In Tune

I loved Brad Zellar’s article “Local Music: We grow old, we grow old” [October]. Indeed, I’ve felt totally behind on the current music scene. It takes so much time and money to keep up, to keep acquiring new tunes, to keep scouting for new music, that we become geezers before we want to. (Writing the word “geezers” reminds me that I’d like to start a movement to have stadiums offer Geezer Seating during rock concerts. I go to see the band, not listen to the under-30 set scream around me.)

I thought MPR’s the Current would help me keep up, however, the station’s broadcast range is such that we can’t get it out in the sticks (central Minnesota) via traditional radio. I listen to MPR’s news station exclusively at work, but I’d definitely tune in to the Current if it were available. (Before you suggest that I listen on the Internet, our connection at work is via phone.)

As for Mr. Zellar’s article, what warmed my heart was his couching the local music scene in terms of an aging Gen Xer. I was beginning to despair of Xers EVER getting any media attention. It was all Boomer, Millennial, Boomer, Millennial, as though we simply didn’t exist in between. Glad to see we still matter.

Mary Warner, Little Falls