http://www.thedailypage.com/music Music content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:04:41 CDT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26312 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26312 Local blues guitarist A.J. Love doesn't just like Chicago blues; he lives it and loves it. Though he has family and work responsibilities here in town, he drifts down to the Windy City a few times a week simply to listen to its stars and learn from them. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26311 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26311 The opening line of one of Lucie Blue Tremblay's most popular songs, "So Lucky," gets poetic about the unity of love. "When one voice leads another in a way of harmony," she begins. The words could just as easily be a synopsis of Tremblay's own bilingual singing style. Since she released her first album on the seminal women's music label Olivia Records in 1986, Tremblay has been noted for getting lyrical in both French and English. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26104 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26104 The boundary between sleep and wakefulness has intrigued artists and thinkers for centuries, from Aristotle to Edgar Allan Poe to Richard Linklater in his popular 2001 film <i>Waking Life</i>. Most recently, the three musicians in Sunspot have been exploring hypnagogia, the mysterious bridge from "awake" to "asleep." Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26092 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26092 Almost everybody knows at least one couple so enamored with each other that it's a wonder they can function for five seconds when separated. Madison recording artists Amy Curl and Dan Kennedy jokingly call these folks Siamese twins and have even written a song about this condition called "Siamese Babies." Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26313 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26313 The "eternal" in the title of Sonic Youth's new album references a number of things: memories of creative luminaries, social problems that never seem to die and those things that make us human, like lust and rage. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26251 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26251 After recent stumbles, <i>The Ecstatic</i> returns Mos Def to the high standards he set early in his career. Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:02:30 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25736 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=25736 A man can only take so much live music and I admit I'm ready to come home. I also admit that I could eat cajun food forever and never miss another strand of pasta. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26327 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26327 Legendary singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie has maintained an amazingly wide-ranging career in music, art, education and activism for more than four decades -- including a period of "retirement" to raise a family starting in the late '70s. Often controversial for her protest songs in the 1960s, her own recordings have been mostly absent from the radio in the United States since that time. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:06:46 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26287 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26287 Madison music fans, get ready to raise the roof and dance your asses off -- or, OK, maybe just sway in place and clap occasionally -- following today's announcement of headliner Andrew Bird for the second annual Forward Music Fest. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:46:53 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26283 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26283 Cafe Montmartre owners Craig and Kevin Spaulding have confirmed that the restaurant, bar and music space, a downtown fixture for almost 17 years, is closing. Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26269 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26269 I've owned several copies of <i>Thriller</i> which have ended up being given away to friends who were more interested in listening to it at the time than I was, so I wasn't sure I would find a copy in the stacks when I made my trip to the past. But MJ was there, still looking as cool as ever with his baby tiger in the gatefold's picture. Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26207 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26207 As a 12-year-old in a rock band with high hopes for my own career in the Launchpad competition, I was excited to check out the statewide finals on Saturday, June 20, at the Wisconsin Union Theater. I'm not yet eligible for Launchpad, but as I sat through the 12 finalists I definitely got an idea of what to do and what not to do. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26205 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26205 I recently had a chance to do some overseas traveling, including a few days in London. Since there were far more exciting sights to see than racks of records -- and little space to transport anything home, anyway -- only a small stack of vinyl made the trip back. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26155 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=26155 Every season of the Bach Dancing ' Dynamite Society has a punning theme to unite its programs. This year's is "Haydn Seek," combining the idea of children's games with marking the 200th anniversary of the great 18th-century Austrian master's death. Each program will contain a chamber work of his.