This week’s show features music from Dethrone the Pacifist, Chaos in Question, the alleles, little time off, and word will spread. Colossus is in the hot seat this week on Pump or Dump, plus music from Gazing Ever Upwards, Off With Their Heads, From Which They fell, and Reverence of Apostasy. We also have music from Armaea, Solution Thirteen, These Worlds Collide, and Emergent.

Bemidji, MN author Will Weaver wants to encourage more men and boys to read. The classic Winchester rifle on the cover of his new memoir, “The Last Hunter, An American Family Album,” may help him hit his target. Weaver talks about the challenge of creating an honest narrative constructed of memories. Recorded April 28, 2011 at Northland College in Thief River Falls, MN. Hosted by Pioneer 90.1’s Mark Johnson.

On this week’s show we have music from ganking the Ghetto, Scavengers, Egypt, the Necrotix, and Before the Gates. New music from Old Vern is featured in Pump or Dump this week, plus music from Rule 17, Aiming for Aurora, Prague Spring, and From Concept to Chronicle. We also feature songs from Dreams Lye Dead, These Worlds Collide, Countermeasure, Teptricy, and Sick of Talking About It.

This week we have new music from Bigtree Bonsai, plus music from These Hearts, The Consumption, The Manic, and It came From The Sea. This week on Pump or Dump, we feature the alleles, and music from Storms, A Boy and His Dog, My My Misfire, and Venia. We also feature music from The Devouring, Upon His Flesh, new music from Go Murphy, Better off Without, and Built Upon a Burial.

The Black Friday edition of the Local Alternative is all new and commercial free!! Feeaturing music from With A Voice, The Cold Starts, The Consumption, Our Own End, and Hitchcock. This week’s edition of Pump or Dump features music from Little falls, MN natvies Get The Gun; plus new music from Initium, For All Those Sleeping, Gone By Tomorrow, and Life Wont Wait. We will also have music from MX Rocket, Poets and Thieves, The Reckless Ones, Sorakujira, and The Edith Massey.