Author Tyler Maas

Warped perception: A guide to the worst Warped Tour lineup in recent memory

April 10, 2015

Earlier this week, the lineup for Warped Tour was announced. If that sentence makes you feel incredibly old, then you probably won't like hearing that Warped Tour is now 20 years old. Spawned in 1995 by Kevin L...

Awkward Terrible chips in on Classic’s concert series

Tyler Maas

April 10, 2015

If the name Awkward Terrible rings a bell, you probably recognize it from its normal place near the bottom of local show flyers and beneath a band or two on Facebook event listings. That should in no way sugges...

Gary Zajackowski plans to bring laughs to Midwest Gaming Classic

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2015

During his four years on stage, Gary Zajackowski hasn't shied away from taking his material to strange, off-putting, and occasionally very alienating places. The unofficial wild card of Milwaukee comedy's body ...

Thurman Merman tackles tough topics with delicate sounds

Tyler Maas

April 9, 2015

Already a full-fledged member of Ugly Brothers, an occasional supporting player with Caley Conway And The Lucy Cukes and Holy Sheboygan (among other outfits), the co-organizer/co-founder of Bandsketball, in the...

Reflecting on Milwaukee Record’s first year

Tyler Maas

April 7, 2015

On April 7, 2014, Milwaukee Record officially launched. In some ways, it's amazing a year has already elapsed since that day that found Matt Wild and I repeatedly messaging one another variations of "Holy shit!...

Kato Kaelin’s (unofficial) Milwaukee Brewers season preview

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2015

After a long, cold, and baseball-less six months, America's pastime is officially back in Wisconsin as the Milwaukee Brewers play their home opener at Miller Park today. This lovely day has become nothing short...

Hey Food Dude brings drive thru to you

Tyler Maas

April 6, 2015

Whether you work a third shift job, you drank too much to drive, or you're without wheels and just can't justify calling a Lyft to bring you to the Taco Bell drive thru at 1:30 a.m. on a Wednesday, Jeff Lampton...

Riley Lake ventures into new sonic territory with Spaces

Tyler Maas

April 3, 2015

Since moving to Milwaukee from southern California last summer, producer and central Wisconsin native Will Mitchell—who creates under the moniker Riley Lake—has had a hand in the releases of other artists on bo...

Kevin Hart matches the hype in first show of Riverside Theater run

Tyler Maas

April 3, 2015

Seeing how quickly tickets sold for what became a six-show Pabst Theater occupation by Dave Chappelle last September, the theater group decided to go ahead and immediately book six shows—at the even higher capa...

Exclusive: Stream Pay The Devil’s debut, Wrong Side Of The River

Tyler Maas

April 2, 2015

Wrong Side Of The River, the debut album by self-dubbed "shantygrass outfit" Pay The Devil, was three years in the making. Fortunately, the band's union of Appalachian folk, outlaw country, bluegrass and roots ...

Nathan Timmel turns loneliness into literature

Tyler Maas

April 2, 2015

Back in December, we introduced you to Johnny Beehner, a Milwaukee based stand-up comedian who makes a living in comedy clubs throughout the U.S. and Canada. Like Beehner, Iowa City-based career comic Nathan Ti...

Maria Bamford takes Turner Hall on a weird, wonderful ride

Tyler Maas

April 2, 2015

Over the course of her quarter-century comedy career, Maria Bamford has earned her reputation as one of stand-up's most erratic, dynamic, and altogether strange talents. Known for her cavalcade of cooky charact...

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

Tyler Maas

April 1, 2015

Though we won't discount the possibility of experiencing one last volley of snowfall this month, April is typically a period of rebirth. Baseball season begins, the first full month of spring is upon us, and ra...

The Sleepwalkers rise and shine with new EP

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2015

After making a continually good impression on audiences in Green Bay, Oshkosh, and everywhere in between, The Sleepwalkers left the Fox Cities and made the move to Milwaukee in the summer of 2013. Once they arr...

Apparently Rob Gronkowski likes Klassik

Tyler Maas

March 27, 2015

After a calculatedly quiet 2014, this year has already been a crazy one for Klassik. The Milwaukee rapper and multi-instrumentalist just got back from SXSW (where he performed solo and as one of Group Of The Al...

First Impression: Strada Pizza

Tyler Maas

March 27, 2015

For whatever reason, the piece of property at the bustling corner of Lincoln and Howell Avenues has been known to attract a particular type of business: Mexican restaurants. After serving as Taqueria Azteca's b...

The Goodnight Milwaukee Show revamps, returns

Tyler Maas

March 27, 2015

As we're learning with the ongoing hunt for Jon Stewart's eventual Daily Show successor, witnessing James Corden enter his first week in a late night job once held by Craig Ferguson, and seeing David Letterman ...

Meat, er, Meet The Vanguard in Meet Milwaukee’s latest video

Tyler Maas

March 26, 2015

Hey! You hear about this Vanguard place? Of-fucking-course you have. Since soft-opening late last October, the Bay View bar and sausage purveyor has been lauded by numerous Milwaukee publications (present compa...

adoptahighway exorcises demons with A Fault

Tyler Maas

March 26, 2015

When last we spoke of adoptahighway, the experimental electronic project of classically trained musician Barry Paul Clark was announcing the release date and debuting the first single for A Fault, his first alb...

Exclusive: Stream two songs from YLLA’s self-titled album

Tyler Maas

March 24, 2015

At least on paper, having members whose other projects land in the neighborhoods of psych, rock, jazz, and experimental R&B doesn’t make Milwaukee outfit YLLA (pronounced “E-Luh”) an easy band to pigeonhole...