For the sixth consecutive summer, our pal Chris Berry of Soft Abuse and Fruits & Flowers joined us in the KMSU studios to play a bunch of music from his personal collection and to talk a little shop about his labels. These have been some of our favorite shows to do over the years as…
Emerging from the Minnesota River Valley in the mid-aughties, Maths Balance Volumes were a revolving band of twenty-somethings that were infected with the free improv/free noise contagion that was then being transmitted across musty Midwestern basements and well beyond through a network of house shows and ultra limited tape and cd-r releases. MBV’s own releases…
I have a pretty jam-packed episode for you this time around; one that is perhaps a bit more rock-oriented and rhythmic than usual, though not overwhelmingly. The station presented a concert with The Blind Shake this past weekend, so I think I’ve just been more receptive to music in that vein in the build-up to…
If you’ve tuned into KMSU over the past couple of weeks you’ve likely heard us or others mention on air that the station is pleased to be bringing the powerhouse Twin Cities-based garage-psych-surf-punk trio, The Blind Shake, to Mankato for the first time on Saturday, July 9th. They’ll be performing at The What’s Up Lounge…
This episode of the FFFoxy Podcast starts off with the track “The Hedonist Jive”, which was the name used for one of Jay Hinman’s many blogs and publications that he has run over the past two decades and beyond dating back to the early 90’s and his Superdope fanzine. These days Jay’s main outlet for…
With our work schedules a little more flexible during the summer months, we’ve been able to make it up to the KMSU studios to do the Thursday show live over the past couple of weeks. We’re hoping to continue that in the weeks ahead, too. For those who have been tuning in, you probably heard…
Summer has definitely arrived around these parts since the last show and, no, it’s not a dry heat. I was sweatin’ it out in the studio amongst the heat-radiating equipment assembling this latest episode, which is a fairly jammed packed show of mostly newer releases, some arriving within the last week in fact. Of these…
Summer is fast approaching and plenty of cool things are happening in and around the FFF orbit. For starters, lots of great new music keeps arriving each week. The latest LP from The Bibs has been a recent favorite, not to mention the latest archival titles from Fraser & DeBolt and Sun Ra on the…
For this installment of the FFFoxy Podcast, it was a pleasure to have Eric Frye join me in the KMSU studios. Eric is a Minneapolis-based electro-acoustic composer and artist, whose work explores various aspects of spatialisation, psychoacoustics, and other conceptual realms. Eric operated the now defunct Scumbag Relations and Sleepy Cobalt Sounds tape labels over…
Once again, I’ve fallen a bit behind on posting our weekly playlists to this site. Oh well, I’m guessing no one is losing sleep over such minor details anyways. This post, however, takes you through the past couple of months of activity that included discussion of Carl’s Iggy Pop live outing, the sad passing of…
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