Arts Extract

In a Nerd Nite Madison talk recorded August 26, 2015 at the High Noon Saloon, William Annis (xenoglossaria.com) delves into the art of constructing languages for video games. For more information, visit madison.nerdnite.com and tonemadison.com.

Madison resident Jolynne Roorda joins us on this week's podcast to talk about the new arts venue she recently opened on the east side, Arts + Literature Laboratory. The space, at 2021 Winnebago St., will have a grand-opening celebration on January 23. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with WORT-FM.

Brandy Tudor and Joe Copeland of Madison band Little Legend talk with us about their new album, Orphan League Champs, which they'll celebrate with a January 9 show at Mickey's Tavern. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with WORT-FM.

From the self-titled Rare Plant cassette. Read more in this week's Tone Madison calendar: http://bit.ly/1VI7Sls

From the Grimmusik release I, Nefarious. Read more on Tone Madison: http://bit.ly/1n14UN8

From the Rare Plant Records release Sharon Is Karen. Read more at Tone Madison: http://bit.ly/1Z0GhRO

Madison rapper Sincere Life talks with us about his new album, which he'll celebrate with a January 2 show at The Frequency. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: http://apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with WORT-FM.

A small mix of six tracks from releases on Tone Madison's top 20 Madison records of 2015 list and honorable mentions list. 1. Czarbles, "Our Old Home" (from Nausea Trois) 2. CRASHprez, "Paranoia III" (from More Perfect) 3. Wood Chickens, "Hex On Me" (from their split cassette with Paint) 4. Tarpaulin, "Peter" (from Homesick) 5. Christian Dior, "Iodine" (from Patriot Glass/Dioria) 6. Asumaya, "And...

This month in the Tone Madison/Nerd Nite Madison podcast series, UW-Madison sociolinguist Joshua Raclaw delves into the mechanics and complex social constructs surrounding the human voice. For more information, visit madison.nerdnite.com and tonemadison.com.

City of Madison officials struck a compromise this week on rules governing outdoor music in Madison parks. Scott Gordon went to the Madison Parks Commission meeting that produced the compromise and heard what the organizers, fans, beneficiaries, and detractors of Madison's outdoor concerts had to say. Segment produced by Dylan Brogan for WORT-FM Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1lxflXD

Tone Madison editor Scott Gordon leads a discussion on the year in Madison music and culture with three guests: DJ and Strictly Discs manager Evan Woodward(@tolerancemix), journalist and rapper Michael Penn II (aka @crashprez), and @wsum music director Emili Earhart. Recorded live on December 1, 2015 at the High Noon Saloon in Madison. Subscribe on iTunes: http://apple.co/1lxflXD

Tone Madison editor Scott Gordon and WORT-FM's Dylan Brogan look at how the City of Madison is funding art and music through its recently passed 2016 budget. Highlights include the city's flawed music initiatives and a boost for the Madison Public Library's forward-looking Bubbler program. Read more about this story: http://bit.ly/1SLpXN9 Segment produced by Dylan Brogan. Keep up with the Tone Mad...

Madison songwriter/producer Sidney Johnson, aka disarming electro-pop oddball Midas Bison, joined us for a conversation at WORT-FM studios ahead of his Tuesday, November 17 show at the High Noon Saloon. Segment produced by Dylan Brogan. Keep up with the Tone Madison/WORT podcast at tonemadison.com and on iTunes (http://apple.co/1kQSKVx).

In a talk recorded October 24, 2015 during a special edition of Nerd Nite Madison at the Wisconsin Science Festival, UW-Madison scholar B. Venkat Mani discusses the ways in which books travel and transform. For more info about Nerd Nite Madison, visit madison.nerdnite.com Podcast produced by Tone Madison in partnership with Nerd Nite Madison.

Scott Gordon reports on Madison's newest recording studio, the all-analog Williamson Magnetic Recording Company, opening soon on Willy Street. Read more at: http://bit.ly/1GNWX6Y Segment produced by Dylan Brogan for WORT-FM. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: http://apple.co/1StJ6DR

From the @chantssound album "We Are All Underwater." Read our interview with Chants' Jordan Cohen: http://bit.ly/1Ritfau

After laying low for several years, the Madison-formed instrumental rock band Cougar returns for a November 7 show at the Capitol Theater with Phox. We caught up recently with drummer David Henzie-Skogen. Read our feature this week on Cougar at: http://bit.ly/1NdkPlx Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: http://apple.co/1ipOgE3 Segment produced by Dylan Brogan for WORT-FM.

This is the first episode of Tone Madison's new live podcast, recorded October 20 at the High Noon Saloon. In this first installment of The Tone Cluster, we tackled the many social, cultural, and economic changes in progress in downtown Madison with the help of four guests: Mike Martez Johnson, elections co-chair of Progressive Dane and contributor to Madison365.com; Lindsay Christians, who covers...

The writings of H.P. Lovecraft have influenced the forbidding, amoral universe of modern horror. But as Laura Felley explains in a Nerd Nite Madison talk recorded in September at the High Noon Saloon, it took a devoted Wisconsinite named August Derleth to keep Lovecraft's work from fading into obscurity.

Madison Print & Resist co-organizer Sarah Tops Rogers talks with us ahead of the annual DIY-print-culture event's return on Saturday, October 31 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Central Library. Segment produced by Dylan Brogan for WORT-FM.

Madison musician and artist Silas Ritchie joined us at WORT-FM studios to discuss his new electronic EP under the name Silas Be. Silas also tells listeners what to expect when he DJs at Nattspil on October 19 and November 30. Segment produced by Dylan Brogan for WORT.

A new compilation called Mesmerized In Madison celebrates the strange and abrasive side of Madison music, gathering tracks from local acts including thrash-lords Panther, electronic wanderer Samantha Glass, and country misanthropes Those Poor Bastards. Curator Jason Hartman (whose band Vanishing Kids also shows up on the comp) talked with us about what inspired him to put it together. Segment prod...

From the album "Toxic Consonance." Read more: tonemadison.com/articles/song-debut-lovely-socialite-humus/

Longtime Madison musician, filmmaker and activist Wendy Schneider talks with us about her monthly show series An Evening At Maria's at Art In (1444 E. Washington Ave.), which combines music, visual art, spoken-word performances, and involvement from local non-profits. The next one is this Saturday, September 26 at 6 p.m. and features Kleptix, Thax Douglas, Cowboy Winter, and the Dane County Time B...

Horticulturist Christy Marsden discusses the many wondrous varieties of deadly plants in a talk recorded at the August 26, 2015 edition of Nerd Nite Madison.