http://www.thedailypage.com/music Music content from ISTHMUS | The Daily Page webmaster@isthmus.com (Webmaster) Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:36:09 CST Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28363 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28363 UW-Madison students Quincy Harrison and Cliff Grefe were profiled in USA Today last December for a song they wrote in the basement of their Langdon Street fraternity house. Harrison, 20, and Grefe, 19, didn't get national press for breaking musical ground. They'd barely begun performing together as Zooniversity months earlier. The raps and beats were simple on their debut single, "Coastie Song (What's a Coastie?)." Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28366 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28366 It's noon on Saturday, and four of the five members of the Madison rock band Fortune and Glory are sitting around a table at a local pub, having drinks. When they're not chiding each other, they're busy telling me why they've found a haven in the punk-pop music they make. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28368 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28368 Composed of four Berklee College of Music graduates, Via Audio aren't short on talent. In fact, they've become fast favorites of Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla and Spoon drummer Jim Eno. Eno produced both 2007's <i>Say Something</i> and <i>Animalore</i>, the disc they're releasing March 9 during a cross-country tour. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:34:20 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28146 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28146 When Jon Schoepke and Billy Morehouse, bandmates from a small-town metal group, reunited in Madison in the fall of 2008, they weren't just looking to hang out and worship Black Sabbath. They had a vision. "We wanted to make some non-traditional sounding albums with looping, rock guitars and driving synths," Schoepke says. And thus, Ridley was born. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28085 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28085 At first glance, electro jams and klezmer songs don't seem to have much in common. Electro sprang from funk musicians' fascination with programmable drum machines in the 1980s. Klezmer, on the other hand, sprang from the synagogues of southeastern Europe in the 1380s or thereabouts. Now the two have come together in Madison, of all places, thanks to The Shtetlblasters, a five-piece ensemble that got acquainted at Middleton High School a few years ago. Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:54:15 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28328 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28328 Conductor Anu Tali brought to the Madison Symphony Orchestra a work by a fellow countryman revered back in Estonia: Heino Eller, whose atmospheric symphonic picture "Dawn" was most attractive. As for pianist Stephen Hough, he played the socks off Tchaikovsky's Second Concerto. Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28264 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28264 Depending on your musical proclivities, the biggest thing to come out of Rockford, Ill. is either Cheap Trick or Marin Mazzie. Mazzie and her husband, Jason Danieley, have been dubbed "Broadway's golden couple" and have performed at the likes of Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and London's West End. Yet for one night, Madisonians had them all to ourselves at the Wisconsin Union Theater. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28367 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28367 Indie rock is no longer the unpredictable genre it once was. It is increasingly performed as down-tempo, folk-based music. It emphasizes sonic space and extended instrumental repetition in its seemingly singular determination to make music feel thoughtful, gently impressionistic and dreamy. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28308 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28308 Ben Sidran, the local legend who wrote "Space Cowboy" in his time with the Steve Miller Band, won a Peabody for his NPR series Talking Jazz and produced albums for everyone from Van Morrison to Diana Ross, heads back to his roots on his newest CD, a collection of Bob Dylan covers. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:30:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28416 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28416 Few things compare to holy trinity of big guitars, pretty harmonies and pop hooks aplenty. The August Teens know it well and worship it often. Heck, they've been doing it for 10 years now. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:03:02 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28404 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28404 The Tierney Sutton Band will headline the 2010 Isthmus Jazz Festival on Saturday, June 5, at the Wisconsin Union Theater, featuring Sutton's unique approach to jazz singing. The festival also features free performances by regional jazz bands the weekend of June 5 and 6 at the UW Memorial Union Terrace. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:38:47 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28396 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28396 Zola Jesus celebrated the release of her new EP, <i>Stridulum</i>, last night at theProject Lodge. The show marked the UW-Madison's student's return to playing in her hometown after a year's absence, and based on the raucous admiration from the audience, she was sorely missed. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28391 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28391 For as long as record collectors of all genres have been digging for forgotten material, those few who go the next step and begin reissuing material commercially have maintained a sort of cottage industry mining the many, many ignored side roads of music history. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28245 http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28245 Anna Wang spends a lot of time shrugging off the silly things that concern other people. "I can remember being in high school," she says, "and all my girlfriends were crying because their boobs weren't as big as other girls', and I would always be like, 'Can you stop talking now so I can go back to writing songs?'" Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:20:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28192 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28192 In the pop canon there are songs about death, surfing and job-stealing Japanese robots, but music's most enduring theme is love. Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28329 http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28329 The five albums released by the revived label component of Ardent Studios in the early 1970s were almost exclusively acts that called Memphis home at the time, including Big Star, The Hot Dogs and Oklahoma natives Cargoe. The one outlier is a very atypical sort of album for either Ardent and its distributor Stax/Volt: <i>Wringing Applause</i> by Brian Alexander Robertson. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:16:10 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/video/article.php?article=28132 http://www.thedailypage.com/video/article.php?article=28132 Ben Reiser catches up with Freedy Johnston at The Frequency where the singer-songwriter talks about the closing of Smart Studios, among other topics. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:37:47 -0600 http://www.thedailypage.com/video/article.php?article=28101 http://www.thedailypage.com/video/article.php?article=28101 Ben Reiser laces up some rented shoes and shares some bowling memories with the kings and queens of the Madison disco scene, VO5.