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Loren Sommer

Loren Sommer is a guitarist and musician, full-time Milwaukee Bucks fan, and part-time cynic. He lives in Madison.

January 22, 2021

The Lambeau peep

Culture, Microtones

Enjoying an exciting Packers season in isolating numbness.

Loren Sommer
July 19, 2019

A Forward view from a soccer newcomer

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Loren Sommer
May 14, 2019

The Bucks’ meteoric rise from stagnation, in a goofy new taxpayer-funded arena

Culture

An Eastern Conference finals preview of sorts.

Loren Sommer
February 15, 2019

The unsung dominance of Badger women’s hockey

Culture, Microtones

In Microtones, our newsletter-first column.

Loren Sommer

Tone Madison was a journalist-owned, reader-supported website covering culture and politics in Madison, Wisconsin. We launched in October 2014 and kept publishing our journalism until April 2026, when Tone Madison’s worker-owners made the painful decision to close the publication.

The site remains online as an archive of the work we created over nearly 12 years, but Tone Madison is no longer actively in operation.

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