Johanna Rose is a New Orleans-based singer, songwriter, upright bassist, and street performer making music that lives somewhere between jazz and the gutter. Her sound — smoky, sultry, sometimes chaotic — walks the line between beauty and grit. With vocals that can cut or soothe, and bass lines that feel like heartbeat and tension at once, Rose builds songs that don’t ask permission. It’s jazz with a crooked grin — rooted in tradition, but not staying there.
With the support of a rotating cast of bandmates, Ellie Jackson delivers determined vulnerability and emotional exploration through guitars, stories, amplification and a careful balance of harmony and dissonance. Ellie blurs the lines between poetry, literature, activism, music, comedy, conversation, and hopes you leave braver than you arrived.
If you’re ever tossing a line in on the Milwaukee river, you may be lucky enough to hear the strings of Bitch Creek coming down from Vienna Avenue. Formed in 2024 in a Riverwest bar, Bitch Creek fell quickly in love and began cultivating their distinct sound: a blend of melancholic finger-style guitar, eerie fiddle licks, earthy vocals, and droning string sections.
Bitch Creek’s self-titled EP, Bitch Creek, shares an intimate translation of queer love and identity, midwest scenery, nostalgia for places only visited in dreams, and harmonies to accompany the delicate and dissonant hum of Cicadas.
Bitch Creek combines traditional folk influences with contemporary lyrical inspirations into a whirlwind of unique alt-country.