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KAXE Programs - Currents
Weekdays from 2-4 pm and 3-5 am, Saturdays from 4-6 am, and Sundays from 3-5 am

CURRENTS is a program of all new music in the On the River format.
Currents specializes in recordings released within the previous three months, bringing
listeners "the best of the new" as chosen by KAXE's music director, Travis Ryder. Rock, folk, blues,
jazz and world beat are all represented in the mix.
 

NEW MUSIC: 4/15/12

ROCK

THE DECEMBERISTS                    We All Raise Our Voices To The Air

JACK WHITE                               Blunderbuss

THERESA ANDERSSON                   Street Parade

BRENDAN BENSON                         What Kind of World

TRAIN                                         California 37

YOUNG HINES                                Give Me My Change

FATHER JOHN MISTY                       Fear Fun

7HORSE                                        Let The 7 Horse Run

YUKON BLONDE                               Tiger Talk

ERIK BRANDT                                  The Long Winter

THEESatisfaction                            awE natural

FANFARLO                                     Rooms Filled With Light

SONS OF BILL                                Sirens

JANET ROBIN                                 Everything Has Changed

JD McPHERSON                              Signs & Signifiers

ALABAMA SHAKES                          Boys & Girls

AMY RAY                                     Lung of Love

NORAH JONES                               Little Broken Hearts

MACY GRAY                                  Covered

M. WARD                                      A Wasteland Companion

SARAH JAFFE                                The Body Wins

JACK WILSON                                s/t

PAUL THORN                                 What The Hell Is Goin’ On?

CAROLE KING                                 The Legendary Demos

DIAMOND RUGS                              s/t

FOLK

CHIP TAYLOR                                                  Screw All The Perfect People

THE MASTERSONS                                           Birds Fly South

RYAN ADAMS                                                 iTunes Session

HANK WILLIAMS III                                         Long Gone Daddy

ADAM COHEN                                                   Like A Man

THE VESPERS                                                 The Fourth Wall

GLEN CAMPBELL                                              Ghost On The Canvas

JIM HANFT                                                     Weddings Or Funerals

COWBOY JUNKIES                                           The Wilderness

CHUCK MEAD/GRASSY KNOLL BOYS        Back At The Quonset Hut

NANCI GRIFFITH                                 Intersection

JESS KLEIN                                        Behind A Veil

LEFTOVER SALMON                             Aquatic Hitchhiker

BLUES/SOUL/FUNK

DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND          Twenty Dozen

ETTA BRITT                                          Out Of The Shadows

THE STRAIGHT SHOT                       Can’t Make Tears

WARREN HAYNES                            Live At The Moody Theater

WALTER TROUT                        Blues For The Modern Daze

BONNIE RAITT                           Slipstream

JAZZ

BESO NEGRO                             Somos

ESPERANZA SPALDING                Radio Music Society

DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND          Twenty Dozen

WORLD

AMADOU & MARIAM                    Folila

YANN TIERSEN                          Skyline

REBELUTION                             Peace of Mind

KAXE NEW MUSIC           2/22/12

ROCK

moe.                                  What Happened To the La Las

Ingrid Michaelson            Human Again

Lana Del Rey                     Born To Die

Mark Lanegan Band         Blues Funeral

Winterpills                         All My Lovely Goners

Ben Kweller                       Go Fly A Kite

Stephen Kellogg/Sixers  Gift Horse

Sharon Van Etten             Tramp

Craig Finn                     Clear Heart Full Eyes

Tennis                                 Young & Old

Jessie Baylin                 Little Spark

Various                              Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan

Various                              The Bridge School Concerts: 25th Anniversary Edition

Leonard Cohen                 Old Ideas

Heartless Bastards          Arrow

Van Hunt                      What Were You Hoping For?

Grace Woodroofe             Always Want

Air                                       Le Voyage Dans Le Lune

Dr. Dog                               Be The Void

The Darcys                    Aja

Magnolia Memoir             The Perfect Crime

Sugar & The Hi-Los         s/t

Hail Mary Mallon              Are You Gonna Eat That?

Cass McCombs                  Humor Risk

 

FOLK

Molly Maher                       Merry Come Up

The Barr Bros.                    s/t

Various                               This One's For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark

Martin Zellar/Hardways  Roosters Crow

The Damn Quails               Down The Hatch

Honor Finnegan                The Tiny Life

Amos Lee                           As The Crow Flies

Sons Of Fathers                s/t

Gretchen Peters               Hello Cruel World

First Aid Kit                        The Lion’s Roar

The Pines                            Dark So Gold

Darrell Scott                       Long Ride Home

Reckless Kelly                Good Luck & True Love

Bhi Bhiman                         Bhiman

Booka/Flaming Geckos   Jeremy Fink

Damien Jurado               Maraqopa

Elliot BROOD                      Days Into Years

Dave Carter/Tracy Grammer       Little Blue Egg

Karen Dahlstrom              Gem State

 

BLUES

Joe Louis Walker                Hellfire

Dion                                      Tank Full Of Blues

Otis Taylor                          Contraband

Sista Monica Parker          Living In The Danger Zone

Paxton Norris                     Something's Gotta Give

 

JAZZ/WORLD

TriBeCaStan                       New Deli

Jerry O'Hagan f. Charmin Michelle          Dance Time, Vol. 1

Various                                                Putumayo Brazilian Beat

Rodrigo y Gabriela with C.U.B.A.              Area 52

 

ALL KILLER, NO FILLER: NEW MUSIC ADDED TO LIBRARY 1/21/2012

ROCK

BAHAMAS - Barchords

DAN MANGAN - Oh Fortune

NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS - s/t (Oasis member)

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - Hysterical

BEN FOLDS - Retrospective (includes hits and some rare/unreleased tracks)

BEN LEE - Deeper Into Dream

WILD FLAG - s/t (Female punk supergroup)

NADA SURF - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy

JUNKBOAT (MN) - s/t

ATLAS SOUND - Parallax

REAL ESTATE - Days

JULIAN VELARD - Mr. Saturday Night

VAN HUNT - What Were You Hoping For?

CHRIS ISAAK - Beyond The Sun

FOLK/COUNTRY

BIG HARP - White Hat

THE ELDERS - Wanderin' Life & Times (Kansas City Celtic)

INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS - We'll Do It Live

CAM PENNER - Gypsy Summer

ANI DIFRANCO - Which Side Are You On?

WILLIE NELSON - Remember Me Vol. 1

ROE FAMILY SINGERS (MN) - The Owl and the Bat and the Bumblebee

THE LITTLE WILLIES - For The Good Times

MARTIN SEXTON - Fall Like Rain EP

CONNOR GARVEY - Where Ocean Meets Land

THE WOOD BROTHERS - Smoke Ring Halo

BLUES/SOUL

CHARLES BRADLEY - 'Heartaches And Pain' EP (from No Time For Dreaming)

ETTA JAMES - The Dreamer

WHITEBOY JAMES AND THE BLUES EXPRESS - Extreme Makeover

RUTHIE FOSTER - Let It Burn

JAZZ

PUPPINI SISTERS - Hollywood

WORLD

HINDI ZAHRA - Handmade

JIMMY CLIFF - Sacred Fire EP

New releases added to CD library
Final week of November sees diverse and high-quality additions

Rock

COLDPLAY-  Mylo Xyloto

RACHAEL YAMAGATA- Chesapeake

ZACH DEPUTY- Another Day

JOY ASKEW- Drunk On You

MILAGRES- Glowing Mouth

LOU REED AND METALLICA- Lulu

STEWART FRANCKE- Heartless World

MEGAFAUN- Megafaun

GRAHAM WILKINSON- The Spiritual Accessories EP

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM- Seeds We Sow

MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO (nn-dhh-GAY-oh-CHELL-oh)- Weather

JON POUSETTE-DART- Anti-Gravity

 

Folk

MADI DIAZ- Plastic Moon

KATHLEEN EDWARDS- Voyageur

BRIAN MILLER (MN)- Minnesota Lumberjack Songs

BLIND PILOT- We Are The Tide

MA, DUNCAN, MEYER, THILE- The Goat Rodeo Sessions

TWO MANY BANJOS (MN)- I'm Not Scared Of The Devil

NOAM PIKELNY- Beat The Devil and Carry a Rail

LYAL STRICKLAND- So Many Incidents

JOHN McCUTCHEON- This Land: Woody Guthrie's America

Blues

TOM WAITS- Bad As Me

REV. RAVEN / CHAIN SMOKIN' ALTAR BOYS- Shake Your Boogie

SHANE DWIGHT- A Hundred White Lies

CHARLIE WOOD- Keepin It Real

BILL WYMAN'S RHYTHM KINGS- Box Set Sampler

World

KIRAN AHLUWALIA- Aam Zameen: Common Ground






And you thought they were Japanese
Blitzen Trapper's American Goldwing evokes the call of the open road

On the introduction webpage for their new album, Blitzen Trapper songwriter Eric Earley relates a tale of his youth where he mounted his brother-in-law's 1980 Honda Goldwing touring bike.  The massive cycle flopped over and pinned his six year-old leg.  This duality of envisioning the open road while being held down to a life of small horizons forms the narrative of the group's third album for Sub Pop Records.

"Writing American Goldwing felt much like that, like being pinned beneath a giant motorcycle, and its vision is that inescapable past, those feelings of being trapped in a small town, that fine line between the rural and the suburban settings that define much of America, that line between love and loss that occurs when you find yourself "taking it easy too long / sticking around this lonesome town." It's me trying to hazard a true American nostalgia. And like that kid the bike fell on, there's a good amount of thrashing about, trying to get loose. The roughness of rock and roll and the independence of travel act as the flip-side to all this sentimental backward-glancing. The earthiness of these songs makes you want to get loaded and get in a fight, or find a girl and fall in love forever, simultaneously. The subjects range from drug-running good old boys in the hills, to that final high school dance, to pondering that moment when the one you love walks away and you can't help but love her anyway."  -Eric Earley

In his Allmusic review, James Christopher Monger calls American Goldwing "a straight-up, mid-'70s inspired Southern rock album that fuses the Saturday night swagger of Lynyrd Skynyrd with the stoic peasantry of the Band."  Which is all the more surprising since no one in Blitzen Trapper is from the South.

Hear selections on Currents weekdays from 2 to 4 p.m.

Tracks:
  1. Might Find It Cheap
  2. Fletcher
  3. Love The Way You Walk Away
  4. Your Crying Eyes
  5. My Hometown
  6. Girl In A Coat
  7. American Goldwing
  8. Astronaut
  9. Taking It Easy Too Long
  10. Street Fighting Sun
  11. Stranger In A Strange Land

 

Posted Sept. 28, 2011 by Travis Ryder
 
 
 
 
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