High Noon Saloon the western themed Gary Cooper film, High Noon. The building previously housed the "Buy & Sell" shop, a Madison resale shop with an unusually large neon colored fish on its roof. Numerous national and local bands practiced and recorded in the basement of the Buy & Sell shop who would eventually play upstairs in the High Noon Saloon. Turbonegro recorded two songs of their Ass Cobra album with Sean Bovine at Green Room studios in the south-east corner of the basement. No Name printing would churn out their flyers in the basement, also home to Rhetoric Records. Brainerd recorded their
Chikara High Noon which drew 972 buys. The event was released on DVD by Smart Mark Video on November 25, 2011. High Noon featured seven professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that were played out on Chikara's monthly house shows and on blog entries written on the promotion's official website. Wrestlers will portray villains ("rudos" in Chikara) or heroes ("tecnicos" in Chikara) as they follow a series of events that build tension, and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Chikara follows "lucha libre" traditions and is known for its colorful characters and gimmicks