Strange Currency

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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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8:00 am
Mon May 20, 2013

What's On: Week of May 20

Monday, May 20: We’ll hear selections from Pale Green Ghosts by singer-songwriter John Grant. Grant made a name for himself fronting the band Czars in Denver, Colorado but it was his 2010 album Queen of Denmark, featuring the Texas band Midlake that won him his widest exposure yet. This time out Grant favors synth pop sounds on a record he recorded in Iceland, where has been living for the past few years. We’ll also hear new music from Modern Vampires of the City the new album by Vampire Weekend. The New York City-based band brings together elements of synthpop, Afrobeat, and baroque pop on this third critically acclaimed album.

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Music
7:40 am
Wed May 15, 2013

Top Albums: May 6-11

  1. Spirit In The Room--Tom Jones
  2. The Harder They Come--Various Artists
  3. This River--JJ Grey & Mofro
  4. American Kid--Patty Griffin
  5. Volume 3--She & Him
  6. Up On The Sun--Meat Puppets
  7. Nomad--Bombino
  8. Unstoppable Momentum--Joe Satriani
  9. Stories Don’t End--Dawes
  10. Wing Beat Elastic--Mike Keneally
Music
5:30 am
Wed May 15, 2013

Top Albums: April 29-May 4

  1. Dust Bowl Demos Part 3--Tom Page Trio
  2. Europe ‘72--Grateful Dead
  3. Acting, Thinking, Feeling--The Stark Reality
  4. Ahead of Their Time--Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention
  5. Stories Don’t End--Dawes
  6. This River--JJ Grey & Mofro
  7. Primary Perceptions--Nick Jaina
  8. Ghost On Ghost--Iron and Wine
  9. Wing Beat Elastic--Mike Keneally
  10. Standing In The Colour--Standing In The Colour
Music
8:20 am
Mon April 29, 2013

Top Albums: April 22- 27

  1. Shaking The Habitual-- The Knife
  2. The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop-- The Stark Reality
  3. Primary Perceptions-- Nick Jaina
  4. “Times Like This" (single)-- Steve Earle
  5. Songs For Slim-- The Replacements
  6. Hard Attack/Dust-- Dust
  7. Stories Don’t End-- Dawes
  8. Mosquito-- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  9. Wing Beat Elastic-- Mike Keneally
  10. Klavierstucke-- Chris Opperman
Music
8:17 am
Mon April 29, 2013

Top Albums: April 15-20

  1. Wing Beat Elastic --Mike Keneally
  2. This River --JJ Grey & Mofro
  3. Hard Attack/Dust --Dust
  4. A Lazarus Taxon --Tortoise
  5. The Low Highway --Steve Earle & The Dukes (&Duchess)
  6. The Terror --The Flaming Lips
  7. Inspiration Information/Wings of Love --Shuggie Otis
  8. Shaking The Habitual --The Knife
  9. Stories Don’t End --Dawes
  10. Standing In The Colour --Standing In The Colour
Music
10:13 am
Wed April 17, 2013

Top Albums: April 8 - 13

  1. Stories Don’t End -- Dawes
  2. Songs For Slim -- The Replacements
  3. Wing Beat Elastic -- Mike Keneally
  4. Standing In The Colour -- Standing In The Colour
  5. Dear Miss Lonelyhearts -- Cold War Kids
  6. Hush Hush -- Kentucky Knife Fight
  7. Krush -- Niacin
  8. The Happiness Waltz -- Josh Rouse
  9. The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver -- Various Artists
  10. What The Brothers Sang -- Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy
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

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Playlist

January 31, 2013

8:00 PM
Clean Slate
Artist : M Ward
Album : A Wasteland Companion
Label : Merge
8:03 PM
Blues Can’t Even Find Me
Artist : John Hiatt
Album : Mystic Pinball
Label : New West
8:07 PM
I Wonder
Artist : Rodriquez
Album : Cold Fact
Label : Light In The Attic
8:10 PM
Live and Die
Artist : The Avett Brothers
Album : The Carpenter
Label : American
8:15 PM
Let It Blow
Artist : Richard Thompson
Album : Front Parlour Ballads
Label : Cooking Vinyl
8:19 PM
Lord Scrumptious
Artist : Big Dipper
Album : Crashes On The Platinum Planet
Label : Almost Ready
8:22 PM
Waving At Airplanes
Artist : Guided By Voices
Album : The Bears For Lunch
Label : Guided By Voices
8:25 PM
Georgia Vs. Yo La Tengo
Artist : Yo La Tengo
Album : Summer Fun
Label : Matador
8:29 PM
Yours Is No Disgrace
Artist : Yes
Album : The Yes Album
Label : Atlantic
8:37 PM
Cargo Culte
Artist : Serge Gainsbourg
Album : Histoire de Melody Nelson
Label : Light In The Attic
8:45 PM
Dream In Blue
Artist : Los Lobos
Album : Kiko
Label : Shout!
8:52 PM
Baptist Guilt (Revisited)
Artist : The Travel Guide
Album : The Travel Guide
Label : Self-released
9:00 PM
Am I That Lonely Tonight?
Artist : Justin Townes Earle
Album : Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
Label : Bloodshot
9:03 PM
I Will Dare
Artist : Bright-Little-Field
Album : Treatment Bound: A Ukulele Tribute to The Replacements
Label : Bar None
9:07 PM
Gone Daddy Gone
Artist : Violent Femmes
Album : Violent Femmes
Label : Slash
9:11 PM
I Am A Scientist
Artist : Guided By Voices
Album : I Am A Scientist
Label : Matador
9:13 PM
Row, Boys, Row
Artist : Richard Thompson
Album : Front Parlour Ballads
Label : Cooking Vinyl
9:15 PM
Sailor Song
Artist : First Aid Kit
Album : The Big Black and The Blue
Label : Wichita
9:17 PM
Songbird
Artist : The Staves
Album : VA: Rumours Revisited
Label : Mojo
9:21 PM
The Cone of Silence
Artist : Yo La Tengo
Album : Ride the Tiger
Label : Matador
9:24 PM
Scabbard
Artist : Trey Anastasio
Album : Traveler
Label : ATO
9:30 PM
I’m Raining Here, Inside
Artist : Mike Keneally
Album : Wing Beat Fantastic
Label : Exowax
9:33 PM
Get Behind The Mule
Artist : John Hammond
Album : Wicked Grin
Label : Pointblank
9:39 PM
One-Time Used-To-Be
Artist : Oil Boom
Album : Gold Yeller
Label : Self-released
9:43 PM
Mansions Of Los Feliz
Artist : Eels
Album : End Times
Label : Vagrant
9:45 PM
Hard To Be
Artist : David Bazan
Album : Curse Your Branches
Label : Barsuk
9:54 PM
In Spite of Me
Artist : Morphine
Album : Cure For Pain
Label : Rykodisc