Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon hosting new radio show for Radio Milwaukee

Justin Vernon is no stranger to the radio, but you’ve never heard him like this.

Starting Sunday, the Bon Iver frontman will host his first radio show, “Song Chest Radio Hour,” which will broadcast exclusively through WYMS-FM (88.9), aka Radio Milwaukee.

“We are going to try and spread some love, joy and acceptance through playing some songs you love and enjoy,” reads a message on the show’s website, songchest.org. “We’ll do some reading. We’ll do some chatting. And we’ll do some singing along as well.”

New episodes of the show will air at 5 p.m. Central Time the first Sunday of each month on the station’s local FM dial and its online stream at radiomilwaukee.org. Archive episodes will be available through MixCloud.

While this is a new endeavor for Vernon, the Eau Claire artist has a history of collaborations with Radio Milwaukee. They teamed up on the “For Wisconsin” voting initiative in 2020, and Vernon last year was one of the artist mentors for Radio Milwaukee’s Amplifier program.

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