FFFavorite Albums of 2014

Here is the third and final year-end favorites list for 2014 that I’ll be posting on our site. Presented alphabetically and with some gut-level commentary, this list includes a selection of twenty albums that I not only had played on the podcast and/or regular weekly show throughout the year, but ones that I returned to…

FFFreakout #439-442

It has been a busy time for us here at FFF, realized that we haven’t posted any of the Thursday show’s playlists for several weeks now. With this round, we started off with Carl talking up some of the Black Friday festivities taking place at his store on show #439 and we capped things off…

FFFoxy Podcast #49

On this episode of the FFFoxy Podcast show, the last one for the year, we dug into plenty of new music that has arrived in recent months. We also pulled out a few older releases to play and a couple of titles from earlier in the year that we wanted to re-visit for one reason…

FFFavorite Tapes of 2014

Here is the second of three year-end favorites lists that will be posted on our site during the month of December. This time around the focus is on tapes, and man did I listen to literally hundreds of ’em throughout the year. This is just a small sampling of some of the stuff that rose…

FFFavorite Reissues/Archival Releases of 2014

This is the first of three year-end favorites lists that I will be posting on our site over the next few weeks. Since there has been no shortage of terrific reissues coming out this year, it seemed appropriate to focus in on these separately from the other cassettes and albums that will be covered. I…

FFFoxy Podcast #48

This episode of the FFFoxy Podcast runs the stylistic gamut maybe more noticeably than usual. Throughout the show you’ll hear everything from saccharine pop songs (Piano Movers, Jerry Paper) to blasted riff rock (Exhaustion, Shooting Guns) to text-based shenanigans (Yeast Culture, The Hafler Trio) and several points in between. There simply was a lot of…

FFFreakout #437-438

It’s mid-November and we’re already grumbling about the bitter cold weather around these parts. Thank goodness we had some essential reissues to discuss over the past few weeks to keep us distracted. I’m referring to the new Captain Beefheart Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972 box set, the new deluxe edition of The Kink’s Muswell…

FFFreakout #434-436

It has been a fun, yet busy, past couple of weeks here. We were fortunate to have Nathan McLaughlin drop by the studio and join us on episode #434. It’s always a pleasure to have him in town and to get to talk music, life, etc. The guy certainly knows a thing or two about…

FFFoxy Podcast #46

There were loads of new releases to sift through for this episode of the FFFoxy Podcast, several of which are surely going to be in the mix when it comes to year-end list time (too soon??). In particular, there was lots of great bizarro cassettes to spin; we’ve been especially loving the latest sounds from…