Stray Hawkeye

I know I’m behind the times on this one, but have you seen the cover for 89.3 The Current’s Live Current Volume 6 CD:

No idea how the music on it is, but with a cover like that, it can't be all bad

As best I can tell, the cover was made by local graphic designer Miss Amy Jo.  The rest of her work seems to be somewhat sousaphone deprived, but I’ll take what I can get.

Radio Locator is a kind of handy site.  It’s basically a search-able list of radio stations everywhere in the US, and some foreign countries as well.  I know it’s way cooler to listen to your iPod and download songs for a dollar a piece, but I still love the radio and listen to it pretty much all the time.  You can also search for stations that stream online, in case you want to listen at work, or want to listen to radio stations from other places (like if you found one you love while on vacation.)  Not life changing or anything, but a handy site none the less.

In case you’re ever looking for some music while at work (or wherever) we have a really good radio station here in the Twin Cities that broadcasts online, 89.3 The Current.

It’s public radio, so they occasionally have donation drives that get a little annoying, but on the whole they have far, far fewer commercials than most stations.  It’s an extremely eclectic mix of music, from punk, to blue grass, to hip hop, to rock, to… well, anything really.  It’s a bit hit or miss, so you might have to try a couple of times to fall in love with it.

The best overarching theme that I could really assign to what they play is- you know when you see a commercial on TV, and you really like the song playing in the background, but have no idea who the band is, or what the song is, and you never hear it anywhere else?  That’s what they play.  Those songs.