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.
Into Music

Into Music

From KMUW | NPR for Wichita

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.

Most Recent Episodes

Into Music: Matthew Mayfield

In this conversation, Matthew Mayfield discusses his formative music experiences, his creative process, and the support that his parents have provided throughout his career.

Into Music: Andy McKee

In this conversation, Andy McKee discusses his early love of acoustic guitar, including the music of Preston Reed and Michael Hedges, the community he found at music festivals and his time as an early YouTube sensation, when his video "Drifting" received nearly 60 million views.

Into Music: Matt Dowling

In this conversation, Matt Dowling discusses his early enthusiasm for music, including hip-hop and Radiohead, an instructional video by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea that provided inspiration, and Dowling's role in Hellbender Vinyl, a pressing plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which he co-owns with Jeff Betten of Misra Records as well as Frederick Arnold of Future Oak Recording.

Into Music: Chelsea Nenni

In this conversation, Chelsea Nenni discusses giving yourself permission to create, how personal upheaval can be a catalyst to creativity, and her relationship with her sister and fellow musician Emily Nenni.

Into Music: Jerry Roe

In this conversation Jerry Roe recalls growing up in a musical household as the son of Nashville bassist Dave Roe as well cutting his teeth in the Nashville rock scene, the importance of balancing one's creative and non-creative lives, and the role that Friendship Commanders has taken in his life.

Into Music: Liz Brasher

In this conversation, Liz Brasher discusses her early days singing in church, how a friend gave her a crash course in popular music, her love of Bob Dylan, and her plans for future recordings.

Into Music: Peter Holsapple and Will Rigby

In this conversation, Peter Holsapple and Will Rigby recall their formative years in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, relocating to New York City, and the enduring appeal of the dB's.

Into Music: Robert Poss

In this conversation, Robert Poss recalls his early fascination with rock music, his longstanding friendship with sound artist Susan Stenger, who introduced him to a wide range of avant garde music, his brief tenure with Public Image Limited, working with Phill Niblock, and the early days of Band of Susans.

Into Music: Alex Tebeleff

In this conversation, Alex Tebeleff discusses the diverse music he heard in his childhood home, the guitar teacher who introduced him to funk and broader geopolitical perspectives, the impact the band Radiohead has had on him and his love of James Brown.

Into Music: Tim Easton

On this episode Tim Easton discusses the influence his siblings had on his musical formation, his solitary existence as a musician, and his approach to songwriting workshops.