Surprise! GGOOLLDD put out a record
//By this point, you've hopefully crossed most the names off your holiday shopping list. Between area retailers offering a heft of great gifts, awesome recent events like Urban Garage Sale and Hover Craft,...
Tigernite sleighs on new holiday track, “Rock N Roll Pizza Party”
//It's been a hell of a year for Tigernite. The Milwaukee glam-rock quartet put out its self-titled debut, which is earning its fair share of positive attention on year-end lists (ours included). They open...
Extra Points: The 13 worst Packers endorsements (we could find)
//The livelihood of most NFL players is mired in uncertainty. The league's Players Association claims the average NFL career lasts just 3.3 years, but in reality, every player could be one hit, a torn liga...
Old Milwaukee: The Bridge War of 1845, and how the streets got their names
Dimly lit lamps, cobblestone streets, and endless picturesque windows to peek in: The Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum has been a hometown favorite for generations. MPM is current...
Listen to the latest and greatest Bleach Athletixx track, “Rotation Of The Earth”
//Back in March, former Young Holidays mastermind Max Holiday began releasing music under his new moniker, Bleach Athletixx. Songs like the druggy and Vice City-channeling “California Future,” the druggy a...
The 15 best Milwaukee music videos of 2015
//As our recent rundown of the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015 showed, a dizzying amount of great music was made and released in our fair city this year. In addition to the continually growing and ever-im...
Dancing guy picking up litter is the hero Milwaukee needs
//The world can be a harsh place. With wars waging, people starving, and folks seemingly more politically divided than ever, it’s sometimes tough to keep smiling. However, one wonderful man strolling down ...
4 Milwaukeeans who recently scored bit parts on popular TV shows
//Although some actors skyrocket to stardom, most follow a long, winding path of paying dues. It usually starts by finding work as a background actor (a more professional sounding term for an “extra”) and ...
On The Record Episode 46: Fuck it, let’s just talk about ‘Star Wars’
//Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens December 18. ’Nuff said. For this decidedly geeky and non-locally focused episode of On The Record, host Matt Wild pulls up a cantina barstool at Bay View’s Boone &...
Malled by bears: A review of the Leonard Bearstein Symphony Orchestra at the Shops of Grand Avenue
//Three facts: 1. Should a sleuth of real bears gather at the center of a mall, people would scatter in terror. 2. No self-respecting human symphony could be denigrated into playing among the clamor of a s...
Exclusive: Stream Hot Coffin’s new single, “Whistle, Hawk & Spit”
//It’s fitting that within 24 hours of rounding up what we consider to be the 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015, Milwaukee’s Hot Coffin unveils a song that, if any indication of the caliber of the other sev...
The 25 best Milwaukee albums of 2015
//Assembling our annual list of the best Milwaukee albums of the year is both a joy and a challenge. A joy because there’s nothing better than immersing yourself in a year’s worth of terrific music and red...
Amy Schumer finishes strong year with BMO Harris Bradley Center victory lap
//It's safe to say Amy Schumer had a pretty big 2015. In a year that found the comedian starring in a well-received major motion picture, taking home an Emmy for her Comedy Central series, hosting SNL, put...
Reunited Naked Raygun has strong Turner Hall showing
In some ways, the Naked Raygun story is a string of rock and roll clichés. They were massively influential on the U.S. post-punk era but, like their Milwaukee contemporaries in Die Kreuzen, they never really go...
Relive last night’s insane Packers win with these delightfully angry Kato Kaelin tweets
//As you may or may not know, infamous O.J. Simpson house guest Kato Kaelin is a big Wisconsin sports nut. Though now living and working (apparently) in Los Angeles, the 56-year-old Kaelin originally hails...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 13: The Winchester
//In Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Milwaukee Record contributor and Green Bay native Maggie Iken sets out to find the best Packers viewing experience Milwaukee has to offer. Catch up with previous we...
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band will play the BMO Harris Bradley Center March 3
//Bruce Springsteen may be forever linked to Milwaukee (hello, infamous bomb threat show at the Uptown Theater in 1975), but he hasn’t played the Brew City since 2009. That’s six years without “Born To Run...
This is what the Journal Sentinel’s website will look like next year
The don’t-call-it-a-buyout buyout of Journal Communications Inc. by Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co., the subsequent spinning off of the company’s newspapers into the locally controlled Journal Media Gr...
Liza Marie aims to finish 2015 strong
//In a year that has seen an unprecedented exodus of talented comedians leaving Milwaukee in search of increased opportunities in more established comedy communities, it's refreshing to see a stand-up come...
Take a trip on Trolley’s latest tripped-out album, ‘Caught In The Darkness’
//Like a black-and-white striped T-shirt or a pair of white mod pants, Trolley is of a time but timeless. Since 1995 (!) the Milwaukee band has thrown itself willy-nilly into the golden age of psychedelia—...