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December 10, 2014

Michael Rand is the digital sports editor at the Star Tribune, and contributor to The Current's Morning Show Monday segment 'The Sporting Life.'

Top 89 Staff Picks: Michael Rand

Top 89 Staff Picks: Michael Rand

Dec 10, 2014

Michael Rand is the digital sports editor at the Star Tribune, and contributor to The Current's Morning Show Monday segment 'The Sporting Life.'

Top 89 Staff Picks: James Norton

Top 89 Staff Picks: James Norton

James Norton • Dec 10, 2014

James Norton is the editor and publisher of The Heavy Table, a daily web magazine devoted to food -- from roots to table -- in the upper midwest. He appears regularly on The Current's Morning Show's Wednesday 'Eating and Drinking with The Current' segment.

Top 89 Staff Picks: Sean McPherson

Top 89 Staff Picks: Sean McPherson

Dec 10, 2014

Sean McPherson, musician extraordinaire, host of Trivia Mafia and occasional overnight and guest host of The Current's Morning Show, shares his favorite songs of 2014.

Today’s Music News: Saruman, 92, releases heavy-metal Christmas single

Today’s Music News: Saruman, 92, releases heavy-metal Christmas single

Staff • Dec 9, 2014

Okay, it’s not actually Saruman, heroic-turned-evil wizard of Middle-Earth: it’s Christopher Lee, the 92-year-old actor who plays Saruman in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films. Among Lee’s many pursuits on stage and on record have been heavy-metal holiday singles he’s released each year since 2012. Previous releases included Lee’s takes on “The Little Drummer Boy,” “Silent Night,”…

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9:30 Coffee Break: Blank and Blank Songs

Dec 9, 2014

For the Coffee Break we'll play songs from bands with two members and the band name is just the first names of the members separated by an "and". What do you want to hear?

The Throbbing Hive with Wits' John Moe: Black Mirror

The Throbbing Hive with Wits' John Moe: Black Mirror

Dec 9, 2014

Today John Moe chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about the Sony hack and the television show Black Mirror

Forged Artifacts, Pony Bwoy, and No Skin: This week’s Minnesota record releases

Forged Artifacts, Pony Bwoy, and No Skin: This week’s Minnesota record releases

Aaron Bolton • Dec 9, 2014

Forged Artifacts: The Greatest Of All Time #1 Forged Artifacts label owner Matt Linden told me recently that the idea for The Greatest Of All Time #1 compilation had just popped into his head—and that idea is now available. All the bands on the release fall somewhere in the spectrum of punk, but take a…

Today in Music History: Neil Diamond, Favored Music Of Couples?

Today in Music History: Neil Diamond, Favored Music Of Couples?

Dec 9, 2014

George Harrison recieved the Century Award, U2 appeared on SNL, and Neil Diamond put everyone in the right mood Today in Music History.

Premiere: Eric Mayson and Caroline Smith sing ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’

Premiere: Eric Mayson and Caroline Smith sing ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’

Jay Gabler • Dec 9, 2014

Eric Mayson, well-known for lending vocal and multi-instrumental support to live and recorded work by a multitude of Minnesota artists, is going solo with a forthcoming EP to be released via RiverRock Music Group. To celebrate the signing, Mayson has recorded a cover of the seasonal classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” with help from…

Ain’t Misbehavin’: Fats Waller and the American dilemma

Ain’t Misbehavin’: Fats Waller and the American dilemma

Andrea Swensson • Dec 9, 2014

It was almost exactly two weeks ago now that I landed at LaGuardia and flipped my phone out of airplane mode at the exact moment that a grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., was announcing that they had decided not to indict Darren Wilson for shooting and killing an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown. As soon as…

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