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.
Angelo Madsen Minax's deeply felt documentary North By Current (2021) is tethered to unraveling a family tragedy as much as it is a family itself.
Interlay, Deryk G, and more play WSUM's fall festival.
Free Dirt hosts a full day of Wisconsin bands and DJs.
Madison band Poopshovel plays here for the first time in almost 30 years.
PUP's current tour, aptly titled "Thank Fucking God" (the Sylvee's censored marketing version be damned), feels especially potent as an antidote to .
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.
