Weekend Agenda: Sept. 11-13
From Robert Rauschenberg, "Stoned Moon Series: Sky Garden"
The best of this weekend:
FRIDAY
It's almost too perfect that Matt And Kim's show at the Majestic takes place the same night as Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's at the Project Lodge. You'd expect them to be vying for much the same crowd, so Friday's turnout (while likely skewed by Matt And Kim's current popularity) will tell us whether said crowd prefers sugar-shelled uppers or pale-colored downers. A more in-between option would be Pieta Brown making up a postponed show at the High Noon, though the conflict between chill and pumped-up also extends to reggae band SOJA's show at The Annex. Perhaps we're just pumped from running so many theater-related stories this week, but for tonight we're most curious about catching the second night of Strollers Theatre's Cat's-Paw at the Bartell.
SATURDAY
With all of Madison's progressives apparently streaming north of town for Fighting Bob Fest, it's good to have standby comforts like DJ Rekha's shows at the Majestic, which seem to happen pretty often even though she's based in New York. Local band Know Boundaries is playing its final show at the High Noon, and punk rockers The Casualties turn Area 51 into a mohawk magnet for the night.
SUNDAY
Finally, a band fronted by a guy who's been to Wisconsin, and then to Iceland, and eventually back to Wisconsin: The Foghorns, playing at Alchemy. Sunday also marks the opening of a pretty big art exhibit that spans the iconic and the oblique: The Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art's Signs Of The Times: Robert Rauschenberg's America.
