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March 12, 2014

Find out which women rock your musical world in our Women Who Rock countdown.

Countdown: Women Who Rock

Countdown: Women Who Rock

Mar 12, 2014

Find out which women rock your musical world in our Women Who Rock countdown.

P.O.S. kidney transplant: Success!

P.O.S. kidney transplant: Success!

Jay Gabler • Mar 11, 2014

“I feel like a new dude,” P.O.S. told his Doomtree crewmate Lazerbeak after recently receiving a long-awaited kidney transplant. As Lazerbeak reports on Doomtree’s website, the MC “seriously looks great.” Also, happily, recovering well is donor Mark Potter, who is already out of the hospital. “We’ve known Mark forever (actually went to high school with the…

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9:30 Coffee Break: Songs With A Choir

Mar 11, 2014

What songs featuring a choir should we play for the 9:30 Coffee Break?

Desdamona highlights the underground female rappers you need to hear now

Desdamona highlights the underground female rappers you need to hear now

Andrea Swensson • Mar 11, 2014

On Sunday night’s Local Show, we celebrated Women’s History Month with a two-hour special dedicated exclusively to women in Minnesota music. This year, a large focus of the show was on hip-hop and some of the under-the-radar acts that started bubbling up to the surface in recent years. In addition to a fiery in-studio performance…

Dérobé Dance Band, Disasteratti, CHARN, and more: This week’s Minnesota record releases

Dérobé Dance Band, Disasteratti, CHARN, and more: This week’s Minnesota record releases

KT Lindemann • Mar 11, 2014

Human Kindness: You Are So Loud That I Want To Die cassette On their debut EP You Are So Loud That I Want To Die, self-described Minneapolitan “rock ‘n’ roll friends” Human Kindness sound like microbudget contemporaries to modern punks like No Age and Joyce Manor. The record is melody-focused, occasionally experimental, and perfectly abrasive, with…

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Today in Music History: Otis Redding Goes Gold, Posthumously

Mar 11, 2014

The Clash made their live debut, Paul McCartney became "Sir," and Otis Redding received his only Gold record Today in Music History.

On The Ball with Mark Wheat: Northern Soul

On The Ball with Mark Wheat: Northern Soul

Mark Wheat • Mar 10, 2014

The hubris of certain Premiership managers stirs some schadenfreude in Mark Wheat this week; plus, exciting results from the FA Cup shift Mark's attention to Wigan and the musical subgenre known as Northern Soul.

First Listen: The War On Drugs, 'Lost In The Dream'

First Listen: The War On Drugs, 'Lost In The Dream'

Jacob Ganz • Mar 10, 2014

Highly emotional rock that reads as low-stakes at first, Lost in the Dream is evocative and pleasant if you let it float by in the background. But it's made with hooks that sink in deep.

9:30 Coffee Break: Science

9:30 Coffee Break: Science

Mar 10, 2014

The joy of discovery and a slightly better understanding of the inner workings of the universe leads us to today's Coffee Break. What science songs do you want to hear for the 9:30 Coffee Break?

The Sporting Life with Michael Rand: Jared Allen Says Goodbye

The Sporting Life with Michael Rand: Jared Allen Says Goodbye

Mar 10, 2014

Today Michael Rand chatted to The Morning Show about NFL free agent signings, Jared Allen leaving the Vikings, and a local tweet that's causing a lot of negative attention.

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