Author Tyler Maas

10 Green Bay Packers with interesting post-football careers

October 27, 2023

While even the lowest-paid NFL player still makes more annually than the majority of the people reading this article, the average professional football player's career lasts only 3.3 years. With a high risk of ...

Oh my gosh! We’re screening ‘Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar’ at Avalon Theater on November 29

Tyler Maas

October 26, 2023

Iron your best pair of culottes and reschedule your Talking Club session because Milwaukee Record is screening Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar this fall! This ultra rare big screen showing of the 2021 comedy—...

7 standout Halloween pop-ups

Tyler Maas

October 25, 2023

Halloween! It's coming up soon and as usual, there's no shortage of Halloween-adjacent cover concerts, costume contests, scary film screenings, and various other happenings that are taking place in and around M...

Wisconsin’s first Patty Shack could break the curse at 2121 S. Kinnickinnic

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2023

Things haven't been going too well at 2121 S. Kinnickinnic. Ever since Subway closed its location in Suite #8 of the Bay View Commons building about five years ago, the space has been a quickly revolving door o...

We’re “Spinning Through The Past” at Third Space Brewing on November 3

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2023

Between recurring happenings like our monthly films, Halftime Shows, the seasonal Midweek Music concert series, and bunch of one-off events, Milwaukee Record has never been doing more live, in-person things tha...

Here are 19 photos from last weekend’s “Bartendo” pop up at The Sugar Maple

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2023

Fresh off its semi-recent transformation into an I Think You Should Leave-themed bar, The Sugar Maple (441 E. Lincoln Ave.) really 1UPed themselves with their latest pop-up concept. From October 19 through Octo...

Barely Civil to play November 19 installment of our Milwaukee Record Halftime Show series

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2023

With the high likelihood that injuries will impact teams over a 17-game season, pro football has a "next man up" mentality. Similarly, Milwaukee Record has a "next band up" approach when it comes to making chan...

I went to the last Blimpie Subs in Wisconsin

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2023

Last weekend, I took to our social media accounts and reposted an October 2022 article where I went to the last Ponderosa restaurant location in Wisconsin. (Yes, it's the one in Wisconsin Dells and it's still o...

Klassik’s “K” music video keeps the smooth summer vibes rolling into fall

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2023

Back in July, incomparable Milwaukee singer, rapper, producer, and multi-instrumental force Klassik put out his SummerSkool EP. The four-song release, which instantly earned mention on our "favorite Milwaukee o...

The Vanguard discusses anniversary, struggles, new chef, Halloween pop-up theme

Tyler Maas

October 18, 2023

This month marks The Vanguard's ninth year in business. Since opening in October 2014, the Bay View bar and specialty sausage emporium has earned oodles of local and national attention, has been a favorite dini...

25 things to do during the Packers bye

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2023

It’s cruel, really. Our beloved Green Bay Packers are but five weeks into the regular season and we already have to take a week off from watching them—right after an 11-day span between Week 4 and Week 5, no le...

Listen to Steely Dan’s long-lost Schlitz jingle from the early ’70s

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2023

Want to hear a new Steely Dan song? Well, it's actually a 50-year-old song that was recently uncovered. And it's not so much a "song" as it is an extended jingle. Oh, and that 109-second composition is about Sc...

Crafty Cow introduces new menu items, all you can eat Friday chicken and fish fry specials

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2023

Though Crafty Cow has been making specialty burgers and tasty fried poultry preparations for the entirety of its near-decade-long existence, the restaurant—which has locations in Milwaukee, Oconomowoc, and Wauw...

Barely Civil’s “Coasting, Mostly” could be a contender for Milwaukee song of the year

Tyler Maas

October 12, 2023

Back in early August, we—"we" meaning me, Milwaukee Record co-founder/editor Tyler Maas—boldly proclaimed Shontrail's "When I'm Alone I Get Real High" to be the front-runner for Milwaukee's song of the summer h...

The Great Milwaukee Can Koozie Swap & Bar Chip Bonanza is coming to Promises on November 4

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2023

Back in May, Milwaukee Record and Busch Light joined forces to host an unconventional event at Promises (538 W. National Ave.) based around the almighty beer sleeve. "The Great Milwaukee Can Koozie Swap" brough...

C-viche’s Bay View location to close October 22

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2023

Today, C-viche (2165 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., 414-800-7329) announced it will be closing its original Bay View location. In a message posted on Facebook and on Instagram, management announced the final day in the ...

The last word on Archie’s Flat Top, a soon-to-be West Allis standby

Tyler Maas

October 10, 2023

Damn. Where did summer go? As always, the season was a crazy, busy, plan-filled blur that flew by in what seemed to be an instant. Now that fall has emphatically announced its presence and the action has (mostl...

The 22 Raiders starting quarterbacks of the last 20 years, ranked

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2023

Coming off nine seasons with Derek Carr serving as the team's starting quarterback (and almost never missing a game), it might be surprising to learn the Raiders have actually needed a staggering 22 different s...

NilexNile waits out the rain in “Growing Pains” music video

Tyler Maas

October 6, 2023

If 2022 was the year NilexNile truly made a name for himself in Milwaukee with a flurry of festival appearances and a standout mixtape, then 2023 has been the year the up-and-coming rapper introduced himself to...

Heeeeeere’s the “Shocktoberfest 2023” film lineup!

Tyler Maas

October 5, 2023

It’s a scientific fact that nothing beats October. The weather is awesome, Halloween is lurking around the corner, and businesses go nuts with events and promotions ending with the "tober" suffix. Now that "spo...