David “Harmonica” Miller & Tom Radai Present: Wisconsin Annual Blues Harmonica Festival 2018! 11/16/18 (Friday) Wisconsin Annual Blues Harmonica Festival 2018: 6 pm -10 pm, Knights of Columbus West Allis, 1800 S 92nd St, West Allis, WI 53214, (414) 375-9895. $10 online* or $15* when the Doors open at 5:30 pm! Advance Tickets may be […]
Johnny Walsh presses on
Back in 2010, a guy named Johnny Walsh started to perform at open-mics in Madison, at places like the Argus and the Comedy Club on State. Over time Walsh became a familiar presence in the local stand-up comedy world. He’s got an avuncular and unflappable stage presence, and his material is a testament to how much a […]
A Tone Madison audio extra: A Rocky Rococo eulogy from 2016
One of the classics of Tone Madison‘s short existence so far would have to be Ben Munson’s February 2016 piece about the man who portrayed Rocky Rococo, the suspiciously Leon Redbone-esque mascot for a Wisconsin chain of pizzerias. Munson, who used to work at a Rocky Rococo location in La Crosse, set out to interview […]
José Carlos Teixeira’s dimensions of otherness
Artist and UW-Madison professor José Carlos Teixeira likes to combine different kinds of media and different ways of thinking about the complexities of human identity. His current show, titled On Exile, runs through May 20 at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and consists of two video pieces. One is called “On Exile: Fragments in search of […]
A Wisconsin Film Festival 2018 roundtable
The 2018 Wisconsin Film Festival starts up on Thursday, April 5, the day this episode comes out, and it runs through April 12, spanning a lineup of nearly 150 feature and short films. Over the past few weeks, we at Tone Madison have been previewing different facets of the festival lineup. To cap off our preview […]
Inside Everyday Gay Holiday
A lot of the workspaces and studios that artists use in Madison are kind of tucked away, whether it’s visual art studios at the Art Lofts on the UW-Madison campus or music practice spaces off in the industrial areas of town. Perhaps that’s why a space called Everyday Gay Holiday stands out so much. Seven different artists […]
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