MadisonOpera’s Alexandra Burch and Lifan Deng, accompanied by pianist Scott Gendel, delighted the audience attending @madisonsymphony.bsky.social Centennial celebration.

Lucky @ratboysband.bsky.social love to play Madison because Madison loves to hear them play!

Always a pleasure seeing Bizhiki in concert - uplifting with divine reminders of community and connection.

@elizabethmoen.bsky.social put on a powerful performance @ Marquette Waterfront Festival in Madison

Playing a free show November 3rd @uwmadison.bsky.social

Surreal surgeries performed with clinical precision

HORSE LORDS “Demand to be Taken to Heaven Alive” (@rvngintl.bsky.social) www.horselords.bandcamp.com Jump-starting cartwheel harmonics, “Heaven,” blends kaleidoscope explosives with pagan rainbow mutations dispensing inventive art-rock hemorrhages among bold whack-a-mole frenzies.

MONO “Snowdrop” (@tempresltd.bsky.social) www.monoofjapan.bandcamp.com Sheltered in heaving, breathing battle-scarred bellows, MONO’s first post-Albini record, “Snowdrop,” retains the band’s beautiful uphill transcendence. Lanced canvases stretched over chromatic saturation,

Great night listening to @moreeazemusic.bsky.social and @wendyeisenberg.bsky.social in the dark @theemptybottle.bsky.social

THAO (formerly Thao and The Get Down Stay Down) Returns to Kill Rock Stars for Solo Project & Unveils First New Song/Video in Six Years: “Fossils” youtu.be/Nily45ivH9k co-produced with Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner of Tune-Yards

Slow Pulp Announce New Album, Melodie, Out September 18th via @antirecords.bsky.social Share Better Man single.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh new top 10 mountain goats track just dropped

GRAMMY-Winning Guitar Duo’s New Album Arrives September 18th Recorded in Japan, OurHome Features Collaborations with Former Megadeth Guitarist Marty Friedman, Japanese Jazz Virtuoso Hiromi & More North American Tour includes @thesylvee.bsky.social Nov 1st

Stella: youtu.be/u2SUuOs2K4Y

the full set of BCMC featuring @billdmackay.bsky.social and Cooper Crain at Acme Records in Milwaukee a few days ago is now on YouTube thanks to Adam Richer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Sl...

Rodrigo y Gabriela announce new album & fall tour, share "Monster" video www.brooklynvegan.com/rodrigo-y-ga...

L'Rain announces new album, shares searing "soulless cycle" www.brooklynvegan.com/lrain-announ...

Chicago trio of Black Duck (bassist/guitarist Douglas McCombs, guitarist Bill MacKay and drummer Charles Rumback) and Basque musician Elena Setién announce their debut self-titled album, Black Duck With Elena Setién, will be released on August 28 via Thrill Jockey.

mary in the junkyard release the new single, “Mouse,” from their debut album, Role Model Hermit, out July 3rd via AMF Records. “Mouse” fuses the band's fantastical story telling with hard hitting themes of reconnecting with a person you abandoned in a former life.

From Bye Parula’s Something Out Of Nothing via @secretcityrecords.bsky.social Records, the Montreal trio shares a video for the title track. “This one is like an introvert’s anthem, as if you see someone so free out in the world that you envy them and want to talk to them but you just can’t.

Death Cab for Cutie Are Emotional Architects on 'I Built You a Tower'

BOOKER STARDRUM and EVAN SHORNSTEIN “Oops!” (Suddenly Quarterly) www.suddenquarterly.bandcamp.com/album/oops Cosmic tide pools teeming in slinky, flinching synths pivoting shifting riffs around clockwork obstinance, Stardrum and Shornstein’s dynamic dives into meditative play form

@deertick.bsky.social “Coin-O-Matic” (@atorecords.bsky.social) www.deertickmusic.com Catholic rascals blasting ragged ballads with vigorous piss and radical bombast, Rhode Island’s Deer Tick extract working-class compassion from crushing frustration.

ALEWYA SHARES “MAKTOUB” VIDEO London-Based Ethiopian-Egyptian Artist And Curator Shares Video Filmed In Afar, Ethiopia - One Of The Hottest And Lowest Places On Earth From ZERO Debut Full Length Album Out June 26th

MEXICO CITY’S DILES QUE NO ME MATEN RELEASE BREEZY NEW SINGLE “VIENE EL VIENTO” FROM NEW ALBUM ESCRITO EN AGUA OUT JUNE 12TH VIA MOONLIGHT ACTIVITIES

TASHA SHARES "QUICK!" FROM YOU ARE THE SPRING! OUT JUNE 26 ON @bayonetrecords.bsky.social

The Huntress and Holder of Hands share new track "Timbre Inaudible" From Babylon LP out this Friday, June 5th

Experimental Harpist Lara Somogyi Crafts Polyrhythmic Odyssey in New Single, “mirabel” New Album, a [time] patterned, out August 28th

BETH ORTON SHARES NEW SONG “OTHERSIDE” + LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO NEW LP THE GROUND ABOVE DUE JUNE 26TH VIA @partisanrecords.bsky.social US HEADLINE TOUR KICKS OFF THIS FALL WITH STOPS IN NYC, CHICAGO, LA AND MORE

DEER TICK SHARE NEW SINGLE AHEAD OF ALBUM RELEASE ON FRIDAY “DOG YEARS” OUT TODAY COIN-O-MATIC OUT JUNE 5 VIA @atorecords.bsky.social

BLACK MARBLE Shares New Single “Jim Carol New Year” From Upcoming Album Life in Small Spaces Out August 21, 2026 on @sacredbones.bsky.social

Julia Jacklin signs to 4AD, announces extensive tour

Tim Kaiser, Lorna Dune and Jeff Herriott headline SynthFest @artlitlab.bsky.social exploring alien soundscapes through electronic odysseys.

VILLAGERRR “Carousel” (@w1nspear.bsky.social) www.villagerrr.com Roused from a sound sleep grasping distant dreams drowning in untouchable floods, “Carousel,” flows against the current, electric squalor swallowing passive appetites while coltish grunge-folk holds indie-rock hopes inside

@marisamusic.bsky.social was absolutely phenomenal @artlitlab.bsky.social - one guitarist who spans styles and genres with fluid grooves and delightful dexterity.

The Belair Lip Bombs - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) youtu.be/wLDf6DosOzY?... Hey You 00:38 Back Of My Hand 04:08 Look The Part 07:44 If You’ve Got The Time 11:43 Don’t Let Them Tell You (It’s Fair) 15:40

Sunken Cages blends South Indian rhythms, percussive traditions, electronic textures on upcoming album Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks) out August 7th via Mahorka Listen to "Kerala"

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Crazy good night with Jackie Venson venting hot Texas blues inside some scorching psychedelic soul bolstered by a incredible band and die-hard fans @highnoonmadison.bsky.social

Wonderful seeing Joe Jackson @orpheummadison.bsky.social - a great show as always - 100 % Live!

Aug 24 Madison, WI Breese Stevens Field Life on the Run: youtu.be/13foRUxhss0?... The release coincides with the launch of a new partnership between Carlile and the National Park Foundation to raise critical funds to preserve and protect these cherished places across the country.

On her latest album, WHO'S KEEPING TIME?, Alela Diane fuses the West and Southwest through impressionistic lyricism. My review for @beardedgmusic.bsky.social - beardedgentlemenmusic.com/2026/05/19/a...

Arc Iris–the Los Angeles-based trio of multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Jocie Adams, keyboardist Zach Tenorio, and drummer Ray Belli–release their new album, iTMRW, today via Glass Hill Records. Written as the foundation for a 90-minute multimedia production.

MARISA ANDERSON “Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music” (@thrilljockey.bsky.social) www.marisaandersonmusic.com Investigating offbeat meters & distinctive rhythms from countries the U.S. has been in conflict since 1970, ace guitar explorer Anderson manages lively transience through delicate attention

Dec 10 - Madison, WI - @highnoonmadison.bsky.social Blue Flame: youtu.be/tGt5n_vtfLI?si…

DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS announce details of new album LOVE ❤️ out 4th September 2026 @heavenlyrecordings.bsky.social 4 Nov. - Olympia, Dublin 5 Nov. - Ulster Hall , Belfast 6 Nov. - Blackbox Theatre, Galway first single out now ‘My Life In England Pt. 1’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tAA...

11/5 - Milwaukee, WI @cactusclubmke.bsky.social Title track from Dent May’s forthcoming album out August 14th via @carparkrecords.bsky.social The Big One: youtu.be/2tpiVHFvixE?si…

Shannon Lay announces Past The Veil, out July 28th via All The Best. She's also shared the lead single "Past The Veil". "Learning how to be present with our emotions requires a lot of practice. I hope this can be a reminder to continue that courageous work and live more freely because of it."

"Flying Into Darkness" from Laura Veirs' upcoming album "Temple Songs" Release date: August 14, 2026 on Raven Marching Band Records

GENESIS OWUSU “Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge” (Ourness) www.genesisowusu.com A rapping pseudo-suitor wooing crunchy thundering funk while shadow-boxing Buddhas bounce bottom-heavy boots on the ground, Owusu pounces, landing punches, shuffling strong geopolitical hunches.