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.

Have a question? Send Jedd an email.

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8:47 am
Fri November 23, 2012

Top Albums: November 19-23

  1. Chasing Away The Dots -- Mike Coykendall

  2. Lambo Doors -- Spirit of the Stairs

  3. Tomorrow’s The Day -- The Ants

  4. Blak and Blu -- Gary Clark Jr.

  5. The Bears For Lunch -- Guided By Voices

  6. Celebration Day -- Led Zeppelin

  7. An Omen EP -- How To Destroy Angels

  8. Grrr! -- The Rolling Stones

  9. Wood  -- Widespread Panic

  10. For Everyman -- Jackson Browne
Music
8:35 am
Sat November 17, 2012

Top Albums: November 12-17

  1. The Bears For Lunch Guided By Voices
  2. Grrr! The Rolling Stones
  3. Celebration Day Led Zeppelin
  4. Psychedelic Pill Neil Young and Crazy Horse
  5. Meat Wave Meat Wave
  6. Waka/Jawaka Frank
  7. Firefly The Wonder Revolution
  8. Wood Widespread Panic
  9. Trey Anastasio Trey Anastasio
  10. Blak and Blu Gary Clark Jr.
Music
8:35 am
Sat November 10, 2012

Top Albums: November 1-10

  1. Psychedelic Pill Neil Young and Crazy Horse
  2. Traveler Trey Anastasio
  3. Blak and Blu Gary Clark Jr.
  4. The Haunted Man Bat For Lashes
  5. Chasing Away The Dots Mike Coykendall
  6. Unfinished Business Wanda Jackson
  7. The Bears For Lunch Guided By Voices
  8. So (expanded edition) Peter Gabriel
  9. Harmonicraft Torche
  10. Trey Anastasio Trey Anastasio
Music
3:39 pm
Mon October 1, 2012

Artist Spotlight: The Replacements

Formed in 1979 by brothers Bob (guitar) and Tommy (bass) Stinson, guitarist/vocalist Paul Westerberg, and drummer Chris Mars, The Replacements became a band on the fast track to success. By 1980 the group had a contract with the local Twin/Tone label and, by late 1981, its first album.

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3:23 pm
Mon October 1, 2012

Artist Spotlight: Peter Green

Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Carlos Santana have long admired Peter Green’s playing and B.B. King once said that there was only one guitarist who gave him “the cold sweats.” Born October 29, 1946, Green would found one of the most successful rock bands of all time, leave behind stardom as part of a spiritual quest, and see his legacy swell in his prolonged absence from the spotlight.

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12:29 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

Top Albums: September 17-22

  1. Lambo Doors ­­Spirit of the Stairs (6)
  2. Charmer­­ Aimee Mann (5)
  3. The Condensed 21st Century Guide To King Crimson ­­King Crimson
  4. Mystic Pinball­­ John Hiatt (4)
  5. The Story of Light­­ Steve Vai (4)
  6. Treatment Bound: Ukulele Tribute to The Replacements­­ Bright Little Field
  7. Django Django­­ Django Django
  8. The Sound of the Life of the Mind­­ Ben Folds Five
  9. Thumbsucker­­ Jenny Wood
  10. Firefly ­­The Wonder Revolution
Music
12:27 pm
Tue September 25, 2012

Top Albums: September 10-15

  1. Tempest ­­Bob Dyla
  2. Charmer ­­Aimee Mann
  3. Lambo Doors ­­Spirit of the Stairs
  4. Domesticated ­­Spirit of the Stairs
  5. Mystic Pinball ­­John Hiatt
  6. OST: Lawless ­­Various Artists
  7. Family ­­The Cast of Cheers
  8. Django Django ­­Django Django
  9. Firefly ­­The Wonder Revolution
  10. The Forgotten Arm ­­Aimee Mann
Music
8:46 am
Wed September 19, 2012

Artist Spotlight: Spirit of the Stairs

Formed nearly a decade ago in Wichita, Spirit of the Stairs has consistently evolved in unexpected but always fascinating ways. From its earliest days as a guitarless trio to its current incarnation as a guitar-heavy quintet, the all-instrumental ensemble has never disappointed.

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3:31 pm
Thu September 13, 2012

Top Albums: September 1-8

  1. Lambo Doors­­ Spirit of the Stairs (Independent)


  2. Charmer ­­Aimee Mann Charmer (Super Ego)


  3. Silver Age­­ Bob Mould (Merge)


  4. Between the Ditches­­ Reverend Peyton¹s Big Damn Band (Side One Dummy)


  5. Apologies ­­David Ramirez


  6. Tempest­­ Bob Dylan (Columbia)


  7. A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge)


  8. OST: Lawless­­ Various Artists (Sony)


  9. Ringmaster General­­ Dave Stewart (Surfdog)


  10. Firefly­­ The Wonder Revolu
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2:09 pm
Mon August 13, 2012

Featured Artist: Patti Smith

Patti Smith was America’s first punk poet. Influenced by beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs as much as by rock and roll and classic literature­­including French symbolist poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud­­Smith’s emergence from the New York punk rock scene of the 1970s ushered in a new era in popular music in which academic intellect and street smarts were equally appealing.

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January 09, 2013

8:00 PM
Tore Down
Artist : Wanda Jackson
Album : Unfinished Business
Label : Sugar Hill
8:03 PM
This World
Artist : Wayne Gottstine
Album : Electricity Vol.1
Label : Self-released
8:06 PM
Moon Child
Artist : Todd Snider
Album : Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker
Label : Thirty Tigers
8:11 PM
Long Black Veil
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : Orange Blossom Special
Label : Columbia
8:15 PM
Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go
Artist : Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Album : The Magic Door
Label : Silver Arrow
8:19 PM
Just Like Heaven
Artist : The Watson Twins
Album : Fire Songs
Label : Vanguard
8:23 PM
It All Comes Back Someday
Artist : John Hiatt
Album : Mystic Pinball
Label : New West
8:27 PM
Space City
Artist : Drive By Truckers
Album : A Blessing and A Curse
Label : New West
8:32 PM
Sleeping Ute
Artist : Grizzly Bear
Album : Shields
Label : Warp
8:36 PM
Give Out
Artist : Sharon Van Etten
Album : Tramp
Label : Jagjaguwar
8:40 PM
Harlem Roulette
Artist : The Mountain Goats
Album : Transcendental Youth
Label : Merge
8:44 PM
I’ll Be You
Artist : Bright-Little-Field
Album : Treatment Bound: A Ukulele Tribute To The Replacements
Label : Bar None
8:48 PM
I’m Raining Here, Inside
Artist : Mike Keneally
Album : Wing Beat Fantastic
Label : Exowax
8:53 PM
Love Has Fallen
Artist : Mike Coykendall
Album : KMUW Exclusive
Label :
9:00 PM
Rosalee
Artist : Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Album : Big Moon Ritual
Label : Silver Arrow
9:10 PM
Sleepwalker
Artist : Moon Duo
Album : Circles
Label : Sacred Bones
9:16 PM
Apocalpyse Dreams
Artist : Tame Impala
Album : Lonerism
Label : Modular
9:21 PM
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Artist : Widespread Panic
Album : Wood
Label : Widespread
9:25 PM
No Wicked Grin
Artist : John Hiatt
Album : Mystic Pinball
Label : New West
9:29 PM
In A Razor Town
Artist : Jason Isbell
Album : Sirens of the Ditch
Label : New West
9:33 PM
Am I Even A Memory?
Artist : Wanda Jackson with Justin Townes Earle
Album : Unfinished Business
Label : Sugar Hill
9:37 PM
Orange Blossom Special
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : Orange Blossom Special
Label : Columbia
9:40 PM
Take The Wheel
Artist : Wayne Gottstine
Album : Electricity Vol.1
Label : Self-released
9:43 PM
Railroad Lady
Artist : Todd Snider
Album : Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker
Label : Thirty Tigers
9:48 PM
Your House
Artist : Mike Keneally
Album : Wing Beat Fantastic
Label : Exowax
9:53 PM
See You Next Tuesday
Artist : The Aristocrats
Album : Boing, We'll Do It Live!
Label : Boing!