Podcast Party: MPR's Current Song of the Day

(Podcast Party is meant to be a weekly nod to the world of music podcasting. Since the world of podcasting is difficult to break into and daunting to find new and interesting podcasts these posts will help to direct those with an interest to good stuff)

Anyone who has been to Minnesota can understand why a podcast like this exists. Minnesotans are a quiet and polite people with an intense interest in the world. This comes about because of the natural conditions that they live in: 7-8 months of weather that keeps the general population indoors.

MPR's Current Song of the Day Podcast is a great little appetizer to the world of music podcasting. Every weekday the music team from 89.3 The Current chooses a single song that stands out to them from within the piles of music that they're exposed to. If you were stuck indoors for half the year, wouldn't you want to be up on what's been going on musically in the world?

The music tastes of The Current are fairly diverse. It's mostly melodic rock and singer-songwriters but you get a good mix of faster punk, bluesy ballads, and a smattering of hip-hop. It's mostly independent artists, with very few artists that you recognize so it's pretty fresh. The best part about the song choices is their trend forecasting. They have an uncanny knowledge of what's going to be good a good month or two before it's talked about or shared widely on the bit-torrent sites (er . . . I mean in record stores).

That's about it to it. There's no intro, or outro, or ads or anything. You're just given straight up, good quality MP3s of pretty good bands. There's nothing that could go wrong. My one complaint though is that the back log only goes back to the last 7 days so if you want to redownload a track, it's probably gone. That's not really a complaint though, I just wanted to put at least one negative thing about this podcast before I ended.

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