Theft of the Dial.

If you live in Minnesconsin, you're probably familiar with 89.3 The Current.
If you don't you can stream it live and hear what all the fuss is about.

I spend two hours a day in my car.
I listen to the current as though it were the Gospel.
I owe Frank Turner and Blitzen Trapper to the Current.
I'm sure I owe most of the music Chud introduced me to
to the Current.

I owe my sanity
to the Current.

In homage to my love of all things Public Radio,
I am going to host my very own
Theft of the Dial.
Dear Jill Riley, Mary Lucia, and Mark Wheat:
If you happen on my playlist,
I'd be honored to hear it on the radio.

To the rest of you:
Download these songs if they're not in your collection.
This is not a complete list of my favorite songs of all time,
but rather the anthem of the year that was 2011.
The songs I played over
and over
and over
again.

Turned up to eleven.

•Down in the Valley - The Head and The Heart
•Landfill - Daughter
•I Still Believe - Frank Turner
•Sweet Disposition - The Temper Tramp
•Dog Days Are Over - Florence+The Machine
•Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
•LDN - Lily Allen
•Make You Feel My Love - Adele
•Holocene - Bon Iver
•Love The Way You Walk Away -  Blitzen Trapper
•The Girl You Lost to Cocaine - Sia
•Portions for Foxes - Rilo Kiley
•Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show
•Big Time Sensuality - Bjork
•Fake Empire -  The National
•The Edge of Glory - Lady Gaga
•Both Hands - Ani Difranco
•Hallelujah - k.d. lang
•Human - The Killers
•Gimmie Sympathy - Metric
•Starlight - Muse
•Sunshine - Atmosphere

As an aside, here is a list of the albums I not only listened in their entirety,
but did so again and again and again.
If you don't own these albums, you should.

Adele - 21
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Daughter - His Young Heart EP
Florence+The Machine - Lungs
The Head and The Heart - The Head and The Heart
Metric - Fantasies
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
The National - Boxer


Happy downloading, friends!

xoxo
A