp (Moss Folk) 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 t...

Exclusive: Listen to Group Of The Altos’ unhinged masterpiece, R U Person Or Not

Matt Wild

February 19, 2015

“No one shares, no one shares, no one shares anymore / Just the kids, just the kids, just the kids and the poor.” So sing Group Of The Altos on “Learning To Share,” the opening track of their second record, R U...

Listen to the new Surgeons In Heat single, “You Never Know”

Matt Wild

February 18, 2015

Things have been relatively quiet in the Surgeons In Heat camp lately. Other than releasing a pair of songs in April 2014, the last big statement from the smooth and sly pop-rockers was their 2012 self-titled L...

“Major League Night,” other nights that aren’t “Major League Night” coming to Miller Park in 2015

Matt Wild

February 17, 2015

Say what you will about “theme nights” for professional sports—they’re cheesy, overhyped, desperate, distracting, etc.—but it’s hard to deny that they give fans a small slice of fun in what might otherwise be r...

Janeane Garofalo is coming to Turner Hall April 28

Matt Wild

February 17, 2015

Janeane Garofalo was once asked for advice on making it in show business. “Meet Ben Stiller at the deli,” she replied. (Garofalo and Stiller met at L.A.’s Canter’s Deli in 1990; Garofalo would soon appear on Th...

Watch Hugh Bob And The Hustle play a living room show for Sofar Milwaukee

Matt Wild

February 12, 2015

Imagine this: a concert featuring your favorite local or national touring band...but in a house! Crazy, right? Yes, these so-called “living room shows” have been gaining momentum in the past few years, led by t...

Bon Iver, The National highlight full Eaux Claires music festival lineup

Matt Wild

February 11, 2015

The lineup for the upcoming Justin Vernon/Aaron Dessner-curated Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival has been slowly trickling out over the past week like melting ice from the Chippewa River (cue Bon Iver son...

OH MY GOD THE MILWAUKEE STREETCAR HAS BEEN APPROVED

Matt Wild

February 10, 2015

At a meeting this morning, the Milwaukee Common Council voted 9-6 against four items related to the Milwaukee Streetcar. The votes killed motions to further delay and reconsider the endlessly contentious, best-...

Violent Femmes (and Barenaked Ladies and Colin Hay) will play the BMO Harris Pavilion June 13

Matt Wild

February 10, 2015

Fact #1: Summer is approximately 8,000 years away. Fact #2: Nothing makes us pine for summer more than summer concert announcements—especially good ones. So while we wait for that inevitable “Weird Al” Summerfe...