Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe blew the roof off @majesticmadison.bsky.social with funk soul jams that uplifted and empowered. Perfect way to kick off 2026!

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

wee-woo wee-woo paging dr. christmas 🎄🩺 on.soundcloud.com/R57rFImL6HMX...

Robert Fripp: Silent Night - originally released as a flexi-disc with Chicago based Praxis Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3 December, 1979 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFAE...

2025 wasn’t the stick in mud some people thought…

2025 if you could have gone to only one show that month what would that show have been? Jan Georgie Greep Feb SPACE (R Mitchell) March - The Bevis Frond April The Weather Stn May - Courting June - I’m with Her Jul- Kaki King Aug Editrix Sept - mum Oct - Beta Band Nov - The Beths Dec - Miguel Zenon

@soulcoughing.bsky.social lit up @thesylvee.bsky.social Last Saturday's Arctic blast was no match for these nineties icons with hip-hop bossa novas growing from sugar-free boogie. The squares were nowhere there.

@madisonsymphony.bsky.social’s The Hunt Quartet put on a beautiful program of Ravel and Schubert @artlitlab.bsky.social

more eaze announces new album sentence structure in the country Out on Mar. 20th, 2026 via @thrilljockey.bsky.social Listen to first "bad friend" featuring Wendy Eisenberg

No Off - the new single from multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performing member of The Smile Robert Stillman. From, '10,000 Rivers' out 9th January on Orindal/Kit Records Sculpture and film concept by Robert Stillman

Farewell to the great Joe Ely, a pioneer of progressive country with the Flatlanders who sowed the seeds of Americana by touring with such rockers as the Clash in the early 1980s. variety.com/2025/music/o...

@soulcoughing.bsky.social was in excellent form @thesylvee.bsky.social - an extremely tight unit lunging in funky hip-hop bop, sizzling indie-rock irony and crowd-pleasing teases.

Julian Lage has shared his latest single, “Talking Drum,” available everywhere today via @bluenoterecords.bsky.social. “Talking Drum” is from Lage’s fifth full-length Blue Note release, Scenes From Above, which arrives on Friday, January 23, 2026.

Colleen, aka multi-instrumentalist Cécile Schott, has announced her new album Libres antes del final, out March 20th, 2026. Along with the album's announcement, Schott has shared the clarion single "Antídoto," a sparkling whirlwind of synthesis.

Cast Unveil Anthemic New Single ‘Free Love’ Ahead of New Album ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’ www.xsnoize.com/cast-unveil-...

JOE JACKSON SHARES FIRST SINGLE FROM UPCOMING NEW ROCK RECORD "WELCOME TO BURNING-BY-SEA" STREAMING NOW - LISTEN NEW ALBUM, HOPE AND FURY, ARRIVING APRIL 10, 2026 Joe plays Madison’s @orpheummadison.bsky.social May 22nd 2026

Azaman Amoutay by Imarhan is out now! youtu.be/Uwy5NGxWsgo?... A track where Tuareg melodies meet a contemporary pulse. Third single from Essam, out Jan 16, 2026, on City Slang

Shasta youtu.be/aS9Qu5AT7bw?... by Modern Nature

Blackwater Holylight have forged a heavy presence in the Los Angeles underground, following a move from Portland, Oregon. On January 30, 2026, the dreamy hard rock trio will share the full-length Not Here Not Gone via Suicide Squeeze Records.

Wingra Wind Quintet @chazenartuw.bsky.social

@miguelzenon.bsky.social and Luis Perdomo graced @artlitlab.bsky.social with bright melodies, fluid improvisation and delightful boleros for an incredible evening of Latin jazz.

MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER “Unclouded” (@dominorecordco.bsky.social) www.melodysechochamber.com Brightly painted elation from a clairvoyant clarion. Melody Prochet’s silky gloss gets tossed into finger-snapping jazz drumming, funk-truncated tentacles whose persuasive placement bounces

April 17th 2026 @ratboysband.bsky.social play Madison WI’s Atwood Music Hall What’s Right?: youtu.be/-6OiASeY-As?...

The Bevis Frond announce new album ‘Horroful Heights’, listen to the teaser video: youtu.be/yrnoOAd-PeU?...

She Died on Christmas Day: youtu.be/jvzpTMktrsI?... @thecoral.bsky.social

'Hourglass' is Antibalas through and through: no novelties, no gimmicks, all consummate professionalism. That is a comfort. Out now via @daptonerecords.bsky.social REVIEW: tinyurl.com/Antibalas25

La Pucelle fired up Woodstock’s The Colony with blazing Balkan frenzied flamenco and good ol’ rock and roll showmanship!

Have resisted Chicago’s big for me Salt Shed but @thebeths.bsky.social AND Squirrel Flower? Color me there!

@thebeths.bsky.social pulled out all the stops and put on a great show @ The Salt Shed - my first time at the Shed and third time seeing these power pop phenoms - jump rope gazers indeed!

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

@maciestewart.bsky.social opened for Jeff Tweedy and put on a great set then her @finommusic.bsky.social partner @simacunningham.bsky.social joined in on the last number then reconvened for a fab cover of Mr. Sandman!

What a night! Jeff Tweedy and his merry band of minstrels shredded Shannon Hall with smiles and songs on their last stop of a long tour giving Madison a gorgeous send-off!

Curls by @valleyqueen.bsky.social

STS9 share their self-produced, lush thirteenth record Human Dream out now via 1320 Records/Symphonic with fan favorite instrumental ballad "Presence of Light."

Acclaimed indie/folk force The Lone Bellow have announced their long-awaited new album What a Time to be Alive will release on February 13th. Check out You Were Leaving Ending their tour 03/05 - Madison, WI @majesticmadison.bsky.social

GLYDERS “Forever” (DragCity) www.glyders.bandcamp.com Funky wah-wah pedals steadying stoner-folk jams surrounding empowered krautrock chops, Glyders’ greased wheels and shifting gears cruise through numerous groovy influences.

@mollytuttlemusic.com returned to the Stoughton Opera House in a sold out show last Saturday that had swooning bluegrass flash and sculpted country-pop roots. Wrote it up in my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/johnnoyd...

Bizhiki performed @ UW-Madison’s Shannon Hall In celebration of Native November. Inspiring immersive and wonderfully engaging.

Selling out @majesticmadison.bsky.social @postanimal.bsky.social turned it up and brought it on with a powerful display of of rockin’ psychedelia.

Efterklang unveil details of the worldwide release of their documentary, Efterklang: The Makedonium Band

Beverly Glenn-Copeland reveals new single, "Laughter In Summer", which is the title track to his forthcoming album

@mollytuttlemusic.com filled the Stoughton Opera House with unbelievably feverish bluegrass and flashy, friendly country wonder.

@azamaliofficial.bsky.social “Synesthesia” (COP International) www.azamali.com Enchanted cosmic sanctuaries, “Synesthesia,” cloisters pagan voices ushering elastic-wrapped passageways into spacious weightless races.

Eisenberg shares: “It’s a simple little song about true love and the passage of time. “Will you dare” is the real question - do you dive into the impossibility of true love, be shameless, even though if you’re doing it right it’ll rip you to shreds?" Thanks @joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social

Watch Pulp perform a career-spanning ‘Tiny Desk Concert’

Imarhan share music video for “Tellalt,” the second preview of new album Essam out Jan 16, 2026 via City Slang

Watch Nation of Language's new video for "Nights of Weight" from their latest album, Dance Called Memory-> www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBnf... 🎥Sean Devaney

Watch Julian Lage, John Medeski, Jorge Roeder & Kenny Wollesen perform "Opal" live in the studio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBj7... The gorgeous invocation is the opening track of Lage's new Blue Note album "Scenes from Above" out Jan. 23. Watch, listen & pre-order now: julianlage.lnk.to/Opal