Madison duo Loveblaster's debut single, "The Need To Fail," has an arresting tension at work underneath its minimal, gentle surface.
Mantis gives us a prolonged listen to the more aggressive side of Madison baritone sax player Anders Svanoe’s playing.
It would be nice to see more shows in Madison that reach across genres and generational lines, like this bill with Madison synth-pop veterans Null Device and the much younger Able Baker.
Though by all accounts, it's the campy embodiment of the creature-feature genre, Jack Arnold's original Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) stands out in WUD Film's summer programming lineup at Memorial Union Terrace as the oldest and most classically distinguished selection.
On Precarious Towers Wallmann records for the first time with a quintet lineup of people he’s played with before but not in this exact configuration.
The general vibe of Kiki's House of Righteous Music—lots of twangy and/or rocking acts of various stripes, a healthy embrace of the occasional sonic wildcard, and a devotion to local acts—gets an airing out in this recurring summer collaboration with the Sessions at McPike Park series.
The euphoric hooks of expertly crafted power-pop slamming into walls of disillusionment.
Apart from these Herzog-Kinski features, Brown has also been hosting fundraising events that include monthly Ukrainian dinners that benefit the international nonprofit World Central Kitchen.
Orton Park Fest reliably brings some rock 'n' roll kick to the East Side summer festival season.
Morrison focuses even more than usual on the imperfections of this source material (the original, recovered 1969 film The Village Detective), with several stretches of his film almost Brakhage-like in their splashes of rusty waves that obscure all identifiable figures...
This year Mad Lit is setting aside a night to celebrate DJs again, so hopefully the DJ Block Party will become an annual staple.
This show will likely serve as some sort of soft release party for the power-pop mainstays, while folk-pop act Uncle JIM and Def Sonic will round out the lineup.
Please note: For now, this is a listing of events that Tone Madison is hosting—including our quarterly-ish Office Hours meetups and occasional shows and workshops. We do not currently produce a listing of events around town, though we would like to in the future. But we do still preview shows, screenings, and other events around town in our stories.
If you are looking for a good local events calendar, we strongly recommend visiting our friends at Madison Minutes.
Want to send us info about an event? Email editor@tonemadison.com; please include all of the acts involved in the event, date, venue, showtime, ticket information, and any other information you think we should know. Send this information at least three weeks before the date of the event. We try to give everything fair consideration, but we do not and cannot preview all events, and we do not run submitted promotional copy.
