First Impression: Point Burger Bar
//With so, so many great breweries in Milwaukee and the exponential growth in excellent craft beer being made throughout the country, it's tough not to empathize with some Wisconsin brewing operations tryi...
Exclusive: Spend 7 (or so) minutes in heaven with Midwives’ ‘Cowboy Songs’ EP
//Back in February, Midwives delivered its third release in under a year's time. At a trim 16 minutes spread between a 10-pack of songs, the blistering self-titled release displayed the band's uncommon abi...
Welcome to December: Here’s what you’re doing this month
//After 11 months of fun, it's almost time for Milwaukee's events calendar to flip to a new year. Not even counting the city's six-month run of festival and block parties, it's been a hell of a year for mu...
Watch a short film about Kumar Pallana and his unlikely ties to the Milwaukee film scene
//The name “Kumar Pallana” may not ring any bells with Joe Q. Moviegoer, but savvy film fans will recognize the quirky Indian actor from his brief but memorable roles in a handful of Wes Anderson classics,...
Exclusive: Stream Greatest Lakes’ cover of The Beach Boys’ “All I Wanna Do”
//It’s a fine line, really. While most can agree there are few things in music that are more loathsome than watching a true blue cover band perform earnest bastardizations of other musicians’ material on s...
The Vanguard just added 5 new sausages to its menu
//Is there anything better than The Vanguard, Bay View’s preeminent sausage-slinging and Packer-watching hot spot? No. Well, scratch that: The only thing better than The Vanguard is The Vanguard with five ...
Exclusive: Stream Buffalo Gospel’s tragic EP, ‘Waiting For The Lights To Go Out’
//Buffalo Gospel possesses the uncanny ability of writing material that manages to be both immensely gorgeous and devastatingly sad. With an unmistakable nod to classic country and a penchant for bleary, b...
Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee T-shirts for people who hate Milwaukee T-shirts
//Nothing beats showing off your local pride via a snazzy, locally focused T-shirt. It’s cheap, easy, and keeps the upper half of your body free of nakedness. In Milwaukee, however, locally focused T-shirt...
Moon Curse transcends stoner rock with ‘The Spirit Remains’
When stoner rock first bubbled up in the ’90s, it basically stood for Black Sabbath-worship. It was retro by definition and seemed like an untenable fad. Who could’ve guessed it would outlast grunge? As its roo...
Comedy, tragedy, time: Jon Kuderer builds humor out of hardship
//In stand-up comedy, "the light" is a common tool used to warn a comedian their time on stage is close to running out. Milwaukee comedian Jon Kuderer estimates he ran the light by at least five minutes th...
On The Record Episode 45: Milwaukee makers, buying local
//In the age of big box standardization and the creepy convenience of same-day Amazon drone delivery, it's especially important to make an effort to shop locally. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just ar...
Tucked Away: Irie Palace
//Like many of the hidden gems this city has to offer, Irie Palace (7506 W. Appleton Ave., 414-461-8203) is nestled unassumingly in a bastion of depressing chain restaurants, pharmacies, and megastores. De...
Go on a high speed chase in Platinum Boys’ “Downtown” video
//Platinum Boys have enjoyed a pretty big year. The band's great debut album, Future Hits, was called a "solid get-wasted soundtrack" by Pitchfork—and similarly-flattering things by various other respected...
Cherish “One Moment” with the reunited Rusty P’s
//After two decades on stage, seven studio records, and a list of opening opportunities most rappers would kill for, Rusty Pelicans (since changed to Rusty P's) are an indisputable Milwaukee dynasty act. B...
Tracklist: 7 things to get you through Thanksgiving weekend
//Thanksgiving is a tricky holiday. The middle child nestled quietly in the backseat between Halloween and Christmas, oftentimes no one realizes it’s been forgotten in the car for at least half an hour whi...
Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 11: Camp Bar Shorewood
//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...
Here’s the Riverwest FemFest lineup, schedule
//Way back in September, we revealed the—to quote our previous post—"crazy good" lineup for the second annual Riverwest FemFest, a female-focused festival that would return in January 2016 following a grea...
Old Milwaukee: Brooks Stevens, Wienermobiles, and High Life
The Milwaukee Art Museum will reopen its main galleries to the public on November 24, following an extensive remodeling project. While many of the museum’s favorite pieces have been off display during constru...
Here are the “holiday” movies screening at Avalon Theater and Times Cinema
//If Andy Williams is to be believed, we're getting close to the most wonderful time of the year. While Black Friday madness, frigid temperatures, and dreadful seasonal ditties like "It's The Most Wonderfu...
Better vape than never: One man’s epic pre-ban e-cig smoke sesh
It’s likely you haven’t heard, but those who smoke electronic cigarettes may find their basic human rights going up in smoke—or more accurately, up in some type of synthetic vapor—very soon. According to a rece...