Mantis at Café Coda (7 and 9 p.m. showtimes)
Café Coda 1224 Williamson St, Madison, WI, United StatesMantis gives us a prolonged listen to the more aggressive side of Madison baritone sax player Anders Svanoe’s playing.
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Able Baker, Null Device at Memorial Union Terrace
Memorial Union Terrace 800 Langdon Street, Madison, WI, United StatesIt 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.
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Creature From The Black Lagoon at Memorial Union Terrace
Memorial Union Terrace 800 Langdon Street, Madison, WI, United StatesThough 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.
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Johannes Wallmann And Precarious Towers at Jazz at Five
100 Block of State Street 100 State Street, Madison, WI, United StatesOn 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.
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Kiki’s Righteous Session at McPike Park
McPike Park 202 South Ingersoll Street, Madison, WI, United StatesThe 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.
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Lee Bains + Glory Fires, Loamlands, Rocket Bureau at Dark Horse ArtBar
Dark Horse ArtBar 756 E Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, United StatesThe euphoric hooks of expertly crafted power-pop slamming into walls of disillusionment.
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Mariupolis at Leopold’s Books Bar Caffè patio (following Ukrainian fundraiser dinner)
Leopold’s Books Bar Caffè 1301 Regent Street, Madison, WI, United StatesApart 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.
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Orton Park Festival at Orton Park (August 25 through 28)
Orton Park 1103 Spaight Street, Madison, WI, United StatesOrton Park Fest reliably brings some rock 'n' roll kick to the East Side summer festival season.
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Rooftop Cinema: The Village Detective: A Song Cycle at Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 227 State Street, Madison, WI, United StatesMorrison 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...
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Mad Lit DJ Block Party at 100 block of State Street
100 Block of State Street 100 State Street, Madison, WI, United StatesThis year Mad Lit is setting aside a night to celebrate DJs again, so hopefully the DJ Block Party will become an annual staple.
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Def Sonic, Uncle JIM, Heavy Looks at BarleyPop Live
BarleyPop Live 121 West Main Street, Madison, WI, United StatesThis 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.
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Rooftop Cinema: North By Current at Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 227 State Street, Madison, WI, United StatesAngelo 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.
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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.