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(03/11/15 7:01am)
Four days after Tony Robinson’s death, protestors of all ages congregated on the steps of City-County Building early Tuesday evening, spurred by a proposed Dane County incarceration study.
(03/10/15 6:14am)
The Madison Plan Commission delayed the construction of a new church and elementary school on the east side during its meeting Monday night, after high costs forced architects to change their original plans for the building.
(03/05/15 1:34am)
Where does the modern musician stake their claim? Sometimes, the kickoff is swift and explosive. Other times, it’s as humble as a “dirt poor but enthused 20-year-old from Madison” and a collection of self-made indie spunk tinged with a psychedelic swirl. Snufkin’s first EP, “Snufkin EP,” follows those humble roots with its few songs recorded in a basement with the DIY sensibility that so many rock bands ascribe to.
(03/03/15 7:51am)
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, clashed Monday night over tackling the city’s racial and economic divides in the one of the first major one-on-one debates for the 2015 Mayoral Election.
(02/22/15 3:02am)
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin held a press conference Saturday at Monona Terrace to criticize state Republicans for fast-tracking the right-to-work law announced Friday that will be up for vote later this week.
(02/19/15 6:36am)
The Alcohol License Review Committee granted The Double U, a new sports bar on the 600-block of University Avenue, its requested liquor license during a meeting Wednesday night.
(02/17/15 7:24am)
José González tried to reclaim something lost with Vestiges & Claws. He’s heard modern folk artists sing their stories to indie pop radio’s delight, heard them brush up a singer-songwriter’s sound with popish glow and nostalgic love of romance woven between verses and choruses. He knows that, today, folk is a bastardized thing; what once gave a voice to many is now relegated to tropes and easily digested drama.
(02/13/15 5:08am)
Madison's Equal Opportunities Commission met with a representative of the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition Thursday night to discuss the organization's mission to raise awareness of the justice system inequalities in black communities.
(02/11/15 5:30am)
Professor Holly Gibbs described it as patchwork quilt, a collection of tidy squares carved into the heart of the Amazon rainforest with a mechanized efficiency Gibbs says is more sophisticated than even the Midwest’s corporate farms.
(02/05/15 7:29am)
One trip through a country radio station and suddenly it's easy to forget that there was once more to it than just bad rock music and plaid-clad tropes. It's not like country never flashed fits of bravado and excess, but that went hand in hand with a homespun sense of adventure and romance. Even Johnny Cash's Folsom prisoner had more on his mind than his sin. Judging from Reckless Skyline, singer-songwriter Caitlin Canty recognizes that country's missing that old heart.
(02/05/15 7:22am)
These days, what is a bluegrass band supposed to do? It's not like Appalachia's been silent these past few years; while record labels clamor for indie-pop bands fielding banjos and the like, Punch Brothers alumni and their contemporaries have been hard at work with a steady stream of albums that pump soul into that bluegrass heart. Yet, that doesn't seem to be enough for the Punch Brothers. The Phosphorescent Blues, their latest album, carves through its traditional binds for something more—some kind of sense beyond that traditional novelty.
(01/28/15 5:30am)
When graduate student Xiaojun Tan first noticed the epidermal growth factor receptors within the cancer cell, he was surprised. These receptors always branched off the cell’s surface, and had never been observed within the cell quite like this before. Yet, here in these chemically starved cancer cells, an inactive collection of these receptors had accumulated.
(12/02/14 6:38am)
“Pick pick glideeeeee,” calls the guitar as arpeggiated chords warmly tap dance over the fretboard. Tremolos swing left and right while hammers waltz on and off the strings with fluidity. That dance is shared with another guitar, one that sings with more restraint as it gently signals a cadence for the first to follow. Sometimes the chords are broken. Other times, they are radiantly full. Sometimes the two guitars harmonize, while other times see them at edge as one jaunts across scales and the other turns to rhythm.
(11/21/14 4:00am)
Robert Wyatt's psychedelic odes are sprawling pieces of the Canterbury sound. Literally. For example, Different Every Time, the new career-spanning collection of the jazz fusionist's rarities and deep cuts, introduces Wyatt's career with an 18-minute psychedelic Moog-led epic. But, beyond the physical length of a Soft Machine (Wyatt's first band) surrealist soundscape, Different Every Time presents the progressive musician's legacy in respect to a sprawling longevity, digging into his psychedelic years with Soft Machine and Matching Mole before traveling onward into avant jazz staples and beyond.
(11/11/14 6:32am)
Sprawled across America’s sonic highways are the roots to the rock ’n’ roll music that made Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl and company have never made the effort to hide their love for their roots, whether its the Washington D.C. hardcore scene that fostered pre-Nirvana Grohl or the anthemic rock that inspired Taylor Hawkins to take up the drum set. It’s a reverence and respect that made “Sound City” such an endearing love letter last year, and makes the “Foo Fighters Sonic Highways” HBO series such a charm.
(11/04/14 6:33am)
As someone regularly headphones-deep in the critical music world, it’s easy to lose sight of how honestly fun music can be. You obsess over the ins and outs of an album: how visceral its songwriting might be, how raw its tones are, how perfectly refined its production is, how relatable an album’s struggles are and so on. In all of this, pure joy seems bogged down by process.
(10/24/14 3:15am)
As artists like the Replacements and U2 spent the 1980s paving the roads leading to the many futures of rock music, a band of rebels from New York’s alternative scene tore up the same roads, carving their sonic landscapes deep into the American music consciousness. After carving his teeth in experimental guitar orchestras and hardcore bands, it's with these rebels that Thurston Moore first made his name. In Sonic Youth, Moore helped tear apart rock music convention, crafting soundscapes of distorted noise rock and fury driven punk.
(10/14/14 3:44am)
J Mascis’s last record, Tied To A Star, was far more subtle than Dinosaur Jr.’s power-trio theatrics normally lend themselves to. Mascis, the lead guitar-player and vocalist for the Massachusetts alternative rock legends, turned in his thundering riffs and blazing solos for a gently picked acoustic guitar and meditative falsetto. While his fluid electric guitar stylings would occasionally make themselves known in Tied to a Star’s more dynamic moments, it was still largely another Mascis acoustic album.
(10/09/14 4:00am)
The liberating drawl that swims through alternative rock staples like You’re Living All Over Me is a humbling one. J Mascis is a man whose guitar sings opera. His drumming sounds off a demolition man’s battery. He laid a defiant foundation for alternative rock in the 1980s with Dinosaur Jr. and delivered a Nordic thunder behind the drum kit in doom metal outfits like Witch. Yet, if it wasn’t apparent in the melodic heart in even Dinosaur Jr.’s heaviest moments, Mascis has a tender side.
(10/08/14 5:49am)
How long has it been since the first indie artist turned toward a troubadour’s drawl and a Western backdrop? While the answer may be a little ambiguous with some answers tracing back to the early 2000s and others even farther, it’s hard to argue that indie folk as a genre has seen itself withered down over the years. Now the troubadour writes bad pop songs, their acoustic guitars strumming a few poorly mixed chords and their lyrics playing with uninspired—or maybe over-inspired?—hooks, blending them into songs more indulgent than impressive.