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Here’s the full lineup for Milwaukee Psych Fest VII

February 1, 2019

Since 2013, Milwaukee musician Andrew Shelp has given the city a loud, fuzzed-out, and reverb-drenched gift every spring: Milwaukee Psych Fest. Returning for its seventh (!) year April 12 and 13 at The Cooperag...

Take a tour of Milwaukee County Stadium, weeks before it was closed and torn down

Matt Wild

January 31, 2019

While Milwaukee remains on pins and needles as to the future name of Miller Park (Dear AmFam: Do the right thing and name it after Uecker), it's useful to go back to a time when Miller Park wasn't even a thing....

Milwaukee Music Roundup: January 2019

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 31, 2019

Looking for new music? Looking for new Milwaukee music? Then look no further than our monthly Milwaukee Music Roundup, stuffed with new records, notable singles, and more. LPs and EPs OF NOTE Astronaut Husban...

Odd Duck’s Little Duck event space will host three Friday night fish frys during Lent

Matt Wild

January 31, 2019

Attention Milwaukee Record's resident fish fry expert Caleb Westphal: Little Duck Kitchen (2301 S. Howell Ave.), the private event space of Bay View's Odd Duck restaurant, will host three Friday night fish frys...

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...

An interview with Milwaukee Food King, the city’s premier foodie/dentist/MMA judge

Matt Wild

January 29, 2019

Talk to Rick Winter for a few minutes and one thing becomes clear: it's good to be king. By day, Winter is Dr. Richard Winter, DDS, a third-generation dentist who has been practicing in the Milwaukee area for 3...

“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 ...

Paul, Donnie, and Mark Wahlberg are bringing Wahlburgers to The Corners of Brookfield

Matt Wild

January 28, 2019

It's time for a new burger place on the block. Um, those good vibrations you're feeling are burger vibrations. Something something referencing Paul Wahlberg. Anyway, Wahlburgers is coming to The Corners of Broo...

Here’s shocking video proof that the streetcar can run in snow

Matt Wild

January 28, 2019

We're almost three months into the life of The Hop, Milwaukee's long-in-the-works and forever-contentious downtown streetcar. And guess what? Things are going well! People are riding the thing, extensions are i...

Get old, weird with Yum Yum Cult’s debut single, “Up In The Tenement”

Matt Wild

January 28, 2019

You may or may not be familiar with Yum Yum Cult, but if you're familiar with Milwaukee music, you're surely familiar with some of the band's components. The new-ish project features current and former members ...

264 Friday fish frys and counting: St. Augustine of Hippo

Caleb Westphal

January 25, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.I was out taking a morning walk, and was busy racking my brain as to where to go for fish in the...

A vision of perfection: ‘Coming To America’ is coming to the Avalon on February 20

Josh Hoppert

January 25, 2019

If you missed Wednesday's unforgettable screening of MacGruber at the Avalon Theater, that's a bummer, but you're in luck. February's Milwaukee Record screening is so good, someone ought to put it on a plate an...

We dropped by ‘The Morning Blend’ to talk about dreaming about ‘The Morning Blend’

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 25, 2019

We love The Morning Blend. Every once in a while, when The Morning Blend has five minutes to fill, we drop by The Morning Blend and talk about whatever. Sometimes, we even dream of being on The Morning Blend. T...

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’...

Milwaukee might create “new classification of law enforcement officer” to patrol the bus

Matt Wild

January 24, 2019

We've said it before and we'll say it again: the bus rules. Rain or shine (or snow), Milwaukee County Transit System is there, dutifully shuttling people across town and back again. The bus is great, the bus is...

Neil Young remains restless, reflective at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

January 24, 2019

What possible reason could Neil Young have for continuing to work at such a pace? A perennial inspiration to all subsequent generations of guitar-based music, Young is also the world's most prolific septuagenar...