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(10/31/17 4:02pm)
For the moment, we see some connection between the beat and body. How easily it becomes repetitive to know where music will transition for quick appraisal. In small fragments, the influence of culture lies somewhere between knowing and claiming everything taken. For years, the rotation doesn’t fall far from expectation, but instead separates hip-hop and rap music and its quick assimilation into white mainstream media. I see this in the audience. A 7,000-person crowd eagerly awaits one of the most prominent media figures in music today. American record producer and record label executive DJ Khaled plays centerstage at the Kohl Center.
(10/30/17 3:21pm)
I and You: Playhouse at the Overture Center (11/2 – 11/19)
(10/30/17 11:00am)
Music
(10/30/17 1:00pm)
Last week I finally declared an English major. After two years of being undecided and testing out different degrees, I chose one that today many regard as useless. The first thing people ask me is “what are you going to do with that?”, and my answer is always the same: I have no idea.
(10/27/17 5:47pm)
Another year in music comes to a close, and so the nominations for “Music’s Biggest Night” are due to be released on Nov. 28. With music being such a large industry, there will undoubtedly be snubs and a couple of surprise appearances. At the same time, the Grammys are infamous for gravitating towards more commercially successful albums, despite those album's lukewarm critical reception. Nevertheless, based on albums by artists familiar to the Grammys, others that received critical adoration and records that sold well, there are a few artists who flew under the mainstream who will find their music on the ballot in a few weeks.
(10/27/17 3:34pm)
Cults, a two-piece duo made up of film school dropouts Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion, definitely have a cult following, as made obvious by Wednesday’s concert at High Noon Saloon. The energetically retro duo has recently released a new album titled Offering, one tinged with ‘80s new-wave influence and upbeat dream-pop beats. This trance-like atmosphere accompanied by Follin’s piercing voice made for a show to dance to — as any performance by a group with such a dedicated fandom would be.
(10/27/17 11:00am)
Excited crowds thronged the elegant, glassy lobby of the Overture Center before David Sedaris, well known humorist, author and comedian, graced the stage with his two-hour solo performance on Wednesday.
(10/26/17 12:00pm)
Speedy Ortiz frontwoman Sadie Dupuis effused flower power on center stage Tuesday night. She wore a floral print top, a skirt and a flower pin in her hair, distancing her look from the dreary Madison weather. Her bright blue, bejeweled guitar stood out as it was fretted by Dupuis’s highlighter-orange and yellow nails. To her left, the black-and-blue-haired bassist wore black clothes and strummed with black nails, providing a stark contrast to the lead vocalist. A second guitarist and a drummer who provided backing vocals rounded out the indie quartet.
(10/26/17 11:00am)
“Broad City” has done some really revolutionary things since its premiere in 2014. They’ve represented female sexuality in a bold and unapologetic way — they show vibrators on screen in a really normalizing way, rather than for shock value. This season, they’ve committed to bleeping Trump’s name out. “We just didn't want to share airtime. He's got enough and we also don't want to hear the word,” Ilana Glazer, co-creator and lead, explained over the summer on a press tour. They’ve also touched on topics such as depression, anxiety, sexual harassment and sexuality. But the most revolutionary representation, to me, is the way they depict Ilana and Lincoln’s non-monogamous relationship and break-up. It’s such a realistic depiction of modern dating, through all of its complications.
(10/23/17 11:00am)
The Children’s Theater of Madison kicked off its season with the adorably entertaining “Madagascar – A Musical Adventure,” based on DreamWorks' animated motion picture. The show just finished its run at the Overture Center’s Playhouse theater on Sunday, Oct. 22.
(10/23/17 11:00am)
It’s been almost four years since Annie Clark, better known by her stage name St. Vincent, released her self-titled album. A critical darling, St. Vincent propelled her into national prominence; numerous publications listed it as one of the best albums of the year and gave St. Vincent her highest sales figures yet. With her fifth studio album, MASSEDUCTION, St. Vincent takes another bold step into her electropop psyche.
(10/23/17 11:00am)
Piano Concerto always makes a scene. The orchestra and the pianist both give all of what they have to each other in the arena — they cooperate, speak and challenge each other. The audience can take advantage of getting the best of the two protagonists that own equal partnership between each other, enjoying the exciting feast of the two hard players in the game.
(10/23/17 11:00am)
Trap music begins between zones and moves cross-country. After releasing two solo projects earlier this year, Future and Young Thug finally comes together on one project like a team line-up and brings the music industry back down south. SUPER SLIMEY debuted this past weekend from Atlanta rappers Future and Young Thug. Survival-like adaptation takes us between Codeine syrup, Percocet conversation and weekly exchange. The newly-released mixtape captures Atlanta’s continued legacy and the trivial parts that create the greatest resilience from the studio to the streets. Often overlooked, a quickly-paced mixtape runs from beginning to end on two separate missions, maintaining momentum like pythons and attacking multiple times.
(10/19/17 12:00pm)
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die took the flannel-clad audience at High Noon Saloon for a nonlinear journey through sounds from the last 20 years. Sometimes using fusions of genres and other times distributing a more focused tone, the band’s set was never short on dynamics.
(10/19/17 11:00am)
Last week, the CW’s fall favorites returned and reminded us all why they’re at the top of their game. Three of my favorite shows returned, and I was stressed out trying to figure out which one to write about. So I’m going to write about all three instead.
(10/16/17 11:00am)
“Falsettos” tells the story of an unconventional family doing its best to pass as normal as they grapple with the everyday complexities that come with being a family. Stage Q’s hilarious production just finished its two-week run at the Bartell Theater.
(10/16/17 11:00am)
Radric Davis, better known by his stage name Gucci Mane, has dropped his 11th studio album titled Mr. Davis by GUWOP Enterprises and Atlantic Records. The Atlanta trap-rap pioneer has been in stride since his 2016 release from prison. Noteworthy albums like Everybody Looking and The Return of East Atlanta Santa marked a more mature — and thankfully sober — Gucci, and now, every aspect of the rapper's music has improved.
(10/16/17 11:00am)
Isn’t life realistic enough? Why do we need dramas to remind us about the cruelty of life?
(10/16/17 11:00am)
The release of “Middle-earth: Shadow of War,” a follow-up to 2014’s “Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor,” shows, more than anything else in recent memory, how most game sequels are made. For better and for worse developers take the game they have and figure out every conceivable way to stretch and rehash.
(10/14/17 11:00am)
Rezz brought her unique bass and trance production to a packed Majestic Theatre this past Thursday. The Canadian born producer, on tour after releasing her first album, Mass Manipulation, in August, proves that electronic shows are taking stage production to new levels.