Strange Currency

Monday - Saturday at 8pm

Strange Currency airs six nights a week on KMUW, bringing you new releases, old favorites and forgotten classics. We spotlight local and regional acts, including guests on Currency Exchange, our live in-the-studio program recorded at the KMUW studios.

Jedd Beaudoin invites you to listen 8 to 10pm Monday through Saturday as he opens up his personal music vault and lets you in.

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Music
11:27 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Top Albums: March 4 - 9

  1. Songs For Slim -- The Replacements
  2. Old World’s Ocean -- The Calamity Cubes
  3. Gold Yeller -- Oil Boom
  4. What The Brothers Sang -- Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  5. The Messenger -- Johnny Marr
  6. Honky Tonk -- Son Volt
  7. Amok -- Atoms For Peace
  8. The Late Great Whatever -- Lovely Bad Things
  9. Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace -- Foo Fighters
  10. Tin Machine -- Tin Machine
Commentary
12:57 pm
Fri March 8, 2013

Dave Grohl's Sound City: A Sweeping Take On Rock History

Credit Courtesy / Sound City
Dave Grohl at the Los Angeles recording studio, Sound City Studios.[

Sound City marks musician Dave Grohl's directorial debut and a fine introduction it is. The former Nirvana drummer and present day Foo Fighters frontman takes us inside the Van Nuys, Calif., studio where his former band recorded its 1991 breakthrough release Nevermind and where Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers tracked Damn The Torpedoes and where Fleetwood Mac tracked its 1975 self-titled release­­the album that brought Steve Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham into the fold and sent the quintet on the road to superstardom.

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Music
2:51 pm
Wed March 6, 2013

Top Albums: February 25 - March 2

  1. Crashes On The Platinum Planet -- Big Dipper
  2. Push The Sky Away -- Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
  3. The Messenger -- Johnny Marr
  4. Honky Tonk -- Son Volt
  5. Impossible Truth -- William Tyler
  6. Amok -- Atoms For Peace
  7. Old World’s Ocean -- The Calamity Cubes
  8. Fade -- Yo La Tengo
  9. Electric -- Richard Thompson
  10. I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass -- Yo La Tengo
Music
6:13 am
Fri March 1, 2013

Top Albums: February 18-23

1. Push The Sky Away-- Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
2. Impossible Truth-- William Tyler
3. Forever Endeavour-- Ron Sexsmith
4. Mr. Music Head-- Adrian Belew
5. From A Window Seat (single)-- Dawes
6. Electric-- Richard Thompson
7. Untamed Beast-- Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside
8. The Ides-- Me Like Bees
9. Cough Cough-- Everything Everything
10. Wonderful, Glorious-- Eels

Music
12:56 pm
Tue February 26, 2013

5 Things You Should Know About Yo La Tengo

Credit Carlie Armstrong / Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, founded in 1984, takes its name from a sporting anecdote.

1. The group, which was founded in 1984 in Hoboken, New Jersey, takes its name from a sporting anecdote: Legend has it that during the 1962 season two members of the New York Mets––center fielder Richie Ashburn and shortstop Elio Chacon––collided on an all-too-frequent basis. A native of Venezuela, Chacon was confused when Ashburn would yell, “I’ve got it!” as he was going after a ball. A teammate intervened and told Ashburn that he might have more luck yelling "¡Yo la tengo!" (Spanish for “I’ve got it!”) instead. He did––only to be knocked about by left fielder Frank Thomas, who allegedly quipped, “What’s a yellow tango?”

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Music
6:17 am
Mon February 25, 2013

Top Albums: February 11-16

1. Forever Endeavour -- Ron Sexsmith
2. Wonderful, Glorious -- Eels
3. Beat The Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson -- Various Artists
4. Fade -- Yo La Tengo
5. Electr-O-Pura -- Yo La Tengo
 6. Electric -- Richard Thompson
7. OST: You’re Gonna Miss Me -- Roky Erickson
8.  II -- Unknown Mortal Orchestra
9. Get Up! -- Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite
 10. The Ides -- Me Like Bees

Music
2:35 pm
Tue February 12, 2013

Richard Thompson's Bravest Moment: 1000 Years of Popular Music

Credit Pamela Littky / New West Records
Richard Thompson

With a career that dates back to the late 1960s Richard Thompson has recorded in numerous musical idioms and earned accolades for virtually every turn he's taken, but perhaps his most impressive moment as a recording artist came in 2002 with the album 1000 Years of Popular Music.

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Music
7:36 am
Tue February 12, 2013

Top Albums: February 4-9

1. Get Up -- Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite
2. Electric -- Richard Thompson
3. Regions of Light and Sound of God -- Jim James
4. Wonderful Glorious -- Eels
5. Forever Endeavour -- Ron Sexsmith
6. Cool Cocoon -- The Spinto Band
7. Ariel + The Undertow -- Ariel + The Undertow
8. Hummingbird -- Local Natives
9. Fade -- Yo La Tengo
10. I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One -- Yo La Tengo

Music
8:12 am
Mon February 4, 2013

Top Albums: January 21- February 2

1. Fade --Yo La Tengo
2. Paragraph Nights--Drgn King
3. The Travel Guide--The Travel Guide
4. Gold Yeller--Oil Boom
5. Treatment Bound: A Ukulele Tribute to The Replacements--Bright-Little-Field
6. Ariel + The Undertow--Ariel + The Undertow
7. Wing Beat Fantastic--Mike Keneally
8. Kiko--Los Lobos
9. Rumours Revisited--Various Artists
10. Push The Sky Away--Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Music
8:06 am
Mon February 4, 2013

Top Albums: January 14-19

1. Fade--Yo La Tengo
2. Tempest--Bob Dylan
3. Shields--Grizzly Bear
4. Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran--Jamey Johnson
5. The Lion’s Roar--First Aid Kit
6. Rumours Revisited--Various Artists
7. Wing Beat Fantastic--Mike Keneally
8. Kiko--Los Lobos
9. Low Rent Hymns--Curt Mitchell
10. Light Up Gold--Parquet Courts

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Playlist

January 18, 2013

8:00 PM
Adventure Rocket Ship
Artist : Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3
Album : Ole! Trantula
Label : Yep Roc
8:03 PM
Laundromat
Artist : Rory Gallagher
Album : The Beat Club Sessions
Label : Eagle Rock
8:08 PM
Moon Child
Artist : Todd Snider
Album : Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker
Label : Thirty Tigers
8:14 PM
Lonely Boy
Artist : The Black Keys
Album : El Camino
Label : Nonesuch
8:18 PM
Music Is Love
Artist : David Crosby
Album : If I Could Only Remember My Name
Label : Atlantic
8:21 PM
Technical Difficulties
Artist : 2 Cellos
Album : In2ition
Label : Masterworks
8:24 PM
I’m Raining Here, Inside
Artist : Mike Keneally
Album : Wing Beat Fantastic
Label : Exowax
8:28 PM
Ohm
Artist : Yo La Tengo
Album : Fade
Label : Matador
8:35 PM
The Devil and Me
Artist : Curt Mitchell
Album : KMUW exclusive
Label :
8:40 PM
The Lion’s Roar
Artist : First Aid Kit
Album : The Lion's Roar
Label : Wichita
8:45 PM
Angels With Dirty Faces
Artist : Los Lobos
Album : Kiko
Label : Shout!
8:49 PM
River
Artist : Travis
Album : Turn (single)
Label : Independiente
8:54 PM
The Hippie Girl
Artist : Mike Coykendall
Album : KMUW exclusive
Label :
9:00 PM
Dream In Blue
Artist : Los Lobos
Album : Kiko
Label : Shout!
9:04 PM
Open The Door (To Your Heart)
Artist : Van Morrison
Album : Born To Sing: No Plan B
Label : Exile
9:09 PM
Hate This Town
Artist : Slim Dunlap
Album : Times Like This
Label : Medium Cool
9:15 PM
Long and Wasted Years
Artist : Bob Dylan
Album : Tempest
Label : Columbia
9:19 PM
Stupid Things
Artist : Yo La Tengo
Album : Fade
Label : Matador
9:24 PM
Sailor Song
Artist : First Aid Kit
Album : The Big Black & The Blue
Label : Wichita
9:26 PM
Highway To Hell
Artist : 2 Cellos
Album : In2ition
Label : Masterworks
9:31 PM
Lullabye
Artist : Grizzly Bear
Album : Yellow House
Label : Warp
9:36 PM
Changin’ My Ways
Artist : Curt Mitchell
Album : Low Rent Hymns
Label : Self-released
9:38 PM
Your House
Artist : Mike Keneally
Album : Wing Beat Fantastic
Label : Exowax
9:43 PM
I Fall To Pieces
Artist : Jamey Johnson with Merle Haggard
Album : Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran
Label : Mercury
9:47 PM
Songbird
Artist : The Staves
Album : VA: Rumours Revisited
Label : Mojo
9:51 PM
John’s Blue
Artist : Roy Buchanan
Album : Roy Buchanan
Label : Polydor