Strange Currency
Weekdays 8-10 pm, Saturdays 7-9 pm
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 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7:00 to 9:00 on Saturday as he opens up his personal music vault and lets you in.
Have a question? Send Jedd an email at beaudoin@kmuw.org. And, if you’re so inclined, join @strangecurrencyict on Facebook.
Latest Episodes
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Saturday, May 16 - Released in 1984 The Big Express was Swindon, England’s XTC’s seventh studio album; we’ll hear selections from it on this episode of…
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Tuesday, May 5The Magic Whip is the first studio album from British band Blur since 2003’s Think Tank and the first album from the band’s original four…
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Monday, April 27: Released in 1968 Larry Coryell’s debut album Lady Coryell gave great indications of a career that was to span into the following…
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Thursday, April 16: Czech-born keyboardist Jan Hammer had his greatest commercial success in the 1980s after composing the theme to the popular television…
Artist Interviews
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Woody Giessmann left Wichita in the early 1980s for Boston, but by the time he was playing Madison Square Garden later in the decade, he was deeply addicted to drugs and alcohol. He's been clean and sober for over 30 years and today works as an addiction specialist. -
The Wood Brothers led different musical lives after their teen years in Colorado. When they were finally able to play music together after more than a decade on separate paths, Oliver Wood says it was immediately apparent that they were on to something special. -
Johnathon Ford of the band Unwed Sailor has been making music for over 30 years but he says that the increasingly competitive nature of the music business is a source of frustration. -
Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry is on tour supporting his latest album, "The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy." McMurtry says that working with producer Don Dixon was central to the album's artistic success. -
The band Sister Sadie is getting ready to release a new album and the band's co-founder Deanie Richardson says the record in part celebrates country music from the '90s.
Best Music of 2022
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Jedd Beaudoin, host of Strange Currency, shares his picks for the best music of 2022. -
Jedd Beaudoin, host of Strange Currency, shares his picks for the best archival releases and reissues of 2022.
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Jedd Beaudoin, host of Strange Currency, shares his picks for the best local and regional music of 2022.