Tracklist: 14 “& bands” in local music
//It's tough to decide on a band name. Instead of risking potentially calling a project something regrettable (maybe something food-inspired or in honor of a public figure?) that might eventually wind up b...
Tracklist: 19 bygone Milwaukee festivals
//As can be expected for a place with the "City Of Festivals" nickname, Milwaukee isn't exactly hurting for fun, unique, and downright strange events. Though residents always seem open to getting out and c...
15 (mostly extinct) East Side institutions on that North Ave. “Compass” sculpture
//Near the corner of North and Cambridge avenues on Milwaukee's East Side stands a curious piece of public art. A 22-foot-tall light pole juts out from a median in the middle of the road, its body adorned ...
Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bands with food names
//With Downtown Dining Week set to run June 2-9, Milwaukee Record decided to spend the next eight days devoting at least some of our bandwidth to covering local dining, both downtown and beyond. Before all...
Tracklist: 22 Milwaukee summer songs
//Memorial Day is a time to pause, give thanks to all those who have served our country, and compete in a makeshift fishing tournament where you need to catch at least 20 points worth of fish before you ca...
Tracklist: 11 unofficial Milwaukee theme songs
//In case you missed it, Milwaukee Record has a theme song now. Courtesy of local auto detailing and carpet cleaning professional Joshua Jones, the song touts our "music and news" coverage, while the accom...
Tracklist: Summerfest Place and 10 other ultra-specific Milwaukee streets
//Last Tuesday, a chunk of Third Ward concrete that had long existed outside Henry Maier Festival Park as "Polk Street" was officially renamed "Summerfest Place" after an application filed by Milwaukee Wor...
Tracklist: 15 standout (non-festival) summer shows
//Summertime musical entertainment in Milwaukee typically finds a home at the city's 8,000 street fests, or, you know, that whole Summerfest thing. But look beyond the temporary street stages and the sea o...
Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee sibling bands
//Thursday night, Mike Krol will bring his hissy, police-impersonating power-pop stylings to Cactus Club. Despite the recent frequency of the L.A.-dwelling member of the Merge Records family's Milwaukee vi...
Tracklist: 16 quintessential Milwaukee patios
//If we Milwaukeeans seem overly patio-happy come springtime, can we really be blamed? The weather finally starts to get its shit together, the previous 8,000 years of winter begin to fade away, and the on...
Tracklist: 14 ways Milwaukee is celebrating Record Store Day 2016
//Love it or hate it, it's safe to say Record Store Day is here to stay. What started as an honest-to-goodness movement to encourage listeners to get out and support independent music retailers who were su...
Tracklist: The 31 most uplifting Danny Gokey song names, ranked
//According to a loose college friend's Facebook status, American Idol's final episode aired last night, following a long and inescapable run that spanned who gives a shit how many seasons and launched the...
Tracklist: 12 Milwaukee record labels weathering the storm
//Tonight, Rush-Mor Records will welcome Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore, who will discuss his new book, How To Ru(i)n A Record Label. The book tracks the origin of Livermore's label, the growt...
Tracklist: 11 notable (active) comedians with Wisconsin roots
//On Saturday night, the South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center played host to Jackie Kashian, a now-Los Angeles based comedian and—with all due respect to NBA journeyman power forward Kurt Nimphius—probab...
Tracklist: 7 Milwaukee artists playing SXSW 2016
//Once upon a time, dozens upon dozens of Milwaukee bands would make the annual trek to Austin, Texas for the city's South By Southwest music, film, interactive, and Doritos festival. A few years later, on...
Tracklist: 7 comedy specials filmed in Milwaukee
//Last Saturday, Pabst Theater hosted veteran comedian Kathleen Madigan for a pair of shows, which doubled as a live filming for her yet-untitled fourth comedy special. Citing reasons like the city's ease ...
Tracklist: 15 Milwaukee bars and restaurants with multiple locations
//Last week, owners of Milwaukee's venerable and forever-awesome Fuel Cafe announced plans to open a second Fuel in Walker's Point. Not only was it big news, it revealed just how much Fuel's reputation had...
Tracklist: Milwaukee’s 15 best bar and restaurant puns
//Milwaukee could arguably be considered the nation's bar capital. Simultaneously, a cavalcade of new and exciting restaurants are popping up around town on a monthly basis, helping to bolster the city's c...
Tracklist: 6 things to know about today’s spring primary election
//Have you ever met someone who constantly drones on and on about how they refuse to vote, man? "Wow," you think, right after thinking, "Please be quiet." "In the time it's taking this genius to explain wh...
Tracklist: 13 ways to celebrate and/or avoid Valentine’s Day
//Some of you are in a serious relationship, or at least involved in a budding romance. Others are happily (or perhaps miserably) single. No matter where your love life lands, the same thing holds abundant...