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Off Base: Revisiting 11 Brewers mid-season rentals

July 25, 2014

Major League Baseball's non-waiver trade deadline is less than a week away. Beyond totally fucking up fantasy teams, exhausting the guy whose job it is to Photoshop a player wearing his new team's cap, and maki...

6 reasons to get excited for Alverno Presents’ 2014-15 season

Matt Wild

July 24, 2014

For more than five decades, Alverno Presents has pollinated the city with some of the most original and rewarding performing arts in the world. International music and dance have long been staples of Alverno’s ...

Exclusive: Listen to the putrid new Drugs Dragons album, II & I/II

Matt Wild

July 24, 2014

Some albums instantly reward listeners with big hooks, sparkling production, and an eagerness to please. Other albums offer up complex arrangements and knotty lyrics, challenging listeners to unlock the rewards...

Counting Crows go long, fall short at Riverside Theater

Tyler Maas

July 24, 2014

Just over two years ago, veteran pop-rock mainstay Counting Crows only filled the BMO Harris Pavilion to about a quarter of its capacity in one of the young venue’s first non-Summerfest bookings. This time arou...

A-side/B-side: Is the Milwaukee music scene too insular?

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 23, 2014

In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle important city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.Matt Wild:...

Exclusive: Stream the debut GGOOLLDD EP, $TANDARD$

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 23, 2014

Since the project played its first show just over nine months ago, GGOOLLDD has been privy to a wealth of positive local attention and cherry gigs ranging from beer-celebrating block parties, concert cruises, a...

Jack White at The Rave or: In defense of good artists playing bad venues

Matt Wild

July 22, 2014

Walk into the Cactus Club and you’ll see a silk-screened 12” record created by Milwaukee artist Von Munz promoting The White Stripes’ first out-of-state show, November 13, 1999, in which they opened for The Mis...

Just 8 remain in Bandsketball championship contention

Tyler Maas

July 22, 2014

What started as a collection of 32 Milwaukee music acts taking the court to determine which is the best at basketball has now shrunk into single-digit contenders. Over the weekend, the second round of Bandsketb...

Tracklist: 8 bizarre Milwaukee Kickstarter campaigns

Matt Wild

July 21, 2014

Recently, the Internet has done what it does best—flip the fuck out—over a Kickstarter campaign dedicated to making potato salad. What started as a lark with a $10 goal (tagline: “Basically I’m just making pota...

We saw an experimental band at Treats Tavern at 6:30 a.m.

Tyler Maas

July 21, 2014

Most weekends in Milwaukee, the bounty of performances by local acts and touring talent forces music fans to face difficult decisions in regard to which of the many shows going on throughout the city at any giv...

Exclusive: Stream Bright Kind’s self-titled debut

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 18, 2014

The new self-titled album by Bright Kind is technically the indie-leaning pop project’s debut record. However, 75 percent of the quartet has played together since 2008. In 2012, Jeanna Salzer Trio subtracted th...

Let’s find some dumb ideas in the city’s “Action Agenda”

Matt Wild

July 18, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Milwaukee has plenty of wonderful qualities—music, art, food, festivals, sports, cheap booze...

Off Base: 6 ultra-specific Brewers All-Star break awards

Tyler Maas

July 18, 2014

Though Major League’s All-Star break and its “mid-summer classic” nickname seem to imply an event that cuts the 162-game big league season in half, the Milwaukee Brewers have actually played 96 games to this po...

Here’s the lineup for the 2014 Center Street Daze Festival

Matt Wild

July 17, 2014

With many of the big street fests of 2014 already behind us (Locust Street, Burnhearts/PBR), and another taking place in a few weeks (Brady Street), it would seem that the curtain is slowly being drawn on anoth...

Caste Of Killers stands front and center in local comedy growth

Tyler Maas

July 16, 2014

While there’s always room for growth, Milwaukee’s stand-up comedy scene is in a very healthy place right now. This weekend alone, area comedians will perform in bar room variety shows, secret house gigs, late n...

Damn! Wisconsin ranks third on bullshit Reddit swearing list

Tyler Maas

July 16, 2014

Holy shit! From Redditor “Niehaus” comes some fucking interesting news that Reddit users in Wisconsin love the hell out of swearing. A pair of specific-ass graphs ranked swearing per subscriber in comments of 1...

Relive the Burnhearts/Pabst Street Party with this awesome video

Matt Wild

July 16, 2014

Is it too early to be reminiscing about summer 2014? Probably, but a snap of unseasonably cool weather has us thinking back to a time when we were young, idealistic, and a little bit warmer. You know, like last...

WC Tank announces new album, premieres new song/video

Tyler Maas

July 15, 2014

Save for occasional one-off shows in town, Milwaukee rapper, filmmaker, and visuals wizard WC Tank has kept things pretty quiet musically speaking since shortly after the release of Kisscry Patina some 18 month...

Spend a minute with the video for Heavy Hand’s “David Bowie Wants To Steal Your Baby”

Matt Wild

July 15, 2014

There was a time when music videos blurred the line between video and short film—think of all those ridiculous videos from Michael Jackson’s Dangerous—though there’s something to be said for videos that get in ...

Help keep Global Union free by contributing to “$15,000 in 15 days” campaign

Matt Wild

July 15, 2014

Let’s face it: being forced to think about the end of summer in the middle of July is downright cruel. But like all things, summer 2014 must pass, even though it feels like it started a week ago. Happily, there...