Tag: public radio
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March 18, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
On this week's show we're hosting an encore broadcast talking about one band, The Clash.
Are they the only band that matters?
Danny Sigelman and Mark Wheat join me to discuss The . . .
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March 25, 2008 03:18 PM EDT --
This week, Music Director Melanie Walker and evening DJ Mark Wheat join me to share their picks from this year's South by Southwest, covering the Current's live broadcast as well as other performances . . .
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November 10, 2008 10:05 AM EST --
"A new report from a media watchdog group suggests coverage of John McCain was substantially more negative than coverage of Barack Obama, a charge often made by conservative critics. Midmorning looks . . .
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March 10, 2009 02:22 PM EDT --
Morrissey's "Years of Refusal," Ben Kweller's "Changing Horses," and Sam Roberts' "Love At the End Of the World" go under the critical microscope this week, . . .
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March 17, 2009 12:57 PM EDT --
Does the latest from Franz Ferdinand, "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand," continue the band's fresh take on gritty guitar-disco, or does it fall short? Mac Wilson and The Current's Music Director . . .
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March 24, 2009 02:38 PM EDT --
It's time for the gang to weigh in on one of the most blogged, buzzed, talked and twittered-about releases of the season this week: the latest from The Decemberists, "The Hazards of . . .
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May 26, 2009 04:17 PM EDT --
Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is back with his second solo outing, "Further Complications," and the Musicheads contemplate whether or not it's funny, sexy, offensive, or all of the above on . . .
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June 02, 2009 10:32 AM EDT --
Who is an artist that you love, but whom you've never been able to get anybody else to like quite as much as you?
That's the new question we're posing for you to answer online this week. For the . . .
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June 12, 2007 11:08 AM EDT --
We all need advice now and then. Sometimes it appears in the form of persuasion, other times it is just plain bossy. We even like to peep in on the advice other people seek*.
It made me think about what . . .
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June 28, 2007 12:48 PM EDT --
Of course the debate is never over, this is politics after all. From the Minnesota Public Radio News Website, Supporters fall 14 votes short of keeping immigration bill alive in Senate:
The Senate drove . . .
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September 10, 2007 04:27 PM EDT --
From Minnesota Public Radio's special report Fetal alcohol syndrome: The invisible disorder:
When a pregnant woman drinks, she risks giving birth to a child with a broad range of health problems, . . .
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November 25, 2007 02:27 PM EST --
This is a chat transcript.
Actress & author Amy Sedaris joined us here Monday November 26 @ 11 a.m. CT / 12 noon ET for a live chat!
She’ll kick off this highly social season . . .
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April 01, 2008 04:10 PM EDT --
We welcome a new initiate to the Musicheads panel this week: Mr. Dave Campbell, Twin Cities music and radio personality extraordinaire. Dave comes out swinging this week as he, Mark Wheat and myself . . .
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May 12, 2008 09:33 AM EDT --
Tick tock! From One week to adjournment, legislators push budget bills :
Pawlenty and legislative leaders met briefly Sunday, but did not agree on how to erase the state's $935 million projected . . .
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May 19, 2009 02:45 PM EDT --
Few artists can lay claim to making even 20 albums during their careers - but when you're on your 33rd effort, you've made it to an elite group. So how is Bob Dylan's muse holding up? . . .
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May 28, 2009 10:39 AM EDT --
MPR Midmorning discusses how we live in a digital space :
The wave of digitization is coming as compact discs are tossed out in exchange for iPods, and the Kindle promises to make books obsolete. Midmorning . . .
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June 02, 2009 12:13 PM EDT --
There's something delicious and vaguely decadent about reading in the warmer months, as if we're actually letting time spin away. This month's reads:
The family book lately is "Forever . . .
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July 07, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
Mark Wheat started it on the Current's Music Blog, and this week the Musicheads get into the act of picking - and asking you to pick - some of the best music of 2009 so far .
Weekend late-night host . . .
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November 02, 2007 11:20 AM EDT --
Well November's musical forecast seems very mix & match, smidge o'this, smatter of that. Sort of a doldrums of seasonal shift? Theories abound. So here's what I'm sorta listening . . .
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July 31, 2007 09:03 AM EDT --
Late last night I caught myself humming/thinking through Beth Orton's "Stolen Car" (from her 1999 release, Central Reservation) and thought, "Man, I wish I could have written that song." . . .
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