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Wisconsin indoor smoking ban: 5 years later

July 3, 2015

On July 5, 2010, Wisconsin effectively went smoke-free. The long-in-the-works and at-times contentious indoor smoking ban put an end to smoking inside bars, restaurants, and other workplaces. Advocates of the b...

Watch Jack Tell’s endearingly simple “My Name Is Jack” music video

Tyler Maas

July 3, 2015

Milwaukee's collective music video game is strong these days. In the last year alone, local artists have given their music visual representation in a series of impressive, ambitious just plain inventive ways in...

Brand New and Manchester Orchestra make Summerfest sing

Tyler Maas

July 2, 2015

With a 15-year track record, Brand New is anything but. Since reaching semi-consciousness way back in 2001 with Your Favorite Weapon, the New York band has taken incremental steps to transition from mid-eschael...

Local H and The Faint heat up chilly night at Summerfest

Matt Wild

July 2, 2015

If there’s one thing Summerfest does well—and let’s be honest, it does a lot of things well—it’s stock its overstuffed schedule with plenty of hidden gems. Take Wednesday night, for instance, which found Illino...

On The Record Episode 25: Milwaukee Record Q&A

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 1, 2015

Since we’re heading into a holiday weekend and there are better things to worry about—fireworks, America, fireworks—Milwaukee Record co-founders Matt Wild and Tyler Maas decided to take things easy this week an...

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

Tyler Maas

July 1, 2015

Where has the summer gone? It seems like the season only started yesterday, when in all actuality, it started 11 days ago. Okay, okay, so there's still a shit-ton of summer left, but with the abundance of festi...

Obsoletes return for two-show reunion

Tyler Maas

June 30, 2015

Even the snobbiest Milwaukee music historian wouldn’t fault you for not knowing who the Obsoletes were. After all, two-thirds of the band’s members lived upwards of 100 miles outside Milwaukee for the vast majo...

Jeff Wheatley-Heckman suits up for ComedySportz’s Summerfest lineup

Tyler Maas

June 30, 2015

In 2010, Jeff Wheatley-Heckman moved from Maryland to Milwaukee with the intent of helping inner city youth. After the comedy fan's noble work experience concluded, he decided to stay in town and help himself t...

Peeper & Le Play made one of the best, weirdest Milwaukee albums of the year

Matt Wild

June 30, 2015

A common gripe against music coverage in Milwaukee—and music coverage in general—is that the media pays attention to only a small handful of bands. These bands tend to be safe, predictable, and career-oriented....

Hating Summerfest, loving Summerfest

Matt Wild

June 29, 2015

Sometimes you hate Summerfest. Sometimes you get to the grounds on a late Sunday afternoon and note that there are more people waiting to see Paris Hilton in four hours than there were to see Public Enemy all o...

Dustin Diamond is not a “knife-wielding madman,” says director of two Dustin Diamond movies

Matt Wild

June 29, 2015

As you may have heard, former Saved By The Bell actor, onetime Behind The Bell wordsmith, and occasional ’90s-theme-party host Dustin Diamond is in jail. Well, he’s supposed to be in jail, but he filed an appea...

Milwaukee Record’s requisite Paris Hilton at Summerfest review

Phillip Martinez

June 29, 2015

Interest was piqued Sunday night at Summerfest’s Harley-Davidson Roadhouse as crowds gathered and packed the bleachers and any available square foot of concrete awaiting the arrival of the EDM community’s black...

Jaill breaks free with Brain Cream

Tyler Maas

June 26, 2015

After six years and two records, Jaill is right back where it started. Since 2009 Burger Records debut There’s No Sky (Oh My My), the band—then called “Jail”—added a consonant, lost all but one member, signed t...

Public Enemy brings the noise (with help from Rusty P’s) on day two of Summerfest

Matt Wild

June 26, 2015

Early in the Rusty P’s warm-up set for Public Enemy Thursday night at Summerfest, DJ “Madhatter” Lee announced the group would be digging deep into their old albums for the next few songs. “And when you’ve been...

Lineup for 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival announced

Tyler Maas

June 26, 2015

Last month, we were excited to reveal that certified Comedian Of Comedy Brian Posehn would headline the final night of the 10th annual Milwaukee Comedy Festival, which is taking place at Turner Hall on Sunday, ...

Review: Taped Music at JoJo’s Martini Lounge (Summerfest)

Tyler Maas

June 25, 2015

Summerfest plays host to more than 800 acts each year. By the time the colossal 11-day Midwestern musical mainstay concludes, thousands of musicians will take the stage to perform energetic live sets for an est...

Dustin Diamond sentenced to appear in Saved By The Bell: The Prison Years

Matt Wild

June 25, 2015

When you wake up in the morning for your sentencing hearing and the alarm gives out a warning that yes, today is the day you will learn your fate after being convicted of stabbing some dude in a Wisconsin bar o...

On The Record Episode 24: Mile Of Music, Concert Cafe, Fox Valley’s deep connection to Milwaukee music

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 24, 2015

For this installment of On The Record, host Tyler Maas took the show on the road. The Fox Valley expat drove 100-some miles north on Highway 41 to record this episode in his dad’s garage bar on the outskirts of...

Celebrate the first day of Summerfest with 6 videos of people screwing around on the Sky Glider

Matt Wild

June 24, 2015

If there was a website called “Is it Summerfest yet?” today it would read “Yes.” The 48th annual Big Gig kicks off today at noon, and brings with it all the sights, sounds, smells, and jorts Milwaukee has come ...

Milwaukee Record’s field guide to Summerfest cover bands

Matt Wild

June 24, 2015

Summerfest bills itself as the “World’s Largest Music Festival,” That’s technically true: few music fests are even in the same ballpark when it comes to the Big Gig’s 11-day lineup of 800-plus acts. The rub, of...