Arts Extract

Four Tone Madison writers discuss their favorite Madison music of 2016, and the challenges of narrowing it down for our year-end best-of coverage.

Madison-based jazz bassist Ben Ferris talks about his quintet's first album, "Home," which they'll celebrate with a December 16 show at Crescendo.

Artist and UW-Madison professor Helen Lee joins us this week to discuss her neon piece "OMG," which is currently on display in the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

Emily Mills leads a panel discussion about harassment in Madison's music community and how people are trying to create better experiences for marginalized people.

From the album "A Tighter Knot." Read our story this week: goo.gl/gv53id

From the album "A Tighter Knot." Read our story this week: goo.gl/gv53id

DJ and party organizer @lauren-franchi talks with us about her experiences creating safe-space dance nights in Madison.

From the album "Semi-Canon," available through rareplant.bandcamp.com.

Tone Madison's Mark Riechers talks with comics artist and author Box Brown about his latest book, Tetris: The Games People Play. The interview was recorded during the 2016 Wisconsin Book Festival.

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon, Mark Riechers, and Chris Lay discuss differing takes on Madison's newest and gaudiest movie theater and its much-ballyhooed recliners.

Tone Madison's Liz DiNovella talks with journalist Jeff Chang, who's coming to the Wisconsin Book Festival on Saturday, October 22 to discuss his new book "We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race And Resegregation."

Tone Madison's Sarah Witman and Scott Gordon trade notes on a few of the best visual art shows currently on display in Madison. Image: Detail from Colin Matthes' "Essential Knowledge" series, currently on display at MMOCA as part of the Wisconsin Triennial.​ Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon sits down with Milwaukee-based artist Sky Hopkina (skyhopinka.com), whose video piece "Jáaji Approx." is showing at the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through January 8, 2017. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison contributor Liz DiNovella talks with jazz improviser and avant-garde composer Ken Vandermark, who plays Friday, September 30 at Arts + Literature Lab in Madison. You can also read a version of that interview here: bit.ly/2d969XZ Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon and Joel Shanahan discuss a bunch of the noteworthy shows happening in Madison in fall 2016. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon talks with Madison musician Spencer Bible about his project Tippy (tippymusic.bandcamp.com). The project has two releases so far in 2016: A self-titled, full-band album and an electronic solo EP called Public Displays Of Affection. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Oakland-raised rapper/producer and UW-Madison student @heiroo joins us to talk about his new EP, TheSoulOf. His friend and collaborator @j0nnychang also sat in on the conversation. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

Tone Madison's Scott Gordon and Madison-based music writer Andrew Winistorfer (senior editor for @vinylmeplease) discuss what's been great and what's been kinda same-y in this summer's outdoor music offerings in Madison. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

David Wolinsky of the video-games oral-history site Don't Die (nodontdie.com) joins Tone Madison's Scott Gordon and Mark Riechers to discuss the Games Learning Society, a UW-Madison research unit that explores the intersection of gaming and education. GLS' future is uncertain, as its founders recently announced that they will be leaving UW-Madison for new posts at the University of California-Irvine. Photo illustration by David Wolinsky. Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/1mL8vPk Co-produced with @wort-fm, wortfm.org

From @dashhounds' forthcoming EP, Eft. Photo by J. Scott Kunkel.