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November 24, 2009 10:57 AM EST --
This week I welcome The Current's Music Director Melanie Walker and Jacquie Fuller, host of The Current's new show Teenage Kicks, to discuss The Mountain Goats' "The Life of the World to Come," the . . .
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November 17, 2009 04:55 PM EST --
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth has a new solo project entitled "Mo Beauty," and the Musicheads chime in on how is stacks up to Ounsworth's work with the band that helped launched . . .
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November 10, 2009 04:41 PM EST --
Sometimes, sucessful major-label artists make "uncommercial" albums in the name of artistic creativity. What's an example where an artist simply went too far? That's the question we ponder this . . .
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October 28, 2009 09:00 AM EDT --
What song, album, artist or band scared you as a little kid? That's the Halloween-themed question I posed on this week's show.
J im McGuinn and Melanie Walker join me . . .
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October 20, 2009 01:26 PM EDT --
Are the Twin Cities experiencing another musical golden age? That's the question I put to the cast, and we're asking you to consider the same on this week's show.
Mark Wheat . . .
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October 13, 2009 08:50 PM EDT --
A lot of veteran artists are getting together and playing some of their classic albums from start to finish on stage these days. Our question this week: Who's an artist or band you'd like to see do this . . .
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October 06, 2009 03:57 PM EDT --
The 80s were a rough decade for a number of artists; which 60s and 70s veterans made some of their bigger mis-steps, and which ones survived intact? We invite you to discuss the day-glo decade this . . .
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September 29, 2009 11:39 PM EDT --
The Current's Program Director Jim McGuinn and weekend host Jacquie Fuller join me this week to discuss some recent releases including "Lungs" - the debut from England's Mercury Prize nominee Florence . . .
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September 22, 2009 02:01 PM EDT --
As we continue our celebration of The Beatles all month long on The Current, we still want to know, "What's one of your favorite Beatles moments in your life?" That's the ongoing topic of our . . .
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September 15, 2009 02:32 PM EDT --
This month on The Current we're celebrating The Beatles, with the reissue of the Beatles catalog on CD. Most people who are Beatles fans have at least one memory of listening to the band that they . . .
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September 08, 2009 04:44 PM EDT --
Most of the music world (including The Current) is abuzz this week with the reissue and remastering of The Beatles catalog on CD, as well as the debut of The Beatles: Rock Band.
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September 01, 2009 05:21 PM EDT --
Producers like George Martin, Phil Spector and Quincy Jones are widely known to the public, but who are some producers who aren't quite household names but have still made big impacts . . .
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August 25, 2009 02:54 PM EDT --
New releases discussed this week include the latest from Fiery Furnaces, "I'm Going Away," plus the hard-to-pigeonhole debut "Up From Below" from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and the very tongue-in-cheek . . .
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August 18, 2009 04:09 PM EDT --
Is Tori Amos' 10th album, “Abnormally Attracted To Sin,” too long at 17 songs? Or is that just more of a good thing? Tori's latest is just one of the CDs Barb Abney, . . .
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August 11, 2009 03:23 PM EDT --
This week's episode features CDs that couldn't be more sonically diverse: Barb Abney, David Campbell and I discuss new releases including The Gossip's pulsating, dance-driven "Music For Men," Megafaun's . . .
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August 04, 2009 04:01 PM EDT --
These days lot of artists get exposure for their songs through movies and TV shows, but h ave you ever discovered a song through a TV commercial? If so, what was it?
That's what we ask you . . .
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July 28, 2009 03:03 PM EDT --
You know the phrase “jump the shark”? That is to say, when something like a TV show, band, or other pop culture phenomenon reaches the point where its decline officially begins? . . .
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July 21, 2009 11:38 AM EDT --
It's the "new bands with odd names" episode this week! Mark Wheat and Jim McGuinn join me in reviewing new releases including Cage The Elephant's self-titled debut, The Rural Alberta Advantage's “Hometowns,” . . .
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July 14, 2009 11:56 AM EDT --
This week, the gang and I continue to discuss some of our favorite songs of the year so far, and we want your opinion, too! What's your pick?
I’ll welcome The Current's Music Director . . .
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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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