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KFAI's MinneCulture

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MinneCulture explores the people, culture, and art that are inspiring, shaping, and changing Minnesota every day. We go beyond the gallery walls to tell stories about artists and people who live, work and create here.
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Crap From the Past (KFAI-FM/Minneapolis)

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https://archive.org/details/@crapfromthepast for more... Host Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber has a soft spot for everything original in pop music, from the dizzying heights (Stevie Wonder, Tears For Fears, Toy Matinee, Holly Knight, Crowded House, Marshall Crenshaw, Jellyfish, ...), to the stultifying depths (Stars on 45, MC Hammer, the Ethel Merman Disco Album, Milli Vanilli, anything on Kid Stuff Records...), to the spellbindingly odd (Peter Cetera singing in Japanese?!?).As the old saying goe ...
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Write On! Radio

KFAI - Minneapolis + St. Paul

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Write On! Radio interviews local, national and international authors as well as editors, playwrights, poets and more. We’re interested in all things literary, from spoken word performances to readings by writers to just plain well-written works of art.
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10K Fresh Voices | A South Minneapolis Choir Welcomes the Whimsical and Weird 7:00

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Every Tuesday night, Choir Walk with Me gathers to practice. The group’s name comes from the David Lynch film Fire Walk With Me. The small group sings a diverse mix of songs and prides itself on celebrating the esoteric and weird. KFAI’s Angela Lundberg brings us the story. This story was produced by Angela Lundberg and mixed and edited by MinneCul…
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We Will Rise Again w/ Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older - Write On! Radio 57:08

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This week, Molly sits down with the editors of We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, just out from Saga Press. Bringing organizers and activists together with genre luminaries and exciting new voices in fiction, We Will Rise Again is an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer inspiratio…
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10K Fresh Voices | When Augie Garcia’s Band Rocked the River Road Club 7:24

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The Augie Garcia Quintet played rock ‘n’ roll in 1954 before they knew what to call it — Augie described their sound as rhythm-and-blues with a shuffle and a “hard sock.” The Minnesota Music Hall of Fame says the band likely recorded Minnesota’s first rock record. Raised at the West Side Flats in St. Paul, Augie became known as a showman who danced…
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10K Fresh Voices | A Rock ’n Roll Hair Salon 6:47

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Inspired by his love of punk and garage band music of the 1980s, Jon Clifford started a hair salon by Loring Park in Minneapolis in 2011. It’s a funky, one-of-a-kind place helmed by a funky, one-of-a-kind guy filled with music and Minnesota music memorabilia. Jon later partnered with John Kass to add a record store focusing on local music next to t…
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The House on Rondo w/ Debra J. Stone - Write On! Radio 25:02

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This week, Emma sits down with Debra J. Stone to discuss The House on Rondo, just out from University Of Minnesota Press. In this coming-of-age story, a young girl reckons with the demolition of a Black Saint Paul neighborhood to make way for the Interstate in the early 1960s. As Zenobia gradually learns about what’s planned for the Rondo neighborh…
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Crap From The Past - November 28, 2025: Rerun (Crappersize: Crap Yourself Thin) plus James Brown Live At The Apollo

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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3
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Crap From The Past - November 7, 2025: Ron counts down The Guardian's top 20 favorite Aimee Mann songs

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A graduate-level course in pop, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber since 1992, originating from KFAI/Minneapolis, Friday nights 10 to midnight.. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3
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Little Rex w/ Gary Porter - Write On! Radio 31:57

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This week, Josh sits down with Gary Porter to discuss Little Rex: A Night at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, a heartfelt prequel to Duffy: The Tale of a Terrier. Told from the afterlife, Little Rex follows a small Boston Terrier on an extraordinary journey through Concord, Massachusetts, where the ghosts of Concord’s greatest writers return for a single ni…
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Crap From The Past - October 3, 2025: The Hippest Taco John's Of All Time, plus HoJo and Corona

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Crap From The Past - September 26, 2025: KFAI Fall 2025 Pledge drive, with some Parade Of Stars

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Cosmic Slop - September 27, 2025

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"Cosmic Slop", a radio show that played forgotten pop from the 1970s, was hosted by Chuck Tomlinson and Joel Stitzel, and ran on Radio K, KUOM-AM/Minneapolis on Sunday afternoons from 1993-2004. This episode was a reunion episode for Radio K's Pledge Drive.. This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, …
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MinneCulture Shorts: Seeds, Fashion, Cats 17:03

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If you only know MinneCulture as a seasonal podcast, you're in for a treat. Between seasons, we make shorter stories that we call 10,000 Fresh Voices. These stories cover all kinds of things from a synchronized swim team to a scheme to build a domed city in the Minnesota woods. And we're going to start sharing them with you here. Welcome to MinneCu…
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Write On Radio - Joseph Whitson 26:30

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This week, Emma sits down with Joseph Whitson about his debut book, Marketing the Wilderness: Outdoor Recreation, Indigenous Activism, and the Battle over Public Lands, which is an analysis of how outdoor recreation companies market public land as wilderness instead of land stolen from Indigenous people. In this interview, Emma and Joseph Whitson d…
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Crap From The Past - August 29, 2025: Minneapolis church mass shooting, plus absurd trivia and Astley Music Factory

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Write On! Radio - Leif Weatherby 29:14

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This week, Josh Weber speaks to Leif Weatherby, founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University, about his new monograph ‘Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism’. The monograph discusses how what is currently described as AI is not displaying cognition, but instead revealing culture. In this interview, J…
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Crap From The Past - June 13, 2025: CFTP turns 33-1/3, Part 3 of 3, Ron's favorite album tracks

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Crap From The Past - June 6, 2025: CFTP turns 33-1/3, Part 2 of 3, Ron's favorite album tracks

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Crap From The Past - May 30, 2025: CFTP turns 33-1/3, Part 1 of 3, Ron's favorite album tracks

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Crap From The Past - May 23, 2025: City Pop from Listener Dave, and a few covers from listener Tim

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Seeking Freedom in Minnesota 31:02

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When freedom seekers stepped off the steamboat in St. Paul, local people of color met them at the landing. Underground Railroad agents worked as barbers, musicians, laundresses, steamboat stewards and cooks. Some of these residents had never been enslaved and grew up in eastern cities. Others fled the South to settle in Minnesota — a territory that…
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Life on the Back Channel 25:26

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The Mississippi River is one of the defining geographic features of our state. The river's headwaters begin up north in Lake Itasca and meander for 650 miles through the cities, bluffs, forests and iron ranges of Minnesota, before crossing the border into Wisconsin and Iowa. The River has long captured our imagination. And, for many, it has provide…
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