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The concerts I attend usually entail the crowd singing along to the music, but for some reason, I don’t think that will be the case for Tycho. Tycho has been making music now for about a decade, …

The crowd could handle him, the Majestic could handle him, but Paper Diamond’s own equipment couldn’t handle him on Wednesday, March 4th. Halfway through his hour-and-a-half long set, Alex Botwin (aka Paper Diamond) lost power to his …

It’s not often that you feel like you’ve truly gotten in on the ground floor of a band’s fandom. To get a chance to see a band with great potential before they make it big (or at …

It seems that Madison has been blessed in recent months with a slew of great hip-hop tours, bordering on legendary. The end of 2014 saw Joey Bada$$ at the Barrymore, followed by a world-crushing appearance of Run …

“Why would you go to a cello concert?” “Won’t it just be boring classical music? You’ll probably fall asleep.” “Shouldn’t you be studying for midterms?” Many of my friends reiterated these sentiments to me as I told them …

As I crossed the threshold into the elegant Majestic Theater I heard the instrumental to Qualifiers, my favorite Open Mike Eagle song, queue up.  Half kicking myself for my lack of punctuality and half giddy with excitement, …

It was a night of boom-bap rap at the High Noon Saloon, to put it calmly. PRhyme, consisting of the legendary DJ Premier and longtime-rapper Royce da 5’9”, are fresh off the release of their first project …

Demetri Martin wore khakis, a brown sweater, and brown shoes onto the stage. All so plain, they almost seemed to not be there at all, like some sort of an awkward middle-class exoskeleton. Understated, unassuming, and (again, …

Demetri Martin is not a rock star comedian. He doesn’t have great hair, strut around the stage with confidence and swagger, or brag about his personal exploits on stage. His stage persona is irreverent, awkward, and different. …

Editor’s note: On 1/31/15 progressive bluegrass legends Yonder Mountain String Band played the Barrymore Theater in Madison, WI with indie-folk band Horse Feathers. WSUM’s Chloe DeVries and Megan Roessler attended the show and filed the following report. …

You’ve probably heard your grandfather say, “I remembered back in my day, I never procrastinated because there was nothing to procrastinate with!” Unfortunately in today’s society, with the availability of Internet, and sites such as …