Author Tyler Maas

Stream Lifetime Achievement Award’s woozy new single, “The Melatonin”

February 6, 2019

On October 13, 2015, Jay Joslyn set out to write a song. The goal was to complete it within one week’s time. After he did that, he set out to do it 51 more times. Joslyn decided to release that year's worth of ...

Hear Bill Clinton talk about how good he thinks the Bucks are

Tyler Maas

February 5, 2019

No matter what your personal politics are, we can all agree on this one thing: the Milwaukee Bucks have been pretty amazing this season.The Giannis Antetokounmpo-led team currently boasts an NBA-best 39-13 ...

Brook Lopez should compete in the NBA All-Star Game’s Three-Point Contest

Tyler Maas

February 4, 2019

The NBA All-Star Game is next weekend and, for once, the Milwaukee Bucks will play a prominent part in the mid-winter festivities. Heading into tonight's game in Brooklyn, the Bucks have posted an NBA-best 38-1...

Ladies Rock will open 2019 enrollment February 8

Tyler Maas

February 4, 2019

Since beginning in 2015, Ladies Rock Milwaukee—the grown-up companion to Girls Rock Milwaukee—has become an established resource to help empower “women, transgender, and gender non-conforming folks of any ident...

Some guy is designing posters for every Milwaukee Bucks game in 2019

Tyler Maas

January 30, 2019

Through 49 games of the 2018-19 season, the Milwaukee Bucks have the best record in the NBA. As we've said before, the team is really, really good. They've been especially great in January. Including last night...

Spam, mayo, and racism: Cudahy author examines corporate influence on cuisine in ‘American Advertising Cookbooks’

Tyler Maas

January 30, 2019

Growing up in the 1970s and '80s, Cudahy-based author Christina Ward says she was raised in "the apex of the processed, packaged, pre-made food era." Ward says the period between the 1950s and the '80s was the ...

Here’s everything you need to know about Burnhearts Mitten Fest 2019

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2019

After months of cold, dreariness, premature darkness, and an absence of outdoor activity, the seventh annual Burnhearts Mitten Fest is just days away. For eight hours (noon to 8 p.m.) on Saturday, February 2, p...

“The Shorewood Sayonara” will say farewell to North Shore American Legion Post #331

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2019

Earlier this month, news broke that North Shore Legion Post #331 (aka the "Shorewood Legion Hall") was for sale. Though the fate of the building that's known for its fish fry and, more so, for serving as an inv...

METZ will return to Cactus Club on May 27

Tyler Maas

January 29, 2019

METZ isn’t a particularly difficult band to understand. Amid a modern music landscape that’s rife with clunky sub-genre descriptors and acts haphazardly piling 10 pounds of influences into five-pound bags, the ...

Latino Arts announces spring and summer exhibitions, performances

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2019

Despite being around since 1985 (and formally taking root in Walker’s Point in 1997), Latino Arts Inc. is only becoming more relevant with age. Recent seasons have brought Grammy-winning musicians and the work ...

Thanks for making Local Coverage 2019 great, Milwaukee!

Tyler Maas

January 24, 2019

Last Friday, Milwaukee Record hosted our fifth annual Local Coverage show at Turner Hall. There, a diverse cast of six Milwaukee acts took the stage to perform (approximately) 15-minute sets of another project’...

X-Ray Arcade will bring gaming, all-ages events to Cudahy starting February 9

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2019

Last September, we told you about an all-ages music venue and mini-arcade coming to the former site of The Metal Grill and Vnuk’s Lounge in Cudahy. Today, that exciting venture publicly announced its name and o...

First Impression: Damascus Gate Restaurant

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2019

The world could use some good news. Here, in what presently seems to be the darkest of timelines and at a point in which compassion and basic human decency seem especially scare, it's easy to drown in the delug...

Brewers fans aren’t thrilled with Kathy Ireland’s take on Miller Park naming rights

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2019

Yesterday, the Wisconsin sports community was thrown into a frenzy when news broke that one massive corporation's name would be replacing another massive corporation's name on a publicly-funded stadium we're st...

The Wade family from Milwaukee will be on ‘Family Feud’ tonight

Tyler Maas

January 22, 2019

Back in the spring of 2017, the Katschke family from Franklin appeared on Family Feud. Though the suburban Milwaukee group ultimately fell short of victory, another family from the area will now have a chance a...

Ray’s and 3 Floyds Brewing to bring food, drinks, winter fun to inaugural Wückfinter celebration

Tyler Maas

January 22, 2019

Once resigned to simply stay indoors and wait out the winter, metro Milwaukee has recently taken a much more active approach to surviving the season with an array of exciting and inventive parties that take pla...

Hear Direct Hit! cover Nickel&Rose before Local Coverage 2019

Tyler Maas

January 18, 2019

Tonight is the night! Following months of planning and preparation, Local Coverage will take over Turner Hall Ballroom for another evening of fun philanthropy. If you're unfamiliar with our annual benefit conce...

Bounce Milwaukee offers free admission to families affected by government shutdown

Tyler Maas

January 17, 2019

The country is now 27 days into the government shutdown and, despite the pleas of the Milwaukee Common Council, it doesn't look like things are going to change anytime soon. Hundreds of thousands of government ...

Milwaukee designer moonlights as artist for Bill Burr, Pauly Shore, and other comedians

Tyler Maas

January 16, 2019

Though Bill Burr is known and loved throughout the world, the legendary comedian has a special connection to Milwaukee. In 2017, he raved about The Pfister Hotel, the Riverside Theater, the Harley-Davidson Muse...

Here’s everything you should know about Local Coverage 2019

Tyler Maas

January 15, 2019

Following months of planning, the night is almost upon us! Friday night, historic Turner Hall Ballroom will play host to Milwaukee Record’s fifth annual Local Coverage benefit concert. Over the course of the ev...