Attack Ponies w/ Champ Shack - $5

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Friday, April 4, 2008

Attack Ponies have yet to find the suitable MySpace genre words but can be summed up as indie-keyboard-shenanigan-pop. They've been playing together just under a year, but their members are no strangers to the stage. Keyboardist, Stacey Barelos is also a classical pianist, pounding her way into concerts all over the map. Bassist Rob McCaleb is a formally a member of local bands SeaBus!!! and the Body Politik. Drummer Sarah DeVore has played in the Urban Hillbilly quartet of Minneapolis and local groups Squid and the Demented Carousel. Attack Ponies are the most fun you never knew you were missing.

"Madison trio Attack Ponies' songs bounce along on Stacey Barelos'cheerful piano and vocals, with lyrics that sometimes mystify and sometimes invite goofy sing-alongs." The Onion