The Theramones

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, August 6, 2004

The Theramones have deconstructed the music of the Ramones and reassembled it in a different conceptual workshop using a different set of tools (including theremin and keytar) and according to a different architectural philosphy (one so profound it can\'t possibly be articulated in this blurb, or perhaps anywhere else for that matter). Or maybe they have melted down the music of the Ramones and recast the resulting puddle of molten ooze in a profoundly different mold. Moldy or not, The Theramones are musical and creative and fun, and are not just some boring cover band on a madcap side trip from the county fair circuit. The Theramones are Geoff Brady (theremin), Bob Jacobson (vocals, keytar, pocket trumpet), Matt Appleby (guitar), Kia Karlen (bass), and Dan Hobson (drums).

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