She attended high school in Middleton, but Y Mae Sussman’s musical tastes span the globe. Most recently, she’s been making sonic journeys to exotic pop landscapes like Sweden and Denmark.
For Sussman, the names of Scandinavian artists â?? Jens Lekman, the Figurines and Peter, Bjorn & John â?? come as easy as John Mayer and Coldplay.
Sussman will be broadcasting an hour of Scandinavian folk, rock and electronic tracks every Friday at 3 p.m. this fall on WSUM, 91.7 FM, the student-run radio station of UW-Madison. At 11 a.m. each Friday, Sussman will be on the air with her roommate, Mary Beth, spinning Bollywood hits.