Saxophonist and composer Jonah Parzen-Johnson’s solo work combines baritone sax and electronic instrumentation, and that opens up a whole lot of new dimensions when he performs live. Parzen-Johnson documents that process in a forthcoming live album recorded in Helsinki last year, titled Helsinki 8.12.18. It covers new material he’s been working on since he released […]
Rachal Duggan on drawing, Madison, and drawing Madison
Rachal Duggan moved from Chicago to Madison in early 2017, and since then has quickly made a mark with her live-drawing offerings, a residency at the Madison Public Library’s Bubbler program, and editorial illustrations for local publications including Tone Madison, Our Lives, and Isthmus. We at Tone Madison can attest that Duggan has come to […]
Hear the first episode of Record Store Dropouts
This week we’re turning over the Tone Madison podcast feed to a new show called Record Store Dropouts. It’s a music-adjacent podcast by Shaun Soman and Alex Nelson and it will live at Tone Madison. The first episode dropped last Friday and it covers a few different things, including an interview with Madison-based visual artist […]
Video-store precarity and post-mayoral blocks
On this latest podcast short, Tone Madison‘s Shaun Soman and Scott Gordon discuss the future of Four Star Video Heaven, Paul Soglin’s great southwestern journey, and a few noteworthy events coming up in Madison. Give the conversation a listen here, or subscribe to the Tone Madison podcast on Apple Podcasts. If you like what you’re […]
Jen Rubin remembers a resilient family business
Jen Rubin’s combined experiences in writing, storytelling, social policy, and education allowed her to delve into her family’s history in her first book, We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, A Store, And A Neighborhood The memoir centers around Radio Clinic, an electronics repair and appliance store Rubin’s immigrant grandfather founded […]
A Print And Resist haul
Madison’s Print & Resist festival returned to the Central Library on Saturday, April 13, which means Tone Madison editor Scott Gordon went and spent too much money on zines, stickers, books, and other fun works of print media. We sat down this week to talk about the haul. The goods include Lauden Nute‘s official Print […]
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