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Haunted Heads’ Andrew Johnson talks Oshkosh-Milwaukee connection, Shepard Fairey

October 16, 2014

For more than 15 years, Andrew Johnson (right) has been a pillar of northeast Wisconsin music. The former singer and guitarist of seminal Oshkosh (by way of Portland) rock band h. Chinaski, longtime Oshvegas li...

Milwaukee Record presents “Local Coverage” January 16

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 15, 2014

Milwaukee’s music scene can be somewhat insular at times. Think about how many times you see the same three to four bands or rappers booking shows at that one venue in their own neighborhood. Conversely, how of...

Bar Rescue opens latest Milwaukee project, Campbell’s Irish Pub

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2014

//Last week, we broke the story that SPIKE TV’s Bar Rescue remained in Milwaukee after turning Y-Not III into Nick’s House, and was in the process of transforming Howell Avenue dive Packy’s Pub as well. Sa...

Ryan Adams captivates crowd, serenades security guard at Riverside Theater

Cal Roach

October 15, 2014

If your first impression of Ryan Adams’ new self-titled album is that it sounds more like Bryan Adams than usual, you’re not alone: the younger, hipper Adams has taken to covering Bryan’s “Run To You” on his cu...

The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival, by the numbers

Matt Wild

October 14, 2014

It’s easy to say things like, “The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was great!” or, “Holy shit! The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was the best damn f*#@ing film festival ever! Shit.” But for all those easy and obsce...

Dance, dance, dance! (To new Scrimshaw and Heavy Hand videos)

Matt Wild

October 14, 2014

Music videos can be used to communicate many things: the meaning of a song, the subtext of a song, or an elaborate story that has little or nothing to do with a song. Then there are music videos like the new on...

Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival: Something Must Break

Ashley Altadonna

October 14, 2014

All of us, at one point or another, are destined to feel the impetus of life calling. It’s that driving, crashing unstoppable force of nature whose gravity we cannot escape. This dynamism is at the heart of Swe...

Tracklist: 8 questionable local rebrandings

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2014

Within the last two weeks, a pair of Milwaukee bars—Y-Not III and Packy’s Pub—have experienced extensive renovations and thematic overhauls as a result of Bar Rescue coming to town. Now known as Nick’s House an...

First Impression: District 14 Brewery & Pub

Tyler Maas

October 13, 2014

For every Milwaukee-area restaurant that promptly opens without warning or anticipation, approximately one dozen land nowhere near the neighborhood of their projected launch date. It’s not as much a Milwaukee-s...

Jerry Seinfeld pleases the Riverside Theater with a show about nothing

Tyler Maas

October 11, 2014

As the titular character of his long-running and culturally influential sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld—with the help of co-creator Larry David and a marvelous supporting cast—mastered observational humor, and coined in...

10 standout moments from the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 10, 2014

And that’s a wrap: After 15 days of movies, more movies, and even more movies, the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival has come to a close. Bookended by an opening-night screening of 1971 and last night’s sendoff from...

2015 Midwest Gaming Classic announces dates

Tyler Maas

October 10, 2014

Since 2001, gamers, pinball nuts, tabletop competitors, and cosplayers alike have had an electronic oasis near Milwaukee each spring, as the Midwest Gaming Classic has taken root in a suburban hotel and become ...

Personal pan’s labyrinth: A story of Book It! redemption

Tyler Maas

October 9, 2014

Like any literate pizza-eater who grew up anywhere near a Pizza Hut restaurant, I was happy to recently hear the pizza franchise was instituting a "Book It! Alumni," as part of the reading program's 30th year o...

Exclusive: Get pummeled by Volunteer’s four-song EP, Goner

Matt Wild

October 9, 2014

In a time when the number of bands on planet Earth rivals the amount of water on planet Earth, it’s rare to find a “band’s band.” You know, a band that other bands respect, regardless of style or genre. Milwauk...

Bar Rescue is rescuing another bar, Packy’s Pub

Tyler Maas

October 8, 2014

//Last week, SPIKE TV’s premier non-COPS-reality show Bar Rescue came to town and transformed Y-Not III into a ’70s themed Smirnoff cocktail emporium called “Nick’s House.” However, when a city has as many...

Put on your (orthopedic) dancing shoes for Scrimshaw’s “Hoopula” video

Matt Wild

October 8, 2014

If there’s a more willfully weird and gleefully enjoyable Milwaukee band working today than Scrimshaw, we haven’t found it. For the past few years, the oddball trio of singer-guitarist Robert Thomas, singer-dru...

Christopher Schmidt finds growth in versatility

Tyler Maas

October 8, 2014

If Milwaukee's comedy scene was a baseball team, Christopher Schmidt would be the trusty utility man—able to be slotted anywhere in the batting order, moved virtually everywhere on the diamond, brought in cold ...

Exclusive: Chris Porterfield takes off mask in video for Field Report’s “Decision Day”

Matt Wild

October 7, 2014

Field Report’s second album, Marigolden, sees its official release today on Partisan Records. It’s a stunner. From bittersweet road song “Home (Leave The Lights On)” and electronic-tinged “Wings,” to somber pia...

First Impression: Morel

Todd Lazarski

October 7, 2014

When chef Jonathan Manyo left his native Milwaukee to cut culinary teeth on the scene in California, Cincinnati, and Portland, Walker’s Point was but a hodgepodge of old Rust Belt decay, gritty artist types, an...

MFF2014: Club Sandwich carefully handles striking transformation

Tyler Maas

October 7, 2014

It’s hard to explore new territory in the well-represented “coming-of-age” film genre, short of, you know, actually filming a boy’s journey to manhood over the course of 12 years. (Oh wait, Richard Linklater’s ...