On this installment of the podcast, Chris Berry of Soft Abuse Records joined us in the KMSU studios in Mankato for what has been an annual tradition going on a decade now. This time around he came out swinging with some Christian concrète, Psychedelic sitar, and Eveleth experimentation. Plus, he held out until the end to unveil brand new Pumice and Matthew De Gennaro tracks due out on Soft Abuse in the coming months.
In 2020, you can expect to see more writing content here on the Free Form Freakout website. We’re re-activating our very short-lived Down in the Bunker review column, and in the months ahead we’ll likely include other interviews and feature articles too. For now, check out reviews for new releases from Kate Carr, Mattias Gustafsson, and the New Haven underground “Crew”.
Welcome to the first installment of Glenn Donaldson’s new review column focused on homespun, DIY pop and beyond from the past and present. With each installment, he’ll cover an album (or two) that is currently capturing his attention.
Local concert rundowns, holiday theme shows, year end favorites, new records, forgotten tunes: here’s what has been happening on the weekly Free Form Freakout show over the past two months. As always, thanks for taking the time to check in with us.
Happy New Year everyone!! I hope you all had decent holidays, however you celebrate (or not), and are feeling rejuvenated and ready to take on meaningful and inspiring things in the year ahead. I’ve got a lot of great new material that arrived in the past month to cover on this installment, ranging from ramshackle…
On this episode of the podcast, I play selections from some of my favorite releases of 2019. These are taken from the lists of favorite albums, tapes, and reissue & archival releases that I posted on the Free Form Freakout website this past week. If you check those out, you’ll find that there are 60…
After sifting through all of the playlists for the year for both the podcast and for the weekly Free Form Freakout show, while also taking into consideration the review and current listening piles, I’ve put together a barebones, blurb-less list of some of my favorite albums, tapes, and reissue & archival releases of the year.…
On this episode of the podcast, we continue to work our way through a stack of mostly new music that has found its way to the FFF bunker before we close the books on 2019. In fact, we’ll be doing one more show before the year is through, perhaps a look back on some favorites…
On this installment of the podcast, there is quite simply a whole lot of awesomeness to cover. New and notable releases this time around from favorites both old and new, including Sean McCann, Jon Collin, Monokultur, Jim Shepard, Paul DeMarinis, Corey Fuller and on and on. Aside from the early morning, foggy-headed blather of the…
Here’s what has been happening on the regular Thursday edition of Free Form Freakout over the past couple of months. During that time, we had a chance to see concerts from long-time favorites, Stereolab and Bob Dylan, and to take part in another successful KMSU Fall Pledge Drive. Sincere thanks to everyone that chipped in…
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