STONE AFTER STONE RECORDS PRESENTS:
WISCONSIN
VINYL COLLECTIVE
Artists from WI:
Built for durability, prepped for snow storms, maybe even a bit isolated from the corporate business of music. This separation allows artists to create out of pure joy and creativity allowing honesty in the lyrics and melodies and performances. Its all worn right their on their flannel-covered sleeves.
BASCOM HILL
Bascom Hill is a trio of lager-loving, joke cracking, Wisconsin-raised musicians in the truest sense of the word. As veterans of the music scene, a lot has changed for them personally and in the biz over the course of 4 albums. But through it all, one thing has remained constant: a commitment to their music, which is known for its effortless hooks, memorable choruses, and clever lyrics.
KEROSENE KITES
After years of co-writing sessions, festival planning, sporadic performances, and overall "big idea" cultivating, Beth Kille and Erik Kjelland will now perform as a duo under the group name "Kerosene Kites" and will also play shows as a full band when rocking out is deemed necessary. These prolific songwriters and co-founders of Flannel Fest began co-writing in the fall of 2013 after both were members of the Nashville Songwriters Association - Madison Chapter. Shared experiences of life on the road and supportive families at home allowed for a common lyrical bond and a basis for their holiday-themed North Star Sessions album released in December 2014. In December 2016 Kerosene Kites released "Under Cover Holiday" an album of re-imagined holiday classic holiday songs. They finally out ran of Christmas spirit in November of 2017 when they released their first non-holiday album "Float Away."
DEREK PRITZL
AND THE GAMBLE
Derek Pritzl is of the Town and the City. A sound that is of cement and the soft earth below. His band follows this ethos of subdued grit, as there is beauty to simplicity. After all, a band is just a voice with wires and wood weaving their own lyrics between. Coaxed wails, thumps and rumbles carry the words of this drifter from door to door, town to town, and the city to your open ears.
LOST LAKES
Lost Lakes is a collaboration between Corey Mathew Hart and Paul Mitch. The two met during a songwriting competition held by a local radio station. The collaboration has grown over the years, developing into a strong songwriting and production team with a focus on well-crafted tunes and tight vocal harmonies. Lost Lakes' self-titled debut record bears witness to their talents and the fact the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts.
MADISON MALONE
Madison Malone grew up in Portage, Wisconsin, where after playing around the Midwest region for 8 years, Madison relocated to Los Angeles. She has been in Los Angeles for the last two years where she is releasing new music, writing for artists & commercials, and has packed venues & festivals such as the Troubadour, Hotel Cafe, The Roxy, SXSW, & Summerfest (where she was named Emerging Artist).
CHRISTOPHER GOLD
Christopher Gold is a songwriter from Owensboro, Kentucky. These days he does most of his writing in Appleton, Wisconsin where he lives with his wife and son, works with his band The New Old Things, and constantly complains about the weather. He has released a bunch of records and some cool stuff has happened and he even won an award once. He would talk about them here but he hates bios and he would much rather just direct people to his website so he can stop writing in third person and go listen to the Clash.
LASKA
Formed in 2016, Midwestern based LASKA crafts music with a blend of intricate vocal harmonies, sweeping instrumentals, and profound lyricism. Sisters, Hannah Mae, Bex, and Mookie Morton balance ingenuity with classic storytelling to create a unique sound that blurs lines between genres and resonates with listeners from any background. In Spring of 2019, LASKA will push their sound into a new chapter with the release of in the blossom of this, an EP exploring the sisters' ever-evolving understanding of the people they love and the world around them. The Mortons along with Evan Middlesworth (producer/guitar), Noah Kittleson (percussion), and Robbie Weisshaar (bass guitar) will spend the remainder of 2019 touring in support of the EP. The band is currently at work on a full length album slated for release in 2020.
THE BELLE WEATHER
The Belle Weather is a hurricane. We are acoustic guitars, stories, and melody. We are the resonant, pounding beat of a kick drum, the deep pulse of a bass guitar, and the siren's wail of an over-driven tube amp. We are open fields and skyscrapers - equal parts modern folk and indie rock - a fusion of inspired anthems and the art of simple storytelling.
Over the years, we've taken a great many influences and blended them into a sound that is uniquely our own. We've built a reputation by approaching every stage we can find with a rare combination of gritty, sweat-drenched energy and honest, heart-felt sonic grace. We love doing what we do, and feel very fortunate to have a fan base that is as musically adventurous as we've always tried to be.
CRAIG BAUMANN FEAT. OSG
Baumann is a warrior of song. Trailblazing through country, blues and Wisconsin Americana. With ample dexterity in his own driving homeward bound way. His voice, straining strong and alluring from Vahalla. To bear witness to an emotive soul inhabiting the blues for you is an immense blessing and responsibility. One wants to keep the secret for him or herself but the compulsion is to tell everyone you know. Baumann is a member of Overserved Gentlemen and the People Brothers Band.
MICHAEL PERRY
AND THE LONG BEDS
Perry began writing songs in the early 1990s during long nights when he was struggling to survive on prose (he is the author of numerous books including: Population 485, Truck, The Scavengers, and the New York Times bestseller Visiting Tom). With no arts background (he has a nursing degree) he found himself drawn especially to the work of poets and singer/songwriters. (In interviews Perry tends to list his greatest literary influences as Dylan Thomas and Steve Earle – and not necessarily in that order.) “I remember writing late one night and hearing a Kevin Welch song with the line, ‘I whiskey’d up my coffee cup... sittin’ here tryin’ not to call you up,’” says Perry, “and I was floored by the rhythm and the story in that single line...” He began writing songs as a way to break up all-night typing sessions, and eventually he had enough of them that a musician friend invited him to play a coffee shop. “I’m not saying I was nervous, but I ripped out a sixty-minute set list in thirty-two minutes flat,” says Perry. By 2004, he had begun recruiting Long Beds. In 2006, he released his first album, Headwinded.
Stone After Stone Records
Madison, WI
info (at) stoneafterstonerecords.com
