Subtly defying those gender norms has been a hallmark of her career, and No Home Record sees Gordon digging even deeper, proving that you can remain vital and cool as fuck at 66. Read more at audiofemme.com.
Brandi Grayson: Empowering Black Families
When Madison activist Brandi Grayson ended her work with the Young Gifted and Black Coalition in 2016, she walked away with a new understanding of how to affect change. But she recognized that despite vocal and tireless efforts, there’s no guarantee that others will change. Read more at bravamagazine.com.
2019 Year in Review: The return of Bikini Kill
Bikini Kill was the only band that’s ever given me reason to make it to Riot Fest, despite one of my best friends attending without fail every year. Read more at audiofemme.com.
Punk and circumstance
An independent documentary looks at the scene that flourished in Washington, D.C.
Punk is not dead. That’s the takeaway from a documentary featuring key members of the Washington, D.C., hardcore scene. Featuring an interview with Jeff Nelson, drummer of Minor Threat and co-founder of Dischord Records. Read more at isthmus.com.
Madison’s pop guitar queen
21-year-old wunderkind Raine Stern has big plans
On a Thursday night at North Street Cabaret, Raine Stern and her band roll through a set of original funky blues rock songs, filled with her jaw-dropping solos and versatile vocals. Her short, curly blonde hair hangs in front of her round wire-rim glasses, her mannerisms calling to mind one of her influences, Prince. Midway through the set, her band exits the stage and she performs a few solo tunes. Read more at isthmus.com.
True American art
“Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas” is an exhibit of wonders
In a dimly lit gallery in the School of Human Ecology on the UW-Madison campus sit three cases draped with linen. Beneath the coverings are funerary objects taken from Indigenous resting places — swatches of handmade cloth and bags that were meant to be used by the dead in the next world. Read more at isthmus.com.
Ode to an outsider
Marielle Allschwang creates a multimedia tribute to Milwaukee’s Mary Nohl
On childhood trips to her grandmother’s house Marielle Allschwang would drive past a cottage on Lake Michigan in the suburb of Fox Point. Its yard was dotted with playfully bizarre sculptures. Read more at isthmus.com.
