Starting on Wednesday, October 29th, KMSU – the college/community radio station where Free Form Freakout is based out of – will be starting their annual Fall Listener Pledge Drive with the goal of raising $25,000. As with our previous pledge drive in the spring, the station is setting this goal in an effort to not…
For this week’s podcast show, which coincidentally marks our 4th year in existence, we’re thrilled to be able to offer you this special KYE Records feature produced by Nick Hamilton of Vittelli Recordings out of London. As you may recall, Vittelli was responsible for those terrific Matthew P. Hopkins and London Sound Survey albums that…
As far as the last few weeks of the Thursday show go, I could write about a few of the record store scores that I played or even some of the old cassette tapes that I dug out of an old drawer, but I can hardly bring myself to write about any of this…
On this episode of the FFFoxy Podcast, we had Bob Bucko Jr. – a talented songwriter and adventurous experimental musician based out of Dubuque, Iowa – join us in the studio for a live session and for a brief chat. Bob has put out numerous releases on his own Personal Archives label and has had…
This episode of the FFFoxy Podcast is admittedly a bit more guitar-heavy than usual. After catching some remarkable performances by the likes of Michael Chapman, Bill Orcutt, and Matthew De Gennaro at the Old Familiar Chime festival a week ago, I seem to be still working through a bit of a fascination with that instrument…
There was lots to talk about and lots to play over the past few weeks on the show. First and foremost, we were fortunate enough to get see the epic hometown reunion of The Replacements at Midway Stadium, which turned out being one of the most memorable shows we’ve seen in quite some time. With…
Having done a couple of special feature shows on the last few episodes of the FFFoxy Podcast, the new music was starting to pile up in the ever so slow to be refurbished FFF bunker. Seriously, listening to, and trying to make sense of, music over the past two months has involved sitting amongst stacks…
With summer starting to wind down for us, we were trying to cram in as much as we could during the month of August making it, at times, tricky for both of us to be in the studio together for the weekly radio show. As such, David ended up doing show #424 solo, and this…
For the fifth consecutive summer, our pal Chris Berry of Minneapolis-based Soft Abuse Records joined us in the studio to spin some records from his vast collection and to talk a little shop about his label activities. This time around it included discussion of Fruits & Flowers, a new label he recently started up with…
On this episode of the FFFoxy Podcast, we featured music from Little Big Chief Records and spoke with Brock Kappers, who is the gentleman that runs the label out in Virginia. Little Big Chief has been around for about three years now – putting out a mix of reissues and new material from artists that…