Born in 1951, Matt Mixon and spent his formative years living in Central Milwaukee. As a teen, his family moved to the Northside. Change is hard especially when it comes without warning. But what happens when the demand for change is ignored for too long. During the Long Hot Summer of 1967 African American people […]
Latinx Milwaukee Update
Last time we spoke with Sergio Gonzalez was in April of 2018, about the future of sanctuary cities. At the time, Sergio was finishing up his dissertation at the University of Wisconsin here in Madison. Since then, he has received his doctorate, and has now relocated to Milwaukee, where he is teaching Latinx history at […]
The Fight for Public Education in America
Today’s episode is all about the American K–12 school system in Wisconsin and beyond. Educator and activist Bob Peterson joins us to discuss a host of issues related to public education, including austerity measures that have stripped funding from public schools, the proliferation of testing and its effects on learning, effects of privatization, the importance […]
Justin Perkins on mastering Wisconsin music
If you’ve listened to even a few releases over the years from bands in Madison, Milwaukee, or the Fox Cities area, you have almost certainly heard the work of Justin Perkins. The founder of Milwaukee-based Mystery Room Mastering, Perkins specializes in that crucial last step before a piece of music gets uploaded to the internet […]
Podcast: knowsthetime’s wistful, old-school beat tape
The new beat tape from producer knowsthetime, Summer’s End, uses an old-school, sampling-based approach to hip-hop. But knowsthetime, real name Ian Carroll, has been all over the map. Dividing his time between Madison and Milwaukee, he’s contributed to scores of hip-hop tracks—some of them under his former production moniker *hitmayng—he co-founded the hip-hop and electronic […]
Sky Hopinka on dislocation and language
Sky Hopinka is a Milwaukee-based filmmaker who uses a variety of experimental visual and audio approaches to explore the experiences of indigenous Americans. One of his most recent projects, Dislocation Blues, offers what Hopinka himself calls an “incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.” His work asks a lot of complicated questions about how native […]
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