My Favorite New Music. I’m convinced there’s a pop music renaissance occurring. Sweet relief, because somewhere around 1974, this nine year old sensed that pop music was losing the thread. By the 80′s I hated the fidelity of EVERYTHING. The 90′s brought some welcome attitude, but I’d turned my attention towards old jazz and vintage [...]

Wisely Returns to the Los Angeles Live Music Scene With A New Album After Conquering Traumatic Vocal Chord Condition. Seating is limited. Special ticket bundles available exclusively here. Buy now and receive free downloads from the new album “True.” Two Tickets + Free Downloads: “Real” & “National Council of Jewish Women’s Thrift Store” (CD available [...]

Creator Robert Galinsky Talks About The Origins of the Show and the Team He’s Put Together. by John Donohue. CULTURE DESK Notes on arts and entertainment from the staff of The New Yorker In the early eighties, when “Starbucks” was an obscure term referring to Captain Ahab’s first mate in the plural, the National Coffee [...]

The cast prepares for the debut reading at the Coffee & Tea Festival. Our terrific group of actors at Ripley/Grier Studios in NYC made sure the first “Coffee the Musical” read-through/sing-through went smashingly. Notes and break-out group rehearsals tomorrow. Thanks Everyone! Jay O. Sanders not pictured.

Trading Songs and Talkin’ About Song Craft every Monday Night. Let’s trade songs & talk music. Join me every Monday night on the music channel at YouNow.com. I’m hosting “Let’s Spend The Night Together”, a live, interractive web broadcast where everyone gets to talk and perform. To watch, you only need a browser. Broadcasting requires [...]

Pre-recorded live performance to air in April 2012 on PBS affiliate. Big thanks to Twin Cities Public Television and “MN Originals” for shooting the WW3′s in-studio performance last week. The crew worked long past quitting time, perfectly choreographing those cameras. The episode will air in spring 2012. We took what was probably 5-7 takes of each [...]

Good friend Wins Design Competition. Good friend Paul Q. Davis, and his firm DRDS, have won the design competition for South Korea’s Department of Land and Housing. Paul’s work is always breathtaking. He and his firm have been selected out of 9 teams competing for a new US320 million corporate headquarters. The 65,000sm program consists [...]

John Berry Designs Our Trippy New Tee. New Willie Wisely Trio t-shirts arrived today! Hand drawn by one of my favorite conceptualists/artists John Berry. “I am here” is a lyric from the song ‘National Council of Jewish Womens Thrift Store’, a song I wrote with Andy Dick from the new WW3 album “True“.

Wisely Collaborator Lands Oscar Nominated Actress. Wonderful news! An exclusive in the Hollywood Reporter announced Wednesday that director/writer Brent Roske booked Oscar nominee/Golden Globe winner Sally Kirkland to star in his next feature Alice Stands Up. Production begins in March on the $1m film, which Roske wrote specifically for the actress after directing her in [...]

Coffee And Tea Festival 2012, Preview in NYC. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Starfish Junction Productions, producer of the Coffee and Tea Festival NYC, announced that the upcoming 7th annual Coffee And Tea Festival (being held in New York City on February 25 & 26, 2012) will host a special “robust” staged reading of COFFEE THE MUSICAL, [...]