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SUMMARY:When You Read This Letter at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:Nightclub dancer Lola (Claude Borelli) stands ready to remove her clothes in front of the rakish Max (Philippe Lemaire)\, who regards her with smug indifference. \nExcerpt from Jason Fuhrman’s review: \nDirector Jean-Pierre Melville’s overlooked existential noir melodrama presents a counterpoint to his more popular crime films and period pieces—such as the underworld comedy of manners\, Bob Le Flambeur (1956)\, the elegant character study of an impossibly cool contract killer\, Le Samouraï (1967)\, and the gripping thriller about the French Resistance\, Army Of Shadows (1969). \nTaken at face value\, the film may appear to lack the cool precision\, calculated restraint\, and mood of contemplative ennui that define Melville’s subsequent output. However\, its atmospheric cinematography\, stylistic complexity\, and haunting ambiguities bring When You Read This Letter (1953) into alignment with the director’s most sophisticated creations. \nFilmed largely on location in Cannes\, France\, with ravishing black-and-white photography by Henri Alekan\, it holds up as a vivid panorama of a bygone time and place. The implausible\, somewhat bizarre plot of the film—which involves con artists\, blackmail\, a sadomasochistic novitiate\, sexual violence\, tragic car accidents\, an unsuccessful suicide attempt\, grand larceny\, and a tangled love triangle—feels surprisingly lurid for what was supposed to be a very “conventional” and “sensible” picture. With its many twists\, turns\, and abrupt tonal shifts\, the narrative sometimes veers toward the surreal.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/when-you-read-this-letter-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Evening With Nick Moran and Friends at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Madison’s music community has the privilege of experiencing so very much of Nick Moran. The bassist’s work in the local jazz scene alone would be pretty tough to sum up—though the highlights include his role as the gregarious host of the New Breed Jazz Jam\, co-founding the brilliant Afro-Latin jazz outfit Golpe Tierra\, and his musical bridge-building trips to Cuba. But it’s not often that we get a night solely focused on his accomplished\, versatile playing. At this ALL show\, Moran will explore a whole spectrum of his musical interests and collaborations in a series of solo pieces\, duos\, and small groups. “The night will feature música criolla del Peru\, bossa nova\, straight ahead jazz and jazz standards\, reggae\, and hip hop\,” Moran tells Tone Madison. Featured players will include drummer Wayne Saltzman II\, vocalist Michelle Duval\, saxophonist/pianist Pawan Benjamin\, and his bandmates in the long-running hip-hop outfit dumate. Moran has worked tirelessly on stage and behind the scenes to bring us a lot of excellent music and make it more accessible to local audiences\, so it’s good to see him get a chance to be the center of attention.  \n—Scott Gordon
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/evening-with-nick-moran-and-friends-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Kainalu\, Javier Reyes\, The Earthlings at Majestic
DESCRIPTION:Ever since emerging in 2017 with the Bloom Lagoon EP\, multi-instrumentalist/producer/songwriter Trent Prall has channeled slick psychedelia through his project Kainalu. With a meticulous ear\, Prall blends Hawaiian influences\, decidedly funky touches\, and a yearning to grapple with complex themes\, working with a rich palette and giving himself plenty of room to evolve. This hometown show will celebrate the November release of Kainalu’s second full-length album\, Ginseng Hourglass.  \nThe nine-song project sharpens Prall’s ability to hone in on specific sounds\, making every synth patch\, drum hit\, and breathy vocal phrase feel intentional while giving it all room to flow. The guitar sounds on the title track build from taut\, trebly chords to a fuzzy haze\, creating a hopeful arc around lyrics that contemplate surrender and control (“Open and listen / The more you resist them / Sands of your ginseng winding down”). The little details and the big questions are always in a conversation here. Loss and doubt leave an especially heavy mark on “Queen Of Wands” and “Zizia\,” which also showcase Prall’s gift for capturing truly exquisite bass sounds—bright and plucky but digging in deep\, just like the songs themselves. \n—Scott Gordon \n \nPhoto by Julianna Photography.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/kainalu-javier-reyes-the-earthlings-at-majestic/
LOCATION:Majestic Theatre\, 115 King Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Haunted Ones at Crucible
DESCRIPTION:Vincent Presley and Lacey Smith’s reissue-focused label Secret Records and their Haunted Ones DJ nights both focus on ferreting out treasures from the weirder corners of post-punk\, industrial\, and left-field electronic music. This edition of Haunted Ones at Crucible will focus on selections from across the careers of drummer/producer Martin Atkins (who has played with bands including Ministry\, Public Image Ltd.\, and Killing Joke) and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Kevin Ogilvie (best-known as the co-founder of Skinny Puppy). The occasion: Secret Records’ November 25 vinyl reissue of Bedside Toxicology\, Atkins’ and Ogilvie’s 1998 collaboration under the name Rx. This setup seems like the perfect excuse to play a bunch of great industrial music involving two people who’ve played foundational roles in the genre\, and at a venue that couldn’t be a better fit for those sounds. \n—Scott Gordon \nRx (Ohgr & Atkins) – Bedside Toxicology (SR37) no download sales please. by RxImage: Detail from Haunted Ones poster designed by Ryan Dunn.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/haunted-ones-at-crucible/
LOCATION:Crucible\, 3116 Commercial Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:After Yang at Union South Marquee
DESCRIPTION:Techno-sapien Yang (right) sets a camera timer to take a photo of his foster family\, then moves into frame with the rest of them (father Jake\, mother Kyra\, and daughter Mika)\, all smiling. \nKogonada retools futuristic technological conventions into a poignant tale of connection in After Yang (2021)\, a filmic tone poem\, a metaphysical chamber play on the virtues of our differences\, between the multicultural and the human and nonhuman. \nBased on a short story by Alexander Weinstein\, the film moves through an unspecified future time when couple Jake and Kyra (Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith) are raising an adopted Chinese daughter\, Mika “Mei Mei” (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) with the aid of android or “techno-sapien” Yang (Justin H. Min). Yang’s presence as a surrogate sibling to Mika not only offers peace of mind but fosters both a subliminal and plainspoken bond to her heritage. However\, this is momentarily severed when Yang inexplicably shuts down one night\, forcing Jake to repair him and familial unity by extension. \nFrom his background in video essays\, Kogonada lends the film a soft\, appealing precision\, the same that infused the architectural contours and paths of 2017’s low-key masterpiece Columbus. Where that film was mindfully fixated on symmetry\, After Yang is aglow with geomancy or feng shui principles that are conceptualized in the family’s Joseph Eichler house as a grand tea room and literally harmonized in fragmented song (Mitski’s faithful cover of Lily Chou-Chou’s “Glide”) throughout. The off-screen ring of wind chimes and Aska Matsumiya and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s score\, suspended in pianissimo\, further lend the film the feeling of a visual meditation tape. \nAfter Yang meshes memorial themes explored in other sci-fi dramas like Marjorie Prime (2017) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)\, as it’s perennially attuned to loss and the struggle between despair and hope. Ultimately\, the richly edited tapestry of quotidian\, Malickian moments\, sporadically captured and later witnessed through clips in first-person perspective from Yang’s memory bank\, reveal to the characters their collective strengths and soul—a sort of extension of the Buddhist philosophy on layers of consciousness. \nKudos to WUD Film for providing a space for a belated first-time local theatrical screening. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/after-yang-at-union-south-marquee/
LOCATION:The Marquee Cinema\, 1308 W Dayton St #245\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Greater Madison Music City Music Recovery Framework Release Party at Café Coda
DESCRIPTION:The Greater Madison Music City (GMMC) project grew out of years-long efforts to address racial disparities in the local music community\, especially the lack of resources and opportunities for hip-hop artists and musicians of color. Under the GMMC banner\, Madison’s Urban Community Arts Network (UCAN) and the consulting firm Sound Diplomacy have collaborated over the past couple of years on a first-of-its-kind study of music in Madison and Dane County\, with funding from the City of Madison and Dane Arts. More specifically\, GMMC is focusing on the economics and policy landscape at play in local music.  \nGMMC’s first report\, released in summer 2021\, provided an overview of the economic impact of music in the area\, and painted a stark picture of who benefits and who misses out. On December 8\, GMMC will release its latest report\, which makes a number of recommendations for improving the economic lot of musicians\, building up music-driven tourism (arts funding and tourism are very intertwined in city government\, for good or ill)\, and leveling the playing field for marginalized audiences and artists. \nAt this Café Coda event\, GMMC will be presenting the report\, and hopefully initiating a lot more conversation—and of course there will be music\, from DJ M. White. The details of the report don’t become public until the start of the event\, but its findings and recommendations will be worth grappling with. Look for more detailed coverage from Tone Madison once that’s out. \n—Scott Gordon \nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/greater-madison-music-city-music-recovery-framework-release-party-at-cafe-coda/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Politics
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221209T230000
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SUMMARY:Tony Barba Blood Moon Quartet at North Street Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Saxophonist Tony Barba’s 2020 album Blood Moon introduced a distinct new dimension in an already unpredictable career spanning many corners of jazz and electronic music. On the record\, Chicago guitarist Matt Gold\, Madison bassist John Christensen\, and Milwaukee drummer Devin Drobka joined Barba to flesh out his original compositions\, which leave plenty of room for non-jazz influences and plenty of room for color and mood. From the brisk title track to the bittersweet drift of “The Long Haul\,” these pieces are remarkable showcases of each musician’s rich sonic palette. The Blood Moon quartet will continue to explore their expansive chemistry at this show\, with at least a couple of new compositions in their repertoire. \n—Scott GordonBlood Moon by Tony Barba
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/tony-barba-blood-moon-quartet-at-north-street-cabaret/
LOCATION:North Street Cabaret\, 610 North Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Eastside Winter Market at Garver Feed Mill
DESCRIPTION:The first day of the two-day Eastside Winter Market will feature a dozen sets of music\, heavy on Madison- and Wisconsin-based acts\, as sonic complement to the local artists and makers selling their wares. (Full disclosure: Tone Madison‘s partner organization\, Communication Madison\, organizes this event.) Things kick off at 11:05 a.m. with the return of queercore project Woke Up Crying\, in the form of a solo set from singer-guitarist Doug Rowe. Flinty but wistful songs like “Sweater Weather\,” from the 2020 EP 3:27 a.m.\, should translate well in a stripped-down setting. The lineup that recorded the EP has since split\, but Rowe has been writing some new material and working on putting together another full-band incarnation of Woke Up Crying.  \nThe day’s music will conclude in different territory altogether\, with a 4:55 p.m. set from electronic artist Hendrix Gullixson\, who got his start in Madison under the name Syneva. Currently based in Minneapolis and performing under just his first name\, Gullixson has gradually evolved his icy ambient vision into something more textured and flexible\, embracing samples and abstraction on recent tracks like “Blue October.” Other highlights on the bill include jazz-inflected singer-songwriter Carisa (2 p.m.)\, a two-piece set from Benjamin Rose and Alex Nelson of mighty queer pop outfit Kat And The Hurricane (2:35 p.m.)\, and psychedelic voyager Def Sonic (3:45 p.m.). \n—Scott Gordon 3:27 a.m. by Woke up Crying \n\nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/eastside-winter-market-at-garver-feed-mill/
LOCATION:Garver Feed Mill\, 3241 Garver Green\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:White Noise at Marcus Point Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Babette Gladney (Greta Gerwig)\, Jack Gladney (Adam Driver)\, and their three children scream while in their red station wagon. The youngest Wilder (Henry Moore) sits masked between Jack and Babette in the front seat looking amused. \nAs a follow-up to his septupuly Oscar-nominated Marriage Story (2019)\, Noah Baumbach has used approximately $80 million of the money Netflix seems to be hemorrhaging lately to do a “one for me” movie—a project that greatly expands his visual ambitions while addressing the only subject that’s a universal concern for our species burdened with sapience. We are going to die. Yes\, you\, the person reading this\, will die someday. That fact and the various complications we create to avoid confronting it is what White Noise (2022) is more or less about. With such a lofty subject to motivate him\, Baumbach has created something sprawling\, messy and totally fascinating\, his analogue to One From The Heart (1981) or Under The Silver Lake (2018). \nAdapted from Don DeLillo’s ’80s satirical novel of the same name\, White Noise follows Jack Gladney (Adam Driver)\, a college professor who has pioneered the field of “Hitler studies\,” and his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig\, in her first acting role since 2018). They’re accompanied by four children from various previous marriages (including Raffey Cassidy of Vox Lux who plays the eldest)\, as well as Jack’s friend and fellow professor Murray (Don Cheadle)\, who hopes to popularize an academic discipline centered on Elvis Presley similar to Jack’s “Hitler studies.” \nThe group navigates a constant Altmanesque cacophony of unending information\, and naturally gravitates toward the biggest spectacle. It can be reasonably assumed that whatever commands the most attention is most important (Jack makes his living from the well of a historical spectacle that will never run dry\, after all)\, while they’re all firmly entrenched in the certainty that whatever disasters are on TV are removed from anything that could happen to them. Of course they are proven wrong\, and history intrudes on day-to-day life in the form of “The Airborne Toxic Event.” The exact nature of the danger is unclear\, but the mere fact that danger is present is enough to disturb the routine. \nThe plot is somewhat of an exaggeration of themes Baumbach has explored for his whole career\, namely the anxiety of trying to place yourself within society. He expands his palette past the character studies he’s made his name on\, incorporating visual references to Brian De Palma’s films\, to Jean-Luc Godard’s Week-end (1967) and Tout Va Bien (1972). Baumbach even casts Fassbinder regular Barbara Sukowa in a cameo toward the end of the film. \nConsumerism at once creates distraction and meaning\, and Baumbach takes care to include a corporate logo in the frame for most of the film’s running time. This ubiquity of branding culminates in an end-credits sequence scored by a new LCD Soundsystem track written especially for the movie. After all\, once you accept you’re going to die\, you might as well get on with your life.  \n—Lewis Peterson
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/white-noise-at-marcus-point-cinema/
LOCATION:Marcus Point Cinema\, 7825 Big Sky Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Tokyo Godfathers at Union South Marquee
DESCRIPTION:Gin\, Miyuki\, and Hana debate what to do next in their quest to return an abandoned child they found on the streets of Tokyo on Christmas Eve. \nSatoshi Kon may be best known for his animated\, surrealistic\, psychological thrillers\, so Tokyo Godfathers (2003) may stand out in writer-director-character designer’s oeuvre as a rollicking buddy adventure that just happens to be Christmas-themed. But it’s quite a natural follow-up to Kon’s postmodernist masterpiece Millennium Actress (2001)\, about a reclusive movie star modeled after the real-life Setsuko Hara (of Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story). \nTokyo Godfathers boasts a restless pacing and zany energy contained in the dynamic between its trio of drifters—the gruff drunkard Gin (voiced by Tōru Emori)\, boisterous trans woman Hana (Yoshiaki Umegaki)\, and penitent teen runaway Miyuki (Aya Okamoto)—who find an abandoned newborn baby on Christmas Eve and collectively set out to locate her parents based on a mere photograph left at the scene. Through their rag-tag detective work\, the trio uncover truths of their own characters and shortcomings in tragicomic fashion\, realizing they may not be radically different from the struggling parents who saw themselves as incapable of caring for a child. \nWhile something about the film’s developments may feel curbed in its concise 92-minute running time\, Kon’s compellingly larger-than-life staging and beautifully diverse visual flourishes elevate its dramatic rushes through the snowy streets and alleys of Tokyo. Miyuki’s fantastical dream and Hana’s reflective haiku\, in particular\, both offer ruminative respites that showcase the miraculous depths of Kon’s talent that’s deeply missed today. \nWUD Film will be screening the Japanese language version with English subtitles. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/tokyo-godfathers-at-union-south-marquee/
LOCATION:The Marquee Cinema\, 1308 W Dayton St #245\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:To Space And Back: An Evening Of Piano Trios at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:A trio of headshots of the performing musicians—Shuguang Gong (piano)\, Sahada Buckley (violin)\, and Trace Johnson (cello). \nThis program of chamber works by composers Bedrich Smetana\, Fazil Say\, and Dmitri Shostakovich spans over 150 years—from the lavish romanticism of Smetana’s nearly 30-minute “Piano Trio In G Minor\, Op. 15\,” composed in 1855\, to the creeping dramatism of Say’s more contained “Space Jump\, Op. 46\,” which was first performed less than a decade ago. The evening concludes with Dmitri Shostakovich’s mid-twentieth-century work\, “Piano Trio No. 2 In E Minor.” \nSay’s modern piece\, which performing violinist Sahada Buckley rightfully calls “a total bop\,” swoons with a tense interplay of pizzicato and legato technique between her violin and Trace Johnson’s cello\, before Shuguang Gong’s stark and sticky piano melody sweeps up the strings in a dizzying rush from lower to higher register. If it sounds like the soundtrack to a high-stakes stunt on silent film\, it sort of is\, tributing Felix Baumgartner’s legendary jump from a helium balloon in Earth’s stratosphere as he picks up speed. \nThe three movements of Smetana’s “Piano Trio” actually well-complement Say’s acrobatic work; while they may momentarily offer a brighter sonic palette that evokes the lithe dance of nostalgia\, the piece as a whole is predominantly consumed by a melancholic motif reflective of Smetana’s loss of his eldest daughter. In its finale\, the range of the piano particularly shines as the strings drift atop its piquant pianissimo and full-on forte. \nAfter an intermission\, the trio will conclude with the 25-minute suite of Shostakovich’s “Piano Trio\,” which expresses the same amalgamation of elation and grief in Smetana’s composition. Shostakovich channels these emotions most vividly into the dramatic arc of the final movement\, rife with alluring polarity and a seismic dynamic range. \nReference the event page for a substantial idea about the performers\, but it doesn’t quite compare to hearing the virtuosic potential of Buckley and Johnson\, whose electroacoustic duo Vōchē recently improvised one of the most compelling sets I’ve seen this year\, at Communication. With the dexterous Gong joining Buckley and Johnson for this performance\, “To Space And Back” promises to articulate the reciprocal and interconnected musical journey. \nBuckley\, Johnson\, and Gong are also performing this same piano trio program in Hamel Music Center (Collins Hall) on UW-Madison campus on Monday December 12\, at 7:30 p.m. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/to-space-and-back-an-evening-of-piano-trios-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:New Music Series: Johannes Wallmann Trio at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Pianist and composer Johannes Wallmann\, chair of UW-Madison’s jazz program\, continued to build on his already-strong discography earlier this year with the release of Precarious Towers on the Shifting Paradigm label. Wallmann has been restlessly exploring different configurations over the years\, and this time he pulls together a quintet that helps him tie the roots of jazz to a range of playful and dissonant tendencies. At this show\, part of a free Sunday series organized by saxophonist Anders Svanoe\, Wallmann will be joined by percussionist Mitch Shiner and trumpeter Russ Johnson. Shiner (who himself chairs a jazz program\, at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee) plays vibraphone on Precarious Towers\, and makes a particularly memorable contribution lending color and conflicted texture to the slinky\, blues-y “Never Pet A Burning Dog.” Johnson has also recorded with Wallmann before\, including on the 2015 album The Town Musicians\, and he’s an adventurous composer/bandleader in his own right\, as you can hear on standout albums like 2014’s Meeting Point and 2018’s Headlands. \n—Scott Gordon \nPrecarious Towers by Johannes Wallman
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/new-music-series-johannes-wallmann-trio-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:"Or… (night)" Solstice Celebration at Common Sage
DESCRIPTION:A handbill features a negative image of a sprig of sage with all the relevant event information. \nThere’s uncommon hospitality at Common Sage\, Tim Russell and Liz Sexe’s avant-garde-focused but distinctly cozy house venue. The music-dance power duo welcomed friends into their recreation of La Monte Young’s “Dream House” to mark the composer’s October birthday. As Russell and Sexe continue to get back into the swing of more regular hosting\, they’re planning a send-off to 2022 in the form of a winter solstice celebration\, “Or… (night)\,” as a tribute to another boundary-pushing composer\, James Tenney (and to the longest night). \nRussell and Sexe have gathered an inspiring crew of local talent\, including noisemakers Emili Earhart\, David Henry\, and Ari Smith\, to interpret Tenney’s 1970-1971 piece of indeterminacy\, “For Percussion Perhaps\, Or…” While there are a number of recorded performances that elicit the piece’s nuanced drone via prepared hurdy-gurdy\, trombone\, and electronics\, and even solo keyboard (you like Julia Holter\, right?)\, the instrumental configurations for this house show will remain a surprise. \nBeyond that\, most beckoning about this special event is the union of artistic mediums\, with short film projection by Barry Paul Clark and dancers Sexe and Mauriah Donegan Kraker\, who will all add further visual flair through their kinetic chemistry. \nFor those relatively unfamiliar with Tenney’s history\, take it from writer Bradford Bailey\, who asserts that Tenney’s work encompassed “nearly all of the central conceits used by avant-garde composers during the second half of the twentieth century.” Perhaps there’s no better way to find your way in than through the doors of Common Sage. \nPotluck begins at 7 p.m.\, with performances to follow at 8 p.m. And\, if it’s temperate enough outdoors\, Common Sage will start a fire pit in their backyard. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/or-night-solstice-celebration-at-common-sage/
LOCATION:Common Sage\, 934 Drake St\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Music
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SUMMARY:KennyHoopla\, Groupthink\, Jackie Hayes at High Noon Saloon
DESCRIPTION:We were lucky enough to have KennyHoopla living in our midst when he released the 2016 EP Beneath The Willow Tree. Its immersive\, winsome blur of emo\, bedroom pop\, and hip-hop pointed to his emotional depth and a knack for cutting across genre boundaries. Since then\, all that promise has exploded in unpredictable ways\, and why should it be any different? \nKennyHoopla has gone on to collaborate with Blink-182’s Travis Barker on tracks like “Estella\,” on which he plunges unabashedly into pop-punk but still sounds every bit his yearning\, uncontainable self. His love of big melodies and big emotions goes in a slightly gentler direction on this year’s single “Dirty White Vans\,” which features a guest verse from Wiz Khalifa and perhaps the most KennyHoopla line imaginable: “I’m about to throw a party\, only for the sad ones.” That sounds like a good plan for ringing in 2023. This show also features Groupthink—another musically versatile former Madisonian—and Chicago’s Jackie Hayes. \n—Scott Gordon \n \nPhoto by RAHEEMISBLIND.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/kennyhoopla-groupthink-jackie-hayes-at-high-noon-saloon/
LOCATION:High Noon Saloon\, 701 East Washington Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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