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Try our “Milwaukee Wrecker” sausage at The Vanguard

April 1, 2016

//Mid-market regional web-only entertainment journalism can be a largely thankless industry. The pay isn't great, the hours are long, and the comments can be vicious. But every now and then, something happ...

Revisiting 4th Base, the West Milwaukee bar from the end of ‘Major League’

Matt Wild

April 1, 2016

//The semi-raunchy 1989 baseball flick Major League is known for a lot of things: star turns from Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Renee Russo, and Corbin Bernsen; a glorious and endlessly quota...

Here’s video of a fox (with prey) roaming downtown Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

//Despite all its amenities and hit-and-miss "placemaking" efforts, it's not unfair to suggest downtown Milwaukee's nightlife can be a little lacking at times. In the early hours of Thursday morning—within...

We checked out the Trump rally in Janesville and it was a shit show

Tea Krulos

March 31, 2016

//Photos by Wendy Schreier, captions by Tea KrulosPresidential candidates were running every which way through the state on Tuesday: Sanders was at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, Clinton was cruisi...

Tucked Away: Kawa Japanese Restaurant

Tommy Ciaccio

March 31, 2016

//The 2006 evolution of Bayshore from "mall" into "town center" saw the monolithic, one-building format scrapped in exchange for an open-air makeshift village shopping experience. The change made way for g...

Exclusive: Stream Midwest Death Rattle’s “Feed Them To Each Other”

Tyler Maas

March 31, 2016

//Last month, Midwest Death Rattle broke more than three years of silence (at least in the recorded sense) with a public domain footage-packed lyric video for "Post-Apocalypso," the first single and title ...

Listen to the dreamy/dreary goodness of Genau

Matt Wild

March 31, 2016

//For all its sunny reinvention and chipper boosterism, Milwaukee can be a cold and gloomy place. Maybe that's why so many Brew City bands take inspiration from the dreamy-but-dreary shoegaze sound of the ...

I went to Wisconsin’s first “cat cafe” and it was pretty weird

Tyler Maas

March 30, 2016

//Excluding my dumb food- or drinking-related cries for help and whatever bullshit points I try to make on our podcast, I usually make a concerted effort to keep my personal life far away from this website...

On The Record Episode 60: 2016 Milwaukee Brewers season preview

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 30, 2016

//After another long and unforgiving winter, spring has sprung. With the new season comes the return of baseball. The crack of the bat! The smell of the grass! A ramshackle squad likely to lose about 100 g...

Grand Ave. barber Tony Pullara wants to cut your hair (and be your mayor)

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

Tucked away in a far-off corner of the cavernous Shops of Grand Avenue, above the T.J. Maxx and facing the second-story Chase Bank skywalk, is a barbershop called Shear Perfection. Floor-to-ceiling windows reve...

Cream City Comedy Festival puts no price on premium stand-up

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2016

//Though they both relocated to Chicago last summer, up-and-coming comedians Sammy Arechar and Liz Ziner haven't forgotten where they got their start in stand-up. Aiming to "celebrate and raise awareness o...

Direct Hit! signs to Fat Wreck Chords

Tyler Maas

March 29, 2016

//About two weeks ago, Direct Hit! was announced as touring support for NOFX's "Hepatitis Bathtub Tour," which will span 14 shows in nine states this April. Today, the tour mates officially became label ma...

Fudgy preps double album release show with “actual reality” videos, no live music

Matt Wild

March 29, 2016

//When we last checked in with Fudgy, a Milwaukee supergroup (of sorts) featuring members of Crappy Dracula 2 and Scrimshaw, the band that's "barely a band" was releasing a song called "Dispensational Trut...

Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee record labels weathering the storm

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2016

//Tonight, Rush-Mor Records will welcome Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore, who will discuss his new book, How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. The book tracks the origin of Livermore's label, the growt...

Exclusive: Hear Paper Holland make fresh prints on “Jazzy Jeff”

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2016

//If it seems like it's been forever since you've heard a new Paper Holland song, well, that's probably because it's been forever since there's been a new Paper Holland song. The indie-pop outfit's debut a...

Puscifer pushes crude humor, lucha libre wrestling at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

March 28, 2016

//It's difficult to fathom an enjoyable concert derived solely from the recorded works of Puscifer. Whether or not you're a fan of Maynard James Keenan's voice and/or lyrics, Puscifer albums have trended m...

Yeah, Bro! Episode 49: Trans* talk with Ashley Altadonna

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 28, 2016

//Every week, we’'l be posting a new episode of Yeah, Bro! Podcast, the show where host/local gay treasure Jacob Bach talks about "gay things." You can also stream our partner podcast on SoundCloud or down...

Milwaukee Record’s comprehensive Brewers middle name rankings

Tyler Maas

March 25, 2016

//Now nestled deep into March, winter is finally officially over, which makes "Spring Training"—where some Milwaukee Brewers players have been since early February—an accurate name. On April 4, Miller Park...

MKE SEX: Sex and identity in clinical practice

Lucky Tomaszek

March 25, 2016

//Just like in every profession, people become sex educators for very different, and very personal, reasons. For me, it was the realization that enjoying sex doesn't make you a bad person. It doesn't make ...

Is the “redesign the Milwaukee flag” thing REALLY trying to redesign the Milwaukee flag?

Matt Wild

March 24, 2016

//The official flag of Milwaukee was adopted 61 years ago, in 1955. Efforts to redesign the flag—a flag haphazardly stuffed with barley stalks, boats, and something that looks like a UFO—have been going on...