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20/01/2025

FFFoxy Podcast #254 is now available and will also air tonight at 11:00 on KMSU. New sounds from Spectre Folk, Vernal Scuzz, Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice, Lucinda, Thea Farhadian, Razorlegs, and more. Hope you enjoy!!

We are heading into a new year that brings with it a lot of uncertainty and challenges for many people. I’m quite clear-eyed about how niche a show like this is, but I plan to carry on producing it…

06/01/2025

We're going to try to expand on the underground and experimental music coverage that the Free Form Freakout podcast focuses on over on Substack. It'll include some listening notes, short reviews, and eventually some additional interviews. Feel free to subscribe if that's of interest to you. It's free. There'll be a first post in the coming weeks.

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Free Form Freakout: radio show, podcast series, underground & experimental music coverage.

27/12/2024

FFFoxy Podcast #253 is now available. On this episode, we welcome Glenn Donaldson of The Reds, Pinks & Purples back to the show. Glenn has been a guest on the podcast two times before this and during the COVID period, he was also contributing to the Free Form Freakout website with his Failure Of All Pop column, which he has recently revived in a newsletter format. For this episode, we look back at some of Glenn’s favorite releases and discoveries of the year, and we discuss different aspects of his music-making with The Reds, Pinks & Purples, along with other topics generated through some questions submitted by listeners and fans of his music. Throughout the show, you’ll also hear tracks that Glenn picked out to play, some of our recent favorites from The Reds, Pinks & Purples releases from 2024, and some other favorites of the year that hadn’t been played on the podcast show yet. Hope you enjoy this episode.

On this episode, we welcome Glenn Donaldson of The Reds, Pinks & Purples back to the show. Glenn has been a guest on the podcast two times before this and during the COVID period, he was also c…

26/12/2024

Here's the playlist and archived audio for today's Free Form Freakout show featuring some of David's favorite songs and albums of the year. The audio is available to stream for the next two weeks.

Started in 2005, Free Form Freakout is the weekly on-air meet-up for two record store lifers, Carl and David. Surprises are abound with each host taking their half of the show to share new releases from emerging artists, deep cuts from legacy acts, obscurities from the sub-underground, bargain bins....

08/12/2024

Favorite Music of 2024.

I’ve compiled some of my favorite releases of the year and presented them below in an unranked, alphabetical list. As in the past, all of these releases have been featured on the Free Form Freakout…

07/12/2024

Sound Art in the Naked Gallery. Saturday, January 11th. Arts Center of St. Peter.

29/11/2024

FFFoxy Podcast #252 is now available. For this episode, you'll hear new music from Clinic Stars, Patois Counselors, The Submissives, Daniella Huerta, El Jardín de las Matemáticas, Warm Currency, Johnny Coley, Amelia Courthouse, and much more.

For this episode, I’ve got another jam-packed, new music-focused one for you. I’ve been listening to a bunch of terrific new releases that just came out in the past month or so, and I’ve also been …

22/11/2024

Here's the playlist and archived audio for today's Free Form Freakout show. The audio is available to stream for the next two weeks.

Started in 2005, Free Form Freakout is the weekly on-air meet-up for two record store lifers, Carl and David. Surprises are abound with each host taking their half of the show to share new releases from emerging artists, deep cuts from legacy acts, obscurities from the sub-underground, bargain bins....

14/11/2024

Here's the playlist and archived audio for today's Free Form Freakout show. The audio is available to stream for the next two weeks.

Started in 2005, Free Form Freakout is the weekly on-air meet-up for two record store lifers, Carl and David. Surprises are abound with each host taking their half of the show to share new releases from emerging artists, deep cuts from legacy acts, obscurities from the sub-underground, bargain bins....

10/11/2024

FFFoxy Podcast #251 is now available. On this episode, I dig into the work of Feel It Records. Started in 2010 by Sam Richardson as a mere hobby label focused on releasing music from artists in and around his then-home base in Central Virginia, the label has since grown into a full-time operation releasing a broad spectrum of punk and punk adjacent music from a growing roster of national and international artists. The past few years have brought a re-location to Cincinnati and the opening of a brick-and-mortar record shop for Feel It, a move that has allowed Richardson to engage with and document more of that city’s vibrant underground music community. I recently had a chance to speak with Richardson, and we discussed the history and evolution of Feel It Records, the move to Cincinnati, the bands he has been involved in, and much more. You’ll hear this interview in a few different segments throughout the show, and you’ll also hear tracks from several releases from the Feel It Records catalog. Hope you enjoy!

https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-251-feel-it-records-feature/

08/11/2024

Pleased to have the fine folks at Florilegio back and offer up the twenty-fourth installment of their Mixtape Series featuring a tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Florilegio’s worldwide network of fem人le musicians.

Pleased to have the fine folks at Florilegio back and offer up the twenty-fourth installment of their Mixtape Series featuring a tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Fl…

26/10/2024

Chris Berry is a good friend and long-time listeners of the Free Form Freakout podcast know that he has been an annual guest on the show for 15 years. He is currently going through a serious medical crisis right now that has completely upended his and his family's lives. If you're able to, please consider donating to support Chris and his family through this challenging time.

Chris, Anna and August have had their lives flipped as of Wednesday October 23rd. After having had a cold run the household for the past few weeks, Anna was prescribed antibiotics on Monday and Chris was prescribed a steroid nasal inhaler. On Wednesday morning Chris was resting and when Anna went in...

20/10/2024

FFFoxy Podcast #250 is now available. On this episode of the podcast show, I get back to highlighting some of the new music that I’ve been listening to over the past month. You’ll also hear what I hope will become a semi-regular new segment within these shows that allows me to go a little deeper into a specific standout album of the month by speaking with its creators. For this first one, I spoke with Jim Strong about the making of his terrific new album, My Enemies Are Mine To Keep. I hope you enjoy this segment and the rest of this episode.

On this episode of the podcast show, I get back to highlighting some of the new music that I’ve been listening to over the past month. You’ll also hear what I hope will become a semi-regular new se…

06/10/2024

FFFoxy Podcast #249 is now available. On this episode, we dig deeper into the work of the San Francisco-based label, Paisley Shirt Records. Started in 2013 by Kevin Linn and his friends as an outlet for the various recording projects that they were working on at the time, the label eventually became the sole operation of Linn’s who gradually expanded its focus to a wider range of artists making lo-fi pop, experimental outsider music, and post-punk sounds in the Bay Area (and beyond). Linn continues to release many of his projects such as Sad Eyed Beatniks, Present Electric, and Tam Lin on the label too.

We recently had a chance to speak with Kevin, and we discussed the beginnings of Paisley Shirt, the small community of artists and musicians he connected with through the Hit Gallery, the music he has been making as Sad Eyed Beatniks, and much more. You’ll hear that interview in a few segments throughout the show, and you’ll also hear track selections from numerous releases from the Paisley Shirt Records catalog. Hope you enjoy this episode.

On this episode of the podcast show, I dig deeper into the work of the San Francisco-based label, Paisley Shirt Records. Started in 2013 by Kevin Linn and his friends as an outlet for the various r…

15/09/2024

FFFoxy Podcast #248 is now available. New sounds from Scrunchies, Sad Eyed Beatniks, Shirese, Ned Collette, Rock Candy, Nightshift, Stefan Christensen, and much more. Hope you enjoy!

On this episode of the podcast show, I’ve got another jam-packed show filled with a bunch of new music for you. There have been so many incredible releases coming out of late that I could honestly …

13/09/2024

Here's the playlist and archived audio for today's Free Form Freakout show. The audio is available to stream for the next two weeks.

Started in 2005, Free Form Freakout is the weekly on-air meet-up for two record store lifers, Carl and David. Surprises are abound with each host taking their half of the show to share new releases from emerging artists, deep cuts from legacy acts, obscurities from the sub-underground, bargain bins....

24/08/2024

FFFoxy Podcast #247 is now available. On this episode, Chris Berry of the Soft Abuse and Fruits & Flowers labels joined me once again as an in-studio guest, something we’ve been doing on an almost annual basis since the show started back in 2010. As with his past appearances, I just handed over control of the music to Chris for him to play whatever, and as usual, he put together a wide-ranging playlist on the fly from his crate of records, tapes, and CDs that he toted in with him. We also devoted a block of time to play and discuss some of the new and forthcoming releases on Soft Abuse and Fruits & Flowers. If you enjoy what Chris played on this episode, be sure to check out and follow his great weekly radio show called Upside Down on the Minneapolis station, KFAI. Hope you enjoy this episode.

On this episode of the podcast, Chris Berry of the Soft Abuse and Fruits & Flowers labels joined me once again as an in-studio guest, something we’ve been doing on an almost annual basis since …

12/08/2024

FFFoxy Podcast #246 is now available and will air tonight at 11:00 on KMSU. On this episode, I dig deeper into the work of the Morgantown, West Virginia-based cassette label, Crash Symbols. Started in 2010, the label was an outgrowth of the music blogs Get Off the Coast and later Decoder Magazine which partners Dwight & Liz Pavlovic were actively involved in. Crash Symbols has since gone on to put out over 150 releases from a wide range of artists from around the world. Their catalog runs the stylistic gamut from ambient works and beat tapes to indie pop and post-rock music and all points between. Yet, there is an exploratory psychedelic quality that runs throughout much of their catalog, both sonically and visually, that creates a fairly unifying aesthetic as a whole.

This past week, I had a chance to speak with Dwight and Liz about the history of Crash Symbols, their days of being involved in music blogs, the skills they bring to running a label, and much more. It’s worth noting that I was a contributor to Decoder Magazine for a while and helped them produce a podcast, so I have worked with Dwight and Liz in the past, which made our interview for this show a bit more loose and informal than usual. But, you’ll get to hear that interview in a few different segments throughout the show, along with track selections from several releases from the Crash Symbols catalog. Hope you enjoy this episode!

On this episode of the podcast show, I dig deeper into the work of the Morgantown, West Virginia-based cassette label, Crash Symbols. Started in 2010, the label was an outgrowth of the music blogs …