Here are your 2017 WAMI winners
The 37th annual Wisconsin Area Music Industry Awards (aka "WAMIs") took over Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom Sunday night, and what a night it was. Those in attendance were treated to performances by The Pukes...
Milwaukee County is being sued for requiring permits for Pokemon Go-like games
Back in February, Milwaukee County adopted an ordinance requiring all virtual and location-based augmented reality games to apply for permits to do virtual business in Milwaukee County Parks. The ordinance was ...
Ranking the Beatles’ albums from worst to best (and pairing them with notable Milwaukee Brewers)
Drop by Miller Park on Saturday, April 22 and you'll see more than the Milwaukee Brewers host the St. Louis Cardinals—you'll also see (and hear) a bunch of Beatles stuff for some reason. Yes, Saturday is Beatle...
172 consecutive Friday night fish fries and counting: The Schwabenhof
Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow his record-in-the-making here.Some people go to church on Good Friday, and some people go to Schwabenhof (N56 W14750 Silver Spring Dr....
Meet Guerrilla Ghost in the “Undeserving Of A Proper Title” music video
Though the project has yet to play its first show, Guerrilla Ghost can already be considered one of the more interesting duos in Milwaukee. After meeting in November, rapper Chuck Jones (who releases music unde...
What’s the deal with the Lake Park bridge?
Ever come across a mildly interesting thing in Milwaukee and wonder, "What's the deal with that mildly interesting thing?" What's The Deal With explores these local curiosities, and aims to find the stories beh...
Prepare for Arte Para Todos 2017 with this compilation
Believe it or not, Arte Para Todos begins in a week. The third annual city-wide benefit for Milwaukee school art programs will bring an awesome mix of about 100 combined musical acts to 25 venues in five neighb...
Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 5th-“least attractive” city in America
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 deign...
A Milwaukee muralist wants to improve Bay View’s ‘Art Stop’
Since coming into existence on the high-traffic intersection of Kinnickinnic, Howell, and Lincoln avenues in late 2014, Bay View's "Art Stop" has been a source of considerable criticism. The piece designed by R...
On The Record Episode 92: The state of Milwaukee brewing
From April 22 through April 29, the 8th annual Milwaukee Beer Week will bring about a ton of exciting events like tap takeovers, beer brunches, rare brew raffles, and interesting collaborations between brewerie...
Here’s the lineup for the second annual Gloss Weekend
Following a successful inaugural weekend-long event last spring to commemorate the cassette label's first year in business, Gloss Records decided to bring "Gloss Weekend" back for a second year. From May 19-21,...
Stream Nickel&Rose’s effusive European souvenir, ‘Oh Sweet Love’
When we last heard from Nickel&Rose, the folk duo composed of guitarist Carl Nichols (Painted Caves, RAS Movement) and upright bass player Johanna Rose (New Boyz Club, Ruth B8r Ginsburg, Thistledown Thunder...
Corey Feldman is playing Shank Hall in June and you better believe we’re going to this thing
In case you missed it, we drove to Green Bay last month to see a show from Corey Feldman and his band of Angels. We wrote a (remarkably fair and evenhanded) review of said Corey Feldman show. Corey Feldman then...
9 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2017
Love it or hate it, it’s safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were suffering...
Off The Beaten Path record store is moving to Bay View
This year's Record Store Day will be the last one Off The Beaten Path will celebrate on the East Side. Following more than six years of quiet growth at 1936-38 N. Farwell Avenue, the independent record store is...
Watch Mark Borchardt give a tour of Menomonee Falls and Milwaukee (circa 2000) on ‘Letterman’
Mark Borchardt is a Milwaukee icon, as familiar as the wings of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the shores of Lake Michigan, or the jean shorts on that guy who sells hot dogs on the corner of Wisconsin and Water...
171 consecutive Friday night fish fries and counting: Polish Center of Wisconsin
Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow his record-in-the-making here.There is something ironic about people giving up meat for Lent so that they can gluttonize themselves at...
Stream the brooding, brilliantly bleak electronic sounds of Tarek Sabbar
One of the best Milwaukee albums of 2016 was Heath Death's 9 Steps To A Happier Life. The brainchild of Kenneth Sabbar, 9 Steps was a noisy, post-punk assault that delved into the "unhappy aspects of existence,...
MKE SEX: Let’s talk about condoms
broadstreet.zone(49071);In my most recent column, I focused on non-hormonal forms of birth control. In that column I said rather glibly that while some folks feel that condoms reduce sensation during sex, t...
Here’s the 2017 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup
Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival Of Art has always been one of the city’s classier summer festivals—no beer runs or zany street performers here! Still, per Milwaukee summer festival regulations, there ...