Ask The Current's Music Director
Our Music Director, David Safar, answers your burning questions about music on The Current!
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The music programming team of Program Director Jim McGuinn, Assistant PD Lindsay Kimball and myself sift through the music we receive each week. We also collaborate with our on-air hosts about the music they've heard and want to play. And then we collectively pick new music for airplay.
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I gotta say that I was excited BEFORE the current started up at the prospects of having a local radio station that actually cared about the local music community... but really, it kinda just turned into a Rev105 revival. I feel like the station had the opportunity to champion local/regional artists but failed miserably and instead chose to focus on things happening "across the pond" and other mediocre acts that are, in my opinion, just indie-pop-culture hype. There's enough GREAT local music in minnesota that a whole station could be devoted to championing the artists we already have. If I want to hear the Foo Fighters, I can hear them anywhere.