Arts Extract

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.

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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.

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From the @chantssound album "We Are All Underwater."

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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

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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 arts, food, and drink for The Capital Times; André Darlington, who also covers food and drink for his Farmers Market Report podcast and for numerous outlets including Isthmus; and ​Tone Madison​ contributor Chris Lay.

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 produced by Dylan Brogan for WORT-FM.

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