The KMSU Fall Pledge Drive begins on Wednesday, October 23rd, and wraps up on Friday, November 1st! We hope that you’ll take a moment out of your day and help us keep this wonderful little radio station alive and kicking on the radio (and online) dial. Your donations are incredibly important to the station, and…
On this installment, I dig into the work of the Austin, Texas-based label, Astral Spirits. Started in 2014 as a tape label that focused on what they dubbed “The New Wave of Heavy Free Jazz”, Astral Spirits has gone on to issue upwards of 115 releases and counting in its five years of operations and…
This latest episode comes to you with a little chill in the air outside and the change of season now more of a reality here in southern Minnesota. Of course, what this means for me is an increase in layers, coffee consumption, and time spent in the FFF bunker listening to music. Fortunately, in regards…
I’ve got another installment brimming with new sounds for you this time around. I often seem to start the show with a few catchy songs, but I thought we would just melt into the earth right away on this episode and work our way back out into more song-oriented material. There’s a bunch of great…
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…
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…
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