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Frank Turner to play solo acoustic outing at X-Ray Arcade on July 10

May 25, 2022

Frank Turner has done it all. The English punk singer-songwriter has played thousands of shows over the course of his nearly 30-year musical career. During that over-quarter-century span, he’s released nine exc...

Summerfest’s “smallest stage” will feature acoustic performances from Boyz II Men, local acts, more

Matt Wild

May 25, 2022

There are approximately 8,000 stages on the Summerfest grounds, but only one of them can claim to be the festival's "smallest." And no, we're not talking about the JoJo's Martini Bar stage, which needs to be so...

Great Job, Milwaukee! Readers of a travel website like to travel to Milwaukee

Matt Wild

May 25, 2022

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee! Bot to keep track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national publication ackno...

Weird Al fortunately returns to Milwaukee with “Unfortunate Return” of non-parody tour

Cal Roach

May 25, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

Here’s the 2022 Mayfair Collection Music Spotlight lineup

Tyler Maas

May 25, 2022

If there's such a thing as too much free outdoor live music happening in and around Milwaukee, we haven't seen it yet. Today, Wisconsin Music Ventures announced an eclectic crop of area musicians taking part in...

Migrating warblers, others bring a world of color to Milwaukee’s spring landscape

Kyle Arpke

May 24, 2022

If you've spent time outdoors within the last couple of weeks, you might have seen tiny flashes of bright color frantically darting around trees and brush piles. If you're lucky enough to see one of those flash...

Black Husky Brewing will host “Milwaukee’s Worst Locust Street Festival” in place of canceled real thing

Matt Wild

May 24, 2022

Were you disappointed when this year's Locust Street Festival of Music & Arts was abruptly canceled? You're not alone. But while most of us were content to simply grouse about this unfortunate news, Locust ...

What I’m hoping to hear at tonight’s “ridiculously self-indulgent, ill-advised” Weird Al show

Matt Wild

May 24, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record's Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al's May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

FPC Live is gonna build its two-room music venue on the old Bradley Center site now

Matt Wild

May 23, 2022

It's Monday, which means Milwaukee is getting another new downtown music venue.Madison-based FPC Live, a division of Live Nation subsidiary Frank Productions, plans to build a $50 million two-room music ven...

Gov. Evers announces $2.2 million for Milwaukee violence prevention, including “security fencing”

Matt Wild

May 23, 2022

Gov. Tony Evers announced on Monday $2.2 million in funding "directed towards the city of Milwaukee for violence prevention and to help the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) to take immediate steps to address c...

The kids are alright: An interview with a 9-year-old Weird Al fan

Cal Roach

May 23, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

Here’s the full PrideFest 2022 lineup

Tyler Maas

May 23, 2022

After canceling 2020’s event on account of a pandemic and turning last year’s celebration into a smaller-scale autumnal event called "PridetoberFest," we're pleased to report PrideFest will be returning in full...

A Weird Al album ranking that totally betrays the age of the author, and that’s it

Matt Wild

May 22, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

7 things we want to see in the upcoming Weird Al biopic

Rob Wieland

May 21, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record's Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al's May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

My First Band: Joshua Fleming (Vandoliers)

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 20, 2022

broadstreet.zone(81112); As the lead singer and founding member of Vandoliers, Joshua Fleming has released three outstanding albums, aggressively toured throughout the U.S., and shared the stage with legendary...

Childhood, change, and growing a Weird Al Chia Pet for 14 days

Mitch DeSantis

May 20, 2022

broadstreet.zone(72091); Welcome to Milwaukee Record’s Weird Al Week, sponsored by Lakefront Brewery! Want daily Al-related articles culminating in a recap of Al’s May 24 show at the Marcus Performing Arts Cen...

Washington Park Wednesdays are back! Here’s the 2022 lineup

Matt Wild

May 20, 2022

And the summer music lineups keep on coming (and coming, and coming, and coming). Today, Washington Park Wednesdays revealed its 2022 lineup—its first full, in-person lineup since 2019. Here's who's playing the...

Music, beer, and fun are on deck at Third Space Brewing’s “Third Space Presents” concert series

Tyler Maas

May 20, 2022

On top of facing many of the challenges countless businesses have been forced to deal with these past two-plus years, Third Space Brewing was met with a fairly unique issue recently. In short, one of its walls ...

Holy crap, Milwaukee is getting a new 8,000-seat soccer stadium and 3,500-person concert venue

Matt Wild

May 20, 2022

Just when you thought Milwaukee's sports and concert venue news couldn't get any twistier, along comes a new twist: a just-announced 8,000-seat soccer stadium complete with an adjacent 3,500-person concert venu...

Wauwatosa is at the core of Republicans’ ugly partisan gerrymander

Dan Shafer

May 19, 2022

Dan Shafer is the founder of The Recombobulation Area, an award-winning, reader-supported weekly column and online publication. Click here to subscribe.One of the most important cities on the political map ...

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