Another Current Show: Peter Wolf Crier

This was the last show of the season and the guy, Andrew Halverson, who recorded and mixed this show knocked it out of the park: The Local Show April 7. Not only did Dave Campbell and the guys love the mix and interview segments, but the band put the show on their website, too. For the 2nd time in two years, The Current posted the whole show, interviews included, on their website: Peter Wolf Crier performs at the McNally Smith Soundbite Series. Andy gets a great credit on that page, too.

The MPR folks have been incredibly generous to my students in this project. Dave Campbell gives the engineer who mixed the show full credit, often multiple times, at least once and sometimes more often. You can't ask for a better starting point as a professional in music than to get a shout-out on the best radio station in the country.

Another Current Show: Kill the Vultures

Februrary 10, MPR/The Current and Dave Campbell ran another of the school's Soundbite shows, this time with Kill the Vultures. The student who recorded and mixed this show, Darren Prentice, did an outstanding job and David gave him well-deserved credit for the work. It starts at about 56 minutes (http://www.thecurrent.org/listen/minnesota/the_current/programs/2013/02/10/the_local_show/the_local_show_20130210. 

Mystery Palace at McNally Smith

I can't believe this band slipped by me. Mystery Palace is a local act that had some success in the last decade. I wish I'd have been paying attention, then. This is yet another recording engineered by my Location Recording Class (the MSCM portion of the show starts at about 85 minutes):

Another Current Show: Motion City Soundtrack

One more MN local band that I didn't catch when they were hot. MCS created one of my all time favorite music videos:
This was a great show, Motion City Soundtrack, mixed by Rob Frost III (the MSCM show starts at about 82 minutes):

Cool Stuff from McNally Smith and The Current: The Honey Dogs

One of my favorite classes at McNally Smith is the Location Recording class. Some semesters it's a bigger pleasure than others, but it's always a good class because it's one of the few I have that has upper level students (mostly, I'm an "Intro to" lab instructor) who know what they are doing and who care about what they are doing. This past year we picked up a new responsibility: recording a 2 hour show in the school's cafe and turning it into a 15-20 minute radio show.

About 80 minutes into the Local Show, Dave runs a show segment by the Honeydogs that is mixed by one of my students. This one was done by Jordan Goldberger.