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Arts Extract
by Scott Gordon, Ben Munson, Mark Riechers and Joel Shanahan
Not an insert, not a supplement, but a weekly podcast of concise stories extracted from the arts communities of Madison, WI.
Episodes
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Two Tickets Please! Ep 28_ Favorite Performances and Moviegoing Experiences of 2025 w/ Tone Madison
Conversation between Josiah Wampfler and Grant Phipps about their favorite moviegoing experiences in Madison, Wisconsin, and favorite film performances (leading or supporting) of the year 2025.
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Two Tickets Please! Ep_27: 2025 Summer Movie Discussion with Tone Madison
Two Tickets Please! Ep_27: 2025 Summer Movie Discussion with Tone Madison by Scott Gordon
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Two Tickets Please! Ep 25_ 2025 Wisconsin Film Festival Four Favorites & Wrap-Up Discussion with Tone Madison
On this episode of "Two Tickets Please!" host Josiah Wampfler sits down with Grant Phipps and Sara Batkie from Tone Madison to discuss their experiences at the 2025 Wisconsin Film Festival and the films they saw. Then, Josiah gives his four favorite films from the festival.
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Madison Acting Police Chief Wahl talks with protestors
Madison's acting police chief, Victor Wahl, talked with protestors who blocked off the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Stoughton Road on Saturday, June 13, 2020.
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Conduit: Nibiiwakamigkwe on the challenges to Indigenous artists
The Madison-based artist discusses navigating different areas of the arts world and their widely varied body of work. Conduit is a livestreamed series created by Tone Madison, UnderBelly, and Communication. Find out more at tonemadison.com/conduit
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Flight Path: When resistance takes off
Flight Path is an in-depth report on grassroots opposition to the basing of F-35 fighter jets in Madison. Available as this audio documentary and a four-part written series to be published serially over the next week, Flight Path is a partnership project of Tone Madison, Communication, and...
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Conduit: All the Bubbler's buckets
Carlee Latimer discusses the Madison Public Library's multi-faceted programming for artists and makers. Conduit is a livestreamed series created by Tone Madison, UnderBelly, and Communication. Find out more at tonemadison.com/conduit
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Conduit: Dan Shafer on recombobulating Midwestern media
The Milwaukee-based journalist talks with us about covering Wisconsin politics through his newsletter, The Recombobulation Area. Conduit is a livestreamed series created by Tone Madison, UnderBelly, and Communication. Find out more at tonemadison.com/conduit
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Conduit: From birdsong to animation with Luke Bassuener
The Madison musician discusses his solo project Asumaya and several other facets of his work. Conduit is a livestreamed series created by Tone Madison, UnderBelly, and Communication. Find out more at tonemadison.com/conduit
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Conduit: ArtWorking reckons with the pandemic
A conversation about the Madison non-profit's efforts to support artists with disabilities. For more information about Conduit, visit tonemadison.com/conduit
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Conduit: "The service industry is a haven"
Morris Ramen chef Francesca Hong discusses her effort to get relief for local restaurants during the pandemic. Join the conversation at tonemadison.com/conduit
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Conduit: Karin Wolf on the public-arts impact of COVID-19
City of Madison Arts Administrator discusses how city government is responding to the pandemic when it comes to public funding for the arts, and some of the longer-term impacts she anticipates on the local arts community. More information about the Conduit series at tonemadison.com/conduit
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A Four Star Video Heaven podcast for darker times
Four Star's Lewis Peterson joins Tone Madison's Grant Phipps for a conversation about home viewing and coping in quarantine.
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Conduit Kickoff Episode
We're partnering up with UnderBelly and Communication to bring you Conduit, a weekly series of livestreamed conversations about arts, culture, and community in Madison. Join us on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. for interviews and conversations about how we can support the arts in Madison in a time of...
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From Supa Friends to stratosphere blues
Tone Madison's Steven Spoerl and Scott Gordon catch up on a bunch of good music that Madison artists have released during the first weeks of 2020.
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Anders Svanoe builds a world around the baritone sax
A podcast conversation with the Madison musician about his ongoing “State Of The Baritone” series.
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Podcast: A fruitful year for cinema in Madison
Tone Madison's Grant Phipps, Edwanike Harbour, and Jason Fuhrman discuss the highlights of Madison's film scene in 2019 and what might be ahead for local cinephiles.
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Podcast: The big old book of CDs
Exploring a time capsule of Madison music from the mid-oughts.
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Podcast: Performance art, menstruation, and dinner
A conversation with artist Kel Mur and chef Francesca Hong about the Feast project.
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Podcast: The rise of Klack
Hear the audio version of our interview with the Madison electronic duo.
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How Bookstores Against Borders became a phenomenon
A Room Of One's Own staffer Misian Taylor reflects on the outsized impact of the store's campaign to raise money for immigrant legal aid.
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Podcast: But what about a dead end?
Four cinephiles discuss UW Cinematheque's four-part series on Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
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Podcast: Grief and taxidermy with Kristen Arnett
The author joins us to discuss and read from her debut novel, "Mostly Dead Things."
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Podcast: Jacki Whisenant and Rob Lundberg's "Not To Scale"
The two multi-media artists explore bugs and dams in a joint show at the Overture Center, up through September 1.
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Podcast short: Labrador's sharp and disappointed pop
Members Hannah Baker and Lawrence Gann catch up with us about the Madison band's development.
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Podcast: Bail and the bigger picture in Dane County
A conversation with Jessica Williams of the Free The 350 Bail Fund. Photo by BobbyLight on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobbbylight
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Gender Confetti's gay church (Record Store Dropouts Season 1, Episode 8)
Gender Confetti’s Elyse Clouthier (all pronouns) and Sylvia Johnson (they/them and she/her) drop by the studio to talk with the Dropouts about their new full-length album, We’re Gay. The pair reflect on their July 20 album release show at The Wisco (3:20), share the history of their latest song…
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Podcast short: When "public art" overlaps with "street art"
City of Madison arts administrator Karin Wolf discusses her latest piece for Our Lives Magazine.
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Podcast: Jim Whiteside's poems of spectral intimacy
The poet discusses his work in an interview co-produced with The Adroit Journal.
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Gender Confetti, "Ask First"
From the album "We're Gay." More info: https://genderconfetti.bandcamp.com/album/were-gay
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Embracing grief with Mariee Sioux (Record Store Dropouts, Season 1, Episode 7)
It’s Cancer Season and the Dropouts are all up in their feelings. Alex and Shaun review Mariee Sioux’s latest tearjerker, Grief In Exile, and take a deep dive into their favorite sob-worthy albums (6:26), share lessons they’ve learned about personal and historical grief, and lighten the mood with…
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Podcast: Sarah Akawa's ambitious summer of queer-centric events
The Madison event booker and DJ discusses the return of the Hot Summer Gays series.
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Podcast short: Summer lounging with new Madison releases
Mike Cammillerri Organ Trio, Sea Foam In My Swimsuit, and others help soundtrack the season.
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Sarah Barnfart and a new game (Record Store Dropouts Season 1, Episode 6)
The Dropouts interview a mixed media artist and talk about some events happening around Madison.
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Podcast: Ambient space music
Producer and podcaster Jordan Cohen joins us for a conversation recorded at the Corral Room in May.
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Podcast short: More about inclusive music communities
The hosts of our sister podcast, Record Store Dropouts, expand on a discussion from a recent episode.
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Main Sequence, progress, and what matters (Record Store Dropouts, Season 1, Episode 5)
Revisiting a heady work of sound collage from the mid-aughts.
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Podcast: But I wouldn't know where to start
Former Madisonsian Shane O'Neill charts his journey from punk rock to the New York Times.
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Podcast short: A LÜMp sum
Why is Madison's Live Nation subsidiary investing in a locally developed music app?
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Concert communities and Black Belt Eagle Scout (Record Store Dropouts, Season 1, Episode 4)
The Dropouts discuss building safer concert spaces and talk with Black Belt Eagle Scout’s Katherine Paul. (Photo by Eleanor Petry.)
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Podcast: Jonah Parzen-Johnson on the responsibility to take risks
The saxophonist plays a Tone Madison-presented solo show on June 6 at Café Coda.
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Psychic twinning with Erin Fein (Season 1, Episode 3)
The musician shares a demo and discusses her songwriting and approach to visuals.
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Podcast short: Rachal Duggan on drawing, Madison, and drawing Madison
A sendoff for one of our favorite illustrators. See more of Rachal's work at rachalduggan.com or instagram.com/radillustrates.
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Record Store Dropouts: Mitski live! (Season 1, Episode 2)
Hosts Alex Nelson and Shaun Soman reflect on Mitski’s April 3, 2019 performance at The Sylvee in Madison. Along the way, they recall past Mitski shows they’ve attended (1:34), rave about her chair-heavy new stage show (5:51), examine discourse around identity and music consumption (11:20), and...
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Record Store Dropouts: Collage Dropouts (Season 1, Episode 1)
Record Store Dropouts is a music-adjacent podcast for music-adjacent people. On their quest for good conversation and trivial knowledge, hosts Shaun Soman and Alex Nelson explore how visual objects (e.g., album covers, music videos) are made and the extent to which they inform the listening...
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Podcast short: Upstream and on the road
The week in events, video-store precarity, and post-mayoral blocks.
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Podcast: Jen Rubin remembers a resilient family business
The Madison-based writer and storyteller discusses her first book, "We Are Staying."
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Podcast short: A Print & Resist haul
We share some finds from Madison's annual celebration of zines and radical print culture.
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Podcast: Wisconsin music, through a disarming lens
Photographer Spencer Wells discusses his recently published book "Forward."
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Podcast short: We stan Mary Timony
A brief journey through the Ex Hex leader's brilliant discography. Photo by Juan Bendana on Flickr(CC BY 2.0)
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How many episodes does Arts Extract have?
Arts Extract currently has 316 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Arts Extract about?
Not an insert, not a supplement, but a weekly podcast of concise stories extracted from the arts communities of Madison, WI.
How often does Arts Extract release new episodes?
Arts Extract publishes regularly with 316 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
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Who hosts Arts Extract?
Arts Extract is created and hosted by Scott Gordon, Ben Munson, Mark Riechers and Joel Shanahan.
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