Tom Lounges
Host of Midwest BeatTom Lounges has been a region radio personality and a music journalist since 1979. For the last 35-years, he has been reporting on entertainment as a weekly columnist and feature writer for The Times newspaper. He was also publisher and editor of the monthly tri-state entertainment magazine ("Midwest BEAT Magazine") for over two decades, he has written hundreds of features for numerous national glossy magazines over the decades, and he wrote "Liner Notes" for over a dozen albums release by Sony Records.
After many years hosting his own shows on commercial radio, Tom switched to public radio 4 years ago, claiming he was enticed by the creative freedom the format offers. Today, Lounges is heard hosting TWO weekly interview programs on 89.1FM - LAKESHORE PUBLIC RADIO of NORTHWEST INDIANA.
Those Lakeshore Public Radio programs are the celebrity interview/music program “Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges” (Tuesdays at 7pm) and an interview program focused on authors, filmmakers and others in creative arts on the program, “A Look at the Arts with Tom Lounges” (Fridays at 1pm).
Tom has earned special recognition awards for his work in the entertainment field and has rubbed elbows with a virtual "Who's Who" of major entertainment figures and top stars over his 40 years in the music an media industry.
He is president and owner of TOM LOUNGES ENTERTAINMENT, LLC which produces entertainment events, books musical talent and does consultation. Tom has been a guest speaker on music, entertainment, and journalism at various schools and colleges in northwest Indiana and the Chicago areas.
Lounges currently sits on the board of the Lake County Public Library Foundation and heads up the fundraising projects for The Humane Society of Northwest Indiana.
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Listeners of “Midwest BEAT” know that sometimes host/producer Tom Lounges likes to introduce relatively unknown artists he has newly discovered to his NPR listening audience. Such is the case with this edition's guest, STEPHANIE SAMMONS, an artist Lounges and others in the media predicts is one of the next rising stars in the Americana market. -
Musical guest Pablo Cruise joins Tom Lounges on Midwest Beat. -
American rock guitar icon -- GEORGE LYNCH -- is one of the world's premier guitarists, ranked in the Top 50 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list by Guitar World magazine, and listed among the "Top 10 Metal Guitarists of All Time" by Gibson Guitars. -
Each week's program finds producer and host Tom Lounges blending togethervarious styles and eras of the blues -- from the old school legends, tothe top contemporary players of today, along with some of the up andyoung guns deserving to have their music heard.Audiences will hear theguitar greats, the harp blowers, the piano pounders, the singers, and theshouters. Some of club-hopping Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland'sregional players also get showcased on this program. -
The four participating bands represented as guests on this program were -- FloodPlane, Lola Bunnie, Thourn and Departure -- each an original music group hoping to score the top prize of a four hour recording package at The Spot Recording Studio in Schneider, Indiana. -
Each week's program finds producer and host Tom Loungesblending together various styles and eras of the blues -- from the oldschool legends, to the top contemporary players of today, along with someof the up and young guns deserving to have their music heard.Audiences will hear the guitar greats, the harp blowers, the pianopounders, the singers, and the shouters. Some of club-hopping NorthwestIndiana and Chicagoland's regional players also get showcased on thisprogram.
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Each week's program finds producer and host Tom Loungesblendingtogethervarious styles and eras of the blues -- from the oldschoollegends, tothe top contemporary players of today, along with someofthe up andyoung guns deserving to have their music heard.Audienceswill hear theguitar greats, the harp blowers, the pianopounders, thesingers, and theshouters. Some of club-hopping NorthwestIndiana andChicagoland'sregional players also get showcased on thisprogram.
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Each week's program finds producer and host Tom Lounges blendingtogethervarious styles and eras of the blues -- from the old schoollegends, tothe top contemporary players of today, along with some ofthe up andyoung guns deserving to have their music heard. Audienceswill hear theguitar greats, the harp blowers, the piano pounders, thesingers, and theshouters. Some of club-hopping Northwest Indiana andChicagoland'sregional players also get showcased on this program.
