Program:
Outsight
Genres:
Alternative
Tom Schulte has been an avid
music collector, pursuing the furthest reaches
of diverse genres. After taping every record he could not
buy, Tom entered High School with an appetite whetted for
music exploration. He was second chair in his High School
orchestra and remains an avid patron of symphonic and
operatic music, today. A gamut of punk rock and heavy metal
bands followed. His final project, The Scruffy Tearaways,
played all major Great Lakes-area cities as peers on the
then burgeoning "crossover" or "metal core" scene.
Immediately
after High School, Tom began chronicling his adventure
through with a weekly column in Jam Rag magazine of Detroit,
MI. This column, Outsight, grew to other publications.
The column has run in several publications across the United
States and Canada since 1989. The column grew into Outsight
Communications, a content provider that provided or provides
material for CDNow, All-Music Guide, MTV.COM, womanrock.com
and more.
Tom Schulte's
experience in broadcasting began, after guesting on various
shows, with a regular Thursday morning drive-time program on
WPON-AM (Pontiac, MI). After using this program as a
platform for sharing new music discoveries for over a year,
Tom went on to be the evening and weekend substitute host
for WDET-FM Detroit Public Radio, one of the Top Ten Public
Radio Stations in the country. Parallel to this, Tom began
an Internet Radio program in early 1998. The show, Outsight
Radio Hours, is produced from Tom's home. Tom works as the
DJ and engineer, applying the training he acquired at the
state-of-the-art WDET studios. Tom's show always featured
new recording touched on in his column. Each show featured a
representative live interview with an artist from one of the
new releases. Past guests from the eclectic program include
Les McCann, Mortiis, Scanner, Billy Sheehan. Duke Fakir
(Four Tops) and more.
Tom has been
involved in Internet technology since acoustic modems and
the Freenet. Today, he is a senior application developer
engineering and custom-building Internet solutions for
automotive industry manufacturers and suppliers. As a person
that spends his free time exploring new music and collecting
classic vinyl, Tom sees Internet radio as a perfect
synthesis of career and extracurricular interests. He would
also love to tell you about his reading list and latest
chess strategies. |