INTO THE MUSIC

Text us about this show. Sisters Jenna Lee and Shaun Marie are Sister Winchester . Along with Jenna's husband, Dave (drums, logistics), Sister Winchester turns out great original heartland music that ranges from rock to country to blues to folk and all the ground in between. The individual personalities of Jenna and Shaun are evident in the songs each writes, but their styles mesh seamlessly...

Text us about this show. Being landlocked in Parker, Colorado doesn't keep Matthew Clark from pursuing the sounds of ocean waves crashing on pristine beaches so long as they come in the form of surf music. Matthew is the publisher of Colorado Instrumental Fanzine which debuted in 2023. CI Fanzine is one of the best surf music magazines around and has garnered the praise of fans and artists al...

Text us about this show. The folk-punk music scene is unique and northeast Wisconsin has a duo that has carved out a niche for themselves locally. Tape and Tears is Gilliana Hope and Quiver the Busker . Each has recorded, released, and performed solo and now they're combining their talents to create something bigger. Their music hits on emotional elements through the use of not only instrumen...

Text us about this show. According to their website, " Gold Standard is an all original progressive bluegrass band with heavy influences of soul, jazz, and folk." One listen to their EP, Better Than These Days , will bear that out. Kate Stenson , Ian Moore , Gregg Daigle , and Loren Dempster are taking traditional bluegrass sensibilities and layering on their influences from other genres...

Text us about this show. Blues guitarist Jay Stulo returns to Into The Music to discuss Live at the Smiling Moose , the new live album from The Jay Stulo Band . Taking cues from BB King's masterpiece album Live at the Regal , Jay and his bandmates— Tom Thiel (bass) and Chad Wirl (drums)—deliver a performance with a lot of heart and volume. When you add to that Jay serving up some of the best...

Text us about this show. There's nothing like classic soul music whether that be from Stax, Motown, Muscle Shoals, or Philly. When you have a group like The Gin and Sonics in your own back yard playing original soul music with the vibes from those places, well, that's huge! Their debut album, Anytime , has become a favorite in the northeast Wisconsin music scene and cuts from it have bee...

Text us about this show. The description of City Fathers ' music from Instagram says this: "Tony & friends make dreamy alternative pop that make you want to dance and cry at the same time." One listen to Tony Knuppel 's originals is proof of this statement. That dreamy alternative pop includes splashes of ambient music, exotica, a touch of soul, and dashes of emotional elem...

Text us about this show. As a musician, there are two words that come to mind about Ryan Pearl : thoughtful and adaptive . He's thoughtful because what he brings to a song is expressive and intentional with generous amounts of feeling. He's adaptive because over the decades he's taken to instruments new to him and been put in situations where his chops are counted on sometimes in th...

Text us about this show. Just like the episode title says, Brian Witkin is indeed a music industry swiss army knife. He's the CEO of the San Diego based Pacific Records label, leader of award winning Hawaiian music band Slack Key ’Ohana , a record producer, an entertainment and music attorney, an Ovation endorsed guitarist, and a columnist. He's also one of the friendliest guys you could...

Text us about this show. There's something to be said for a studio that consistently turns out clean, high quality recordings. Behind such an operation is usually a producer/engineer who understands not just the recording process, but musicians and what they are aiming to convey through their original music. SourceTrack Studio in Appleton, Wisconsin is that kind of studio and David Pietila is...

Text us about this show. After nearly three years, country singer Roger Lee returns to Into The Music to share some stories from the road and a pair of new original songs. Roger was Rob's first guest on Into The Music in early August, 2023, so we thought it was about time to catch up with him. Like a good whiskey, his wonderful smooth baritone has aged extremely well (just as smooth too!) and...

Text us about this show. Stick Men month on Into The Music concludes this week with Touch Guitarist Markus Reuter . Markus is an accomplished musician and composer who is equally at home delving into contemporary classical music, jazz, progressive rock, folk, and ambient music. His Touch Guitar brings an emotional element to much of the music he plays whether that be with Stick Men, solo, Tu:Ner (...

Text us about this show. Stick Men month on Into The Music continues this week with legendary bassist and Chapman Stick player Tony Levin . With well over 500 recording credits, chances are likely you've heard Tony play many times over on recordings by Peter Gabriel , King Crimson , John Lennon , Pink Floyd , Joan Armatrading , Dire Straits , Buddy Rich , Paul Simon , ABWH (i.e. Yes) , and lo...

Text us about this show. It's Stick Men month on Into The Music ! We have a set of three interviews with each member of this trio and we're starting them with drummer Pat Mastelotto . Not only has Pat been the drummer for Stick Men for nearly two decades, but he's the longest tenured drummer in the history of legendary prog rock band King Crimson . In the 1980s, he was the drummer f...

Text us about this show. Kyle Megna & The Monsoons are one of northeast Wisconsin's premiere bands. From the songwriting and arranging to dynamic performances, this band never disappoints. They're all set to drop their latest EP, This World , so band leader Kyle Megna and bassist Fred Velpel are on hand to talk all about it. Now here's the kicker... we have the entire EP on this...

Text us about this show. Ace Champion is one driven man. Whether it be in his music, being a chef, doing voiceover work, teaching, or one of his other ventures, there's no stopping him. As a musician, he has a deep passion for ancient music and playing the instruments that are connected to it. Whether it be one of over sixty different wind instruments (mostly a variety of flutes), a variety o...

Text us about this show. The biography on Allen Coté 's website reads, "Allen Coté is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, multimedia artist, divemaster and ship captain, originally from Austin, TX and currently based in Milwaukee and Door County, WI. Coté is proficient in guitar, lap steel, bass, ukulele, mandolin, and many others; and received the Wisconsin Area Music Industry's 201...

Text us about this show. These days you find incredibly great surf bands all around the globe and a lot of them aren't even near surfable water. The Terra Surfers aren't only one of those bands, but they're a cut above. Based in landlocked Colorado Springs, CO, they look to the past, add a dash of this or that genre, and create fresh surf sounds that you'd swear came right out...

Text us about this show. Jake Gill is a country artist not to be ignored. His love of country music came by way of working on his grandfather's farm where he heard it on the radio. He heard all the "olds," but then Garth Brooks came along to change the game and it became something Jake needed to dive into. After fifteen years in his own chiropractic practice, he found himself on NBC...

Text us about this show. Local 5 Live is a show that airs weekday mornings at 9:00 AM CT on WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Millaine Wells and Lisa Malak are the hosts and these ladies love music. One of the great weekly features of Local 5 Live is bringing in a band or artists from the local music scene to perform live and share their stories. This has given those artists a good amount of exposu...

Text us about this show. Dan Hubbard is a middle American singer-songwriter with soul. His influences are all right there in his original songs, there's no hiding them. It's what he does with them that makes Dan's music unique and a great anytime listen. Imagine taking Paul Simon's singer-songwriter chops and combining them with Tom Petty's rock & roll, Van Morrison&ap...

Text us about this show. In just a short five year span, Michael Grabner has become one of Wisconsin's most prolific singer-songwriters. From his first album, Restart (2021), to his solo acoustic sophomore effort, A Story I Can't Tell (2023), through the nine singles he's dropped since, Michael's growth and maturity as a songwriter is all on display. Those nine singles are comb...

Text us about this show. Becca Murray just doesn't have a good appreciation of the music she plays—she understands it. After stints in synth-pop band Ultra Key and rockin' out with 90-Proof , she's gone solo (well, in a manner of speaking) with her first EP. Skating By contains six well crafted original indie pop songs that display writing and playing chops that most first efforts l...

Text us about this show. There are some bands that come along and you can't help get excited about them. Grackles from Austin, TX is one of those bands. When their music is described as “dark blues rhumba with country ballads” and “singer-songwriter aesthetics meet blazing guitar solos and danceable 12 bar tunes,” you know this is a band you should pay close attention to. Frontman Noah Lit is...

Text us about this show. Austin Skalecki is a wanderer, a free spirit, and one who knows how to take life experiences and encounters and turn them into songs that bring the listener into those scenarios. He calls the Door County peninsula of Wisconsin home, but he's journeyed all over and his travels have provided him with inspiration for lyrics that are vivid word pictures set to music that...