Linneman’s Riverwest Inn hosted Chicago-based post-punk act Oddysseys alongside Milwaukee bands The Nile Club, Glowingtide and North Warren on Sunday night. Although it was freezing outside, the cold never stops avid music lovers from showing out for a solid bill of rock and roll.

Glowingtide consists of vocalist/guitarist Jack Leidel, bassist Dean MacKenzie and drummer/vocalist Brett Gooden. The band’s style could be described as psychedelic shoegaze with emo and prog rock characteristics. MacKenzie is the only member currently living in Milwaukee; Leidel and Gooden reside in Rochester, Minnesota, so they divide time between Wisconsin and Minnesota frequently.

Leidel and MacKenzie started Glowingtide about seven years ago, cycling through drummers over the years before finally joining forces with Gooden in 2022. “We’ve had a bunch of different members,” Leidel mentions. “I started on drums and then moved to lead guitar. For our first Milwaukee show, Brett learned our set in a week, and he played it so perfectly that we showed him three new songs…then we practiced the day of the show and then played the best show of our life that night.”

MacKenzie explains the band’s name. “I’m from Winona, Minnesota, which is a river town. One of the greatest things to do there is to chill on the river at night and set up a campfire, and the river is just so still and calm. There’s bridges across the river that cast light onto the water, so the Mississippi tide is glowing. It’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen in my life and I wanted to name the band after that.”

Glowingtide released their debut full-length album “(A Matter Of) Perspective” last August, recorded at Carpet Booth Studios in Rochester. Leidel shares some background about the writing and recording process, “There are some cuts on it that Dean and I had been writing since we were still in high school. We put out an EP well before this album, and some of the songs started gestating right around that point in time too. We wrote a lot of the material without Brett, and there were a lot of things we definitely do differently now because we had planned to record before he joined. Basically what the album ended up being was just a collection of songs that we wrote but it turned into almost a coming-of-age concept story about feeling young and facing hardship and growing up with that…questioning if you’re a good person or who’s the bad guy…loving people and losing friendships…moving on…dealing with grief. If you listen to it front to back, take what the words mean for how you relate to them.”

The band just wrapped up a Midwest tour with Oddysseys and are now taking a break from playing Milwaukee shows for a bit. That said, they have a new record in the works. “We’re really excited about it,” MacKenzie said. “It’s been super collaborative; even Brett’s got a song on it. In my opinion, it’s one of the best songs on the whole thing.”

“We’re really pushing new boundaries with this record that we’ve never pushed before,” Gooden adds. “We’ve got a more uniform idea of what we’re going for now that we’re all making it together. All of our influences are worn on our shoulders with this one and it’s going to be a much more concise project.”