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Exclusive: Stream The Midwest Beat’s new album, Free Of Being

September 2, 2014

The Midwest Beat has been around for close to 10 years. During that lengthy tenure—in which the band has amassed three full-length albums (and nine releases in all)—its sound has shifted, augmented, and develop...

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

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 1, 2014

In Milwaukee, the end of summer is a bittersweet thing. The weather cools, the festivals shut down, and the Brewers start to blow it. But the end of the season also marks the beginning of the city’s typically s...

Deadspin’s Drew Magary elaborates on why the Packers suck

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2014

By now you’ve likely read the latest Packers-pummeling installment of Deadspin’s second annual “Why Your Team Sucks” series. Like it or lump it, the mean-spirited and brutally honest written roast has quickly b...

Is the hipster zombie apocalypse headed for Milwaukee?

Matt Wild

August 29, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• “What is a city for?”That’s the opening question of a recent Washington Post piece, “T...

WC Tank discusses his musical mixed media assemblage, Almost Forever

Tyler Maas

August 29, 2014

It would be a disservice to merely refer to WC Tank as a rapper without also making mention of the artsy emcee’s body of work that finds him providing visuals for nationally recognized rappers, making excellent...

Exclusive: Stream the self-titled debut EP by Ugly Brothers

Tyler Maas

August 28, 2014

Founded in 2011 by brothers Alex and Palmer Shah—two Milwaukee transplants of debatable attractiveness from Green Bay—Ugly Brothers kept its original emo-meets-Delta-blues output confined to house shows and Riv...

Great job, Milwaukee! Milwaukee is “underrated but intriguing,” we guess

Matt Wild

August 28, 2014

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee!-Bot (similar to OnMilwaukee’s Jeff Sherman-Bot 8000) to keep track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists....

Milwaukee Film’s 2014 Cream City Cinema to feature Hamlet A.D.D., two-part “Milwaukee Show”

Matt Wild

August 28, 2014

Just when you thought it was safe to write about the upcoming 6th Annual Milwaukee Film Festival without mentioning yet another fest highlight, along comes Cream City Cinema. Today, Milwaukee Film revealed the ...

First Impression: Refuge Smoothie Cafe (Bay View)

Tyler Maas

August 27, 2014

Bay View's a-changing. It's hard to muster vitriol against the outstanding restaurants popping up (and those soon to open) in the transitional southeastern Milwaukee neighborhood, but some longtime residents st...

Tupac has always been “dead” for incoming college freshmen, notes dumb Beloit Mindset List

Matt Wild

August 26, 2014

For the past 17 years, Beloit College’s annual Mindset List has attempted to give college professors and administrators a peek inside the minds and world-views of incoming college freshmen. “So-and-so has never...

Exclusive: Stream the new Old Earth album, A Wake In The Wells

Tyler Maas

August 26, 2014

Todd Umhoefer is that rare breed of modern artist who thrusts his work in front of everything else. Regular income, consistent housing, and any semblance of security be damned. It amounts to shit if the music i...

Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee acts that changed their names

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 25, 2014

//Unlike one’s birth name, a musical artist has a say in what their project will be called. So if you wind up with a name like Diarrhea Planet, Anal Cunt, or Foxygen, you can’t blame your parents. It’s you...

First Impression: Tuk’s Thai Kitchen

Todd Lazarski

August 25, 2014

The foodist winds of fate have not blown kind on the corner building at 1000 E. Locust Street. Native Riverwesterners scoff at the patchy history, and inactive Facebook pages whisper of yesterday’s discarded cr...

That Pizza Underground band with Macaulay Culkin is playing Hotel Foster this fall

Matt Wild

August 24, 2014

Oh Christ, let’s just get this over with: Remember late last year when a weary and tired nation learned that former Home Alone moppet Macaulay Culkin was playing in a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band ...

Extra Points: Why this week is the worst of the NFL season

Tyler Maas

August 22, 2014

Let’s just come right out and say it. This is the worst week of the entire NFL season that happens between the preseason-starting Pro Football Hall Of Fame Game and Super Bowl Sunday. Even during your favorite ...

Milwaukee is the new Portland (and the 5th most dangerous city in the U.S.)

Matt Wild

August 22, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Memo to the Internet: If you need some fast, easy clicks, just write something with the wo...

Rusty P’s push the plot of local hip-hop

Tyler Maas

August 21, 2014

The tale of Milwaukee hip-hop is a largely unappreciated work. It’s one that’s often overshadowed by more voluminous renderings regarding the subject of similarly sized Midwestern markets. After a great deal of...

Misery Signals unleash Malice on The Rave

Tyler Maas

August 21, 2014

Playing an album front-to-back on that record's round-numeral anniversary year isn't exactly a new concept. In a music landscape cluttered with more bands than ever vying for your limited live music dollar, the...

Strangelove, Spinal Tap top 2014 Milwaukee Film Fest’s Cinema Hooligante program

Matt Wild

August 21, 2014

It’s hard to pin down a single highlight of the annual Milwaukee Film Festival, but for our money, there’s nothing better than the Cinema Hooligante program. For the past three years, the late-night series has ...

According to people unfamiliar with Snopes, “The Purge” is coming to Milwaukee this Friday

Matt Wild

August 20, 2014

//In the dystopian world of last year’s The Purge and this year’s The Purge: Purge Harder Anarchy, society is granted an annual 12-hour period of complete lawlessness. Theft, murder, and anything else desp...