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Evan Rytlewski helps preview Summerfest in Episode 18 of On The Record

May 13, 2015

Do you like summer? Do you like Summerfest? Do you like summer fests that aren’t Summerfest? Do you like stories about leaving a Gin Blossoms concert right before the bass player passes out and a roadie has to ...

Milwaukee Psych Fest returns to Cactus Club, brings Feck out of retirement

Cal Roach

May 13, 2015

Like most pop culture terminology, the meaning of “psychedelic” has changed over the years. As a description of music, it entered the lexicon a half-century ago as a drug reference. Nowadays, it might have no c...

Have jokes, will travel: Matty Field’s material finds an audience in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

May 13, 2015

Matty Field can be counted upon to regularly take to area stages to delight Milwaukee audiences with his rapidly growing and ever-improving arsenal of risque, unabashedly absurd, and downright hilarious materia...

Milwaukee Record’s 2015 summer festival guide

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 12, 2015

Is there anything better than summer in Milwaukee? No, no there is not. For four months out of the year, Milwaukee becomes a warm and joyous place stocked with an improbable number of summer festivals, street p...

Bandsketball returns for a second year

Tyler Maas

May 12, 2015

Last year’s inaugural Bandsketball tournament brought a wide variety of Milwaukee bands and rappers—32 in total—to the courts at the corner of Center and Fratney streets in Riverwest to determine which group of...

Exclusive: Listen to a track from Hello Death’s upcoming album, Remnants

Matt Wild

May 12, 2015

Band monikers can often be random and arbitrary, but Milwaukee’s Hello Death is nothing if not aptly named. The experimental folk quartet—made up of members of Group Of The Altos—is both welcoming and morose, f...

Tracklist: 12 non-festival Milwaukee shows worth checking out this summer

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 11, 2015

Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city’s 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea of dance...

Celebrate our Summer Preview Week with a video of a cat swimming in Lake Michigan

Matt Wild

May 11, 2015

It’s a scientific fact that each and every online list of “17 reasons to move to Milwaukee,” “22 MORE things that are super neat about Milwaukee,” or “Have we done Bloody Marys lately? No? Okay, here are the be...

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally delight in poetic, profane Riverside Theater sellout

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2015

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are regarded as something of a power couple in contemporary comedy. The unconventional pairing of comic actors—put on amplified display in the uncomfortable and uproariously fun...

Chris Hardwick makes dick jokes for science at Pabst Theater

Rob Wieland

May 9, 2015

Scott Fitzgerald is famously misquoted as saying there are no second acts in American lives. Anyone can prove the folly of that quote by jumping onto the Internet where celebrities reinvent themselves as the su...

Penn & Teller will perform at Riverside Theater September 11

Matt Wild

May 8, 2015

Forget for a moment Penn & Teller, outspoken Libertarians and skeptics. Forget for a moment Penn & Teller, reality show staples. Forget for a moment Penn & Teller, creators of the brilliant/insuffer...

Chimp Eats Banana keeps the spirit of Chumbawamba alive

Tyler Maas

May 8, 2015

When you read the name "Chambawamba" in the headline of this article, you almost assuredly thought something along the lines of "Oh, God!" or "Why?" Who knows, maybe both. The vast majority of the world knows t...

42 Ale House brings extra life to St. Francis

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2015

In an alternate timeline, 42 Lounge—Milwaukee’s first and, by general consensus, best geek-themed bar—could have been a massive, 35,000 square-foot nerd embassy marooned way out in Waukesha. The possibility was...

Watch The Midwest Beat’s European tour sendoff, “High Up In The Alps”

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2015

For reason even the band itself can't fully grasp, The Midwest Beat is big in Italy. In fact, the decade-old Milwaukee/Madison folk-rock act says its material seems to go over better with European listeners tha...

Bob Uecker was trapped in his booth last night, could not get up or get out of there

Matt Wild

May 7, 2015

When it comes to hometown heroes who have made a mark on the worlds of sports and entertainment, who continue to delight and amuse on a daily basis, and who starred in a watershed ’80s sitcom alongside a cheese...

Tracklist: Craig Counsell and 10 other WI athletes who took over their former team

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2015

After an absolutely dreadful and MLB-worst 7-18 start to the season, the Milwaukee Brewers gave manager Ron Roenicke his walking papers Sunday. The following day, Craig Counsell was signed to a three-year deal ...

Bloch-buster: Milwaukee’s connection to Psycho, H.P. Lovecraft, and Robert Bloch

Tea Krulos

May 6, 2015

One enduring horror character that refuses to die is Norman Bates, former star of Psycho (as well as various sequels and remakes), and current star of reboot prequel show Bates Motel (which has a series finale ...

Tonic Tavern owner to open second Bay View bar

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2015

Since 1987, Gerry's Diamond Tap—a Bay View gem that was relatively hidden on the quiet corner of Logan and Lincoln avenues—was a quaint and character-laden South Shore dive where a diverse selection of neighbor...

You can buy Wassup! Magazine’s Northern division on Craigslist for $190k

Tyler Maas

May 5, 2015

Have you ever wanted to own a periodical? Speaking from personal experience, it can be kind of cool, and that's coming from the co-founder/co-editor of a Web-only publication with just over a year beneath its b...

Stream the new Piles full-length, Planet Skin

Tyler Maas

May 5, 2015

"The same actions, expecting different outcomes"—the pre-chorus croon in "Mude," partway through Piles' Planet Skin—is a strangely apt lyric for a band that hasn't changed much since its great introductory salv...