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Kids In The Hall will perform at Riverside Theater May 15

March 3, 2015

The list of influential ’80s/’90s sketch comedy shows runs surprisingly long—The State, The Ben Stiller Show, Mr. Show, a season or two of Saturday Night Live—but nothing comes close to the influence and surrea...

Milwaukee Record’s favorite moments from Arte Para Todos 2015

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 2, 2015

On paper, the inaugural Arte Para Todos festival seemed too good to be true. Seventy of the best Milwaukee musical acts would be playing dozens of shows at 15 venues spread throughout three neighborhoods and th...

Exclusive: Dive into Soup Moat’s 6-song EP, Enjoy Your Hobbies

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2015

For much of its existence, Soup Moat's name was routinely and understandably found in and around the term "sludge." However, in the 12 months since the band's most recent release, Inspirations, Soup Moat has un...

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

Tyler Maas

March 2, 2015

March is a period of transition. The month straddles two seasons, a part-time resident in the ass-end of winter and a temporary tenant within the burst and bloom brought on by spring. As the season changes and ...

Prepare for this weekend’s Arte Para Todos festival with Episode 8 of On The Record

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 27, 2015

If you’re somehow still oblivious to this weekend’s ridiculously great Arte Para Todos festival, it’s time to get with the program. This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 70 of the best musical acts Milwaukee has t...

Get pumped for WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili (and 8,000 other things going on this weekend)

Matt Wild

February 27, 2015

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Remember when WMSE’s Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser was the only light in an oth...

Comedy Crumbs: Festival submission, sex advice, and having a few

Tyler Maas

February 27, 2015

With the abundance of great things going on in Milwaukee's burgeoning comedy scene, we rarely go more than a few days without devoting a post or two to recognize someone or something happening that adds to the ...

Off Base: The 10 best Milwaukee Brewers offseason acquisitions

Tyler Maas

February 26, 2015

Though opening day of the 2015 Milwaukee Brewers season is still 39 agonizing days away, the team has now reported to its spring training headquarters in Maryvale, Arizona. Single game tickets go on sale this w...

First Impression: Nourri

Todd Lazarski

February 26, 2015

When Odd Duck opened to buzz and critical acclaim in 2012, drawing favorable comparisons to Senora Small Plates herself, La Merenda, it typified a fully shifted caloric paradigm. The restaurant was right on the...

Jake Kornely’s last stand: The comic and musician says goodbye to Milwaukee

Tyler Maas

February 26, 2015

Jake Kornely joined Static Eyes in 2011. Roughly a month after joining the Milwaukee punk band, he attempted stand-up comedy for the first time. Since then, the art forms have jostled for position, but both rem...

Let’s watch the anti-streetcar movement concede defeat, eat its own

Matt Wild

February 25, 2015

It’s been just over two weeks since the approval of the Greatest Thing In Milwaukee History (not including Channel 12’s “Hello Milwaukee” song): a 2.4-mile downtown streetcar line. Yes, after months of bizarrel...

Former Milwaukeean Rob Schrab will direct the Lego Movie sequel

Matt Wild

February 25, 2015

Still delirious from the delightfully bat-shit performance of The Lego Movie’s “Everything Is Awesome” at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony? Well, if you’re from Wisconsin, this shouldn’t help: as reported by pretty much...

Hyde Park just one example of local tailor shops keeping it in the family

February 25, 2015

Ah, the family business.Generations in the making, and often born out of grandparents who immigrated to the United States to utilize skills they’d learned in their home countries, Milwaukee’s tailor and alt...

Exclusive: Make a deal with Devil Met Contention’s new EP, American Times

Matt Wild

February 24, 2015

Ehson Rad has lived in New Mexico, Texas, Michigan, and now Milwaukee. That mileage, and plenty more, permeates American Times, the new EP from Rad and his pitch-black southern gothic outfit Devil Met Contentio...

Let Arte Para Todos’ 2015 compilation guide your weekend

Tyler Maas

February 24, 2015

Without so much as a note having been played yet, the inaugural Arte Para Todos can already be called a success. The benefit has united 70 musical acts from all corners of the city’s sonic spectrum to play mish...

Exclusive: Stream Platinum Boys’ “Ride Free” and watch the LP teaser video

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2015

Since announcing its presence in 2013, Milwaukee classic rock quartet Platinum Boys—which features members of The Fatty Acids and Rio Turbo among its ranks—has been a refreshing part of local music with memorab...

Karaoke Underground passes the mic to punk and indie rock fans

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2015

Whether it's a weekly ritual or an occasional guilty pleasure, almost everyone out there has a love of (or at least tolerance for) karaoke. The pastime allows everyday people to wield a microphone and lay s...

Watch Tigernite’s lively “Witch” music video

Tyler Maas

February 23, 2015

Last year seemed to be a watershed moment for Milwaukee-made music videos, as local artists forged a myriad of visual renderings with incredible innovative concepts and a professional sheen that was rarely, if ...

We talk all things Milwaukee Bucks in Episode 7 of On The Record

Milwaukee Record Staff

February 20, 2015

We got a Basketball Jones over at Milwaukee Record HQ these days. Between the surprisingly great play a young and unabashedly rebuilding Milwaukee Bucks team has managed through 53 games this season and rampant...

Gloss Records founders see the big picture with small-run releases

Tyler Maas

February 20, 2015

Like many other aspects of the now semi-oxymoronic catch-all that is the modern “Music Industry,” a record label doesn’t necessarily hold the same weight it once did. Instead of waiting desperately for somebody...