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A breath of fresh music
The Current Street Team will be on Nicollet Mall over the lunch hour Thursday, handing out daisies from our friends at Otten Brothers. We're reminding you to take time to stop and smell the flowers, and to take a breath of fresh music on occasion. Pick up a flower while supplies last, and maybe share it with someone else you know that could use a little pick me up. And thanks to Otten Brothers Nursery for their support of The Current.
Listen all week for your chance to win tickets to R.E.M.'s show at the Xcel Energy Center on June 5. But that's not all! Every winner will be entered to win our grand prize "FlyAway Concert Ticket Giveaway" - airfare, hotel, tickets, and rental car to see R.E.M. at Red Rocks on June 3. Listen from 3 - 7 p.m. all week for your chance, or enter online for you opportunity to see R.E.M.!
Death Cab for Cutie are back with their bid for stadium-sized-rock, "Narrow Stairs," and Musicheads gave it a spin this week. They also delved into the ultra-darkness of Portishead's long, long awaited "Third," and debated the merits - or otherwise - of actress Scarlett Johansson's foray into pop music, "Wherever I Lay My Head."
Musicheads also posed the question, "What music do you put on to relax, or go to sleep?" Mark Wheat and The Current's Music Director Melanie Walker were Bill DeVille's guests.
Musicheads also posed the question, "What music do you put on to relax, or go to sleep?" Mark Wheat and The Current's Music Director Melanie Walker were Bill DeVille's guests.
Tickets are SOLD OUT!. We'll be giving away a few pair of tickets as we get closer to the event. Stay tuned for your chance to see Andrew Bird, New Pornographers, Cloud Cult and Bon Iver, on June 21, 2008.
Podcasts from The Current
Song of the Day Podcast
Today's song: Mason Jennings - I Love You and Buddha Too
Skits from the Morning Show
Morning Show skits for May 21, 2008
Musicheads
Death Cab for Cutie, Portishead, Scarlett Johansson, and zzzzzzzzz.
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More MPR podcasts
Cross Currents
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Radio Free Current
Each Saturday night, we're letting you take over The Current.
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Past Highlights
Policy and a Pint: The Mortgage MeltdownLive from South by Southwest 2008
Facemelter
Greatest Valentine's Songs
Rock the Cradle 2008
Top 89 of 2007
Policy and a Pint: The Death of Environmentalism
Policy and a Pint: The Price of Gas
Death Becomes Us
Radio Free Current - May 1 2007
Policy and a Pint: America's Checkbook - Overdrawn with GAO Comptroller General David Walker
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Merch
Current t-shirts are now available for purchase at Erik's Bike Shop locations.
Your Voice
MinnewikiThe Minnesota Music Encyclopedia
My Three Songs
Listen at noon every weekday for a new three-song set from a different listener
Minnesota Music
Join the discussion of local music on Gather.com
In-Studio Appearances
Dylan Mills, known professionally as Dizzee Rascal, is a solo artist who came up in the U.K. Garage/Grime music scene. His debut album, "Boy In Da Corner" won him the country's Mercury Prize.
Art punk four-piece Clinic formed in Liverpool in 1997 and released their first single on their own Aladdin's Cave of Golf label. In 2002, the band released their second album "Walking With Thee" which was nominated for a Grammy.
Cameron McGill was born in Champaign-Urbana, IL, in 1977 and spent his childhood years listening to his father's music collection which included The Beach Boys, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash.
News & Features from The Current
A Twin Cities think tank showcases the worst political advertising America has to offer.
Six months ago pundits named Hillary Clinton the inevitable Democratic nominee for president. Today they're calling for her to bow out of the race.
More Features from MPR
The vinyl record is undergoing somewhat of a resurgence in the Twin Cities music scene. More bands are putting their music out on vinyl, more consumers, especially younger ones, are choosing vinyl over compact discs.
Send us your music!
Are you a band interested in getting your music heard on The Current? Send us your recordings (no e-mails, please), clearly labeled with your group name and contact information:The Current
c/o Melanie Walker
480 Cedar Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55101
We are unable to return any media (CD, Cassette, LPs)
Events
Event spotlight:
May 30, 2008
First Avenue
First Avenue
89.3 The Current presents
| 5/25 | Sound Set '08 |
| 5/29 | The Presets |
| 5/30 | The Breeders |
| 6/5 | Mill City Live: The Owls |
| 6/7 | Chris Koza CD Release |
| 6/11 | Iron & Wine |
| 6/12 | Gogol Bordello |
| 6/12 | Haley Bonar CD Release |
| 6/12-6/14 | Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton Songs of Ascension |
| 6/13 | Billy Bragg |
| 6/19 | Mill City Live: Romantica |
| 7/2 | Drive-By Truckers |
| 7/3 | M.anifest |
Other notable events
| 5/22 | Rilo Kiley |
| 5/24 | Snowden |
| 5/24 | R.E.M., Modest Mouse, The National |
| 6/1 | Nels Cline Singers |
| 6/5 | R.E.M., Modest Mouse, The National |
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