Eight Gigs: Tenement

In an alternate, more pure universe, Wisconsin cheese plays second fiddle to garage-rock band Tenement. There’s something distinctively Midwest about Tenement. It’s the blue-collar doo-wop bleeding into the basement where it holes up for hours on end, recording at a prolific pace. It encompasses that feeling of “nothing else to do/but talk to you” that Big Star tapped into. It fits comfortably into a legacy of Hüsker Dü, the Replacements, Guided by Voices, and Violent Femmes. Predatory Headlights was its breakout record from 2015. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/tenement.