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 radio and podcast shows in some way over the past year or will soon be included in an upcoming episode…
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 sifting through and uncovering some titles that came out earlier in the year that I wanted to highlight too.…
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…
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.
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…
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 recording projects that they were working on at the time, the label eventually became the sole operation of Linn’s…
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 spend the next several shows just focusing on that, so we’ll see where my listening takes me in the…
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 the show started back in 2010. As with his past appearances, I just handed over control of the music to…
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 Get Off the Coast and later Decoder Magazine which partners Dwight & Liz Pavlovic were actively involved in. Crash Symbols has…
On this installment of the podcast, I’ve got an entirely new music-focused show for you this time around. There have been so many fantastic releases coming out of late that I feel like I’m only scratching the surface here, but I highlight a bunch of stuff that I’ve found myself drawn to for various reasons…
On this episode of the podcast, we dig into the work of the Baltimore-based cassette label, Ultraviolet Light. The label was started back in 2015 and has issued a wide range of highly exploratory and unconventional electronic and improvised music. Ultraviolet Light is run by Jimmy Joe Roche, an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses video…
On this episode of the podcast, I’ve got a bunch of new releases and a few new reissues to highlight for you. My usual podcast schedule has been a little thrown off recently, but you can expect some feature shows and more new music-focused shows in the months ahead. For now, I hope you enjoy this…
Pleased to offer the twenty-third installment of the Florilegio Mixtape Series featuring a tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Florilegio’s worldwide network of fem人le musicians.
On this episode of the podcast, I get back to highlighting some of the newer music that I’ve been listening to over the past month. Probably like many others out there, I’ve been re-visiting a bunch of Steve Albini-related recordings since the announcement of his unexpected death. I’ve been playing a bunch of that material…
For this episode of the podcast, we dig into the fascinating world of Sweet Wreath, an experimental label based in Irondale, Alabama presenting artists working with sound, text, and performance in the broader American underground and beyond. Sweet Wreath’s activities indeed extend well beyond the typical record label, acting more as a multimedia entity with…
