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
9:47 am
Mon April 8, 2013

Top Albums: April 1- 6

  1. The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver -- Various Artists
  2. Tooth and Nail -- Billy Bragg
  3. Hush Hush -- Kentucky Knife Fight
  4. Songs For Slim -- The Replacements
  5. Delta Machine -- Depeche Mode
  6. Specter At The Feast -- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  7. Stories Don’t End -- Dawes
  8. Wing Beat Elastic -- Mike Keneally
  9. Dancing -- Mike Keneally and Beer For Dolphins
  10. Old Worlds Ocean -- The Calamity Cubes
Music
9:54 am
Fri March 29, 2013

Top Albums: March 25 - 30

  1. Hush Hush--Kentucky Knife Fight
  2. Songs For Slim--The Replacements
  3. What The Brothers Sang--Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  4. Delta Machine--Depeche Mode
  5. Tooth & Nail--Billy Bragg
  6. Dancing--Mike Keneally and Beer For Dolphins
  7. Sound City: Real to Reel--Sound City
  8. Specter at the Feast--Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  9. Bloodsports--The London Suede
  10. Forever Endeavour--Ron Sexsmith
Music
8:00 am
Fri March 29, 2013

Top Albums: March 18 - 23

  1. Songs For Slim--The Replacements
  2. Sound City: Real to Reel--Sound City
  3. Bloodsports--The London Suede
  4. Old Word’s Ocean--The Calamity Cubes
  5. The Next Day--David Bowie
  6. What The Brothers Sang--Dawn McCarthy with Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  7. Wooden Smoke--Mike Keneally
  8. Gold Yeller--Oil Boom
  9. The Sacred Squall of Now--Reeves Gabrels
  10. The Old New Me--Slim Dunlap
Music
11:54 am
Mon March 18, 2013

Top Albums: March 11 - 16

  1. Songs For Slim -- The Replacements
  2. The Next Day -- David Bowie
  3. The Beast In Its Tracks -- Josh Ritter
  4. What The Brothers Sang -- Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  5. Vacilador -- The Giving Tree Band
  6. Old Yellow Moon -- Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell
  7. Kimono My House -- Sparks
  8. Skin and Bones -- Foo Fighters
  9. Honky Tonk -- Son Volt
  10. Forever Endeavour -- Ron Sexsmith
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

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Playlist

December 24, 2012

8:00 PM
Til I Met Thee
Artist : Cody Chesnutt
Album : Landing On A Hundred
Label : Vibe
8:05 PM
Always Asking For You
Artist : Peter Wolf
Album : Midnight Souvenirs
Label : Verve
8:08 PM
When You Were Mine
Artist : Prince
Album : The Hits/The B-Sides
Label : Warner Bros.
8:12 PM
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Artist : Rufus Wainwright with Sharon Von Etten
Album : VA: Holidays Rule
Label : Hear
8:17 PM
Beyond and Before
Artist : Yes
Album : Yes
Label : Rhino
8:22 PM
Elephant
Artist : Tame Impala
Album : Lonerism
Label : Modular
8:25 PM
Forever Until It Breaks
Artist : Guided By Voices
Album : Class Clown Spots A UFO
Label : GBV
8:29 PM
Sleeping Ute
Artist : Grizzly Bear
Album : Shields
Label : Warp
8:34 PM
Black Cat
Artist : Gentle Giant
Album : Acquiring The Taste
Label : Vertigo
8:37 PM
I’m Raining Here, Inside
Artist : Mike Keneally
Album : Wing Beat Fantastic
Label : Exowax
8:41 PM
We All Gotta Go
Artist : Mike Coykendall
Album : Chasing Away The Dots
Label : Fluff & Gravy
8:44 PM
Cut Me Some Slack
Artist : Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear
Album : Sound City: Real To Reel
Label : RCA
8:50 PM
Dance Away Our Loneliness
Artist : Aaron Lee Martin
Album : Until The Day Break & Shadows Flee
Label : Self-released
8:56 PM
Living Space
Artist : Moraz/Bruford
Album : Music For Piano and Drums
Label : Winterfold
9:00 PM
And You and I
Artist : Yes
Album : Close To The Edge
Label : Rhino
9:11 PM
Cinema Show
Artist : Genesis
Album : Seconds Out
Label : Atlantic
9:23 PM
Seek and Destroy
Artist : Hellsongs
Album : Long Live Lounge
Label : Tapete
9:26 PM
The Evil That Men Do
Artist : Hellsongs
Album : Long Live Lounge
Label : Tapete
9:30 PM
Hurricane Bill
Artist : Big Dipper
Album : Crashes On The Platinum Planet
Label : Almost Ready
9:34 PM
Words From The Wise
Artist : Gentle Giant
Album : Giant For A Day
Label : Chrysalis
9:39 PM
Hockey Night
Artist : The Travel Guide
Album : The Travel Guide
Label : Self-released
9:44 PM
Transporter
Artist : Vehicles
Album : Satchels and Beards
Label : Self-released
9:48 PM
That’s Still Mama
Artist : Cody Chesnutt
Album : Landing On A Hundred
Label : Vibe
9:53 PM
Ophelia
Artist : The Band
Album : Northern Lights-Southern Cross
Label : Capitol
9:56 PM
Go Between
Artist : The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam
Album : Go Between
Label : Winterfold