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Vic And Gab open up about playing their final show as Vic And Gab

September 10, 2015

// From 2012-2014, Vic And Gab were a reliable, near-constant presence in Milwaukee’s music scene. The sister duo of Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela were known to play their effervescent, impeccably crafted ind...

Here’s the crazy good lineup for the next Riverwest FemFest

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2015

// Milwaukee musicians were feeling especially charitable last winter. Adding to the long-running annual Pablove show, January and February of 2015 saw more than a dozen punk and metal bands taking to the Bor...

Robert Thomas recreates “Dropping A Han Dynasty Urn” by dropping a signed 50 Cent vodka bottle

Matt Wild

September 10, 2015

// Back in July, we made a pilgrimage to the Oak Creak Woodman’s and braved blistering temperatures, an endless line, and a runaway trash can to get a bottle of EFFEN Vodka signed by 50 Cent. We left feeling ...

Jen Kirkman is manic, magnificent in Turner Hall debut

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2015

// With her New York Times best-selling book I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself: Tales From A Happy Life Without Kids, her self-flagellating Netflix special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), and her Drunk ...

On The Record Episode 34: Recording in Milwaukee

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 9, 2015

// Here, in the age of the bedroom EP and at a time when albums can be captured by laptop microphones at a stream of consciousness pace, the recording industry is having to deal with some serious changes. Tho...

Mondo Lucha plays with pro wrestling’s pillars

Tyler Maas

September 9, 2015

// At this point, Mondo Lucha is one of those distinctly Milwaukee events. Though some may struggle to recall a time before Turner Hall was transformed into a wrestling and variety show facility, the local bl...

Exclusive: Stream Brat Sounds’ winning album, Born Loser

Tyler Maas

September 9, 2015

// A little more than a year ago, Scott Cary quietly announced the presence of Brat Sounds—and, simultaneously, the burial of his other project, Dinny Bulca—with an eponymous eight-song debut. Beyond publicly...

Will Juiceboxxx make an appearance on the season 5 premiere of ‘Girls’?

Matt Wild

September 8, 2015

// When we last talked to world-by-way-of-Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx, the 28-year-old musician/entrepreneur was opening up about his childhood, grappling with being the quasi-subject of a new book, and nursi...

MFF2015: Film fest scheduling strategies for every type of filmgoer

Blyth Meier

September 8, 2015

//Each year, the Milwaukee Film Festival expands in days/venues/films/world domination, so if you’re going to tackle this 15-day, 5-venue, 300-film beast (or just arm wrestle it for a bit), you better have...

Yes we can: An afternoon at an international beer “CANvention”

Tyler Maas

September 8, 2015

//It's been said that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Apparently the same holds true for one man's recyclables. Last Thursday through Saturday, hundreds of collectors and vendors hailing from mo...

Things we learned from Violent Femmes’ Nerdist Podcast episode

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

The latest episode of the Chris Hardwick-hosted Nerdist Podcast featured the prodigal sons of Milwaukee music, Violent Femmes. Like the vast majority of the 700-some Nerdist episodes before it, the 77-minute re...

Light Music casts a big shadow with Ocean’s Daughter

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

Two letters. One word. When it comes to music, "of" is the sturdy wall of preposition that spans the border of two distinctly different regions of familiarity. Close as it appears, hearing of a band does little...

Watch Soul Low’s bare bones “I Want To Die” music video

Tyler Maas

September 4, 2015

The hardworking indie rockers of Soul Low have been in perpetual motion since recording Kind Spirit, the follow-up to their great 2013 auditory introduction, UNEASY, last fall. Winter found the band releasing a...

The Brewers need to call up Tim Dillard

Tyler Maas

September 3, 2015

In case Milwaukee being on its second manager since April, the team's general manager resigning (or "transitioning to a new role"), a trade that sent the face of the franchise to Houston for a batch of promisin...

MFF2015 announces full lineup, including teenage Raiders Of The Lost Ark remake

Matt Wild

September 3, 2015

It’s September, which can mean only one thing: the Milwaukee Film Festival is almost upon us. The 2015 fest—which runs September 24-October 8 at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay C...

Someone (briefly) changed Fink’s “COUPLES ARE BORING” sign

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2015

Last month, we told you the story of Fink’s “COUPLES ARE BORING AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT” sign, painted by Filthy Freehand artist Sarah Linkus. Loved by some and hated by others, the piece got people talking and i...

On The Record Episode 33: Ted Perry

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 2, 2015

You know him, you love him, and if you’re a regular local news viewer, you invite him into your home on a daily basis. Yes, this week we were thrilled to talk to the one and only Ted Perry. The FOX6 anchor has ...

Behold Milwaukee’s latest supergroup, Dorth Nakota

Tyler Maas

September 2, 2015

Here in the age of the side project, it's not uncommon for new bands to be constructed from pieces that already (or at least recently) put to use in other acts. Bands like Whips, New Boyz Club, and Foreign Good...

I floated in a sensory deprivation tank at Float Milwaukee and, well, it was something

Matt Wild

September 1, 2015

The first thing to know about Float Milwaukee—the city’s newest and only sensory deprivation flotation tank business—is that the folks who run it have heard all the Altered States jokes before. The 1980 sci-fi ...

Here’s the 2015 Bay View Bash lineup

Tyler Maas

September 1, 2015

Of all the festivals that occur in Milwaukee every summer, Bay View Bash probably isn't regarded by most locals to be the best. But it is the last. Even if it—what with its corny magic shows, strongman competit...