Local Beat: ‘Bands to Watch’ now.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Wisconsin Bands to Watch feature for 2017 is coming Thursday to jsonline.com/

bandstowatch, and Jan. 15 to the print edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

But what have the five artists who made last January’s list been up to over the past year? In all cases, quite a bit.

Milwaukee rapper IshDARR dropped an album, “Broken Hearts & Bankrolls,” in October, with the project’s 10 tracks amassing more than 1.9 million streams on SoundCloud. (On Spotify, one song alone, “Sugar,” has had 1.5 million streams.)

IshDARR also opened shows for Anderson.Paak, PartyNextDoor and Jeremih; and was a guest on Milwaukee export (and big screen actor) Jacob Latimore’s debut album. Several thousand people caught his Summerfest debut, packing the Miller Lite Oasis at 6 p.m. on a Tuesday.

Selected as one of Complex’s Artists to Watch in 2016 alongside the likes of Lil Uzi Vert and Tory Lanez, experimental Milwaukee rapper WebsterX headlined an 11-date Midwest tour in the spring, including a sold-out show at the 400capacity Miramar Theatre.

He also dropped the first single off his debut album (expected early this year), and signed with Chicago-based label Closed Sessions, home to rising star Jamila Woods.

Identical twin sisters Andi and Alex Peot from Green Bay, standout contestants on the fall 2015 season of “The Voice,” changed their stage name to Queen Hilma after their late grandmother.

The sisters worked with producer Howard Redekopp (Tegan and Sara, the New Pornographers) on Queen Hilma’s debut EP, “Is Everything OK?,” released in August. The band toured the East Coast and Midwest and are returning to town Thursday to headline Cactus Club.

Iggy Pop himself praised Tenement in March by playing three of the Neenah-born punk band’s songs on an episode of his BBC Radio show, and lauding the band for its “big balls.”

Following 2015’s double-album “Predatory Headlights,” Tenement had three releases for 2016: a self-titled album of new material, a compilation collection dubbed “Bruised Music Vol. 2,” and a holiday EP called “Yule.”

It also played Justin Vernon’s Eaux Claires festival among scores of other gigs.

Local synthpop group Reyna played its first hometown gigs this year, including an opening set for Chvrches at the Riverside Theater, and released its first four songs on SoundCloud and Spotify, which have been collectively streamed nearly 500,000 times.

The group’s also been working on new material in Los Angeles for a debut EP in 2017.