At witching hour it approaches, cloaked in lustrous darkness: goth. Although oft-maligned, and typically mistaken for it’s younger, mall-lurking cousin, goth is ubiquitous. The Mountain Goats‘ Goths addresses “a subject closer to [Peter Hughes’] heart perhaps than that of any…album previous,” Dan Bejar‘s Ken is “definitely the most goth [Destroyer] record you’re going to hear,” and Princess Nokia is carving out a space […]
What Are All The Cool Kids Listening To?
Closing out an amazing year for new releases, here are WORT’s final music charts for 2017. You’ll hear a number of our hosts doing “Best of 2017” shows over the next few weeks, and don’t forget you can always listen to our on-demand archives to some best-of shows that have aired already. Though they never […]
Gift Ideas from our early December Charts!
If you’re thinking of holiday gifts for music lovers, check out some popular new releases getting airplay on WORT. From rock to international, from metal to jazz, electronic, folk, blues and pop, we spin it all! You’ll find most of them in your local brick & mortar record store, plus get hi-fidelity advice from ever-hip […]
The inscrutable 2017
We’ve been writing this week about our favorite music that artists from Madison released in 2017. We put out our top 20 Madison records of 2017 list and we’ve got a couple other things detailing more releases that made a mark in the local music community this year. As always, it’s been a varied year for Madison music, with an […]
Slow variations over time with Litüus
The music that Connor Camburn makes under the name Litüus is all about finding a lot of variety and a lot of sonic texture in a few simple elements. The tracks on the project’s 2016 release 1980.-19905 often start with one synthesizer sound, one repeating pattern, and in some sense make you listen to the same thing over and […]
Who’s Getting Played: Music Charts for Feb. 12-18, 2017
Tobin Sprout (pictured) tops our overall chart with the most spins last week. Here’s what else is getting played on WORT rock, jazz, world, metal and electronic specialty shows these days. Thanks so much for all your support during our Winter pledge drive, and we’ll be back to playing much more new music and doing a […]
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