Author Matt Wild

Watch Wanda Chrome & The Leather Pharaohs kick out the jams for WMSE’s “Local/Live”

July 6, 2022

Veteran Milwaukee rock 'n' roll bands don't get much more "veteran" and "rock 'n' roll" than Wanda Chrome & The Leather Pharaohs. The gleefully loud, gleefully growling group fronted by Cliff and Marie Ulsb...

Mere Of Light reaches out and touches “The Wood Between The Worlds” in new video, EP

Matt Wild

July 1, 2022

Back in the somehow less-fraught year of 2021, Milwaukee was introduced to Mere Of Light—a.k.a. the ethereal and mystical bedroom-folk project of musician Elise McArdle. The five-track Fell Tales was filled wit...

Take me back to Summerfest 1984: “Weird Al” Yankovic at the Rock Stage

Matt Wild

June 30, 2022

I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I've seen "Weird Al" Yankovic approximately 78 times. From county fairs and tiny clubs to fancy ballrooms and performing arts centers, I've seen Al everywhere. Hell,...

Record Recommended: Summerfest Weekend 2

Matt Wild

June 29, 2022

Summerfest! Like last year's edition, "The World's Largest Music Festival" is mixing things up in 2022 by staking out three Thursday-Friday-Saturday blocks instead of the traditional 11-day run. In an effort to...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Fireworks!

Matt Wild

June 28, 2022

Some places summer traditions come and go, while some places summer traditions become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples summer traditi...

State Fair’s 2022 Sporkies: Fried Pickle Cheese Curd Tacos, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Chicken On-a-Stick, more

Matt Wild

June 28, 2022

It's almost time for the 2022 Wisconsin State Fair (it runs August 4-14), which means it's time to unveil, ponder, and drool over and/or worry about this year's Sporkies finalists. You know, the Sporkies! The S...

Enjoying Summerfest despite [gestures broadly at everything]

Matt Wild

June 25, 2022

On Friday morning, my partner in crime/business, Tyler Maas, sent me a message: "Well, the country has (officially) somehow become even worse. If you want to have our 27,000th day of no promos, that's fine with...

Milwaukee approves return of those darn scooters for 2022 and 2023

Matt Wild

June 22, 2022

Those darn scooters are officially coming back! Beginning in early August! And sticking around until at least the end of 2023!Yes, following approval from the Public Works Committee on Monday, the full Comm...

Lake Park will celebrate 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted with parade, cake, more

Matt Wild

June 21, 2022

Fredrick Law Olmsted, born in 1822, is known as the father of American landscape architecture. His most famous projects include New York's Central Park and the grounds outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D....

Tom Nelson would like to defeat Ron Johnson, and the Spin Doctors are gonna help him

Matt Wild

June 21, 2022

In Wisconsin, one of the big stories of the upcoming U.S. Senate election is who, if anyone, can defeat former folk music fan and current human shit stain Sen. Ron Johnson. There are plenty of big names in the ...

Make it a sleazy summer with The Grovelers’ new record, ‘Misplaced Cars And Blackouts’

Matt Wild

June 21, 2022

The Grovelers don't mess with the formula. For the past seven years, the Milwaukee group has delivered album after album of greasy, grimy rock 'n' roll, all shot through with dashes of rockabilly, garage, and p...

Those darn scooters could return to Milwaukee streets by early August

Matt Wild

June 20, 2022

How many "pilot studies" will it take for Milwaukee to decide whether or not to allow those dockless electric scooters to roam/litter the streets?At least three, apparently.On Monday morning, the Common...

In case you blinked, here are all the new and wonderful things they’re building in Milwaukee (June 12-18)

Matt Wild

June 20, 2022

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it’s a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

Lap steel metal band Velocihamster covers “Ace Of Spades,” more on ‘Uncaged’

Matt Wild

June 20, 2022

As we all know, there can be only one lap steel metal band in the world. Luckily, Milwaukee is home to that lap steel metal band, Velocihamster.Yes, we've covered the unlikely band in these digital pages be...

Stuff We Missed: Brewers unveil City Connect uniforms! Basketball coming to AmFam Field?

Matt Wild

June 17, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week:• Do you like alternate sports uniforms? Do you like alternate spor...

New and open now at 3rd St. Market Hall: Kompali Tacos y Tortas

Matt Wild

June 17, 2022

It's Friday, so you know what that means: downtown food hall 3rd St. Market Hall has added 17 new vendors! (Seriously, we think we missed a few in the past week alone.)Today, 3rd St. has added Kompali Tacos...

Here’s the Milwaukee “News Clues” category from last night’s ‘Jeopardy!’

Matt Wild

June 16, 2022

In case you missed it, Milwaukee had its own "News Clues" category on last night's episode of Jeopardy! And just barely, too—it was thankfully the first category chosen, and Jeopardy! was subsequently preempted...

Oriental Theatre’s COVID-canceled ‘Cats’ screening claws its way back to July 23

Matt Wild

June 16, 2022

It's been two loooooong years since Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre announced that, thanks to an online petition, it would screen the misbegotten 2019 film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's misbegotten 1981 stage m...

Milwaukee edition of Red Bull Flugtag will feature flying bratwurst, giant KN95 mask, more

Matt Wild

June 15, 2022

In case you missed it, Red Bull's long-running Flugtag event—in which folks construct their own ridiculous "flying" machines and "fly" them off a ramp into a body of water—is set to make its Wisconsin/Milwaukee...

Soundtrack your summer with L’Resorts’ breezy new record, ‘Explorers’

Matt Wild

June 15, 2022

There are countless Milwaukee summer traditions: festivals, block parties, complaining about the heat even though we just suffered through 8,000 months of winter. For the past three years, Milwaukee tropical-po...