Strange Currency

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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