Tone Madison
708 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDeeper conversations about arts and culture in Madison.
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"Joe Pera Talks With You" composer Ryan Dann talks with us about being reactive and going beyond
May 03, 2022 15:00The New York-based musician reflects on music as a means of greater expression.
Ship out with "The Legend Of The Lost Emerald"
May 03, 2022 05:00An educational video game about shipwrecks packs an immersive punch.
Geoff Brady unfurls his wide musical map on May 5 at the Gates of Heaven
May 02, 2022 05:00The veteran Madison-based percussionist brings together an ensemble of longtime collaborators. Also, sock puppets.
B-Side's mercifully short move
April 29, 2022 05:00A time of survival and rebirth for record stores.
Secretly Group to bring "Paved Paradise" pop-up expo through Madison
April 27, 2022 21:05The label group will table outside of Settle Down Tavern on Saturday, April 30.
The 2022 Wisconsin Film Festival diaries
April 27, 2022 05:01Five writers detail their experiences of returning to the first in-person festival in Madison since April 2019.
"Notre Musique" and "The Dante Quartet" cerebrally expand upon studies of the "Divine Comedy"
April 26, 2022 05:01In conjunction with UW-Madison's "Dante After Dante" symposium, UW Cinematheque presents two experimental films by Jean-Luc Godard and Stan Brakhage that riff on the "Divine Comedy" on April 30.
The pressure is on to set Kenyairra Gadson free
April 26, 2022 05:00Organizers see Gadson as another Black woman criminalized for defending herself.
"Flesh For Frankenstein" pushes the boundaries of science, 3D, and good taste
April 25, 2022 05:01Paul Morrissey's disgusting and hilarious take on the classic tale screens (in 3D!) in a new restoration at UW Cinematheque on April 30.
Mantis captures the stranger, sharper side of Anders Svanoe
April 25, 2022 05:00The saxophonist-led trio celebrates an abrasive new album with an April 29 show at Arts + Literature Laboratory.
Capitol Punishments: High-tech evasion
April 22, 2022 17:48The misleading rhetoric around Madison's body-camera program, and a mind-bending Foxconn interview.
Former Sugar Shack Records employee to open Boneset Records
April 19, 2022 20:35Musician and artist Maggie Denman is taking over Sugar Shack's inventory and plans to launch a new store on East Johnson Street.
Mel Chin urges humanity to see the world with interest and criticality in "There's Something Happening Here"
April 19, 2022 05:00The conceptual artist's career-spanning retrospective will run at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through July 31.
The warped lens of Madison's body-camera debate
April 18, 2022 22:39In a landscape of opacity and impunity, video footage can only do so much.
The Four Star podcast visits the Valley, fer sure
April 18, 2022 17:45 - 53.2 MBTo mark the occasion of UW Cinematheque's 35mm presentation of Martha Coolidge's "Valley Girl" (1983) on April 22, Hanna Kohn, C Nelson-Lifson, Lewis Peterson, and Grant Phipps talk about its production, legacy, and Nicolas Cage.
Befriending the Sad Yeti
April 18, 2022 05:00An ephemeral public art piece provides an anchor amid climate grief.
Capitol Punishments: Forever poisoned by WMC
April 15, 2022 05:01More exasperating battles on Wisconsin's road to environmental ruin.
Pleasure Practices with Sami Schalk: Have a cathartic happy cry
April 15, 2022 05:00Feel-good TV shows that will help you reconnect to your humanness.
Ryan Liam zeroes in on cathartic identity across two new EPs
April 13, 2022 05:00The Madison-based ambient pop artist talks with us about self-discovery, structure, and his recent releases.
The frightful implications of a failed write-in campaign for Madison's school board
April 12, 2022 17:10Schools, discipline, and the Daves we know.
Tone Madison selected for Indiegraf tech and revenue grant
April 12, 2022 16:52The Indie Capital program will help make our local coverage more sustainable.
Pain and pineapples: "Chungking Express" sensationally captures the anguish of young adulthood
April 12, 2022 05:00Wong Kar-wai's international breakthrough from 1994 screens in a new 4K restoration at UW Cinematheque on April 16.
What the fate of Zoe Bayliss Cooperative means for affordable student housing
April 11, 2022 05:01UW-Madison's last student housing cooperative faces demolition in the midst of rising rents and increasingly difficult-to-navigate campus living.
Vanity production-turned-feminist horse opera "Johnny Guitar" brazenly undermines Western conventions
April 11, 2022 05:00Nicholas Ray's garishly complex take on the quintessential American genre from 1954 screens on 35mm at UW Cinematheque on April 15.
Farewell to Madison venues' COVID consensus
April 08, 2022 05:00The outlook as safety measures change or vanish.
Capitol Punishments: The grifts that won't quit
April 08, 2022 05:00A busy week for free-speech concern trolling and Foxconners failing up.
"Shared Resources" sensitively frames family bonds and collective creativity
April 07, 2022 05:01Emerging documentarian Jordan Lord shares insight into their multifaceted film, which is screening at the Chazen Museum Of Art on April 9 as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival.
Making a last-minute 2022 Wisconsin Film Festival itinerary
April 06, 2022 05:01A Courtney Barnett documentary, "107 Mothers," "Ȋntregalde," "Claydream," and other recommendations, in brief, from our film writers.
The sensual catalyst of literature in "A Tale Of Love And Desire"
April 05, 2022 18:00The Wisconsin Film Festival hosts the Wisconsin premiere of Leyla Bouzid's literally (and literarily) poetic coming-of-age film on April 9 at Wisconsin Union Theater.
Remembering the "unquenchable" and "uncompromising" Dan Dieterich
April 05, 2022 05:01The longtime Madison-based musician died in 2021.
Nic Cage's laboratory bubbles over in the caustic and bizarre "Vampire's Kiss"
April 05, 2022 05:00Author Keith Phipps joins the Wisconsin Film Festival presentation of Robert Bierman's 1988 horror-tinged black comedy on April 10 at the Chazen Museum of Art.
The dogs of Science Hall
April 04, 2022 15:55World War I-era poison gas testing at UW-Madison leaves a legacy at once extensive and obscure.
Stop-motion opus "Mad God" probes the darkest recesses of the subconscious mind
April 04, 2022 05:01Phil Tippett's painstakingly crafted apocalyptic vision screens as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 10 at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
Capitol Punishments: Welcome, people who hate us!
April 01, 2022 18:15Milwaukee's perverse bid to host a Republican convention, plus more notes on upcoming local elections.
Thrifting our way through the pandemic
April 01, 2022 05:00Adapting and re-styling in ever-casual Madison.
Epic melodrama "The Best Years Of Our Lives" honestly chronicles three World War II veterans
March 31, 2022 05:00William Wyler's 1946 film screens at UW Cinematheque on April 8 as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival with special guest Mike Pogorzelski from the Academy Film Archive.
Sleaze and haywire hippies have the upper hand in "Death Game"
March 30, 2022 05:01The exploitation thriller from 1977 screens at AMC Madison 6 as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 11.
We're looking for freelance writers to cover Madison music
March 30, 2022 05:00If you've got ideas and a curious ear, we'd love to hear from you.
Madison prepares to counter-program the TERFs
March 29, 2022 05:01Transgender people face increasing violence and oppression as the latest target of the far-right and its allies. Madison is no exception.
For better and worse, "Heathers" asks its audience to laugh at the extremities of being human
March 29, 2022 05:00Michael Lehmann's exaggerated and stylish glimpse into the late 1980s screens on a 35mm print at UW Cinematheque on April 1.
Writer-director Adrian Murray on fragile truth and tragic humor in "Retrograde"
March 28, 2022 05:01The Wisconsin Film Festival presents the Toronto-based filmmaker's latest film on Friday, April 8, at the Chazen Museum Of Art.
Getting ready for the spring election part II: Navigating the noise
March 25, 2022 05:01What's on display as voting rules change and County Board seats turn over.
Capitol Punishments: Drawn into chaos
March 25, 2022 05:00A tortured court decision on redistricting, and toxic power dynamics on campus.
Amirtha Kidambi's music is drawn to catharsis and community
March 24, 2022 05:01The avant-garde composer and performer comes to Madison with the Elder Ones ensemble on March 31 for Tone Madison's co-presented show with Arts + Lit Lab.
Chika to headline Black Arts Matter Festival
March 22, 2022 20:44The 2022 Black Arts Matter Festival will take place from March 23 to March 26 at Wisconsin Union Theater.
(Update: canceled) Chika to headline Black Arts Matter Festival
March 22, 2022 20:44The 2022 Black Arts Matter Festival will take place from March 23 to March 26 at Wisconsin Union Theater.
Tracking the hazy air quality at "hotspots" in southern Wisconsin and beyond
March 22, 2022 05:01A national reporting project outlines little-known airborne polluters across the state and their associated risks.
Tracking the hazy air quality at "hotspots" in southern Wisconsin and beyond7
March 22, 2022 05:01A national reporting project outlines little-known airborne polluters across the state and their associated risks.
James D. Gavins' "Cicada" tells an unsettling but authentic story
March 22, 2022 05:00James D. Gavins teams up with Mills Folly Microcinema for an April 7 event at Arts + Literature Laboratory.