Matt Wild
@bymattwild.bsky.social
Co-founder/editor https://milwaukeerecord.com
My first Blackbird pinball tournament and I came in 6th and everyone was cool and it was a great time
Shout-out to Gilles Frozen Custard for forsaking AI and making crummy (complimentary) flyers the old fashioned way
Was at The Mothership earlier this week and there were groups of dapper folks checking it out for the first time because of all the awards and accolades and also Joey Turbo was hosting karaoke and people were singing "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" and "Amish Paradise"
My Mandela Barnes story is that one time after a Cactus Club show a bunch of us went over to Club Garibaldi and Mandela Barnes was there and we all did pull tabs
Mandela Barnes suspends campaign for Wisconsin governor, says it’s ‘very clear’ who Democratic nominee will be
“Now it’s our time to come together to focus our efforts on that one goal. We have to do everything to beat Tom Tiffany.”
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Co-hosted a live radio show on WMSE, now drinking a High Life and eating a fried bologna sandwich on the street outside Your Office.
Morning bike commute wildlife report: coyote on the Oak Leaf Trail, the usual geese and shit
Seeing THE ODYSSEY alone on a Sunday afternoon at Milwaukee’s historic Oriental Theatre in glorious 70mm as the capricious gods intended. @mkefilm.bsky.social
Staying with my mother-in-law and you better believe we’re watching hit CBS show Tracker and you better believe the motion smoothing in ON
Soaking up and loving the 95-degree DRY heat in Colorado while the locals cower indoors
The strangeness of death, of silence and absence, of saying yes I’ll go through his clothes tomorrow and take whatever I like
100 degrees in Colorado time to go to Pinball Jones in Fort Collins
Ah yes, the Milwaukee County pension scandal. Or: how a group of people gamed the system, made out like bandits, and bankrupted the County for generations to come. A true Boomer success story!
Pension scandal still haunts Milwaukee County 25 years later
Twenty-five years after the "pension scandal" upended Milwaukee County government, the reverberations continue to wreak havoc on government services.
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Today on Milwaukee Record: a wildly entertaining deep-dive on West Allis record store Record Head, from writer Mike Holloway. Lawyers, guns, and records do indeed make appearances, as do bongs, bootlegs, and Jiu-Jitsu instructors
Lawyers, guns and records: The long-playing story of Record Head
“We joked that Record Head was a chaos portal. When you openly advertise that you’ll give people money, you deal with the craziest subsets of humanity.”
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An absolutely LOADED week/weekend in Milwaukee. Multiple festivals (6 on the same day!), multiple gallery nights, great installments of weekly music series, big national shows, tons of top-shelf local shows, 17 Milwaukee Record events, more.
Milwaukee Record Recommended Events: July 13-19, 2026
This week/weekend in Milwaukee events: Incredible India Festival; The Strokes; Bikes, Bourbon & Barbecue; The Foot Fist Way; more.
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Ever since seeing Spoon at Summerfest I've been hearing Spoon everywhere so hell yeah it's the Summer of Spoon