To get a feel for Clean Bandit’s appearance at the Majestic last Saturday, you don’t need to look much further than State Street after the Badger victory the same night. The U.K. based classical music meets pop-house …

The man did it all. Scott Hansen’s sweet synths, guitar playing, outfit changing, and psychedelic light-show all combined to transport the audience into Tycho’s fantasy dreamworld. Prior to the concert, I was worried about Tycho’s non-existent vocalist, …

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 …

In the words of Diplo himself, “Every festival in the world is not complete without booking Paper Diamond.” Alexander Botwin, better known as DJ and electronic music producer Paper Diamond, will be bringing the heat to Madison …

It was an honor to represent WSUM at the Lettuce show on February 18th and it could not have been a better time. Opening and setting the tone for the evening was Brooklyn-based musician Break Science. Incorporating …

Where can you combine classical instruments, modern music, and drug related naming puns? A Portland Cello Project concert, of course! PCP (as they are lovingly known in short) is a cello collective that performs a variety of …