Features | Jonk Music

Projecting the 2015 Pitchfork Music Festival Lineup

02/12/2015

2015 marks the 10th year of Pitchfork Music Festival, Pitchfork Media's annual mid-July takeover of Chicago's Union Park. Unlike most festivals, where the trend seems to be "the bigger the better," Pitchfork st...

The 15 Best Self-Titled Albums Since 2000

Andrew Brandt

01/29/2015

Features

For an artist, a self-titled album can serve a number of purposes. It can function as an introduction or signify a new direction, or it be used to make a career-defining statement. While every self-titled album...

Jonkast: Jan. 28, 2015

Ted Carlson

01/28/2015

Podcast

This episode, Andrew Brandt and I are joined by former Daily Cardinal arts editor Cheyenne Langkamp for "'Ye or Nay?" and "Take It or Leave It?" games, Haiku reviews, and new music from Hanni El Khatib, Kanye W...

Jonkast: Jan. 15, 2015

Ted Carlson

01/15/2015

Podcast

My name is Ted Carlson, and I'm the host of the brand new Jonk Music podcast. For the last year-and-a-half, I've hosted radio shows on WSUM 91.7 FM in Madison featuring all kinds of alternative music and curren...

Instant Review: Knee-jerk reactions to
Pitchfork’s 50 Best Albums of 2014

Brandon Clementi

12/17/2014

Features, Pitchfork

This year, I'm going to expand my work with the puzzle of anticipating Pitchfork's albums list. I've put together—having seen only the Honorable Mentions—my top 50 anticipated albums for inclusion on the list. ...

Instant Review: Knee-jerk reactions to
Pitchfork’s 100 Best Tracks of 2014

Brandon Clementi

12/16/2014

Features, Pitchfork

Along with taking a nap after every meal of my family's Yuletide celebrations, one of my favorite December traditions is cataloging my thoughts as I listen through each of the Pitchfork top 100 tracks in sequen...

Concert Review:
Shakey Graves

Lexy Brodt

12/06/2014

Concert Reviews, Madison

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, ...

Track By Track:
We Are The Willows Picture (Portrait)

Andrew Brandt

11/05/2014

Features, Track By Track

The greatest works—whether they be written in prose, presented on film, or sung in song—are those that take on the enormous, extensive aspects of our world and present them in a wholly engaging and relatable ma...

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...