Happy New Year everyone! Whether you’re big on resolutions or not, for me there’s still something always exciting about turning the page and heading into a new year with a sense of renewal and new possibilities. I’m hoping you’re feeling that way heading into 2019, too. I had considered doing some type of year-end recap…
Two months have passed since we last posted the playlists for the weekly version of Free Form Freakout. A lot has went down in that time: another successful KMSU Fall Pledge Drive, the release of the newly remastered version of The Beatles’ White Album, our annual holiday show, recaps of some of our favorite albums,…
With spare time being in short supply for me these days, I’m going to simply offer up a bare bones, blurb-less list of some of my favorite albums, tapes, and reissued & archival releases of the year. I questioned whether maintaining these categories was even necessary at this point, as in my mind tapes are…
I know it’s that time of year where many places are starting to wind down activities and look back on the various releases and other happenings from throughout the course of the year. While I’ll likely do some type of year-end write-up on the Free Form Freakout website in the coming weeks, I’m still working…
With the holiday season now underway, and the added stressors that it often brings, I’m hoping you can all find ways to bring some sense of joy and comfort into your life, however that may be. Music has always been my go-to for this, and I have plenty of great new and archival releases to…
Gertrude Tapes is a label that Omaha underground music veteran, L. Eugene Methe, has run off-and-on dating back to 2002. In recent years, he has resumed a more regular release schedule with the label, issuing new and archival works from the likes of Russ Waterhouse, Simon Joyner, C. Worth, Ned Milligan, Das Torpedoes, and his…
I’ve got another jam-packed installment for your this time around filled with selections from several of my favorite contemporary artists and labels. There are lots of new and notable releases to sift through and to talk up, including material from the David Nance Group, Mountain Movers, MP Hopkins & Mark Harwood, Spirit Fest, and Terry,…
It was a busy yet rewarding month for us here at Free Form Freakout. In addition to getting back to the workaday grind, we were taking part in pop-up record sales, taking in fine new records by old favorites like Low and Spiritualized, producing new podcast shows, preparing for Tune Town’s 25th Anniversary festivities and…
My, how things have changed since the last podcast show. Two weeks ago when Chris Berry joined me in the studio, it was 90 degrees and disgustingly humid outside. On my way up to the studio today, the temperature gauge was hovering just a few notches above the freezing mark. In fact, I actually had…
On this installment of the podcast, Chris Berry of Soft Abuse Records returned to the KMSU studios in Mankato for what has been an annual end of summer tradition for as long as the podcast has been going (which is 8 years come October). Chris brought his usual box of surprises that included a small…
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