Music hosts Jedd Beaudoin, Chris Heim, Carla Eckels and Bill Pearce run down the best in music for 2014 - including selections for world, rock, local music, jazz, R&B, gospel, blues, rockumentaries and books about music.
Join KMUW's music hosts throughout January on Global Village, Strange Currency, Night Train, Crossroads, Soulsations and Straight No Chaser for a month-long feature of the Best of 2014. See individual show pages for more information on upcoming shows and to listen to past shows through the streaming archive.
Strange Currency
- Fantastic Guitars—Reeves Gabrels/Bill Nelson
- Metamodern Sounds in Country Music—Sturgill Simpson
- lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar—Robert Plant
- Holy Ghost—Marc Ford
- Family—Thompson
- The Lights From The Chemical Plant—Robert Ellis
- Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014—Wilco
- Red Metal—Oil Boom
- Benji—Sun Kil Moon
- Nikki Nack—Tuneyards
- English Oceans—Drive-By Truckers
- Given—Kevin Lee Florence
- Common Ground—Dave Alvin/Phil Alvin
- St. Vincent—St. Vincent
- Man Upstairs—Robyn Hitchcock
- Stay Gold—First Aid Kit
- Dogs In The Daylight—Jeffrey Martin
- Before Machines—Anna Tivel
- Tell ‘Em I’m Gone—Yusuf/Cat Stevens
- The Basement Tapes Complete—Bob Dylan/The Band
- Rock & Roll Time—Jerry Lee Lewis
- Plain Spoken—John Mellencamp
- Avonmore—Bryan Ferry
- Terms of My Surrender—John Hiatt
- Monster Movie—The Rainmakers
Local/regional releases
- This Bluebird Wants Me Dead—Vehicles
- Where The Woodbine Twineth—Elliot Road
- Brook Blanche—Brook Blanche
- Mathmagicians—Japanese Game Show
- Postboy—Postboy
- The Mischief Makers—The Mischief Makers
- Wow—The Wonder Revolution
- The Trail of Your Blood In The Snow—Deathblack Flowers
- A Descent Into the Brain of the Black Mass—The Remaining Insect
- Soleb Theory—Soleb Theory
Music DVDs:
- Looking For Johnny
- Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All
- Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Reissue)
- Super Duper Alice Cooper
- The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
