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Exclusive: Listen to WebsterX remix and “reslice” Airo Kwil’s “Tangerine Tint”

October 5, 2015

In a Milwaukee musical landscape currently dotted with singular artists and cross-pollinated projects, it’s still easy to pick out Airo Kwil from the crowd. The outfit is the rapping alter-ego of New Boyz Club ...

South America’s Team?: A Q&A with Packers Brasil founder Marcus Rovere

Tyler Maas

October 2, 2015

Every NFL season, an ongoing dispute rages between fans of teams like the Packers, Steelers, Cowboys, Patriots, and (lately) Seahawks about which franchise holds the impossible-to-confirm title of "America's Te...

A Friday on the “Fruit Loop”: A straight man’s gay bar crawl

Tyler Maas

October 1, 2015

By all accounts, it's a great time to be gay in America. It took far too long and required incalculable amounts of pain, hardship, and opposition to get here (and there's still so much work to be done), but now...

Welcome to October: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

October 1, 2015

In September, we officially said goodbye to Milwaukee's brief-but-bursting summer festival season. A few days after the Bay View Bash, fall officially started and, in doing so, also signaled a mass entertainmen...

On The Record Episode 37: Emo with Braid and The Promise Ring

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 30, 2015

If you're even faintly aware of emo, chances are you're familiar with The Promise Ring and Braid. Together they carved an indelible thoroughfare for the revitalized genre that ran straight through the Midwester...

Herman Astro moves on, morphs into Mercy Company

Tyler Maas

September 30, 2015

Just over a year ago, long-running Milwaukee blues-rock quartet Herman Astro announced it was calling it quits after close to eight years together and three releases, including Mean Gene, which they released ju...

Brandi Carlile goes big and gets intimate at stunning Pabst Theater show

Matt Wild

September 30, 2015

Before anything else is said about Brandi Carlile’s sold-out show at Pabst Theater Tuesday night, it should be noted that halfway through the evening the singer-songwriter performed the impossibly gorgeous and ...

I went to Chicago to (try to) get drunk at Taco Bell

Tyler Maas

September 29, 2015

After I arguably risked death and certainly demolished my spirit whilst eating something at every Taco Bell in Milwaukee over the course of eight hours back in mid-May, I've severely limited my runs to the bord...

Search For The Perfect Packers Bar, Week 3: Frank’s Power Plant

Maggie Iken

September 29, 2015

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 Week 1 and Week 2....

Watch children ride, get pummeled by sheep in Dogs In Ecstasy’s “Do Me Ronnie” video

Matt Wild

September 29, 2015

We’re big rodeo fans here at Milwaukee Record, and even bigger “mutton busting” nuts. (Heh.) What’s mutton busting, you ask? Why, only the time-honored tradition of strapping small children to ornery sheep and ...

I crashed a family reunion in Wauwatosa and Public Enemy was playing there for some reason

Corey Baumann

September 28, 2015

Social media can be a man’s best friend.Saturday night I had gotten home from work, ate take out, and planned on watching Wet Hot American Summer. It was going to be a pretty uneventful night. That all chan...

Tracklist: 13 Milwaukee-made songs used in feature films

Tyler Maas

September 28, 2015

// Movies and music have an important relationship. If used correctly, a film’s score can carry a cinematic work to higher artistic ground and capture viewer’s attention. Other times, a film’s aural accompani...

On The Record Episode 36: MFF2015 with The Tiny Film Invasion

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 25, 2015

The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is currently in full swing, and it will continue to swing through Thursday, October 8. So in honor of this most awesome event, this week’s very special episode of On The Record ...

Extra Points: 5 reasons Aaron Ripkowski will be your new favorite Packer

Tyler Maas

September 25, 2015

If you missed his four combined tackles and his three-yard reception in the preseason, or you didn't pay attention to the Packers special teamer who covered up a kickoff for no gain against the Bears in week on...

Exclusive: Stream “DOMINION” off Queen Tut’s ‘Psychedelic Traphouse’

Tyler Maas

September 25, 2015

To this point, Milwaukee rapper Queen Tut's work has been mostly relegated to featured roles on tracks by artists like Lex Allen and AR Wesley, or buried below a heft of other local hip-hop talents on show line...

Comet Denominator: How one restaurant nourishes Milwaukee music

Tyler Maas

September 24, 2015

// As one of Milwaukee’s best known restaurants, Comet Cafe is seen in a lot of different ways by a lot of different people. To some, it’s a beacon of comfort food anchoring the city’s east side. Others regar...

Old Milwaukee: The 40-day strike that created Bernie Brewer

Erin TerBeek

September 23, 2015

// Fireworks explode! The crowd cheers! Get up! Get up! Get outta here! Gone!These are the familiar sounds after a Milwaukee Brewers home run at Miller Park. For fans, this is a time to celebrate and have...

Tim Higgins talks improv, acting, elaborate beer passing

Tyler Maas

September 23, 2015

//If you've spent enough time in Milwaukee, you've probably seen Tim Higgins. The humorist has been teaching and performing improv at ComedySportz since 1992. He's dabbled in stand-up and acting. Perhaps h...

Barry Crimmins adds a comedy show to his Milwaukee Film Festival itinerary

Tyler Maas

September 23, 2015

On Monday, the Milwaukee Film Festival announced that veteran comedian Barry Crimmins would be coming to town to attend two screenings of Call Me Lucky, the Bobcat Goldthwait documentary about the influential h...

Return to Haunchyville

Matt Wild

September 22, 2015

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: There’s a place, somewhere deep in the woods of Muskego, where a group of mysterious little people have created their own pint-sized mini-utopia. Travel down a disused g...