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Midwest Beat
Tuesday: 7-8pm
Hosted by Tom Lounges

"Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges" is a weekly radio program all about music and the people who make it. The show's mission is to promote and expose regional and national artists of various styles and genres. Especially when they have roots in the Midwest/Chicagoland area, or will be performing in the Chicagoland region.

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  • Midwest Beat: Close Enemies
    This week’s "Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges" musical guest is CLOSE ENEMIES. This brand new band features Aerosmith bassist TOM HAMILTON and drummer TONY BROCK of THE BABYS, who all guest on this edition of the radio program.
  • Midwest Beat: Rick Derringer
    This edition of the "Midwest BEAT with Tom Loungees" radio program has no guests, but is instead a "legacy/tribute" show honoring the music and career of RICK DERRINGER.
  • Midwest Beat: Alex Lifeson & Maiah Wynne of "Envy of None"
    For this edition of "Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges" the musical guest is guitar great ALEX LIFESON who is world renown as a co-founder and guitarist of the Canadian power trio RUSH.
  • Midwest Beat: Pat Boone
    Tom Lounges talks with Pat Boone.
  • Midwest Beat: Steve Postell
    The musical guest for this program is STEVE POSTELL -- one of the world's top session guitarists and a member of the super group THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY as well as THE DAVID CROSBY BAND -- has released a new star-studded solo album recent weeks via Quarto Valley Records.
  • Musical Guest: RICKY BYRD
    Musical Guest: RICKY BYRD (formerly of Joan Jett's Blackhearts), SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITARIST/ "ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME" INDUCTEE
  • MUSICAL GUEST: JIM McCARTY
    MUSICAL GUEST: JIM McCARTYTHE YARDBIRDS FOUNDER/DRUMMER/HISTORIAN
  • Midwest Beat: Foghat
    Guitarist/producer/songwriter BRYAN BASSETT of the classic rock group FOGHAT is musical guest on this edition of "Midwest BEAT."
  • Midwest Beat: Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull, Rocks on Midwest Beat
    The musical guest for this program is IAN ANDERSON, an iconic musician that show hostTom Lounges has interviewed many times during various point in Anderson's career bothwith the band and as a solo artist.
  • MUSICAL GUEST: MALCOLM BRUCE of SONS OF CREAM
    "SONS OF CREAM" is a band featuring KOFI BAKER (son of Ginger Baker, Cream's drummer), MALCOLM BRUCE (son of Jack Bruce, Cream's bassist), and ROB JOHNSON (Ginger Baker's grandnephew). Together they celebrate the legacy of CREAM and related bands like Blind Faith.