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Concert Review:
Shakey Graves

12/06/2014

Seeing Shakey Graves live is magical. He’s a perfect one-man act: personable, witty, with a foot wringing the bass drum and his hands winding away on acoustic. Graves, whose real name is Alejandro Rose-Garcia, ...

Essential Tracks:
Dum Dum Girls

Andrew Brandt

10/21/2014

Essential Tracks, Madison

Dum Dum Girls may have started as the confessional-as-bedroom project of Dee Dee Penny in 2008, but they’ve blossomed into one of the most consistent bands of the last decade, churning out more lovesick singalo...

Essential Tracks:
Yelle

Gretchen Tracy

10/17/2014

Essential Tracks, Madison

French electropop trio Yelle have a lot to celebrate with the release last month of their third LP, Complètement fou. For one thing, vocalist Julie Budet's voice is still dizzyingly fresh seven years after the ...

Concert (P)review:
The Preatures

Riley Beggin

10/16/2014

Concert Previews, Concert Reviews, Madison

It appeared to be an average, autumn Wednesday night outside the Triple Rock in Minneapolis. The leaves crunched underfoot, the parking was nearly impossible, and the sullen looking boys in mock-army jackets su...

Essential Tracks:
Delta Spirit

Lexy Brodt

10/14/2014

Essential Tracks, Madison

I’m in love with Delta Spirit. Really, I am. It helps that they’re from my native San Diego. That the indie rock band’s founders discovered their lead vocalist and guitar player, Matthew Vasquez, while he was b...

Essential Tracks:
S. Carey

Andrew Brandt

10/14/2014

Essential Tracks, Madison

Sean Carey, first and foremost, is a student. After earning a performance degree in classical percussion at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, he studied Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago to a T and wound u...

Q&A with Royal Blood’s
Ben Thatcher

Ryan Thomas

10/11/2014

Interviews, Madison

Ben Thatcher and Mike Kerr didn’t really see it coming. Sure, they’d been playing music together since they were teenagers, but if you asked two years ago what they’d be doing today they probably would have bee...

Q&A/Essential Tracks:
ODESZA

Monica Grogan

10/09/2014

Essential Tracks, Interviews, Madison

I have been an avid fan of ODESZA since their beginning. I remember one of the first times they visited Madison, opening for Michael Menert at High Noon Saloon with only a few hardcore fans there to watch. Now ...

Q&A with Slow Magic

Lexy Brodt

10/04/2014

Interviews, Madison

Slow Magic hides behind a colorful, somewhat creepy wolf mask. For anonymity, for a phantom-like presence, as a symbolic gesture: it’s tough to be sure. Even the man behind the façade is ambiguous on the subjec...

Count This Penny: “Get Your Gun” [Premiere]

Andrew Brandt

09/30/2014

Madison, Premiere, Songs

Count This Penny is an Americana four-piece who hails from Tennessee but has called Madison home for the last few years. Since they’ve arrived, they’ve shifted from a reliable folk and country outfit to one of ...

5 Questions with
Mutual Benefit

Andrew Brandt

09/26/2014

Interviews, Madison

Jordan Lee has been making calm, affectionate, and underappreciated folk music under the moniker Mutual Benefit for nearly half a decade. Last year, Lee’s luck changed when he released Love’s Crushing Diamond a...

Essential Clips:
Tim and Eric & Dr. Steve Brule

Ryan Thomas

09/26/2014

Concert Previews, Madison

People describe Tim and Eric’s fans as cult-like—and maybe it’s not too off base. Their comedy is divisive, but those who are into it are really into it. From their start as sarcastic film students at Temple...