Wildstreet

Wildstreet is a hard rock group from New York, United States, active since 2006. The band plays a style rooted in 1980s arena rock, with elements of sleaze rock, glam rock and glam metal, built around big choruses, guitar solos and strong melodies.

History

The band forms in 2006 and develops a live reputation through regular touring and club shows in New York and beyond. In the early part of its career, Wildstreet releases two EPs and two music videos over a seven-year period. Its songs receive more than 3,000,000 views on YouTube and later pass 5,000,000 views on the platform.

Wildstreet releases its debut EP on Retrospect Records, a Las Vegas-based independent label, and follows it with Wildstreet II ...Faster...Louder!, which appears in 2011. The band then returns after a break and records new material with a changed line-up, including the single Raise Hell in 2017.

Recordings and media use

The band’s music appears on television networks including MTV, VH1, Oxygen, TBS and E!, and in a THQ video game. Tracks such as Cocked & Ready, Shake It and Poison Kiss are used on television, including in Glory Daze and Married to Rock. The video for Easy Does It spreads widely online, and the later video for Poison Kiss includes a cameo by Don Jameson of The Metal Show.

Live work and festivals

Wildstreet tours extensively between 2009 and 2013. The band appears at SXSW, M3 Rock Festival and Rocklahoma, where it headlines the side stage for several years and plays multiple sets in 2009 and 2010. It also wins its region in the Best Buy/Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands for Rockstar Energy’s Uproar Festival and shares bills with Avenged Sevenfold and Three Days Grace. Other live appearances include support slots for The Bouncing Souls, Twisted Sister, Michael Monroe, Crashdiet, Kix, L.A. Guns, Faster Pussycat, Stephen Pearcy, Matt Sorum, Bang Tango, The Last Vegas, Sebastian Bach and Escape The Fate.

In 2016, the band headlines Gramercy Theatre in New York with a new line-up. It later plays Europe for the first time, with dates in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, including Sleaze Fest in Bochum, before returning to New York for shows at Saint Vitus, Irving Plaza and The Knitting Factory Brooklyn. It also appears on The Jimmy Fallon Show.

Members

Eric Jayk performs vocals and guitar. Jimmie Marlowe plays guitar and sings backing vocals. Jonny D plays bass and sings backing vocals. Dom plays lead guitar and sings backing vocals. Lock plays drums and sings backing vocals.

Discography

The band’s releases include Wildstreet (2008), Wildstreet II ...Faster...Louder! (2011) and III (2021).