Radio Free Current

Howdy all,

I'm writing to let you all know about Radio Free Current, which is more or less geared as a "takeover" of Minneapolis/St. Paul's 89.3 FM, The Current, by its loyal listeners. You can sign up on The Current's page to request songs, including White Light Riot's own Bitter Beginning, Stars, and Out of Sight from the Dark Is Light Enough EP. A bunch of listeners and bands also created homemade spots for the station which will be played all day. Of course, we made our own as well. We went more for the odd approach, so hopefully you'll enjoy that, especially Dan's best shot at a radio voice. Check it out here. More than anything, by signing up/requesting/listening, you're supporting a great local institution; after all, even if you don't like everything they play, at least The Current gives a lot of indie bands a shot to be heard somewhere other than their hometowns, as well as giving great exposure to local acts. They've been great to us, so we're just asking all of you to help support, too.

In other news, we should have a new video up soon from our show last Tuesday at the Varsity. I saw Nate, our video guy, working on it a bit and it's in the same high-contrast vein as the newest pictures, so it looks pretty awesome. We did a little acoustic set down at the 50 office on Friday as a celebration for all the interns who finished up their internships, and hopefully we'll be able to post a clip of that, too, for something different.

We've been writing like madmen lately and have about 13 new song ideas in various stages of development, so we're already hard at work on the follow-up. I'm pretty excited about a few of them -- exploring new sounds, etc., but that's maybe a bit preemptive, huh? Enjoy May, everyone, and we'll see you around. I'm sure we'll be out on the patio at Brit's or Stella's pretty often, so if you wanna buy us drinks, come on down!

- Joe