FFFoxy Podcast #84

Here’s a new episode of the FFFoxy Podcast show coming hot on the heels of the last one with our pal Chris Berry of Soft Abuse. I’ve been working my way through quite a massive stack of new music over the past couple of weeks, so I wanted to try and cram in as much…

FFFreakout #518-525

Summer is starting to slip away from us here. Before we know it, the leaves will be falling and then the frigid menace is right around the corner. Before we start setting our sights too far ahead, though, here’s a look back at what has been happening on the weekly show over the past couple…

New tape releases from Round Bale Recordings

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…

FFFoxy Podcast #82

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…

FFFreakout #516-517

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…

FFFoxy Podcast #80

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…

FFFoxy Podcast #79: Eric Frye with Guerino Mazzola

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…