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Sammy Arechar gives Milwaukee one last laugh

August 12, 2015

Milwaukee's ongoing comic exodus is no joke. Within the last two months, veteran road comic Johnny Beehner and the Late Show With David Letterman appearance credit he acquired in January moved to Los Angeles. H...

The demented Kickstarter trailer for horror film Needlepoint is worth a donation alone

Matt Wild

August 12, 2015

If there’s one thing more ubiquitous than lame Kickstarter campaigns, it’s lame trailers for lame Kickstarter campaigns. Seriously, would it kill folks who are asking the Internet for money to jazz up their pit...

Exclusive: Stream a re-recorded version of Direct Hit! rarity “Say Whatever”

Tyler Maas

August 11, 2015

Since 2010, Milwaukee’s premier pop-punk project Direct Hit! has routinely released material that ranged in scope from short-run splits and EPs to its well-received apocalyptic 2013 concept record, Brainless Go...

Milwaukee Film announces Sound Vision program, return of Stop Making Sense

Matt Wild

August 11, 2015

If our calculations are correct, the 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is approximately one month and 13 days away. What does that mean? Ignoring for a moment the painful reminder that summer is on its way out, it m...

Latino Arts announces fall/winter schedule

Tyler Maas

August 11, 2015

Since 1985, Latino Arts Inc. has been an invaluable means of showcasing Hispanic artists, musicians, dancers, and other beacons of cultural expression. Last fall, Latino Arts brought a reigning Grammy Award win...

Tracklist: 17 Milwaukee band names inspired by famous, real-life people

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 10, 2015

//Band names tend to come in two flavors: evocative and meaningful, and just plain random. For every 10 Metallicas, Guided By Voices, and Run The Jewels there are just as many Limp Bizkits, Toad The Wet Sp...

Brian Posehn ends Milwaukee Comedy Fesitival strong at Turner Hall

Tyler Maas

August 10, 2015

The 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival was far and away the event’s biggest and best year yet. The festival’s first three days found comedy fans filling Next Act Theatre while taking in a diverse and altoget...

Phylums’ debut LP, Phylum Phyloid, is a giddy slab of thoughtful three-chord rock and roll

Matt Wild

August 10, 2015

Much like film noir, “gonzo” journalism, and CSI shows, three-chord rock and roll is easy to replicate but hard to perfect. Any band can slap together some ’60-inspired surf guitars and a handful of bubblegum m...

Ian’s Pizza on North Ave. is temporarily closing, expanding, adding wine and beer

Matt Wild

August 7, 2015

Great news for East Side pizza lovers: The North Ave. location of Ian’s Pizza is expanding and adding wine and craft beer to its menu. The only hitch? It’ll be closed for a while.In a somewhat deceptively t...

Primus and Dinosaur Jr. bring double dose of ’90s alt-rock to The Rave

Cal Roach

August 7, 2015

Primus frontman Les Claypool isn’t the type of guy who caters to his fans. He does whatever the hell he wants, and his core cult of diehards doggedly follows, because he is probably the greatest living bass gui...

Exclusive: Listen to two songs from The Scarring Party’s final album, End Times

Matt Wild

August 6, 2015

It’s perhaps surprising that a band specializing in defiantly out-of-time music should make it to its 10th anniversary. But for The Scarring Party, standing apart from musical trends both locally and nationally...

Celebrate the first day of the 2015 Wisconsin State Fair with 10 years of pig racing videos

Matt Wild

August 6, 2015

Today marks the glorious first day of the 2015 Wisconsin State Fair. From August 6-16, thousands upon thousands of proud Wisconsinites will flock to the State Fair Grounds in West Allis to take in the sights, t...

A Milwaukeean’s guide to Mile Of Music

Tyler Maas

August 6, 2015

During last year's Mile Of Music, the second such iteration of the "handcrafted artisan festival" in the northeast Wisconsin city of Appleton, a combined 39 of the 200 bands and solo artists booked to play hail...

Brew City Wrestling brings WWE vets, hopefuls to Wisconsin State Fair

Vince Morales

August 5, 2015

Picture it. It's a hot August afternoon inside the Exposition Center at the Jeffery Scott Activity Stage, and the heat is accentuated by the smell of human sweat and a whiff of violence. It's a double header of...

A comprehensive guide to the 2015 Milwaukee Comedy Festival

Tyler Maas

August 5, 2015

Between the true opening night of the Milwaukee Comedy Festival on Thursday, August 6 through Sunday night's finale with beloved alt-comic Brian Posehn at Turner Hall, Milwaukee will be a very funny place. A co...

S.S. Web plots its revenge with latest album

Jared Blohm

August 4, 2015

With wild eyes, a shaved head, and a silver front tooth, the heavily tattooed Henry Berger has the look of a hardened sailor of yesteryear. The S.S. Web lead singer delivers tales of drinking hard and loving wr...

Exclusive: Listen to the title track from Marielle Allschwang’s solo debut, Dead Not Done

Matt Wild

August 4, 2015

If Marielle Allschwang’s voice seems familiar, there’s a reason for that. For the past five years the Milwaukee musician has provided vocals—along with violin, guitar, and percussion—for some of the city’s best...

Sat. Nite Duets’ Andi Action goes solo on wonderfully ridiculous All Lit Up

Matt Wild

August 4, 2015

There are plenty of warning signs that All Lit Up, the debut solo album from Sat. Nite Duets’ Andrew Jambura, should be taken with a grain of salt. One, it’s the debut solo album from Sat. Nite Duets’ Andrew Ja...

Welcome To August: Here’s what you’re doing this month

Tyler Maas

August 3, 2015

It can't be here already. Though it feels like summer just started, we've now entered the last full month of the season. Summer isn't going out with a whimper, though. Quite the opposite, actually. Though the v...

Tracklist: 14 Wisconsin “delicacies” other states don’t understand

Tyler Maas

August 3, 2015

Thursday marks the beginning of the Wisconsin State Fair. While the 11-day experience features music, contests, and unique goodies from an array of local vendors, the true State Fair star attraction is the food...