Here’s the 2016 Bay View Bash lineup
As August gives way to September, Milwaukee's once-bountiful batch of summer festivals has dwindled to just one. Saturday, September 17 doubles as the unofficial end of summer and all its opportunities to l...
POEK runs from “Indifference Machine” in new music video
With At Latl on the shelf until further notice, the band's frontman Kent Watson has redirected some of his artistic focus to POEK. The cross-country recording project—an acronym for "Property Of Eric and Ke...
Teletubbies, Viagra, and Elian Gonzalez: Here’s Beloit College’s latest Mindset List
Since 1998, Beloit College staffers Ron Nief, Tom McBride, and Charles Westerberg have welcomed incoming freshman to the school and simultaneously reminded the rest of us how fucking old we're getting with ...
Cream City Swirl is closed
Following more than two and a half years on the corner of Lennox Street and Kinnickinnic Avenue, Cream City Swirl will no longer be in business, at least not as a traditional shop. The Bay View frozen yogur...
All-time Green Bay Packers fantasy football dream team
Roughly halfway into the Packers preseason, there's really not much to talk about. At this point, fans have already heard who is in the best shape of his life, read pieces from pigskin pundits describing which ...
Stacy Pawlowski to be “even livelier” in second one-woman show
Over the last 20 years, Stacy Pawlowski has been making Milwaukee laugh in a variety of ways. Though she cut her teeth in the city's once-formidable sketch comedy scene, she's also transitioned into stand-u...
Triple Eye Industries looks back on first 2 years as a label
Today, in the era of Name-Your-Price digital downloads, 99 cent iTunes singles, and abject saturation in the music industry, owning a record label isn't exactly the glamorous and financially lucrative endea...
Exclusive: Hear the title track from Arms Aloft’s album, ‘What A Time To Be Barely Alive’
In recent years, the western Wisconsin city of Eau Claire has crept into the music world's collective consciousness one hauntingly beautiful cabin-crafted song at a time. As Justin Vernon brings music fans ...
Phở King changed its fucking name
If you're a frequent reader of Milwaukee Record, you're surely a mature and well-adjusted member of society who wouldn't lower yourself to acknowledge something as base and childish as wordplay. With that i...
There’s a 60% chance Jason Terry will get a Milwaukee Bucks tattoo
As you're reading this, the ink is likely drying on the contract sharpshooting guard Jason Terry is reportedly signing with the Milwaukee Bucks. Terry will be 39 years old by the time the 2016-17 season sta...
Rx Drugs start smooth and somber with ‘Future Friction’
//Last year, we introduced you to Rx Drugs, the new project of The Championship singer and songwriter Joe Crockett. Save for releasing a single and playing fewer than five shows, the band—which also boasts...
‘Breaking Bad’ star-turned-author Bryan Cranston coming to Pabst Theater
//Following a long, steady, workmanlike career as character actor who had occasional appearances in sitcoms like Seinfeld and The King Of Queens, and a regular supporting role in Malcolm In The Middle, Bry...
Michail Takach documents city’s gay past in ‘LGBT Milwaukee’
//With monumental events like marriage equality, the growth of the city's PrideFest, and an exponential increase in acceptance and understanding from all sections of society, Milwaukee's LGBT community has...
First Impression: Good City Brewing
It's only August and 2016 can already be chalked up as a tough year for bars and restaurants on Milwaukee's East Side. After 11 years on Kenilworth Place, Yield screeched to an abrupt stop in May. Y-Not III's B...
Bad Grades aim to make good marks in Milwaukee music
//Saturday night's show at Cactus Club will also be a back to school event of sorts, when Shane Hochstetler and Nathan Lilley return to the stage where their beloved band Call Me Lightning played countless...
We’re showing ‘Fargo’ at The Avalon September 20
//You're cordially invited to join Milwaukee Record at Avalon Theater in Bay View the night of Tuesday, September 20 when we say farewell to summer with a screening of Fargo. The special event also commemo...
Can you fucking believe it? Here are 13 more Milwaukee patios!
//For whatever reason, Milwaukee can't seem to get enough patios. Maybe the fact that more than half the year is spent hunkered indoors, waiting out the cold, gray, and altogether shitty conditions outside...
Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes save best for last with swan song, ‘Silk For Life’
//It's never easy to say goodbye to a band. Arguably worse than a band retroactively deciding their most recent performance and release would be their last is when an act senses the need for a change and k...
Here’s The Vanguard’s new menu
//Since opening in October 2014, The Vanguard has been a boon to Milwaukee dining, while also doubling as a prime place to watch the Packers and pro wrestling, and serving host for a single-day Chinese res...
Here’s the lineup for Rush-Mor’s Bay View Bash stage
//Occurring just days before the autumnal equinox, Bay View Bash is technically the last summer festival on Milwaukee's massive collection of warm weather festivities. As such, the Bash is perennially the ...