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NPR: National Public Radio
Oerdin:
I love NPR and I listen to it daily plus I contribute to my local station (KPBS). KPBS runs both the NPR and the PBS broadcasts and they fill them with lots of local news, music, and stories. It's nice to have an independent voice which isn't beholden to any commercial interests.
As for music the NPR program "All Songs Considered" is pretty good at ferreting out new music from a number of different genres. The reporter seems to be something of a hipster and you can tell she likes indie music though because she always goes out of her way to give air time to struggling indie bands.
Azathoth:
As a former MN college radio dj, I think the current sucks. It justifies it's existence on false pretenses. The Current claims it's the only station to play independent and local music but college stations like Radio K have been around for years and have been doing a damn good job at doing just that. The current says it provides an outlet for musicians who otherwise wouldn't get exposure but I'd like to know when they find the time to actually do that. I've heard them play more played to death aritsts like U2, Beatles and faux-indie shills than actual independent music. I could listen to a great deal of what they play on the current on commercial stations. I half expect to hear Dave Matthews when I tune in. I think the current is actually hurting indie rock by associating the term indie with an actual sound and trend and strangling college radio stations.
Independent music fans of Minnesota, don't believe the hype surrounding the Current! The Current is for thirty-somethings who want to feel superior to commercial radio listeners even though the Current's so called "anti-format" is equally trendy. Seriously, the stuff on the current is only slightly edgier than what you'd hear in a Starbucks. Radio K and KFAI are the real deal.
http://radiok.cce.umn.edu/
http://www.kfai.org/ - the on air schedule is very erratic but the late-night programing is mostly devoted to independent rock music.
yipjumpmusic:
Hey woa starbucks started playing Pinback and other good stuff so I hear...not that it makes starbucks good but yeah...
lastclearchance:
--- Quote from: deborah ---as fer npr and hipper music interludes, that's been going on for a long, long while.
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One of the NPR show's theme songs sounds so similar to one of the Beatles' White Album songs. "Julia" or "I Will" I think. And if I could get Radiohead's very different "I Will" out of my head I might have been able to name the show. But I can't. :/
Shedonwanna:
--- Quote from: Azathoth ---As a former MN college radio dj, I think the current sucks. It justifies it's existence on false pretenses. The Current claims it's the only station to play independent and local music but college stations like Radio K have been around for years and have been doing a damn good job at doing just that. The current says it provides an outlet for musicians who otherwise wouldn't get exposure but I'd like to know when they find the time to actually do that. I've heard them play more played to death aritsts like U2, Beatles and faux-indie shills than actual independent music. I could listen to a great deal of what they play on the current on commercial stations. I half expect to hear Dave Matthews when I tune in. I think the current is actually hurting indie rock by associating the term indie with an actual sound and trend and strangling college radio stations.
Independent music fans of Minnesota, don't believe the hype surrounding the Current! The Current is for thirty-somethings who want to feel superior to commercial radio listeners even though the Current's so called "anti-format" is equally trendy. Seriously, the stuff on the current is only slightly edgier than what you'd hear in a Starbucks. Radio K and KFAI are the real deal.
http://radiok.cce.umn.edu/
http://www.kfai.org/ - the on air schedule is very erratic but the late-night programing is mostly devoted to independent rock music.
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Don't forget that if all they played was all local and completely independant rock they wouldn't have enough listeners to stay afloat. Now, for alternative or indie rock fans, there are a handful of stations in the twin cities. Radio K, kfai, Drive 105 and The Current. I can always get Drive and The Current, but I rarely get a decent signal of the college staions. Maybe it's just my car, I don't know.
So then it's down to Drive or The Current... No contest, The Current plays more of what I like to hear and has introduced me to several new artist that I am falling in love with. Drive just plays the emo shit.
Those are my reasons for listening to what I listen to.
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