This is why I love the Current
I’m so pandering to my primary demographic here, but I don’t care. Who doesn’t love the Current? Hey, if I really wanted to drum up some shameless reader camaraderie I could write a post called “This is why I love puppies”, so cut me some slack. Back to the task at hand, fawning over one of the greatest developments in Twin Cities radio history, 89.3 The Current.
The Current went on the air a year after I left the country to sample some of the world’s funnier toilets, so until a month ago I was only catching bits and pieces of programming during fleeting visits home and during that magical month in the summer of 2006 when I had stout enough internet access in Romania to allow for online listening. Then the Current imprudently effed with their online broadcast format and even with emails traded with their support people I was never able to make it work again. A few months later I moved to Italy where “broadband” internet amounts to about 15kps (when it works at all), so my online Current listening days were over.
As of last month, I’m happily wallowing in more new music than I can possibly absorb. I love it that 75% of the music played on the Current is music I’ve never heard of, but still dig nonetheless. And forget the dreaded same-song-15-times-a-day-for-three-months phenomenon that plagues 90% of popular radio, I routinely go days without hearing the same band, much less the same song.
