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thermodynamics:
I guess it must be a change in staff or the interns or just good karma in the air, but lately NPR has been playing good music.

i listen to NPR for my daily dose of news in the car on my 30 minute commute to and from work... lately there has been, what i call, good music. Not of the classical persuasion, but the 15-20 seconds of musical interlude between segments. the last couple of days, i have heard pavement and explosions in the sky,and that is only during the 1 hour of total listening time per day! yesterday, while doing a story on 'all things concidered' they featured ALL of sufjan steven's song 'the 'Lord God" bird' ...quite impressive for talk radio. hell, even my college radio doesn't play explosions in the sky!

just a thought... so if you listen to NPR, listen a little closer and you might be suprsed at what you discover.

deborah:
maybe NPR will get on the minnesota boat and add a station like this:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/thecurrent/

our public radio system is the bestest in the land.

Shedonwanna:
I fucking love The Current.  They have an internet feed.  And you should all check out the in-studio performances.  My personal favorite is when they had The Futureheads for a few songs and a nice interview.

It's the best radio i've heard in a long time.

deborah:
too bad those freaks in northfield are all pissy about it.

as fer npr and hipper music interludes, that's been going on for a long, long while.

i still think they should have an offshoot radio station like the current though.

p.s. shedonwanna, did you catch the futureheads either time at the fineline?  those shows were *reall* good this spring/summer

Merkava:
NPR is the best radio station ever. Just recently, they had an interview with Feist, which coincided with when I had my dad listen to the CD. :P

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