@Shane McNeil I've been meaning to reply for a month+ and I will. I promise.

@Shane McNeil I originally loved The Current. I was a sustaining member for 10+ years. (I was an original REV105 listener and still have tshirts, etc. from REV105.) I like listening to radio stations during the work day because it provides variety and introduces me to new artists. I loved Mary Lucia and David Campbell and listened to their shows regularly. Then around 2016-ish, their programming started to become very redundant. I could no longer listen through the workday without hearing Courtney Barnett every few hours. It became obnoxious, actually. I also felt they were becoming the next Cities 97. At one point I emailed the program director and asked why they weren't play Augustines, after I'd been to a second sold out show in the Twin Cities, and he replied so rudely and said they didn't feel the need to play them. That's when I cancelled my membership. They didn't value my opinion and had become redundant. For years my friends had been telling me to listen to KEXP and I should've listened to them earlier. I love the community of listeners at KEXP. I have friends I've never met via KEXP and Frightened Rabbit and I've met new friends locally through KEXP. I'm sad that The Current became what it is, but I love that there's a KEXP community in the Twin Cities. I would love to create a KEXP gathering in the Twin Cities somehow. I want to find my fellow peeps. I know they're out there. I hear TC folks calling in daily and every show I go to wearing a KEXP shirt, someone tells me nice shirt.

My first show (without my parents) was U2 Unforgettable Fire. It was right before my 15th birthday (March 22). I remember when my friend Joy (whom I'm still BFFs with) called to ask me if I could go. If we don't consider our first concert without parents — it was Anne Murray, the Gatlin Brothers and the Oak Ridge Boys, at the MN State Fair, LOL.

I saw TVOTR at the inaugural year of Hinterlands (2015). I was so happy to see them because I love them and it seemed no one knew who they were and I got right up front.

"When I walk in to a room, I do not light it up, fuck" – The National

An acoustic Bob Mould show at First Ave in 1993, Eartha Kitt at the Blue Note, INXS at the Met Center where Micheal came out on a skate board, every Frightened Rabbit and Augustines show, Tracy Chapman. After Scott's death I don't take any show for granted.