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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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
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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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November 09, 2012

8:00 PM
Bad Reputation
Artist : Haley Bonar
Album : Single
Label : Self-released
8:04 PM
Sara Smile
Artist : Rumer
Album : Boys Don't Cry
Label : Atlantic
8:08 PM
The Fall
Artist : Rhye
Album : Rhye
Label : Innovative Leisure
8:13 PM
This Is To Mother You
Artist : Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
Album : Western Wall: The Tuscon Sessions
Label : Asylum
8:17 PM
Taste
Artist : Phish
Album : Slip Stich and Pass
Label : Elektra
8:25 PM
Let Me Lie
Artist : Trey Anastasio
Album : Traveler
Label : ATO
8:29 PM
Frost
Artist : Trey Anastasio
Album : Traveler
Label : ATO
9:33 PM
I’m Not The Same Without You
Artist : Donald Fagen
Album : Sunken Condos
Label : Reprise
9:38 PM
Looking East
Artist : Jackson Browne
Album : Looking East
Label : Elektra
9:43 PM
Always Asking For You
Artist : Peter Wolf
Album : Midnight Souvenirs
Label : Verve
9:47 PM
For The Singer of REM
Artist : Firehose
Album : If'n
Label : SST
9:51 PM
Holiday In Berlin
Artist : Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Album : Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Label : Rykodisc
9:00 PM
On Reflection
Artist : Gentle Giant
Album : I Lost My Head: The Chrysalis Years 1975-1980
Label : Chrysalis
9:06 PM
Give It Back
Artist : Gentle Giant
Album : I Lost My Head: The Chrysalis Years 1975-1980
Label : Chrysalis
9:11 PM
Sweet Emotion
Artist : Mike Gordon/Leo Kottke
Album : Sixty Six Steps
Label : RCA
9:18 PM
Rift
Artist : Phish
Album : Rift
Label : Elektra
9:26 PM
Chinatown
Artist : Destroyer
Album : Kaputt
Label : Merge
9:30 PM
For The Love Of Man
Artist : Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Album : Psychedelic Pill
Label : Reprise
9:33 PM
Speak In Rounds
Artist : Grizzly Bear
Album : Shields
Label : Warp
9:40 PM
Enough of the Night
Artist : Jackson Browne
Album : World In Motion
Label : Elektra
9:44 PM
We All Gotta Go
Artist : Mike Coykendall
Album : Chasing Away The Dots
Label : Fluff and Gravy
9:46 PM
Hangover Child
Artist : Guided By Voices
Album : Bears For Lunch
Label : GBV
9:51 PM
Die To Live
Artist : Mike Keneally
Album : Steve Vai: Piano Reductions Vol1
Label : Favored Nations