Podcasts focused on digging deeper into underground and experimental sounds of the past and present.
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…
On this installment of the podcast, I’ve got another jam-packed two hours of mostly new music for you. I’m also trying to include a few more older records into the playlists on these shows too, simply trying to address the “past” aspect of the show’s motto a little more intentionally. In some cases, it’ll simply…
On this episode of the podcast, I get back to highlighting a bunch of mostly newer music that I’ve been listening to since the last show. This one sort of fluctuates between more concise rock-oriented music and more stretched-out, abstract sound collage and improv work. That’s just how things seemed to naturally come together as…
On this episode, we dig into the intriguing musical orbit that surrounds Celluloid Lunch: a zine, record label, and small mailorder outlet based in Montreal that shares several overlapping interests with what we cover here on the show, especially things in the more DIY punk and experimental pop veins. Celluloid Lunch is co-run by partners, Joe…
On this episode of the podcast show, I got another two hours’ worth of mostly newer music to play and highlight. I’ll be getting back to doing some feature shows in the weeks ahead too, as I have a couple of things in the works. For now, I hope you enjoy this episode. Feel free…
I hope your new year is off to a decent start. On this episode of the podcast, I dive right back into combing through some of the newer music that I’ve been listening to since I recorded the last show. I have a few older titles that I sprinkled in too given some loose connections…
On this episode of the podcast, I highlight some of my favorite albums from 2023, including both new releases and reissued and archival titles. I posted a list of 50 of my favorite albums of the year right here on the Free Form Freakout website, and over the two hours of this show I cover…
On this episode of the podcast, I get back to highlighting a stack of mostly newer music that I’ve been listening to over the past few weeks. I see that some of the year-end lists are already starting to trickle out on websites, and I may do some type of year-end recap show of sorts…
On this episode of the show, I dig into the work of the newly launched Flat Plastic Home Media label. Flat Plastic is an outgrowth of the Working Man Lay Down label started by Drew Davis of the revolving free improvisation unit Crazy Doberman. With both the label and Crazy Doberman running their course and…
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