HeyJaredRacketCast
Bi-weekly podcast from Racket, the Twin Cities news/arts/culture publication. Featuring hyper-local recaps, reviews, interviews, debates, hot takes, and more from the crew behind your favorite reader-funded, worker-owned media org.Want to advertise on RacketCast?
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Should Failing Twin Cities Restaurants Seek Crowdfunding? (opens the original)
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It's the first-ever episode of RacketCast , the new podcast experiment from Twin Cities news/arts/culture website Racket. In this installment, we recap the week that was at our reader-funded publication, debate whether failing restaurants should seek crowdfunding life support, tease what we're working on next, and ask you, the gracious reader-turned-listener, for pointers about... what RacketCast should sound like in the future! Special thanks to local band Van Stee for supplying our intro/trans
A MN Hip-Hop Classic Turns 20 feat. Heiruspecs (opens the original)
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Exactly 20 years ago, Twin Cities hip-hop greats Heiruspecs got their shot at the big time with A Tiger Dancer . On this episode of RacketCast , MC Chris "Felix" Wilbourn and bassist Sean "Twinkie Jiggles" McPherson reflect with us about the highs (giant shows, Harold & Kumar soundtrack) and lows (label expectations, snubbed Euro tour) that coincided with the release of their breakout 2004 LP. This isn't the group's first reflection on that pivotal era—McPherson wrote with great candor about it
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