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The rise of Klack
Matt Fanale and Eric Oehler of the electronic duo Klack spoke with us earlier this year about the project’s nostalgic but refreshing approach to dance music, and the surprise success of its two EPs so far, 2017’s Do You Klack? and 2019’s Introducing The 1984 Renault LeCar. Since this interview was recorded, Klack has played […]
How Bookstores Against Borders became a phenomenon
About a week before the Fourth of July holiday this year, the downtown Madison bookstore A Room Of One’s Own announced that it would donate a portion of its sales over the independence day weekend to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, also known as RAICES. The fundraiser was called Bookstores […]
But what about a dead end?
The programming this fall at UW Cinematheque includes a series on the work of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. It kicks off on Friday, September 20 with the documentary Homework and continues over the next three Fridays with a trilogy of films released in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s known as the Koker Trilogy: Where […]
Grief and taxidermy with Kristen Arnett
Before she held a reading this July at State Line Distillery and “escaped from an apocalypse hotel” during Madison’s memorable summer blackout, author Kristen Arnett sat down to discuss her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, with Tone Madison‘s John McCracken. Give the conversation a listen here, or subscribe to the Tone Madison podcast on Apple […]
Jacki Whisenant and Rob Lundberg’s “Not To Scale”
Jacki Whisenant describes the overarching theme of Not To Scale, her joint show with fellow artist Rob Lundberg, as “thinking about the environment on a larger and smaller scale.” On display through September 1 at the Overture Center’s Gallery III, the show combines Whisenant’s illustrated and cut-paper depictions of aquatic insects with Lundberg’s mutli-media explorations […]
Labrador’s sharp and disappointed pop
For this brief installment of the Tone Madison podcast, we’re talking with two members of the Madison based band Labrador. The band’s 2018 debut EP, Tell Me About Your Dad, is a set of five songs that manage to be very tender and very cutting all at once. Labrador is playing this Saturday, August 17 […]
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