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Tracklist: 10 especially ambitious Milwaukee music videos

October 6, 2014

//No modern band has done more with the music video medium than OK Go. With its genius use of things like treadmill choreography, Rube Goldberg-like mechanisms, paint, and other artsy accoutrements, the L....

The Suicide Machines were semi-operational at The Metal Grill

Tyler Maas

October 5, 2014

These days, a band can rarely be considered “broken up” for good. Even a member’s death doesn’t necessarily spell a project’s conclusion. Whether paid handsomely enough to return to the stage to sate nostalgic ...

Bar Rescue turned Y-Not III into a ’70s-themed bar called Nick’s House

Matt Wild

October 3, 2014

A few months ago, rumors flew that popular SPIKE TV reality-ish show Bar Rescue was searching for a Milwaukee bar in need of a makeover. The city buzzed with shaker-cocktail-infused excitement. Then, on Monday,...

One Week Vacation pulls a fun short from prolonged monotony

Tyler Maas

October 3, 2014

Last Monday’s all-around excellent The Milwaukee Show I found local filmmakers offering evocative and innovative pieces with subject matter that included: marooned space cadets wandering a new planet; an outrag...

James Randi tells the truth about ‘An Honest Liar’

Matt Wild

October 2, 2014

James Randi originally chose “The Amazing Randi” as a stage name back when he was plying his trade as a magician and escape artist; little did he know it would nicely sum up his entire seven-decade-and-counting...

Stop Making Sense, Take Me To The River, and the long, strange career of Jerry Harrison

Cal Roach

October 2, 2014

Anyone who attended last year’s Milwaukee Film Festival screening of the brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense will tell you it’s hard to have more fun in a movie theater. Attendees danced spon...

First Impression: Cafe India

Tyler Maas

October 2, 2014

If the name of Milwaukee’s newest Indian restaurant sounds familiar, it should. Perhaps you noticed the Cafe India sign while gassing up at the Walker’s Point Mobil station. Maybe you even threw caution to the ...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 1, 2014

Isn’t it funny when people breathlessly tell you that fall is their favorite time of year, like it’s some sort of weird little personal quirk? It’s everybody’s favorite time of year, and if it isn’t, you’re cra...

MFF2014: Alloy Orchestra breathes sonic life into Man With A Movie Camera

Cal Roach

October 1, 2014

Last year’s Milwaukee Film Festival brought us the once-in-a-lifetime event that was Altos: Earth, featuring the local group performing a live, original score to Alexander Dovzhenko’s silent Soviet classic. Cam...

ZAZ 8 2/3: 10 Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker missteps

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 30, 2014

Wednesday night, the Milwaukee Film Festival will pay tribute to the legendary Shorewood-sired filmmaking triad of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams with a 30th anniversary screening of Top Secret! T...

Cthulhu’s Comedy Collective takes niche stand-up to 42 Lounge

Tyler Maas

September 30, 2014

The staggering growth of Milwaukee comedy finds the art form swelling to cover show formats as vital as giving female comics control, as unique as events at art galleries and movie theaters, and as random as fu...

Bar Rescue is rescuing Y-Not III this week

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 29, 2014

A few months ago, we told you that popular SPIKE TV series Bar Rescue was in town scouting Milwaukee locations to, well, rescue. Yes, one lucky Brew City bar was being considered for Jon Taffer’s unique brand o...

MFF2014: Inside The Milwaukee Show (part one)

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 29, 2014

They don’t call it the Milwaukee Film Festival for nothing. In addition to screening some of the best films in the world, the annual fest gives plenty of love to local films and filmmakers. The highlight of the...

Allison Dunne preps for Nick Thune opening slot

Tyler Maas

September 29, 2014

Having just celebrated her one-year anniversary doing comedy, Allison Dunne has accomplished quite a lot in a short time. With her ability to fearlessly tackle heavy topics in a lighthearted way, she’s quickly ...

Lorde punches above her weight at BMO Harris Pavilion

Matt Wild

September 27, 2014

Ever since becoming a worldwide pop sensation at 16 with last year’s Pure Heroine, New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has straddled the line between “aw-shucks” teenager and canny superstar-in-the-making. She’...

Extra Points: The ups and downs of a cheesehead in the land of Bears

Erik Niewiarowski

September 26, 2014

Recently, I celebrated my fourth anniversary of being a Milwaukee expat living in Chicago. I really do miss living in my beloved Milwaukee and her many treasures. I grew up in Waukesha, and lived in the 414 are...

Tim And Eric & Dr. Steve Brule do a great job in awesome Pabst Theater show

Tyler Maas

September 26, 2014

There was a moment near the end of Thursday’s sold-out Tim & Eric with Dr. Steve Brule show at Pabst Theater where John C. Reilly (deep in his Brule character) summed up the 150-some previous minutes with o...

Aaron Freeman leaves Ween behind at Turner Hall

Cal Roach

September 26, 2014

One could almost look at Aaron Freeman in child-star terms. The erstwhile Gene Ween began making prank music with partner Mickey Melchiondo (a.k.a. Dean Ween) in eighth grade, eventually scoring a novelty hit w...

Caught on tapes: Milwaukee’s place in Cassette Store Day

Tyler Maas

September 25, 2014

The vinyl resurgence is no secret. However, as audiophiles returned to the forgotten format in droves, most leapfrogged over another musical medium that stood squarely between wax and mp3s on the recorded music...

MFF2014: 1971 taps into political paranoia of the past, present

Steven Franz

September 25, 2014

Within minutes of Johanna Hamilton’s documentary 1971, we are told via intertitle that the film’s subjects—a group of eight anti-war activists who broke into an FBI office and “stole every file”—acted as a kind...