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(11/15/16 12:00pm)
For many of us in Madison, this past week was a time for shouting out in the open air and joining arms in the middle of the street. So as I headed past a wailing, distressed but hopeful mass on the Capitol steps to see singer and songwriter Alex G play the intimate Frequency, feelings of apprehension and guilt crept in; what an inopportune time to huddle together in a confined, introspective space like The Frequency.
(10/14/16 11:00am)
There’s a special place in my heart for the New York based, indie rock band Real Estate. I equate their music to hazy desert nights and overall content. This appreciation is due in large part to the warm, breezy vibes inherent in their sound, and in small part to my memory of making out with a guy in the front seat of his car while Real Estate’s Atlas (2014) soundtracked the occasion. When I saw Real Estate live for the first time in Madison on Saturday night, Oct. 8, my hopes for a similarly visceral experience fell short.
(04/13/16 1:00pm)
When a longstanding publication such as The New York Times goes out of its way to make a sweeping claim about the state of the music industry, it often reads like a crotchety music man wagging his finger at millennials from the comfort of a velvet recliner chair. But an article published in March, “Why We’re Not Making Plans for Coachella and Bonnaroo” by Jon Caramanica, Ben Ratliff and Jon Pareles, caused many to pause and reconsider the value of the festivals they’ve held true to heart.
(03/31/16 2:31pm)
Eneale Pickett seems comfortable as a hip-hop artist on his new mixtape “L.I.F.E.”, but he’s quick to denounce any intention of sounding, posturing or circulating as a rapper. The freshman First Wave scholar from Chicago’s south side has been a lover of hip-hop and poetry alike since early on, but it wasn’t until he was thrown into the mix of slam poetry in his middle and high school years that he felt sure of his artistic stature and purpose in the spoken word vein. The latest chapter in Pickett’s journey proves that he’s no live-performance purist either.
(11/11/15 4:06am)
There’s few emotions rawer than rage. It’s an easy emotion to relate to—how often have some of us broken down against some misfortune or against someone who crossed all the wrong wires at the perfectly wrong times? Of course, most of us bury it and move on with our lives, since respect rarely follows bloodshot eyes and swollen veins.
(11/03/15 6:50am)
Electrifying pop hooks. A dreamy voice of smooth gold. The vibrations of pulsating synthesizers. All are recurring themes on Garrett Borns’ first studio album, Dopamine.
(11/03/15 4:57am)
Chances are this Hallow’s Eve resulted in “hooking up” for bunches of Badgers. Whether that hooking up involved snogging a Scooby Doo, boning a skeleton or making a kitty say “meow” is up to interpretation.
(10/08/15 2:08am)
Glass Animals’ performance at the Orpheum Tuesday night had everyone in attendance thankful for the difficulty of medical school. Lead vocalist Dave Bayley, the brains behind their psychedelic indie sounds meshing with soul and R&B, was, incidentally, once upon a time a student in medical school. Lucky for us, he soon realized his calling lay in creating music that attracts one of the most eclectic music crowds I’ve ever seen in Madison. Perhaps one reason perhaps why this concert brought together fans of such different genres is the addictive quality of Bayley’s music. Anyone who has ever experienced the first slow wave of getting tipsy or high would have been able to recognize that same feeling when Bayley launched into their first number, “Walla Walla,” and the wave climbed from there.
(09/28/15 2:29am)
I don’t think that the majority of us have the full ability to comprehend what addiction is. We use that word carelessly, as we do most words in our life. We claim to be addicted to that new song by Kanye or the guacamole at Chipotle but as obliviously as we may insist otherwise we do not need these things for survival or for some semblance of peace in our mind. True addiction is a clawing need inside of your skin that breathes with a life of its own. It is the desperate longing for something so intense that nothing but the object of your addiction exists. It is a hunger so deep you can feel it in every crevice of your mind. While we may never understand what it truly means to go through something like that, words left behind by others can show us a rare glimpse into the mental battle addiction entails.
(07/02/15 10:38pm)
Early Monday afternoon, Badgers fans received news that they had long feared—the Bo Ryan era in Madison is coming to an end.
(03/10/15 3:58am)
Last Friday, stand-up comedian Duncan Trussell recorded an episode of his podcast “The Duncan Trussell Family Hour” live at the Majestic, in a fascinating fusion of the worlds of podcasting and performance.
(02/24/15 1:42am)
Right-to-work legislation came one step closer to a vote, as Senate leaders referred the bill Monday to the Senate Committee on Labor and Government Reform.
(02/12/15 4:23am)
The Wooden Award committee came out Wednesday with their short list of the 20 players in the country that can win the prestigious Wooden Player of the Year award. Of course, they could likely have just shortened that list to two players.
(02/10/15 3:12am)
There was something unreal about seeing Julianna Barwick do her sound check in Der Rathskeller Friday night. She didn’t do any “check one, check two” routine, no onomatopoeias were uttered. Instead, she held notes into the microphone, like angelic offerings. Using the console in front of her, she piled vocal on vocal and with some sort of switch, set the sounds into a loop.
(02/05/15 10:59pm)
The ghost of economist Edwin Witte broke the chains of death and made an appearance in Witte Residence Hall Friday night.
(01/20/15 4:43am)
Juggernaut Ohio State
(12/05/14 6:50am)
When I was walking by the merchandise table in the Barrymore Theatre, set up for Nick Lowe’s Quality Holiday Revue tour, I noticed an item that was (in every sense) jarring. Pinned to a board was a T-shirt advertising the event, with cartoon headshots of Lowe and his backing band, Los Straitjackets. But there was another face beaming out in peach and pastel, which was the reason I paused: Ian McLagan, who died suddenly Dec. 3.
(11/05/14 7:44am)
A few weeks ago, over Twitter, I had a slightly tempestuous series of exchanges with the music streaming company Spotify. Its services, which can be accessed by either paying directly or agreeing to listen to advertisements intermittently between songs, are available for both computers and phones.
(10/28/14 5:44am)
The phrase “adult animation” may or may not have a specific connotation for you, whether you’re thinking of “American Dad!” or something… different. Whatever the case may be, the phrase “adult animation” should bring to mind, well, adult topics. And not even necessarily anything raunchy—although that is plenty adult, in the context of “adult animation”—but rather, topics that are too nuanced or too graphic or too discomforting for something termed “young person animation” I guess. Topics like diaspora and sexual politics and gigantic cocks doing pushups in a squeaking gymnasium (but more on that later).
(10/23/14 3:45am)
So I want to talk a little about definitions. Mostly, I want to talk about the fact that TV and movies are, more and more, the same thing, sort of? Because they maybe weren’t so different in the first place? But all that comes later. First, we have to talk about comic books.
