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Best of 2025

January 20, 2026

Tone Madison’s favorite records of 2025

Best of 2025

A celebration of 20 local releases that defined the year.

Steven Spoerl
January 16, 2026

Madison’s musical odds and ends of 2025

Best of 2025, Microtones

A meditation on the past year’s musical margins.

Steven Spoerl
January 14, 2026

Tone Madison’s favorite songs of 2025

Best of 2025

A sampling of the local music that helped us get through the year.

Steven Spoerl
,
Grant Phipps
and
Dan Fitch

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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