Willie Wisely Music

09/29/2026

Hanging with our proprietor at his Nashville tat studio Birdie’s Tattoo. I hold the deepest love, and the richest history with this man!

08/29/2026

Been shopping at Electric Fetus since I was a teenager. They’ve supported local music enormously; selling concert tickets back in the day of paper tickets; a wholesale distributor to other regional stores for decades; and most endearingly stocked my earliest cassettes, CD’s and vinyl ever since the late 80’s!!!! Much of the staff has been there an equal number of years. Truly an institution. Smells of frankincense and is a great hang. In a city loaded with delightful record stores it is the grand mommy. Get “She’s 30” on vinyl Link In Bio! Electric Fetus

08/15/2026

“She’s 30” on vinyl williewisely.bandcamp.com Celebrating the album’s 30th birthday!

This glorious band toured far & wide. Here we are at O’Cayz Corral, Madison, WI. John Guion (bass, vocals), Chris Lakey (drums, samples, vocals), Jim Weber (lead guitar, keys, vocals)! Video by Melissa Langer/Jenny Lassi & dinner before the show by Steven Greenberg. music

08/03/2026

Upon “She’s” release in 1996 the crew at October Records had me doing interviews at most every radio station in Minneapolis: Rev-105, Radio K 770AM, Cities ’97, KQRS and this interview for The Minnesota Modern Rock Hour, hosted by Mad Mike on the short-lived commercial rock station KEGE "The Edge" 93.7FM. Quite a time capsule, mentioning a bunch of local bands that were all amazing: Tommy Stinson's BASH & POP, Ed Ackerson's Polara, Flipp & my former house mate Chris Dorn's band The Beatifics.

The station made local music a priority in its short lifetime, releasing local artist CD compilations and staging the enormous Edge Fest that sometimes booked local openers like Greazy Meal… a band that included the producers who made She with me, John Fields & Ken Chastain (fun fact: I briefly managed Greazy)! The Edge were committed to getting the word out about new music like this interview upon the She CD release. Now, thirty years later, She's on vinyl for the first time. Pick up a copy here.

https://williewisely.bandcamp.com/album/she

In-concert footage courtesy of Steven Greenberg, shot at Mill City Music Festival on 1st Ave. in downtown Minneapolis, for his documentary film "Funkytown" – which you can watch in full on YouTube. I'm in "Funytown" only briefly, but do get the biggest laugh ;^). My stunningly talented live band in the footage: Jim Weber guitar, Christopher Lakey drums, Craig Holets bass. I know, I know, there's A LOT of me rocking and no audio, none was captured. Steven and crew were looking only for a brief moment of my face as an ironic silent cutaway in the film.

07/13/2026

Norwegian fjord near Tyssedal. No wonder Norway’s national anthem is so mellifluous, a tear-rending prayer to the beauty of nature, honoring the ancient legends who defended it against greedy invaders.

07/11/2026

07/09/2026

Vigeland sculpture park. Trippy and as much about life as death. We all agreed the overall theme of the 200 pieces by Vigeland was ‘struggle’.

07/09/2026

Oslo 1am. The sun wants to rise.