From the Rare Plant release "Improvident."

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon talks with Mike Weiser and Chris Bucheit of Madison jazz trio Major Vistas about their debut album, Minor Anthems (majorvistas.bandcamp.com). The band, which also includes drummer Geoff Brady, has several shows coming up: July 22 at Mother Fool's Coffeehouse, August 10 at the free Jazz At Five series on the Capitol Square, and October 14 at the also free Indigenous jazz series at the Memorial Union Play Circle.

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Don Moynihan, a professor at UW-Madison's La Follette School of Public affairs, talks about his #TantalizingTopofHumanHeads hashtag (twitter.com/hashtag/tantalizingtopofhumanheads) and the role of social media in academia and the UW System's fight over tenure.

Music in this segment by @braingrimmer

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Tone Madison's Sarah Witman sits down with Cheryl Bensman-Rowe and Paul Rowe, co-directors of the Madison Early Music Festival (madisonearlymusic.org), which takes place July 9 through 16 on the UW-Madison campus. They discuss Shakespeare’s “death-iversary” (their words, and the theme of this year's festival), the finer points of Renaissance instruments, and what to expect from the week’s festivities.

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Image: "Woman Playing The Lute" by Hendrick ter Brugghen. Image via Wikimedia Commons.​

Madison native, musician, and journalist Dan Kaufman talks with Tone Madison's Scott Gordon about growing up in Madison in the 1980s and getting exposed to that era's great Midwestern underground—especially Appliances-SFB, whose singer, Tom Laskin, died on June 15.

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All the music in this episode is by Appliances-SFB.

Photo by Gabrielle Plucknette.

Sandi Torkildson, who co-founded downtown Madison bookstore A Room of One's Own in 1975, talks about her decision to put the bookstore up for sale, and shares some broader perspective on how running a business in Madison has changed over the past 41 years.

The music in this episode is by Tippy, 0tippy0.bandcamp.com

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Nick Zumm of Madison metal duo Dos Malés joins us to discuss the band's self-titled EP (dosmales.bandcamp.com) and the all-two-piece-bands show he's organizing on June 18 at The Frequency (bit.ly/22XS815).

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Tone Madison's Scott Gordon talks with Madison comedian and writer Alan Talaga, who will satirize the tech industry, Madison's growing obsession with attracting "young professionals," and the rhetoric of disruption in his upcoming show, "Madlennial Tech And Culture Forum." It takes place Friday, June 17 at 8 p.m. at Broom Street Theater. (Event details: bit.ly/1sQmplM)

The music this week is from Cap Alan: capalan.bandcamp.com

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Tone Madison's Scott Gordon previews some of the best live music coming to town over the summer. The highlights include Paul de Jong (formerly of The Books) at Crescendo on June 23, Screaming Females at The Frequency on June 23, and Tatsuya Nakatani at Arts + Literature Laboratory on August 5. (Full disclosure: that last one is a Tone Madison-curated and -presented show.)

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Madison R&B artist Mr. Jackson joins us to discuss his new album, Black Gandalf, which he'll celebrate with a May 28 show at Ritual Barbers.

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