Into Music

Into Music is a podcast that explores the critical role that teachers, mentors, and tastemakers have in a musician’s musical development. Episodes feature discussion of the performers work and creative process as well as lessons they’ve learned along the way.

Host Jedd Beaudoin has been on the KMUW airwaves since 2009 with his two-hour music show, Strange Currency in addition to serving as one of the station’s arts and culture reporters. He holds bylines with publications such as American Songwriter, No Depression, Keyboard, and PopMatters.

Jonathon Marin

Into Music: Joshua Ackley

Jedd Beaudoin

Veteran New York City trio returns with EP that examines the history and nature of whiteness while a double LP about what it means to be an outsider approaches completion.
Shawn Brackbill

Into Music: Brandon Butler

Jedd Beaudoin

A 2024 box set demonstrated that there was still interest in Boys Life, nearly 30 years after the Kansas City, Missouri group disbanded. A new EP demonstrates that the quartet is more vital and thoughtful than ever.

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Into Music: Seán Griffin

Jedd Beaudoin

Known for his work with Ruffians, Seán Griffin is also an experienced solo artist with plenty of thoughts about the state of the world and a sense of humor that helps carry him through.
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Into Music: Ben Jorgensen

Jedd Beaudoin

Armor For Sleep returns with an intense new album, There Is No Memory, out November 7 via Equal Vision.
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Into Music: Shane Henry and Maggie McClure (The Imaginaries)

Jedd Beaudoin

Oklahoma due returns with an LP spotlighting their songwriting, musical diversity, and a dazzling collection of guests including Vince Gill.
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Into Music: Donovan Melero

Jedd Beaudoin

Hail The Sun returns with deep-thinking/deep-reaching cut. turn. fade. back.
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Into Music: Frank Hannon

Jedd Beaudoin

After facing a series of losses and other upsets in his life, musician Frank Hannon picked up his guitar and turned his emotions in the music that comprises the Tesla co-founder's latest album, Reflections.
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Into Music: Chris Higdon

Jedd Beaudoin

Punk rock veterans team up for a new group and discover that less has changed than they first expected.
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Into Music: Josh Hight

Jedd Beaudoin

After leaving behind music to pursue film and photography, Josh Hight returns, reinvigorated, with Pines.
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Into Music: Jerid O'Connell (The Rousers)

Jedd Beaudoin

Recorded in 1979 but lost in a vault for decades early recordings of The Rousers, overseen by the legendary Ed Stasium, finally see the light of day.
Into Music: Katy Guillen

Jedd Beaudoin

Katy Guillen and musical/life partner Stephanie Williams return with latest album from Katy Guillen & The Drive, Make That Sound.
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Into Music: Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate)

Jedd Beaudoin

The classic sophomore LP from The Dream Syndicate is out now in expanded form via the box set Medicine Show: I Know What You Like. The band's Steve Wynn looks back at one of the most tumultuous but fruitful moments in the band's history.