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For two decades, metal heads, insomniacs, and partying drunks have stumbled onto The Root of All Evil, where host Earl Root and a rotating cast of companions play the best and worst (and trust us, sometimes the two are the very same) of the various strains of heavy metal. Though you will hear it all each week during the show's five hours--from power to black to death to blackened death to neo-power deathly blackened thrash--Root and the gang have a real affinity for the cheesiest... More »
You can argue that MP3 players and podcasts and on-demand streaming audio have supplanted the radio as an all-day/every-day form of entertainment. But it's kind of a moot point as far as Minnesota's most adventurous station is concerned. The best reason to tune in to KFAI isn't to catch something you've been waiting to hear (though there's plenty of that); it's to find something you didn't know you'd want to hear until that very moment. You might leave the dial at a specialty show you've... More »
The nighttime is the right time for jazz radio. It has actually been proven in the lab that saxophones, diminished chords, and recitations of album-jacket personnel lists sound 30 percent better after 10:00 p.m. Mindful of this fact, KFAI presents jazz Monday through Thursday from 10:30 p.m. through midnight, round about which anything can happen. Fresh Air has long been about the only place in town that'll touch the outer reaches of jazz, and many of the station's weeknight jazz slots pay... More »
At a certain age, most people lose the ability to appreciate the artistic merits of heavy metal. The relentless screech of guitars. The songs celebrating bestiality and Satan. The face paint. The unfortunate font choices. It all becomes a bit difficult to take once acne and finding someone to score you booze have become things that other people worry about. That's what makes Earl Root's almost two-decade run as host of The Root of All Evil so astounding. Despite having passed age 40, Root... More »
The difference between the Twin Cities' top two public-radio hip-hop shows is like day and night. We may bounce to Radio K's The Beat Box while we're running errands in our hoopty on a Saturday afternoon. But it's the Saturday night mix of local luminaries Siddiq and DJ Abilities, from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., that really gets our groove on. Besides interviews with other local hip-hop crews and visiting guests, the Rhymesayers duo let their mixing skillz do most of the talking, and that's... More »
Is there a better music in the world for the three hours before 5:00 a.m. than dub reggae? No party-rocking needed at that hour--not on a weekday, anyway--and no wake-up jams required. At 2:00 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, you're either home from a second-shift job, well into a third shift, leaving the bar, or unable to sleep. In any of these cases, the most mysterious music ever created suits the moment just fine. The atmospheric, bass-dominated echo-rock of classic '70s Jamaican studio... More »
Is KFAI the radio experience most listeners want? Of course it isn't. At least judging by the persistence of commercial radio, people want to hear songs they know, opinions they share, commercials they don't mind waiting through. They want to encounter, in other words, exactly what they expect when they switch on a radio--to turn it on like windshield wipers or the defrost. KFAI, by contrast, is for the people who don't mind pulling the car over, stunned. It's for engaged individuals who... More »
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