Author Matt Wild

It’s all right! It’s okay! You can finally buy a Mark Borchardt T-shirt!

January 14, 2015

In today’s “Why hasn’t this existed for the past 15 years?” news, you can finally buy your very own Mark Borchardt T-shirt. Yes, thanks to Milwaukee’s preeminent schlock filmmaker Frankie Latina (director of Mo...

Sat. Nite Duets recorded a bittersweet ode to Packers backup QB Matt Flynn

Matt Wild

January 14, 2015

The NFL career of perennial backup quarterback Matt Flynn has been a long and strange one. Originally drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 2008, Flynn spent the next few season backing up the one and only Aaron ...

Get buzzed with the video for The Rashita Joneses’ “Mosquito”

Matt Wild

January 14, 2015

If the name “The Rashita Joneses” brings to mind only the magnetic Parks And Recreation actress (spelled “Rashida,”) and not, say, an up-and-coming garage-psych band, you shouldn’t feel bad. The misspelled Milw...

New Jon Mueller record will be called Initiation, won’t actually be a record

Matt Wild

January 13, 2015

It’s hard to overstate the raw power and beauty of Jon Mueller’s 2014 Death Blues album, Ensemble. We placed the haunting, otherworldly, and emotionally devastating instrumental post-rock record at no. 2 on our...

“Favre & Carve” isn’t a real thing, unfortunately

Matt Wild

January 13, 2015

When he isn’t granting epic-length interviews from his Mississippi ranch or discussing his playoffs predictions from a Mississippi deer stand, legendary Packers quarterback Brett Favre is busy doing whatever he...

Pele will play its first Milwaukee show in over a decade April 18 at Cactus Club

Matt Wild

January 8, 2015

Legendary Milwaukee post-rock outfit Pele disbanded in 2004, but its influence on local music remains strong to this day. Members of the instrumental three-piece (Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Matt Tennessen) hav...

Tracklist: 5 things Milwaukee needs to accomplish in 2015

Matt Wild

January 7, 2015

Milwaukee used to be a city stuck in the past, content to enjoy a few cold ones after work and shoot down any new or interesting ideas that threatened the status quo. That has changed in recent years, but not c...

Watch Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank on the set of Frankie Latina’s Snapshot

Matt Wild

January 6, 2015

Back in 2009, Milwaukee enfant terrible filmmaker Frankie Latina made a splash with Modus Operandi, a delightfully sleazy, Z-grade exploitation flick co-produced by Sasha Grey and starring Danny Trejo. It was t...

Listen to “Andromeda,” a spacey track from Klassik’s upcoming Winter EP

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

We’ve already told you about the big year awaiting Milwaukee rapper/musician/producer/video director Kellen “Klassik” Abston, a year that will see the release of four EPs that will eventually lead to a new albu...

Welcome to January: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

January is an exciting time: a time of renewal, a time of promise, and a time when we inevitably refuse to make New Year’s resolutions because we’ve been burned in the past and that shit never works anyway. It’...

Go on a Packers vision quest with Calliope’s Al Kraemer

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

On Sunday, January 11, the Green Bay Packers will square off against the Dallas Cowboys at Lambeau Field for what will undoubtedly be a nail-biting, edge-of-your-bleacher-seat playoff game. At stake is the priv...

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Soul Low: Kind Spirit

Matt Wild

January 5, 2015

If there were a war for Milwaukee’s most affable band—an exceedingly polite and well-mannered war, mind you—the victor would undoubtedly be Soul Low. On 2013’s excellent UNEASY, the young group offered up eight...

County Board votes to preserve the majesty of O’Donnell Park

Matt Wild

December 19, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• If you’ve heard it once you’ve heard it a thousand times: Downtown Milwaukee ...

First Impression: Riverwest Pizza

Matt Wild

December 17, 2014

It’s a scientific fact that pizza will never go out of style. Stuffed-crust, fancy, or frozen, pizza is a universal constant that transcends age, gender, and taste. Still, the everyman/woman food is enjoying a ...

Great job, Milwaukee! Yahoo Food says we have good food

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

If, like our patented Great Job Milwaukee-Bot (not to be confused with OnMilwaukee’s Jeff Sherman-Bot 8000), you enjoy seeing Milwaukee pop up on online lists, and enjoy the consumption of food, we have just th...

Y’all ready for this? It’s time to save the Milwaukee Diamond Dancers

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

In addition to watching a competitive team, enjoying the amenities of a world-class stadium, and eating cheese-drenched waffle fries out of a plastic helmet, one of the pleasures of attending a Brewers game at ...

Exclusive: Listen to Whips’ undeniably awesome new album, Turn It On

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

Midway through Whips’ swaggering, scorching debut LP, Turn It On, the band lets off the throttle and switches gears for an out-of-character surprise: a piano ballad. “I won’t forever glow / I won’t forever glow...

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NO/NO: X.O.

Matt Wild

December 16, 2014

It should come as no surprise to fans of Milwaukee’s gone-but-not-forgotten Delphines that the band that quickly formed from the group’s ashes, NO/NO, has already released two EP’s worth of material. The Delphi...

3-D Bud Selig hologram, “Selig Experience” coming to Miller Park in 2015

Matt Wild

December 15, 2014

The Milwaukee Brewers’ 2015 season may be approximately 8,000 years away, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream of green grass, golden-brown hot dogs, and the dulcet tones of Robert G. Uecker calling the game. H...

Watch the haunting, nurse-filled video for Death Blues’ “Onward”

Matt Wild

December 10, 2014

Death Blues’ incredible album Ensemble landed at #2 on our list of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2014, but it really deserved to be on a list by itself: Jon Mueller and William Ryan Fritch’s dense, heavy, and...