about the band ✦
Pebble & Stone
Pebble & Stone is a curling-themed band based in Madison, Wisconsin, making music entirely about the sport of curling. Born on the pebbled ice of Madison, Wisconsin, the band writes rock anthems, country, hip hop, blues, reggaeton, and acoustic ballads about hammer ends, raised takeouts, sweeping, and every other holy moment a curler knows by heart. You can hear the whole catalog at curlingmusic.com or on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music.
Pebble & Stone is the band the roaring game has been waiting for. Born on the pebbled ice of Madison, Wisconsin, the catalog spans rock anthems, hip-hop, blues laments, reggaeton, twangy country, and the occasional acoustic singer-songwriter ballad — all of it about hammer ends, raised takeouts, the long walk to the hack, and every other holy moment a curler knows by heart.
Every lyric is written by hand, and every production is iterated on by real human heads and hearts until it sits right — but the vocals and instruments are AI-generated. The songs are real, the love for the game is real, and the singers are robots we've coached up. If that's not for you, we get it — no hard feelings, just trying to have fun here.
Whether you're throwing a draw to the four-foot or sweeping like your life depends on it, there's a song in the catalog for it.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Pebble & Stone?
- Pebble & Stone is a curling-themed band based in Madison, Wisconsin. Every song is about the sport of curling — hammer ends, takeouts, sweeping, and the long walk to the hack — and the catalog spans rock, country, hip hop, blues, reggaeton, and singer-songwriter styles. The band operates the website curlingmusic.com.
- What is curling music?
- Curling music is music written specifically about the sport of curling. Pebble & Stone is a band dedicated entirely to it, turning the language of the roaring game — guards, draws, the button, bonspiels — into songs across many genres.
- Where is Pebble & Stone based?
- Pebble & Stone is based in Madison, Wisconsin, a city with one of the oldest curling traditions in the United States. The songs come straight from a love of the roaring game played on Madison's ice.
- Who writes the curling music for Pebble & Stone?
- Every lyric is written by hand by the people behind Pebble & Stone, and each production is iterated on by real human ears until it sits right. The lead vocals and instruments are AI-generated — the band's own description is that the songs and the love for the game are real, and the singers are robots they've coached up.
- Where can I listen to Pebble & Stone?
- Pebble & Stone is on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music, and every song can be streamed directly at curlingmusic.com.
- Does Pebble & Stone have an album?
- Yes. The debut album is "Curling Sheet Music," released 2024-09-14. Pebble & Stone has also put out 13 singles, for 29 curling songs in total.
- What is the meaning behind the song Hack-weight Guard?
- "Hack-weight Guard" is a playful, blues-flavored jab at the curler who just can't get their weight down — "weight" being how hard you throw the stone down the ice. A guard is a stone meant to stop short of the house to protect another rock, which takes a soft, controlled touch. "Hack weight" is the opposite: a light take-out weight — gentle as takeouts go, but still far too hard for a guard. So a "hack-weight guard" is a contradiction in terms — you called for a guard but threw it at take-out weight, sending your rock way too deep to guard anything.
- What is a bonspiel?
- A bonspiel is a curling tournament. Curling itself is often called "the roaring game," after the sound a granite stone makes traveling down the pebbled ice — and several Pebble & Stone songs take their titles and themes straight from that vocabulary.
— Pebble & Stone, Madison, Wisconsin