Scummy Water Tower
Finalist For Three 2025 Milwaukee Press
Club Awards

We’re thrilled to announce that we’re the finalist for three 2025 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. We’ll find out May 8 at MPC’s Gridiron Awards Dinner our placement (gold, silver, bronze). The awards follow SWT winning a silver award for Best Blog last year. Thank you to everyone who has supported us the past year, including fans, artists and publicists!

You can find the full list of award finalists here.

Below are the categories we’re a finalist in:

Josh

Joshua is co-founder of Scummy Water Tower. He’s freelanced for a variety of newspapers, magazines, and websites, including: Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Guitar World, MTV News, Grammy.com, Chicago Magazine, Milwaukee Magazine, MKE Lifestyle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, A.V. Club, SPIN, Alternative Press, Under the Radar, Paste, PopMatters, American Songwriter, and Relix. You can email him at josh@scummywatertower.com.

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