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Brad Savage Chats with Tyrone Settlemier about the ShellAkron Record Show
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Exclusive Interview with Dan Ashley

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San Francisco singer-songwriter, bandleader, and 30-year TV newsman Dan Ashley joined Brad Savage for an interview and a couple live acoustic songs, performed remotely. Dan Ashley is the nightly news host on ABC-7 (KGO-TV) in San Francisco for many years, and is well known for his excellent band. It's super cool that the anchorman also […]
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Underground Sounds with Chad Miller: August 2025

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By Chad Miller - Summit FM Music Director What's everyone been listening to out there? So much new music coming at us, so little time... However, these songs that might fly under the radar to most are what I've been diggin' these past few weeks! Like what you hear? Please email me at chad@thesummit.fm and let me […]
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Album Essentials: Ministry "With Sympathy" (1983)

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By Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor Tattoos, piercings, heroin, dreads, distorted drum machines, noisy guitars, a gallon of angst and dirt all made up the Ministry that wandered out of the Lollapalooza Generation. But in the beginning, there was a "kinder, gentler" Ministry, much more in tune with the synth-pop sounds of the early ’80s. In […]
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By Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor Many a good story begins with the phrase, "seemingly out of nowhere," so, seemingly out of nowhere, Florence Welch came forth with her Machine and presented her debut recording in the summer of 2009. Welch, barely 23 years old at the time, had worked on various projects before […]
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Roots and Resilience: Molly Tuttle

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By Sarah Swirsky, MSW, LISW Roots and Resilience is a series celebrating artists whose stories reveal how music can help us overcome adversity, embrace vulnerability, and transform life’s challenges into creative expression.  Did you know Grammy-winning guitarist and songwriter Molly Tuttle has lived with alopecia universalis since she was just three years old? Alopecia is […]
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By Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor It didn't take long for Paul Westerberg to prove he was more than a drunk punk. From those very first Replacements records, songs like “Kids Don’t Follow,” “I’m in Trouble,” and “Color Me Impressed” all showed the guy knew how to write a good song. By 1984's Let It […]
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