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Tone Madison is home to a couple of whole entire other music podcasts, Record Store Dropouts and Digital Warmth. A couple episodes ago, Record Store Dropouts hosts Alex Nelson and Shaun Soman got into a discussion about making space to center marginalized people at shows and in the music community in general. This week, they […]

Madison, the second week of June, 1969

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It was in 1966 that the city council declared it would stop granting liquor licenses “at some future date” to private clubs that practice racial discrimination in their membership. That date isn’t here yet for the Elks and the Eagles, but it may have arrived for the Loyal Order of Moose – all of whom […]

First week of June, 1969

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Madison, the first week of June, 1969 City building inspectors find 208 building and safety code violations in the student Mifflin-Bassett street area, seemingly validating student complaints about bad landlords. Mayor Bill Dyke ordered the comprehensive inspections in the wake of the Mifflin Street Block Party riot in early May after area youth cited poor […]

UW Project Aims to Digitize Fragile WHA Archives

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University of Wisconsin was a pioneer in radio. In 1917, an experiment from the UW-Madison physics department became the country’s first public radio station. In the mid-1900s, a variety of different programs helped the university spread the Wisconsin Idea to rural parts of the state. Now, a new grant is helping UW archivists bring some […]

Podcast short: A LÜMp sum

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The Capital Times reported on Monday that Madison concert promoter FPC Live took part in a $750,000 funding round for LÜM, a music-streaming app developed in Madison. LÜM is currently in its second test version and heading for a public launch later this summer. An earlier test version in 2018 left us with some questions […]

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