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3/24/09 IT'S NOT TO SAY SHE DIDN'T LIKE THE COLLEGE STATION/BUT HER DAYS LEFT IN THIS TOWN WERE COUNTING DOWN TO GRADUATION it's been a mighty fine week for the crappy institutional college radio station at the crappy service-industry university i go to. WRUR, you see, syndicates NPR for half the damn day, sparing us from hearing rilo kiley, or tv on the radio, or "i'm not gonna teach your boyfriend to dance with you" until well into the evening. of course, it being NPR, you hear a lot of the decemberists, but you pick your poison. yep, picture it: me, driving my douchey prius, listening to NPR. maybe off to buy some fancy juice, or driving my girlfriend to yoga. so yesterday, while driving home during rush hour, i heard a familiar voice. this unmistakably familiar voice. turns out, WRUR was syndicating NPR's syndication of an interview with mac mcaughan and laura ballance talking about the history of merge records from last week on chicago public radio. a fantastic interview about how to run a business in independent music in the 90s, especially when the interviewer is like, "did you look to dischord, touch & go, and sub pop for inspiration?" and mac goes, "well dischord and touch & go maybe, but really bedroom cut and paste stuff like k and teenbeat," teaching the indie-yuppie crowd that there's a whole other level (and beneath that a whole other level, and beneath that a whole other level, and beneath that monoculture). here in rochester, we takes it where we can gets it. secondhand, thirdhand, airborne, whatever. (listen to the interview here) and now, having just dropped alex off at yoga, i heard them playing this old mountain stage performance by my favourite mom-rock singer, mindy smith. i'm listening to it right now, actually, at home in my living room. r.mutt's diaryland profile tradition and the individual talents' friendster profile monopöle!'s myspace profile your emily dickinson's facebook profile —————blog archives