Scott Gordon

2 days ago | tonemadison.com | Scott Gordon |Christina Lieffring |Grant Phipps |Steven Spoerl

Our annual report is a bit later than usual this year because, as you may know, we’ve been undergoing a major transition. Scott Gordon, Tone Madison co-founder and Publisher, stepped down at the end of April. While it didn’t take long for his byline to pop up again (and there will certainly be more of that in the future), the day-to-day operations of Tone Madison are now in the hands of Film Editor Grant Phipps, Music Editor Steven Spoerl, and myself.

2 weeks ago | tonemadison.com | Scott Gordon

This is our newsletter-first column, Microtones. It runs on the site on Fridays, but you can get it in your inbox on Thursdays by signing up for our email newsletter. Early this Pride month I learned that there is a building on the Square called the Gay Building (please do not tell Dave Mustaine, he will almost certainly make it weird) and that Eric Hovde’s company owns it, which has to be some sort of hate crime.

1 month ago | tonemadison.com | Scott Gordon

This is our newsletter-first column, Microtones. It runs on the site on Fridays, but you can get it in your inbox on Thursdays by signing up for our email newsletter. Don McLean never really went after Killdozer for covering “American Pie” on the 1989 covers album For Ladies Only. Touch And Go Records initially issued the album as a box set of five 7″ singles.

2 months ago | tonemadison.com | Scott Gordon

We’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple years reporting and writing about police body cameras. Tone Madison‘s latest print edition focuses entirely on the subject, with all-new illustrations by Andrew Mulhearn, design by Kay Reynolds, and an introduction by UW-Madison history professor Simon Balto. The issue recaps what we’ve learned while reporting on local police agencies’ pursuit of body cameras and the obstacles a new Wisconsin law poses to people seeking access to bodycam footage.

2 months ago | tonemadison.com | Scott Gordon

This is our newsletter-first column, Microtones. It runs on the site on Fridays, but you can get it in your inbox on Thursdays by signing up for our email newsletter. One of the central problems of the Trump era is that most observers of U.S. politics have set a frightfully low bar for what constitutes “standing up” to Trump and the fascist Republican Party.