Jedd Beaudoin
Jedd Beaudoin is host of the eclectic syndicated music show Strange Currency and frequent arts reporter for Wichita Public Radio. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Wichita State University, where he is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries.
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LA Rockers Swerve Make a Dark, Romantic "Escape" (premiere)
Los Angeles' Swerve share their new single "Escape", which marries 1970s-inspired aesthetics with contemporary sensibilities.
Jedd Beaudoin
12 Oct 2020
Music
Rachel Brooke Has "The Lovells Stockade Blues" (premiere)
Country singer-songwriter Rachel Brooke reflects on life in a small town where winters are long and comforts can be few in "The Lovells Stockade Blues".
12 Oct 2020
Music
Rick Shea Walks Us Through Perilous Times With "The World's Gone Crazy" (premiere)
California singer-songwriter Rick Shea, whose credits include stints with Dave Alvin and Chris Gaffney delivers a dispatch on life of this most trying of years, 2020.
08 Oct 2020
Music
Ryan Martin Celebrates Life's Immediacy in "I Just Wanna Die" (premiere)
Drawing on inspiration from Gillian Welch, Ryan Martin delivers a song that taps into classic country-rock of the early 1970s. "You can certainly dance to it," he says.
06 Oct 2020
Music
Post-rock's Coastlands Meditate on Loss, Growth, Change on 'Death' (album stream)
Guitarist Jason Sissoyev speaks about Coastlands' emotionally-charged new LP, a meditation that is heavy in more ways that one. "It pummels you, then there's this release and then it keeps going," he says.
05 Oct 2020
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David Poe Releases Smart, Sophisticated "Gun for a Mouth" (premiere)
David Poe's "Gun for a Mouth" works in a fine tradition of smart, hook-driven American songwriting that lands between Matthew Sweet and Kevin Gilbert.
02 Oct 2020
Music
Jim White Offers a "Smart Ass Reply" (premiere)
Jesus and Alice Cooper are tighter than you think, but a young Jim White was taught to treat them as polar opposites. Then an eight-track saved his soul and maybe his life.
01 Oct 2020
Music
Brett Newski Plays Slacker Prankster on "What Are You Smoking?" (premiere)
Is social distancing something we've been doing, unwittingly, all along? Brett Newski pulls some pranks, raises some questions in "What Are You Smoking?".
30 Sep 2020
Music
3 Pairs of Boots Celebrate Wandering on "Everywhere I Go" (premiere)
3 Pairs of Boots are releasing Long Rider in January 2021. The record demonstrates the pair's unmistakable chemistry and honing of their Americana-driven sound, as evidenced by the single, "Everywhere I Go".
29 Sep 2020
Music
Masma Dream World Go Global and Trippy on "Sundown Forest" (premiere)
Dancer, healer, musician Devi Mambouka shares the trippy "Sundown Forest", which takes listeners deep into the subconscious and onto a healing path.
24 Sep 2020
Music
Gloom Balloon Deliver an Uplifting Video for "All My Feelings For You" (premiere)
Gloom Balloon's Patrick Tape Fleming considers what making a music video during a pandemic might involve because, well, he made one. Could Fellini come up with this plot twist?
23 Sep 2020
Music
Brian Cullman Gets Bluesy with "Someday Miss You" (premiere)
Brian Cullman's "Someday Miss You" taps into American roots music, carries it across the Atlantic and back for a sound that is both of the past and present.
23 Sep 2020
Music
David Lord Salutes Collaborators With "Cloud Ear" (premiere)
David Lord teams with Jeff Parker (Tortoise) and Chad Taylor (Chicago Underground) for a new collection of sweeping, frequently meditative compositions. The results are jazz for a still-distant future that's still rooted in tradition.
22 Sep 2020
Music
Laraaji Takes a "Quiet Journey" (premiere +interview)
Afro Transcendentalist Laraaji prepares his second album of 2020, the meditative Moon Piano, recorded inside a Brooklyn church. The record is an example of what the artist refers to as "pulling music from the sky".
22 Sep 2020
Music
Blues' Johnny Ray Daniels Sings About "Somewhere to Lay My Head" (premiere)
Johnny Ray Daniels' "Somewhere to Lay My Head" is from new compilation that's a companion to a book detailing the work of artist/musician/folklorist Freeman Vines. Vines chronicles racism and injustice via his work.
22 Sep 2020
Music
Hear the New, Classic Pop of the Parson Red Heads' "Turn Around" (premiere)
The Parson Red Heads' "Turn Around" is a pop tune, but pop as heard through ears more attuned to AM radio's glory days rather than streaming playlists and studio trickery.
21 Sep 2020
Music
Chris Smither's "What I Do" Is an Honest Response to Old Questions (premiere + interview)
How does Chris Smither play guitar that way? What impact does New Orleans have on his music? He might not be able to answer those questions directly but he can sure write a song about it.
21 Sep 2020
Music
The Masonic Travelers Offer Stirring Rendition of "Rock My Soul" (premiere)
The Last Shall Be First: the JCR Records Story, Volume 1 captures the sacred soul of Memphis in the 1970s and features a wide range of largely forgotten artists waiting to be rediscovered. Hear the Masonic Travelers "Rock My Soul".
18 Sep 2020
Music
The Flat Five Invite You to "Look at the Birdy" (premiere)
Chicago's the Flat Five deliver an exciting new single that exemplifies what some have called "twisted sunshine vocal pop".
17 Sep 2020
Music
Brian Bromberg Pays Tribute to Hendrix With "Jimi" (premiere + interview)
Bass giant Brian Bromberg revisits his 2012 tribute to Jimi Hendrix 50 years after his passing, and reflects on the impact Hendrix's music has had on generations.
Jedd Beaudoin
17 Sep 2020
Music
Kirby Sybert's Soulful Live Take on "My Maker" (premiere)
Captured live at Philadelphia's Johnny Brenda's, Kirby Sybert breathes new life into "My Maker" from his LP, Happy People Make Happy Things.
15 Sep 2020
Music
Tikyra Jackson's Empowering "No More Fear" Comes to Video (premiere)
Southern Avenue drummer and backing vocalist, Tikyra Jackson offers a new video for "No More Fear". "My intention is to show that I stand and rejoice in my identity."
14 Sep 2020
Music
'All I Can Say' Examines the Final Years of Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon
When the Blind Melon vocalist Shannon Hoon died in 1995, he left behind a tape archive that captured him in his most intimate moments. Directors Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould, and Colleen Hennessy discuss the beauty and tragedy of the musician's life.
11 Sep 2020
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