Minnesota Public Radio launches indie station 89.3 "The Current"

probably not. seriously fuck rock the garden tho

re-reading the thread and: whatever happened to heliotrope festival ?

I was tempted to go just to see X and The Beths. The National headlining was a major turn off though.

heliotrope was back this year at heart of the beast, wasn't able to catch much but glad it's back

dang i didn’t realize.

i wonder if there are enough mpls posters to sustain an ongoing show / events thread

but then the NYC thread hasn’t been active for a bit so idk

There’s always this one: Rolling Totes PWNING Awesome Shows in Twin Cities Thread!

ah thanks

Separately, the Current's Minnesota music history podcast, the Current Rewind, written by ILXor vet M. Matos, has been a consistently great listen.

https://www.thecurrent.org/collection/rewind

they had the band X play at their yearly festival. does the average current listener give a fuck about X or know anything about them? just seemed so weird

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Does the Current even play X? Or are they just another one those bands the Current talks about playing but never seems to get around to?

I suppose it would have been cool to see them the Robins Kaplan LLP VIP Area, I heard there were a lot of great snacks and of course the respite from the rest of the unwashed upper-middle class white people in attendance in the General Admission area

fwiw, X was great in the heat. Billy and Exene looked to be doing well. was getting a bit of Sabbath vibe on Nausea and a couple other songs, which is not a connection I've made in the past. got a little nervous-where is this going?-when Exene thanked the signing interpreter, but thankfully didn't go anywhere weird.

and the Beths were really good as well, harmonies were right on. would have preferred seeing their first pass at the Hex or the Entry, but glad to see them (and Courtney). that whole record is great.

still bummed i skipped that hex show

https://www.thecurrent.org/countdown/march-music-madness--greatest-movie-soundtracks/

Words can not describe how much I loathe listeners of The Current.

LOL!!

Good Will Hunting
51.8%

Repo Man
48.2%