First Impression: Taco Bandito
Along with the influx of new microbreweries, distilleries, and faceless luxury apartment complexes, Walker's Point has also become a go-to destination for an exciting cast of new restaurants. Following the ...
Relive Foreign Goods’ Summer Soulstice performance with live EP, video
If you somehow failed to catch a show from jazz/blues/funk/hip-hop collective Foreign Goods this summer, you clearly weren't trying. The group, led by the ever-busy Jay Anderson, was practically in 10 place...
Milwaukee Record’s 2016 fall concert preview
broadstreet.zone(32806);Fall is the best! Fall concerts are the best! Here are some concerts that fall between September 22 and December 20, a.k.a. fall!Thursday, September 22
Blitzen Trapper Songbook:...
Eric Andre Live! takes sold-out Turner Hall on a wild, naked, ranch dressing-infused ride
With his unmatched energy and penchant for taking his comedy to unpredictable, uncomfortable, and occasionally even dangerous places, Eric Andre has fashioned a career through forcing audiences to expect th...
Hey everyone! There’s ANOTHER Pokemon Go meeting tomorrow at the County Courthouse!
Remember last week's bat-shit-crazy Pokemon Go meeting in Lake Park? Judging from the eight zillion of you who read our equally bat-shit-crazy recap, of course you do. But hey! Guess what! There's now ANOTH...
A gambler’s guide to betting on the 2016 Green Bay Packers
Last night, some teams played football on TV. As far as the state of Wisconsin is concerned, though, the real season starts Sunday, when the Green Bay Packers visit the Jacksonville Jaguars. The NFL's regul...
Here’s the fall/winter lineup for Blackbird’s “From The Stage To The Booth” DJ series
In addition to offering close to 90 Wisconsin-brewed beers, having outstanding happy hour specials (seven days a week!), hosting a great selection of pinball machines, and being an all-around delightful pla...
Relive Milwaukee’s noisy past with newly digitized New Blind Nationals albums
Technology has made it insanely easy to produce and share new music, as well as dig up and preserve music from the past. In Milwaukee, sites like MKE Punk and the Activities Archive have made it their missi...
Lake Park’s Pokemon Go meeting was boring, livid, and gloriously absurd
On the evening of Wednesday, September 7, in the year of our Lord 2016, nearly 100 grown adults and several weeping children gathered in the Marcia Coles Community Room located below Bartolotta's Lake Park Bist...
Holy shit! Here are 15 more Milwaukee patios
broadstreet.zone(32806);What more can we say at this point? Patios are great and everybody seems to love them. Over the last two years, we've listed seven patios that make you feel like you're not in Milwau...
Fox Face caps off big year with release of ‘Teen Wiccan’
With just under nine months in the books, it's safe to say 2016 has been Fox Face's biggest year yet. Since January, the punk quartet has headlined nights of Riverwest FemFest and Arte Para Todos, played Mi...
New bar, music venue opening at site of Hotel Foster (for a night)
Last month, The Hotel Foster closed its doors for good. The five-year-old bar and occasional music venue's unfortunate conclusion put a stop to months of speculation and uncertainty regarding the bar's fate...
Blyth Renate Meier greets a changing city in “Good Morning, Milwaukee”
Blyth Renate Meier was born in Milwaukee but raised in North Dakota. After returning to Milwaukee and earning a master's degrees in art and film at the UWM, she took a job at Milwaukee Film. It was during t...
On The Record Episode 78: Mondo Lucha! and wrestling in Milwaukee
At this point, Mondo Lucha! is one of those distinctly Milwaukee events. Though some may struggle to recall a time before Turner Hall was transformed into a wrestling and variety show facility, the local bl...
Exclusive: Stream Something To Do’s ‘Not Making A Sound’
When we last checked in with Something To Do, the band was riding high, having recorded the music for an Adult Swim show. With the money the band earned scoring Gigglefudge USA, the state's premier ska outf...
Back to school: Milwaukee Record reads a poem about a “giant masturbating machine” at UWM
Let's take a moment to remember Bob Watt: poet, artist, self-styled "dirty old man." After moving to Milwaukee in 1951, Watt established himself as a counterculture poet and outsider artist, focusing on "so bad...
Green Bay Juggalo cuts off woman’s finger, drinks her blood
If nothing else, Insane Clown Posse's fans are devoted. It's not uncommon to see members of the brood—commonly called "Juggalos"—with the Detroit rap duo's hatchet-wielding logo tattooed on their skin. Last...
Steel your nerves for the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference
Despite the recent rash of 80-degree weather, fall is in the air. Leaves are changing, sweaters are appearing, and CVS is going all-in on the Halloween junk. Oh, and the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference...
Welcome to September: Here’s what you’re doing this month
September is a time of transition. This month finds summer officially giving way to fall. This month also signals the end of Milwaukee's festival season. Though the seasonal shift essentially puts a nine-mo...
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, or any time a national publication deigns to ...