It’s been a bit of a rough stretch since I last posted our playlists here. In that time, we lost two of our favorite songwriters in Daniel Johnston and David Berman. I can still remember the first time I heard Daniel Johnston’s music. It was in January of 1995 when Pearl Jam took over the local…
My summer is quickly coming to an end, so I thought I’d take some time to highlight a bunch of newer music on this installment that I’ve gotten ahold of here in recent months and some things that have slipped through the cracks on me over the summertime. There is some truly great new material…
We have two new releases available now on our our-house label, Round Bale Recordings. One comes from Clay Cantrell, an old favorite that we discovered through doing the podcast show and the releases that he initially put out on the great House of Alchemy label. The other comes from the offshoot duo project from the…
On this installment of the podcast, I had Stefan Christensen join me in the studio after performing in Mankato the night before. Stefan has been an active member of the New Haven, Connecticut underground music community for years, being involved in numerous bands, the best-known perhaps his group, Estrogen Highs. Since that group disbanded in…
I hope you’ve had an enjoyable couple of weeks since the last episode of the FFF podcast went out over the radio and online airwaves. I’ve got a lot of exciting new sounds to share with you on this installment, including works from some of my personal favorites: The Pheromoans, Félicia Atkinson, Troy Schafer, and…
Here’s what has been happening on the weekly Thursday edition of Free Form Freakout over the past couple of months. In that span of time, we put together a loosely-themed show for the 4th of July, hosted the Mountain Movers for a concert here in town, marked the too-early passing of the great beatmaker Ras…
Our focus for this installment of the podcast is on Longform Editions, a relatively new series devoted to extended pieces of exploratory, expansive, and immersive music from around the world. Longform Editions is co-run by Andrew Khedoori and visual artist, Mark Gowing, who have also operated the excellent Preservation label out of Sydney, Australia for…
Given the holiday and some household projects that needed to be tended to, I decided to pump the breaks this past week with the Down in the Bunker review column. Hey, it’s summer, life happens, and some times you gotta get out of the bunker and get some sun. But, I hope to get back…
Back at it with the second installment of the Down in the Bunker review column. This week I tackle a small stack of new releases from Seth Graham, Nite Lite, and Sea Moss, a brimming double-disc collection from Midnite Mines, and a notable obscurity from Amnon Raviv. If you can, take some time to listen…
Back at it with another jam-packed installment of the podcast show filled with a bunch of great new albums and heavy archival & reissued releases. Incredible sounds to be heard by the likes of Helm, Decimus, Blaine Todd, Sparkling Wide Press, and Matthew Revert. I’ve been especially enjoying a trio of older recordings from Amnon…