Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Groovy Minneapolis freak funk band P • PL joined us in Studio K on December 23rd. Featured above is the live performance of their song “Group Wave”.
Check ’em out on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/helloweareppl/
Bandcamp: https://p-pl.bandcamp.com/
Radio K is the award-winning student-run radio station of the University of Minnesota, playing an eclectic variety of independent music both old and new.
Listen to Radio K at 770 AM, 100.7 FM and 104.5 FM, as well as online at radiok.org.
Video shot by Helen Teague, Ryan Gilman, and Chandler Elsbecker.
Edited by Helen Teague.
Audio recorded and mastered by Jaak Jensen.
Local Minneapolis grunge pop band Sass joined us in Studio K on December 30th. Featured above is the live performance of their song “XL Dreams”.
Check ’em out on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/sassmpls/
Bandcamp: https://sassmpls.bandcamp.com/
Radio K is the award-winning student-run radio station of the University of Minnesota, playing an eclectic variety of independent music both old and new.
Listen to Radio K at 770 AM, 100.7 FM and 104.5 FM, as well as online at radiok.org.
Video shot by Helen Teague, Ryan Gilman, and Sam Legierski.
Edited by Helen Teague.
Audio recorded and mastered by Jaak Jensen.
Local indie folk band The Awful Truth joined us in Studio K on January 6th. Featured above is the live performance of their song “Beam”.
Check ’em out on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/TheAwfulTruthMusic
Bandcamp: https://theawfultruth.bandcamp.com/
Radio K is the award-winning student-run radio station of the University of Minnesota, playing an eclectic variety of independent music both old and new.
Listen to Radio K at 770 AM, 100.7 FM and 104.5 FM, as well as online at radiok.org.
Video shot by Helen Teague, Ryan Gilman, and Keith N’Dong.
Edited by Ryan Gilman.
Audio recorded and mastered by Jaak Jensen.
On today’s show, we talk with Megan Lhotka, a descendant of the White Earth Nation. Megan is a Facilitator for the White Earth Indigenous Parent Leadership Initiative (IPLI), a training program that guides parents to become leading advocates for children using a cultural lens.
Host, Carl Unbehaun, presents a cavalcade of songs by Minnesota songwriters along with his musical musings! Our monthly celebration of tunesmiths from Minnesota, from Sandi Millar to Michael Loonan. Check these talented people out at www.MNSongwriters.org.
(Aired 03/03/2016)
Some artists “own” a style. They eat sleep and breath it. Their entire career is dedicated to it. That’s cool and all, but it didn’t work for Deb Harley, a singer-songwriter from Eden Prairie. Her new CD, “Flung Wide Open,” broke the mold of her previous work and brings many different styles into the mix. “I decided to give myself the freedom to touch on any genre because I love them all,” she told me, and it rings very true on this new CD. It’s upbeat contemporary folk music with more than a twist of blues, country and swing, and she’ll be joining me in-studio this week on Centerstage MN to talk about it.
“I felt completely open to everything,” Deb went on to say, “I felt like this is it, this is how I want to stay: open.” She will also have her guitar along to perform some live music during our conversation. While a lot of writers are drawn to sad and morose topics, “Flung Wide Open” is pleasantly positive with occasional giggles. Deb said, “I want to write music that promotes healing and hope.”
Inspired by Deb’s flung wide open attitude, Centerstage MN covers a lot of sonic ground this week. We’ll hear some classic Bob Dylan, MN blues man Big Walter Smith, the “new-grass” of Trampled by Turtles, the rock of Paul Westerberg and the acoustic work of Bill Bulinski…and more!
Minneapolis locals brought the beach to us at Studio K (http://www.radiok.org/instudios/) and performed a set! Recorded 5.18.18 at Radio K. http://radiok.org Be sure to check out their in-studio performance! https://youtu.be/xvlTLUfYMj4 Video shot by Grace Baldwin. Edited by Grace Baldwin. Audio recorded and mastered by Johan Barreiro.
Janiva Magness is one of the premiere Blues and R&B performers in the world today. She has a rich and soulful voice that can take an audience from deep sorrow to overwhelming joy. The story of her life is one of extremes and hardships. In her teens, both of her parents committed suicide and she bounced from foster home to foster home around the Twin Cities. She was the kind of “at risk” youth that typically doesn’t survive. As she describes it, that was the Fate she was born to. But, through the kindness of others she was able to discover her Destiny: music. She will be joining me on Centerstage MN to talk about her new CD “The Devil Is an Angel Too.”
Janiva told me, “I really believe people deserve the truth. People work really hard for their money and if I’m going to expect them to spend money to see my performance or buy my CD, then I damn well better give them something worth spending on….My job is about human connection, and the gift, or vehicle is the music, but the stories are about human connection. In order to do my job I have to be able to tell the truth and bring myself to that story…if someone understands by the end of a song, or end of a show, that they’re not alone in their experience – if I can accomplish a piece of that, then I’ve done my job. I feel like the world is full of mediocrity and people are B.S.ing out there, and on records there is a lot of B.S. out there, and I can’t serve that…it’s a glorious gift that this is my world and this is my job.”
Beyond her internationally acclaimed music career, Janiva is proud to be a spokesperson for National Foster Care Month and Ambassador of Foster Care Alumni for Foster Care Alumni of America. “For me it’s sort of ‘paying it forward,’ by talking about the early part of my life, it turns out that it helps other people that are still in the struggle, that are still in that part of their journey – and I want to serve that, I want to serve that. It’s so amazing.” And so is she.