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WC Tank revives Stumblesome project, releases “workout record”

May 20, 2016

//"I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything, really, but because I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay. Auspicious beginnings, you know what I mean?" So says Jack Nicholson's...

Leon’s Frozen Custard owner wants to settle things “the old-fashioned American way, in the alley”

Matt Wild

May 19, 2016

//Leon's Frozen Custard, long a symbol of Milwaukee's old-fashioned American Happy Days charm, is currently is some old-fashioned American hot water. It seems that old-fashioned American and Leon's owner R...

Pondering (and calling) the Miller Park Roof Hotline

Matt Wild

May 19, 2016

//It's happened to all of us: You're staring off into space, alone, tired, afraid, wondering if the Miller Park roof will be open for the day's big game. A quick peek outside tells you the weather is certa...

Ha Ha Clinton-Dix’s “Official Website” is pretty rough

Tyler Maas

May 19, 2016

//Though most with even a faint background of professional football are well aware of his work with the Green Bay Packers, starting safety and name joke inspiration Ha Ha Clinton-Dix recently sought to exp...

Exclusive: Stream the pretty Ugly Brothers single, “Again & Again”

Tyler Maas

May 19, 2016

//By the time the first Ugly Brothers full-length, 16 Tiny Mountains, is released on August 13, close to two years will have passed since the Riverwest folk project put out its self-titled debut EP. To be ...

Tracklist: Summerfest Place and 10 other ultra-specific Milwaukee streets

Tyler Maas

May 18, 2016

//Last Tuesday, a chunk of Third Ward concrete that had long existed outside Henry Maier Festival Park as "Polk Street" was officially renamed "Summerfest Place" after an application filed by Milwaukee Wor...

On The Record Episode 65: Gender identity with Ashley Altadonna

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 18, 2016

//In addition to being an accomplished Milwaukee filmmaker, the lead singer of a band, a sex educator, and an occasional Milwaukee Record contributor, Ashley Altadonna is an ardent trans activist. Though w...

Exclusive: Stream Midwest Death Rattle’s ‘Post-Apocalypso’ opener, “Tacoma Narrows”

Tyler Maas

May 18, 2016

//After going more than three years without making so much as a peep (at least in the recorded sense), Midwest Death Rattle has spent much of 2016's first five months issuing small-but-frequent samples of ...

Check out the 9th annual Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party lineup

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2016

//With summer's true beginning just over a month away, most of the uncertainties about the city's staggering number of festivals, weekly music series, and block parties have cleared up. In the last two wee...

Listen to, download Soul Low’s ‘Unplugged’ set

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2016

//Back on February 18, Soul Low stepped on stage at the Helene Zelazo Center For The Performing Arts to play a show unlike any the band had ever played before. Joined by an all-star cast of Milwaukee strin...

Fly The Hullmen’s anything-but-pretty ‘Pretty Red Flags’

Matt Wild

May 17, 2016

//When we last heard from The Hullmen, the down-and-dirty sleaze rockers were refining their sound on the 6-song EP Expensive Taste. The (relatively) slick affair was a welcome update of the band's lo-fi S...

Yeah, Bro! Episode 56: Gayborhoods with Jon Waldbauer

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 17, 2016

//Every week, we’ll be posting a new episode of Yeah, Bro! Podcast, the show where host/local gay treasure Jacob Bach talks about “gay things” (usually) with straight men. You can also stream our partner p...

Here’s the 2016 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2016

//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,...

Nick’s House is having a going-out-of-business “yard sale”

Matt Wild

May 16, 2016

//Earlier this month we brought you news that Nick's House—the former Y-Not III that was given a Bar Rescue overhaul in 2014—was, in the parlance of Bar Rescue host John Taffer, SHUTTING IT DOWN. Now, the ...

Rollie Fingers brings comic relief to Screamin’ Sicilian commercial

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2016

//Between having a remarkable career as one of the most dominant closers in Major League history and having a distinct handlebar mustache above his upper lip for much of that legendary career, Rollie Finge...

Louis C.K. is coming to the BMO Harris Bradley Center August 1

Matt Wild

May 16, 2016

//If you had to choose a single comedian to represent an entire generation, you could do worse than Louis C.K. From his incisive and hilariously honest stand-up to his critically adored FX series, C.K. has...

Here’s the lineup for the 2016 Locust Street Festival

Matt Wild

May 15, 2016

//The annual Locust Street Festival of Music & Art is one of the city's best street fests, celebrating all that is good, right, and drum circle-y in Riverwest. On Sunday, June 12, the 40th (!) installm...

Urban Bay View will open next weekend

Tyler Maas

May 14, 2016

//Last May, we broke news that Tonic owner Paul Jonas would be opening a new Bay View bar called UC Jonas' in the site Gerry’s Diamond Tap (939 E. Lincoln Ave.) had occupied from 1987 through 2014. More th...

A fond farewell to John Kuhn, King Of Scrap

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2016

//You could almost feel it in the air. While an otherwise bright and inviting mid-May day signaled an impending epoch of warmth, sunshine, and rebirth throughout Wisconsin, the serenity was interrupted by ...

Relive GGOOLLDD’s Turner Hall sellout in behind the scenes video

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2016

//While Milwaukee as a whole is slowly beginning to come around to the wealth of homegrown talent making great music within our city limits, it's still quite an accomplishment for a local band to sell out ...