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Gregory Taylor chronicles a good year through experimental sounds

Gregory Taylor chronicles a good year through experimental sounds

tonemadison.com — Gregory Taylor does so little to draw attention to himself, a habit that's seemingly become more and more ingrained as Taylor has worked his way deeper and deeper into the world of experimental music. He's been recording his own electronic works since the late 1970s, and released an early body of work in an underground of independently recorded cassettes during the 1980s.
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Nocturne with tinfoil hats

Nocturne with tinfoil hats

tonemadison.com — Artist Claire Wilson creates a lowbrow yet otherworldly experience at the Stock Pavilion. People entering UW-Madison's Stock Pavilion on the evening of Tuesday, May 29 first met a short plaster critter with a wooden back scratcher sticking up from its boxy, two-wheeled body. "Ah, the backscratcher greeter bot!" says artist Claire Wilson.
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Foxconn Taps Into The Plenitude And Perils Of Great Lakes Water

Foxconn Taps Into The Plenitude And Perils Of Great Lakes Water

wiscontext.org — Cities and businesses seeking to access Great Lakes waters often emphasize how minuscule their water use would be compared to even the supply of just one of the individual lakes. Officials in Waukesha have likened their plan to use Lake Michigan as a water source to taking a thimble-full of water from an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
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The Confounding Geography Of Lyme Disease In The U.S.

The Confounding Geography Of Lyme Disease In The U.S.

wiscontext.org — The Upper Midwest and the northeastern regions of the United States are increasingly a carpet of Lyme disease cases each summer and autumn. But the southeastern part of the country - a vast expanse of hot and humid territory and certainly hospitable to the ticks that carry Lyme-causing bacteria - gets off relatively easy.
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How Domestic Violence Intertwines With Landlord-Tenant Relationships

How Domestic Violence Intertwines With Landlord-Tenant Relationships

wiscontext.org — Wisconsin's latest dispute over landlord-tenant relations has crucial implications for people enduring abusive relationships. The state's regulations on rental housing have been transformed over the past decade, with a new law being enacted every legislative session since 2011. These changes reduce local governments' power to regulate the rental properties, and generally give landlords more leverage over their tenants.
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When Great Lakes Water Is 'Public' And When It Isn't

When Great Lakes Water Is 'Public' And When It Isn't

wiscontext.org — Community members and advocacy groups opposing the bid by Foxconn and the city of Racine for Lake Michigan water are zeroing on a specific issue: The request amounts to a water utility sourcing the Great Lakes almost entirely for the use of one private company.
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What's At Issue In Wisconsin's Special Elections Lawsuit

What's At Issue In Wisconsin's Special Elections Lawsuit

wiscontext.org — In Newton v. Walker, filed in Dane County Circuit Court on Feb. 26, 2018, voters in the state Legislature's vacant 1st Senate District and 42nd Assembly District are trying to convince a judge that state law requires Gov. Scott Walker to call special elections in those districts.
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A Lack Of Precedent In Wisconsin's Special Elections Lawsuit

A Lack Of Precedent In Wisconsin's Special Elections Lawsuit

wiscontext.org — If a voter in Wisconsin sues the state to try and compel the governor to call a special election, they might have a hard time finding precedent for that action. A plaintiff in such a case can make specific arguments about what state law requires a governor to do when a state legislative seat becomes vacant, and perhaps broader constitutional arguments about the right of citizens to elect their representatives.
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A Tradition Of Special, And Swift, Elections In Wisconsin

A Tradition Of Special, And Swift, Elections In Wisconsin

wiscontext.org — An investigation of 105 special elections in Wisconsin since 1971, as well as 45 legislative vacancies not filled through special elections over the same time period, indicates that it's pretty normal for governors to call them swiftly and without much fuss. But Gov. Scott Walker is challenging that norm with a recent decision.
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Transit Mobility And Voter ID Requirements Collide In Madison

Transit Mobility And Voter ID Requirements Collide In Madison

wiscontext.org — To understand why moving a couple of DMV locations in Madison would cause outcry, it helps to understand some of the finer points of getting around in Wisconsin's capital and second-most populous city.
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Catching Up With... Deerhoof

Catching Up With... Deerhoof

Paste Magazine — Download Deerhoof's "The Merry Barracks" here. - Pray that Deerhoof's members never settle their differences. "The four of us are so different from each other, our backgrounds and our musical taste, it's almost a joke that we're in the same band together," says drummer Greg Saunier, who founded the band in San Francisco in 1995.
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Natasha Leggero's Re-Invention & Self-Improvement Tips

Natasha Leggero's Re-Invention & Self-Improvement Tips

Paste Magazine — The sordid and the fabulous become one on Natasha Leggero's debut stand-up album, 2011's Coke Money . The hilarious comedienne recently took some time to explain to the rest of us heathens how to keep it classy-and mask any déclassé regional accents you might have.
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Barn Owl: "V"

Barn Owl: "V"

Isthmus — On their fifth album, Bay Area instrumental duo Barn Owl cement their place between the slow-moving guitars of Earth and the abstract drones of experimental standouts Daniel Lopatin and Tim Hecker. The record's tracks establish their layers with eerie subtlety, and each one smothers you with impressive sounds.
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Ian MacKaye takes fans behind the scenes of the early hardcore punk movement at UW talk

Ian MacKaye takes fans behind the scenes of the early hardcore punk movement at UW talk

Isthmus — Before giving a talk Tuesday night at the UW's Red Gym, Ian MacKaye chatted with Robin Davies, bassist of Tar Babies, a Madison hardcore band from the 1980s. The group crossed paths with MacKaye's band Minor Threat in the early '80s.
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Wisconsin Film Festival 2013: Rodney Ascher, director of "Room 237", analyzes Stanley Kubrick and...

Wisconsin Film Festival 2013: Rodney Ascher, director of "Room 237", analyzes Stanley Kubrick and...

Isthmus — In "Room 237", director Rodney Ascher zooms in on Stanley Kubrick's obsessive, intricate 1980 masterpiece, "The Shining". Though "Room 237" could be called a critical study of this psychological horror film, it includes clips from many Kubrick films, as well as archival footage and conversations with people who share elaborate theories about the film and its meanings.
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UW's Gamelan Ensemble re-creates songs and dances from ancient Javanese kingdoms

UW's Gamelan Ensemble re-creates songs and dances from ancient Javanese kingdoms

Isthmus — The students in UW's Javanese Gamelan Ensemble learn notation that seems almost impenetrable compared to straightforward Western concepts such as sheet music and chords. This traditional Indonesian music challenges them to focus and adjust, and it asks the same of the audience.
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Dan Friel: "Total Folklore"

Dan Friel: "Total Folklore"

Isthmus — Dan Friel's new album suggests that he wasn't done writing hooks for his band Parts & Labor when the outfit went on hiatus last year. Though the songs on "Total Folklore" are all solo instrumentals, they share the band's sonic language: The noise that rises from Friel's tangled pile of gear is inseparable from the tunes he plays on his keyboards.
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A trio of new Madison avant-garde music releases by Second Family Band, Pelt and Lens

A trio of new Madison avant-garde music releases by Second Family Band, Pelt and Lens

Isthmus — It's often hard to tell if Madison's avant-garde musicians are trying to obscure themselves or make themselves bizarrely conspicuous. Their habits tend to accomplish both at once. There are sporadic live shows that often aren't at the usual clubs, the dribble of cassette and vinyl releases, and album titles that outdo Cormac McCarthy's book titles with their stately pomp and arcane vocabulary.
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How Madison venues, labels and performers have evolved in 2012

How Madison venues, labels and performers have evolved in 2012

Isthmus — Year-end lists tend to be nice and trim, while local music is messy: provincial yet sprawling, repetitive yet ever-changing, frustrating yet exciting. To provide some perspective, I'll discuss a few factors that altered Madison's music community in 2012, and what these changes mean for the future.
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The Books: Media Detritus and Profound Nonsense - ALARM

The Books: Media Detritus and Profound Nonsense - ALARM

alarm-magazine.com — Five years have passed since its last release, Lost and Safe, but multi-instrumentalist duo The Books hasn't skipped a beat. The Way Out is a sample-based masterpiece, in which its creators use "humor [as] a back door to the profound."
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Paul Gilmartin on The Mental Illness Happy Hour and getting vulnerable

Paul Gilmartin on The Mental Illness Happy Hour and getting vulnerable

The A.V. Club — Comedians give audiences thousands of trails into madness and neuroses. Publicly mapping a way out might be self-defeating for someone with a long-running stand-up career, and Paul Gilmartin's way isn't Marc Maron's firestorm of old wounds and eventual atonement.
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Matt Cherry of Maserati

Matt Cherry of Maserati

The A.V. Club — Following the 2009 death of Maserati drummer Jerry Fuchs, Fuchs' former bandmates received an outpouring of support and condolences from friends, fans, and fellow musicians worldwide. One such musician was German guitarist Günter Schickert, whose decades of six-string innovation have informed Maserati's own echoing, densely patterned playing.
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The Psychic Paramount: II

The Psychic Paramount: II

The A.V. Club — The Psychic Paramount has plenty of the sheer mass people love in instrumental rock, yet II is lethally fine-grained, raining thousands of sharp little crystals rather than ascending through stately cloud banks. The trio doesn't power songs ahead by simply changing volume-well, at times from "fucking loud" to "suffocatingly loud"-but by re-arranging and re-purposing on a dime, condensing what was once spread out, and vice-versa.
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Warren Ellis of Grinderman

Warren Ellis of Grinderman

The A.V. Club — The menacingly randy and obscenely poetic version of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds that made 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and two albums under the name Grinderman has turned Warren Ellis into the group's sonic center of gravity.
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