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SUMMARY:Orton Park Festival at Orton Park (August 25 through 28)
DESCRIPTION:Orton Park Fest reliably brings some rock ‘n’ roll kick to the East Side summer festival season. This time around\, that aspect of Orton includes a chance to see Disq (Friday\, 7 p.m.) as the band ramps up toward the October release of its latest album\, Desperately Imagining Someplace Quiet. Right now Disq’s next Madison show on the books is in December\, so take advantage. But also come back for the multi-faceted pop charms of The Periodicals (Saturday\, 5 p.m.)\, the bittersweet jangle of Proud Parents (Sunday\, 1:30 p.m.)\, and plenty more sounds from Madison and beyond. —Scott Gordon \nJournal of Love by The Periodicals \n\n\n Illustration by Shaysa Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/orton-park-festival-at-orton-park-2022/
LOCATION:Orton Park\, 1103 Spaight Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Mariupolis at Leopold's Books Bar Caffè patio (following Ukrainian fundraiser dinner)
DESCRIPTION:Excerpt from Grant Phipps’ recent article about Sam Brown’s outdoor movie series at Leopold’s: Apart from the Herzog-Kinski features\, Brown has also been hosting fundraising events that include monthly Ukrainian dinners that benefit the international nonprofit World Central Kitchen. The next one\, on Monday\, August 22\, at 5 p.m.\, is coupled with a patio screening of the documentary Mariupolis (2016) by director Mantas Kvedaravičius. The Lithuanian-born Kvedaravičius was killed this past April during the Russian siege of Mariupol shortly before the Cannes premiere of companion film Mariupolis 2. Brown cites the efforts of producer Anna Palenchuk\, founder of the Kyiv-based 435 Films\, for helping make the 8 p.m. screening possible.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/mariupolis-at-leopolds-books-bar-caffe-patio/
LOCATION:Leopold’s Books Bar Caffè\, 1301 Regent Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Lee Bains + Glory Fires\, Loamlands\, Rocket Bureau at Dark Horse ArtBar
DESCRIPTION:“You’re not you anymore” goes the refrain of “Not You\,” the second track from Rocket Bureau’s 2021 album Middle Angst. This increasingly sums up the spirit of Madison musician Kyle Urban’s (of The Motorz\, The August Teens\, and many other sturdy rock ‘n’ roll bands) ongoing solo studio project: The euphoric hooks of expertly crafted power-pop slamming into walls of disillusionment\, guitars blaring away irrepressibly as the lyrics contemplate the moments in life when novelty wears thin and purpose gets muddled. The album reprises “Terrified\,” the powerful lead-off track from Rocket Bureau’s 2015 release Low Times\, High Anxiety. “I’m petrified of how the world surrounds me\,” Motor sings on the chorus\, giving listeners a full perspective on the vulnerability behind the brightly overdriven armor. The live-band version of Rocket Bureau (Urban and Josh Labbus on guitars\, Dan Bornemann on bass\, and Paul Kennedy on drums) opens up here for the blistering but always thoughtful Alabama band Lee Bains + Glory Fires\, whose latest album\, Old-Time Folks\, came out earlier this month. —Scott GordonMiddle Angst by Rocket BureauPhoto: Rocket Bureau. Photo by Dan Bornemann.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/lee-bains-glory-fires-loamlands-rocket-bureau-at-dark-horse-artbar/
LOCATION:Dark Horse ArtBar\, 756 E Washington Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kiki's Righteous Session at McPike Park
DESCRIPTION:One of Madison’s most cherished and enduring venues is the Far East Side-ish basement of tireless music fan Kiki Schueler’s house. 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 2022 edition of Kiki’s Righteous Session begins with The Low Czars\, a Madison cover band that digs skillfully into the back pages of power pop\, garage rock\, and R&B. Jason Narducy (lately of Bob Mould’s unstoppable power trio) plays here in his ferociously catchy solo project Split Single\, behind the 2021 album Amplificado\, and Nashville’s Aaron Lee Tasjan closes things out. On a second\, smaller tent stage\, jazz guitarist Bill Roberts will be playing with his combo in-between the main-stage bands. —Scott Gordon \n \nPhoto by Emily Steadman.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/kikis-righteous-session-at-mcpike-park/
LOCATION:McPike Park\, 202 South Ingersoll Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Johannes Wallmann And Precarious Towers at Jazz at Five
DESCRIPTION:From Scott Gordon’s feature on Johannes Wallmann’s new album\, Precarious Towers: “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—Sharel Cassity on alto sax\, Madison’s John Christensen on bass\, Milwaukee’s Devin Drobka on drums\, and Mitch Shiner\, also of Milwaukee on vibraphone. For all that’s new here\, there is also a sense that he wants to focus on the fundamentals\, roots he’s never exactly departed from but wants to examine in a close\, intentional way. It’s a good chance for both Wallmann and his listeners to ask what it all means from today’s fractured perspective.” \nPrecarious Towers by Johannes Wallman
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/johannes-wallmann-and-precarious-towers-at-jazz-at-five/
LOCATION:100 Block of State Street\, 100 State Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Creature From The Black Lagoon at Memorial Union Terrace
DESCRIPTION: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. Natural horror and sci-fi invasion adventures ruled the day through the 1950s\, first finding an audience with Christian Nyby’s The Thing From Another World (1951)\, which yielded one of the all-time great remakes in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). But\, can Nyby’s film claim to have inspired two official sequels and a short-running musical? I think not. \nWhile the rubbery\, amphibious “Gill-man” himself isn’t terribly frightful and the dynamic between male scientists on land leaves something to be desired\, the fluid underwater diving and stalking sequences\, actually directed by James C. Havens\, are beautiful to behold. They surely must have inspired a young Steven Spielberg at the time\, who went on to make the thrilling cinematic event of the 1970s in Jaws (1975)\, which spawned too many imitators to even account for. (Without Creature\, there also wouldn’t be 2018 Best Picture winner The Shape Of Water.) In all cases\, the original visions have stood the test of time. And screening to a lively audience sprawled out on the Terrace\, Creature From The Black Lagoon can perhaps serve as a gateway to a budding horror historian or enthusiastic young filmmaker. —Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954-at-memorial-union-terrace/
LOCATION:Memorial Union Terrace\, 800 Langdon Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Able Baker\, Null Device at Memorial Union Terrace
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Elly Fine. \nIt 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\, a band that’s been really finding its voice on a series of punchy but tender indie-rock tracks. Null Device recently finished up its eighth album\, The Emerald Age\, and plans to release it this fall. The album will open with an already released single\, “Flags\,” which captures the band’s gift for ominous moods and suspenseful hooks. The track is an industrial-tinged reflection on the corrupt\, fascist politics that pervade our historical moment\, offering both a lament and a challenge—”When it all comes down / What kind of people will you fight for?” the chorus asks. But at the same time\, it’s committed to the clean lines and bold gestures that make a good pop song tick. The chance to hear more new work from Null Device\, plus the dynamic and assured live sets Able Baker has been playing lately\, should make for a lovely night on the Terrace. —Scott Gordon \nFlags by Null Device
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/able-baker-null-device-at-memorial-union-terrace/
LOCATION:Memorial Union Terrace\, 800 Langdon Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Mantis at Café Coda (7 and 9 p.m. showtimes)
DESCRIPTION:From Scott Gordon’s feature on Mantis’ self-titled debut album: “Mantis gives us a prolonged listen to the more aggressive side of Madison baritone sax player Anders Svanoe’s playing. Bassist Brad Townsend and drummer Nick Zielinski match him with bountiful dimension and texture. On ‘Intersection\,’ both Svanoe and Townsend lean into their instruments at angles of maximum friction—sharp squeals we don’t often associate with the baritone (Svanoe loves making it sound not like a baritone)\, bowed bass swells that evoke a rusty-hinge door swinging back and forth. The jaunty handclaps on the next track\, ‘Skedaddle\,’ sound almost sinister in context.”  \nMANTIS by Anders Svanoe
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/mantis-at-cafe-coda-7-and-9-p-m-showtimes/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Desert Liminal\, Jennifer Hedstrom\, Loveblaster at Communication
DESCRIPTION:Madison duo Loveblaster’s debut single\, “The Need To Fail\,” has an arresting tension at work underneath its minimal\, gentle surface. I’m not sure why a band with that sort of name is channeling the sounds of Low (circa Things We Lost In The Fire or thereabouts?) rather than burly cock-rock\, but we are all the better off for it. Abigail Self (vocals\, bass\, piano) and Marley VanRaalte (vocals\, guitar\, drums) create vocal harmonies that linger between warmth and desolation\, atop ringing chords and plodding drums. Neal Jochmann of Combat Naps and Able Baker will join them on sax at this show. Loveblaster plans to release a second single\, “Watching You Change\,” next month. They share the bill here with Chicago dream-pop voyagers Desert Liminal and Madison singer-songwriter Jennifer Hedstrom. —Scott GordonThe Need to Fail by Loveblaster
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/desert-liminal-jennifer-hedstrom-loveblaster-at-communication/
LOCATION:Communication\, 2645 Milwaukee Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:The Pursuit of Happiness Sessions at McPike Park
DESCRIPTION:The Sessions at McPike Park series kicks off its 2022 season with The Pursuit of Happiness\, which serves as a sizable festival unto itself. This being an outdoor music fest on the east side\, there’s a heavy emphasis on international acts and Americana—the Madagascar-born Razia Said and Mekon-turned-outlaw-country artist Jon Langford are among those with top billing here. The lineup also works in some great offerings from Madison’s own music community. Sunday on the Chicory Stage\, for instance\, includes a performance from Leslie Damaso and Mr. Chair\, combining their interests in Filipino art song and far-flung jazz\, and jazz pianist Johannes Wallmann\, playing behind his new album Precarious Towers. —Scott Gordon
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/the-pursuit-of-happiness-sessions-at-mcpike-park/
LOCATION:McPike Park\, 202 South Ingersoll Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Rooftop Cinema: Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché at Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:As with years of recent Rooftop Cinema past\, the outdoor series tends to favor an annual explication of an iconoclastic musician or groundbreaking movement in punk or the avant-garde. Past year’s selections have included Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present in 2019 to Desolation Center in 2020. This year’s Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché is a multifaceted portrait of the titular British-Somali poet and vocalist (born Marianne Elliott-Said)\, who fronted X-Ray Spex in late 1970s London. \nWhile Poly’s DIY flair for fashion and distinctively defiant punk rock influenced riot grrrl acts in the 1990s and Afro-punk in the 2000s\, this documentary ultimately revolves around a family affair\, as it’s co-directed by the famed singer’s daughter Celeste Bell (with increasingly prolific documentarian Paul Sng). \nIn the opening seconds of the film\, Bell considers a question that’s often asked of her about Poly being a good mother. Over the course of 90 minutes\, Bell attempts to answer and reconcile the faces of public and private life. In reconstructing and retracing Poly Styrene’s artistic roots through artifacts that predate Bell while simultaneously sifting through early memories (or those made in her absence) as a child\, this biography documentary becomes a surprisingly psychological and uncommonly comprehensive look at identity. —Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/rooftop-cinema-poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche-at-madison-museum-of-contemporary-art/
LOCATION:Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, 227 State Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:A League Of Their Own at Memorial Union Terrace
DESCRIPTION:Though the film may have caused the first stirrings of feminist ideology in a generation of impressionable athletes\, its combination core as a pure baseball comedy is what has made it stick. A League Of Their Own tells the mostly-fictionalized account of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in its prime. As Major League Baseball players continue to get shipped overseas as soldiers for WWII\, the businessmen of the American dynasty quickly notice the faltering profits. They eventually land on the novel idea of a professional women’s league to fill the time and their pockets.\n\n \n\nDirector Penny Marshall and screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel meet viewers with the familiarity of America’s Pastime to ease some into the fact that women can be ballplayers\, actually. It also wouldn’t be the dramedy of resilience that it is without its acknowledgment of the barriers women faced in the 1940s\, especially those who stepped outside the boundaries of the home when the war made it essential. —Alisyn Amant
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/a-league-of-their-own-at-memorial-union-terrace/
LOCATION:Memorial Union Terrace\, 800 Langdon Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Deterioration\, Czarbles\, Mellow Harsher\, Ferity at Mickey's Tavern
DESCRIPTION:Czarbles has been a homegrown treasure since releasing its self-titled debut album in 2006\, and this will be the trio’s first show since 2020. Guitarist Mark Sauer\, drummer Jeff Sauer\, and bassist Matt Skemp play instrumental rock of almost maddening complexity\, but they’ve dwelt so long in the minutiae of odd time signatures and contorted phrasings that the music becomes catchy\, flexible\, mischievous\, compact\, and improbably approachable. Speaking of compact\, Czarbles’ most recent album\, 2015’s Nausea Trois\, clocks in at just over 12 minutes. Stoughton’s Mellow Harsher\, playing here to celebrate drummer Goatlord’s birthday\, has achieved something of a legendary status for its delightfully punishing grindcore. Madison hardcore band Ferity and Minneapolis grindcore outfit Deterioration further enhance this evening of heavy menace. —Scott Gordon \nNausea Trois by Czarbles
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/deterioration-czarbles-mellow-harsher-ferity-at-mickeys-tavern/
LOCATION:Mickey’s Tavern\, 1524 Williamson St.\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Good Corners\, Jonathon Millionaire at Dark Horse ArtBar
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Gann played drums for the sparkling\, dry-witted Madison band Labrador\, but lately he’s shifted his attention to a solo project called Jonathon Millionaire. Gann’s husky voice (somewhere in the neighborhood of Jawbreaker’s Blake Schwarzenbach\, but less grizzled) gives his songs a downtrodden heft on the album Unlimited Growth Potential\, forming a sharp contrast with the bright layers of guitar and driving\, almost playful drums and bass. Gann refines that approach further on a recent single\, “Chrysalis\,” a song that captures the feeling of being stuck in place but still offers hope for what’s ahead. For this show\, the live version of Jonathon Millionaire will be Gann on guitar and vocals\, Ben Strohbeen on bass\, and Craig Hoffmann on drums. Opening things up is Good Corners\, the duo of John Hitchcock and Ryan Lansing\, which uses pedal steel\, synths\, and eerie samples to create entrancing landscapes of spacey twang. This show also celebrates the opening of Pushed To Abstraction\, a group art show of work from Hitchcock\, Samie Laine Scott\, Jason Levy\, and Evan Bradbury. —Scott Gordon\nChrysalis by Jonathon Millionaire
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/good-corners-jonathon-millionaire-at-dark-horse-artbar/
LOCATION:Dark Horse ArtBar\, 756 E Washington Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Rooftop Cinema: The American Sector at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:Rooftop Cinema returns to the sculpture garden atop MMoCA on State Street for a 17th season\, now on Thursday nights in August. The outdoor series\, which has showcased everything from experimental animation to concert films to offbeat narratives\, now shifts its thematic lens towards a four-film slate of personal documentaries. Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez’s The American Sector (2020) kicks off Rooftop’s 2022 programming here. The succinct 70-minute film is a fusion of travelogue\, political documentary\, and art appreciation\, as the co-directors capture sections of the Berlin Wall that have been reappropriated and displayed in over 75 locations across the United States\, from Fort Benning to Vegas. Based on Velez’s prior work with slow cinema ethnographic fiction Manakamana (a 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival selection)\, expect a distinctive eye for detail and resonant commentary on American values. —Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/rooftop-cinema-the-american-sector-at-madison-museum-of-contemporary-art/
LOCATION:Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, 227 State Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Drunken Master and Police Story 2 at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:Emerging from a mid-1970s sea of Bruce Lee imitators\, Jackie Chan quickly established himself as a singular talent\, directing his own films and leading a highly disciplined stunt team. Infusing the martial arts genre with his Chinese opera training and a willingness to put himself in physical danger\, Chan stood out as an innovator.\n\n \n\nLoosely based on a Chinese folk hero\, Drunken Master is one of the first films that let Chan’s goofy underdog persona shine. Creating new fighting styles for each of his films\, director Yuen Siu-Tin opted for entertainment value over realism\, creating the perfect showcase for Chan’s agility and comic mugging.\n\n \n\nPolice Story 2 shows a refinement of Jackie Chan’s personal style\, creating a vehicle perfectly tailored to his physical skills and underdog persona. Though he wisely didn’t try to top the first film’s death-defying finale\, Police Story 2 has plenty of incredibly dangerous stunts and intricate fight choreography. —Ian Adcock
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/drunken-master-and-police-story-2-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Lovely Socialite at Café Coda
DESCRIPTION:While the members of the groovy Madison-born jazz-rock sextet Lovely Socialite are now split between a few Midwestern cities\, they congregate again here for a spirited release show for a new LP\, The Drift\, the band’s first in over six years. It follows on the heels of a trio of Lovely Socialites series of Quarantine Loops EPs\, sourced from remotely produced experiments and collaborations with electronic artists including John Praw and Chants. This Café Coda show also marks the 10th anniversary celebration of the band’s self-released debut\, the punny Registers Her Delight. \nAcross nine complex compositions by most of the band’s members—trombonist Corey Murphy\, bassist Ben Willis\, cellist and guitarist Pat Reinholz\, and cellist and pipa player Brian Grimm—The Drift dabbles in more overt spiritual jazz influences while holding onto the familiar sonic allusions to Jaga Jazzist and Sleep Dirt-era Zappa. And it results in Lovely Socialite’s most lavishly crafted and thrillingly cinematic work to date. \nTake the innovative interplay of Mike Koszewski’s hip-hop-flavored percussion with Abe Sorber’s lithe vibraphone\, Grimm’s pipa\, and Murphy’s trombone on the former half of “Top Secret Jazz\,” a sleuthy-sounding theme for a cartoon noir\, which accelerates and tumbles into the bass-heavy sounds of a foot chase by its end. The prior piece\, “Wrapped In Tentacles\,” is a cello-led nautical anthem for a sinking ship\, or one in mutant octopi peril of the high seas\, and it’s maybe the closest thing the band’s ever written to Rock In Opposition\, like a spiritual successor to Henry Cow’s Western Culture. \nBut one thing hasn’t changed\, and that’s Lovely Socialite generously serving up some of the most memorable instrumental tunes in the oddest time signatures. —Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/lovely-socialite-at-cafe-coda/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Pola X at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:Excerpt from Grant Phipps’ review: “For his fourth feature\, Pola X (1999)\, Carax transmutates Melville’s subversive 1852 novel Pierre: Or\, The Ambiguities with the sort of verve one would expect of the same iconoclastic mind who enraptured audiences with delirious romances—sister films\, even—Mauvais Sang (1986) and Lovers On The Bridge (1991). Using Melville’s template\, Carax applies the same charged style to a tale of a family in the dual process of fraying and coupling\, of incestuous dreams manifest\, offering a portrait of the artist as an ageless man. Initial search results and impressions of Pola X are likely to lump it in with what Artforum critic James Quandt coined as the “New French Extremity” movement for one particularly murky sexual encounter. Yet Carax’s approach is far from extreme\, savoring the smoldering intrigue of the subconscious framed between fits of panicked disillusionment from protagonist Pierre Valombreuse (the late Guillaume Depardieu).”
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/pola-x-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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