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The return (and unwritten future) of All Messed Up

October 29, 2014

Taking 64 Milwaukee-area musicians and randomly shuffling them into 16 ad hoc ensembles, All Messed Up, now entering its fifth year, has transformed from a creative way for local players to stave off the winter...

Exclusive: Listen to Drag, the debut EP from NO/NO (ex-Delphines)

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

The Delphines were one of the best Milwaukee bands of the 2010s, firing forth a series of EPs and singles stuffed with jittery, sexy, reverb-drenched gloom-rock. But soon after the group finally got around to r...

Dave Chappelle (and Milwaukee) triumph at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

October 28, 2014

Two questions dominated the conversation leading up to Dave Chappelle’s three-night, six-show stint at Pabst Theater, so let’s just get them out of the way:Q: Would Chappelle—somewhat notorious in recent ye...

Exclusive: Listen to Ladders’ excellent debut album, Suha

Matt Wild

October 24, 2014

In just five short years, the Riverwest-based Breadking collective has made its mark on the city’s music scene by nurturing a seemingly endless number of young bands, and by providing an informal support networ...

Extra Points: Milwaukee Record’s completely arbitrary NFL city rankings

Tyler Maas

October 24, 2014

Despite their differing performance, the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints have been two very similar organizations this season. Each are perennial NFC favorites who usually rely on their Hall Of Fame-ca...

A Monday in Cudahy: My third-shift bar crawl

Tyler Maas

October 23, 2014

There’s no getting around it: Cudahy is Milwaukee’s punching bag. If you live anywhere in southeastern Wisconsin, you’ve undoubtedly heard dozens of jokes, putdowns, and generalizations cast in the direction of...

Help fund Christopher Darling, a local film about the underbelly of rock and roll

Matt Wild

October 23, 2014

On the surface, the life of a successful musician would seem to be one filled with endless pleasures, creative and emotional fulfillment, and “backstage changing tents” stocked with eager-to-please fans (Van Ha...

That Wisconsin Ebola thing is a hoax (but here are a bunch of alarmist local stories anyway)

Matt Wild

October 22, 2014

Staying true to its motto of “Leading the way with important local coverage of stuff we saw on Facebook,” WISN 12 assured viewers yesterday that a series of social media posts claiming Ebola had broken out in W...

Milwaukee bikers gear up for winter, cyclocross season

Leah Wynalek

October 22, 2014

The warm, beer-filled nights of underwear rides and bike-in movies have come to an end, but that doesn't mean your fixed gear has to go into hibernation. The most hardcore cyclists pedal through frigid fall rai...

El-Shareef’s Nonchalant EP is anything but

Matt Wild

October 22, 2014

The digital age has made it possible for artists to record and release their music at a stunningly rapid rate. Hip-hop, in particular, has embraced this accelerated production schedule in the form of mixtapes—q...

Field Report goes all in on Marigolden

Tyler Maas

October 21, 2014

You could hear it from the chapel steps.As the volume of the acoustic guitar and the lone singer’s wavering, vulnerable voice subsided, it was overtaken with thunderous applause of close to 500 people seate...

Here’s what Neil deGrasse Tyson will talk about at his Riverside shows this December

Matt Wild

October 21, 2014

In a time when ignorance is celebrated and grown adults camp out in parking lots for free chicken sandwiches, a public figure like Neil deGrasse Tyson is not only welcome, but needed. The celebrated astrophysic...

Spocktoberfest: Fantasticon to bring geeks, nerds, dorks together this weekend

Rob Wieland

October 21, 2014

Milwaukee is flush with celebrations during the summer, ranging from big lakefront ordeals to neighborhood events full of carny food. That leaves a lot of time to fill the rest of the year, with recent summers ...

Tracklist: 15 random “best of Milwaukee” awards we’d like to see

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 20, 2014

Along with cooler weather and a never-ending parade of people who can’t stop talking about how much they love this time of year, autumn in Milwaukee means one thing: awards season. Yes, October and November are...

Sleater-Kinney to reunite, release new album, play Turner Hall in February

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 20, 2014

The Internet was set abuzz last week with news that an upcoming Sleater-Kinney vinyl box set (due Tuesday, October 21 on Sub Pop) contains a mysterious 7” with a new song entitled “Bury Our Friends,” and labele...

Brian Regan comes clean in hilarious, wholesome Riverside Theater show

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2014

Clean comedy is something of an oxymoron these days. In an age that finds stand-up at its crudest, most brazen and experimental, and with little in the way of limitations, the clean, folksy, identifiable comic ...

Exclusive: Stream Wealthy Ghost’s EP, Cold Hands

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2014

Much like the catchall “indie rock” classification that’s often applied to bands on major labels that don’t play rock and roll, “bedroom pop” seems to be the sub-genre du jour to describe delicate, exposed sing...

Pop-culture blind spots, Patti Smith, and the unique pleasures of the unknown

Matt Wild

October 17, 2014

There’s a moment in The Blair Witch Project when Heather, stumbling aimlessly in the woods and refusing to admit she’s lost, calmly explains, “It’s very hard to get lost in America these days, and even harder t...

Chris D’Elia plays the part of Pabst Theater headliner

Tyler Maas

October 17, 2014

Though he’s been performing stand-up comedy for eight years, Chris D’Elia is far better known for his comedic efforts in two immensely different formats. The comic got his start in acting, which yielded a regul...

Greg Bach makes up for lost stage time

Tyler Maas

October 16, 2014

Stand-up comedy is widely considered to be among the most difficult forms of entertainment to master. Like anything, the earlier one starts, the more lumps he or she can incur on the way to developing a set tha...