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Milwaukee Record is getting a stage at Bay View Bash!

June 12, 2018

Even though it's still technically spring, Milwaukee's long and incomparable summer festival season officially kicked off last weekend with PrideFest and Locust Street Festival. With those two mainstays now in...

Buffalo Gospel digs up old footage for its ominous “Homeless” video

Tyler Maas

June 12, 2018

Buffalo Gospel has a way of crafting classic country songs that still deserve a place on the playlists of modern listeners. Fittingly, the band's timeless sound lends itself well to public domain footage. About...

Zoinks! Edgar Cantero and Milwaukee Record will talk ‘Meddling Kids’ June 14 at Boswell Book Company

Matt Wild

June 12, 2018

For readers of a certain age and sensibility, Edgar Cantero's Meddling Kids will go down as easy as a bowl of sugar-choked cereal on a Saturday morning. In the summer of 1977, a group of Scooby-Doo-esque teen d...

Watch Brett Newski play a show at Walmart, get kicked out

Matt Wild

June 12, 2018

Love him or refuse to listen to him, Brett Newski is a man of the people. Dude will do anything, play anywhere, and pull whatever stunt is needed to bring his bright-eyed indie rock to the masses. Travel the wo...

MKE Music Rewind: Sugar Stems, “Love You To Pieces”

Matt Wild

June 12, 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.Is there a subgenre of rock music more elusive than power pop? Prob...

Locust Street Festival 2018: A waterlogged and increasingly sporadic minute-by-minute recap

Matt Wild

June 11, 2018

Let's just get this out of the way: the weather was pretty lousy for Locust Street Festival of Music & Art 2018. It was cold (low 50s), it was cloudy (the sun was entirely absent), and it rained for a good ...

Relive PrideFest Milwaukee 2018 with these photos

Tyler Maas

June 11, 2018

Though finals numbers have yet to come in, it's safe to say this year's PrideFest was one of the biggest installments yet. In spite of the rain and fog that reared its head here and there, the 31st annual celeb...

We tried Sonic Drive-In’s Pickle Juice Slush

Tyler Maas

June 11, 2018

As long as articles about limited-edition fast food items serve as a means of temporarily distracting us from the pain and disappointment of this nightmarish ordeal we so generously call "existence," we'll keep...

In case you blinked last week, here’s all the new shit they’re building in Milwaukee (June 3-9)

Matt Wild

June 11, 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...

Hannibal Buress will return to Riverside Theater September 22

Matt Wild

June 11, 2018

When Milwaukee last saw Hannibal Buress in 2016, the wildly popular Chicago-born comedian/writer/actor was DJing at Tonic Tavern under his "DJ Burger Feet" moniker, following a sold-out Eric Andre Live! show at...

Pabst Theater receives King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard like conquering heroes in Milwaukee debut

Cal Roach

June 10, 2018

From a distance, everything about King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard seems like a gimmick: the goofy name; the preposterously psychedelic record and song titles; the album concepts (All the songs are the same...

Join us at Colectivo’s Lakefront Cafe this summer for “Friday Nite Music”

Tyler Maas

June 8, 2018

Colectivo Coffee has a wide variety of cafes spread across metro Milwaukee (and a few in Madison and Chicago), each with its own look, feel, and unique personality. However, as far as location and view are conc...

231 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Natty Oaks Pub & Eatery

Caleb Westphal

June 8, 2018

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.Years ago, during my college days, I scoffed at craft beer and drank a lot of Hamm's. Almost eve...

Let’s recap Giannis Antetokounmpo’s delightful reviews of American junk food, shall we?

Matt Wild

June 8, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week—or, thank god for yo...

Gobble up The Unitaskers’ “Tide Pods”

Matt Wild

June 8, 2018

Remember 8,000 years ago when people were eating/not really eating Tide Pods? Truly a more innocent time. Well, goofball Milwaukee indie rock outfit The Unitaskers remember. Last week, the band released its fir...

Milwaukee chef Shay Linkus responds to the death of Anthony Bourdain

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 8, 2018

The following op-ed, responding to the death of chef, author, and TV host Anthony Bourdain, is written by former Vanguard and current Snack Boys chef/owner Shay Linkus. Milwaukee Record would still like to add ...

This Is It has been it for 50 years, and shows no signs of slowing down

Tyler Maas

June 7, 2018

broadstreet.zone(66112); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Milwaukee’s new favorite import, Bofferding. From May 31 through June 7, belly up and enjoy a fresh smattering of rest...

What’s new, and what’s coming soon to the East Side

Matt Wild

June 7, 2018

Back in July 2016, we asked a simple question: Is the East Side dying? Alarmist and eye-catching to be sure ("Is the East Side slowly changing in order to better accommodate current and ever-shifting trends in ...

Joe Pera cast his “nana” by scouting Milwaukee fish frys

Tyler Maas

June 7, 2018

Jalisco, Thai Kitchen, and ghosts of Milwaukee dining past

Matt Wild

June 7, 2018

broadstreet.zone(66112); Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Milwaukee's new favorite import, Bofferding. From May 31 through June 7, belly up and enjoy a fresh smattering of rest...