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July 26, 2018

Milwaukee Record is proud to present Public Domain. The monthly video series features Milwaukee musicians setting up at Colectivo Coffee to adapt some of the world’s best-known songs in ways they’ve never been ...

Here’s the lineup for Rush-Mor’s Bay View Bash stage

July 26, 2018

Earlier this month, we unveiled the lineup for the brand new Milwaukee Record Stage at this year's Bay View Bash. Our announcement was just an appetizer for the entertainment happening on six stages. Though we ...

Here are pictures of people taking pictures of the THIRD Milwaukee streetcar

July 26, 2018

Thursday morning, in an event that could only be described as the Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban of Milwaukee public transportation, the THIRD of the city's new streetcars arrived downtown. Like its p...

Lou Barlow’s intimate URSA in-store performance was worth every penny

Dan Agacki

July 26, 2018

Inspired by the house shows where many artists took the first steps toward honing their craft, limited ticket small show tours have become the thing to do. From Pedro The Lion’s David Bazan, to Eric Bachman of ...

New Milwaukee Bucks arena will be called Fiserv Forum

July 26, 2018

It finally happened: Multiple sources are reporting that naming rights to the new, $524 million Milwaukee Bucks arena have been awarded to Brookfield-based financial services technology developer Fiserv. The co...

We took Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn on a Rush-Mor Records shopping spree

July 25, 2018

Last weekend, electro-pop superstars Sylvan Esso came to town to play a pair of sold-out shows at the Pabst Theater. Not only was the two-night, two-show residency chance for the project to return to where it a...

Shah Jee’s on Downer Avenue is open

July 25, 2018

For more than a decade, downtown denizens have enjoyed the deliciousness that is Shah Jee's. The Pakistani restaurant is located in the basement of a Jefferson Street office building (770 N. Jefferson St., to b...

On The Record #134: Milwaukee beer with Kathy Flanigan

July 25, 2018

This isn't our first podcast about beer and it probably won't be the last. The reason for the topic repetition is simple: Milwaukee brewing is continuing to grow, change, evolve, and improve. Recently, Milwauke...

First Impression: Vennture Brew Co

July 24, 2018

We've now reached a point in which there's a new brewery opening in Milwaukee every month. An incredibly busy 2017 in local microbrewing—the likes of which had never been seen before in Milwaukee—now looks to b...

Relive Vans Warped Tour’s final Milwaukee stop with these photos

July 24, 2018

Like it or lump it, Vans Warped Tour has been an important tool for bringing a pastiche of punk, hardcore, ska, and metalcore to music fans throughout the country every summer. Late last year, Warped Tour found...

Scenes from today’s World’s Largest Coffee Break in downtown Milwaukee

July 24, 2018

Milwaukee is currently neck-deep in Downtown Employee Appreciation Week, a five-day blowout filled with events, games, and lunchtime specials for the more than 83,000 folks who work downtown. On Tuesday morning...

MKE Music Rewind: The Shivvers, “Remember Tonight”

Lauren Keene

July 24, 2018

In our weekly MKE Music Rewind, we revisit a notable Milwaukee song that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.It's sometimes said that the Midwest rocks the hardest. That may or...

Not watching Something To Do’s “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake” music video would be a huge mistake

July 23, 2018

Way back in early May (three days after "Cinco de Cuatro," to be exact), we debuted a Gob Bluth-channeling new single from Something To Do. The veteran Milwaukee-Madison ska band's "I've Made A Huge Mistake" in...

The War On Drugs bring beauty, boldness to sold-out Riverside show

Lauren Keene

July 23, 2018

Over the weekend, a congregation of the biggest and baddest names in indie music gathered in Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival. The three-day gig boasted an impressive lineup of artists who were fortunate en...

Sylvan Esso closes out Pabst Theater weekend in grand fashion

July 23, 2018

A lot has changed since the last time Sylvan Esso performed in Milwaukee. Between the electro-pop duo's 2015 outing at Summerfest and last weekend's two-night, two-show Pabst Theater residency, the group—which,...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (July 15-21)

July 23, 2018

Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a "renaissance" or a "reinvention." Or maybe it's a "reboot" or a "reimagining," like that crappy Tim Burton version of Planet Of Th...

237 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Twisted Fisherman

Caleb Westphal

July 20, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.Fish frys aren't always convenient. In an ideal world they would be the centerpiece of eve...

Fun fact: Ald. Bob Donovan was the first person to submit a design for the “People’s Flag of Milwaukee”