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We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.

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.

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.

Trent Wagler of the the folk-rock act The Steels Wheels says that his band's new album Sideways was inspired by a lot of things, including watching his children grow up and the power he feels that music has. KMUW's Jedd Beaudoin spoke with Wagler and that interview. Plus news from Wichita and around the state.

Jaclyn Goldis's debut novel, "The Main Character," is a whodunnit mystery set on the Orient Express. As Goldis recently told KMUW's Beth Golay, although she uses Agatha Christie's work as inspiration, her personal discovery of the beloved author was a late arrival. Plus news from Wichita and around the state.