It’s been over a month since the last episode. Let’s just say that life has been rather hectic on a variety of fronts in that time, making it difficult to get a new show produced, but I’m hoping to get back into a more consistent schedule in the summer months ahead. I’ve got a fairly…
On this episode of the podcast show, I dig deeper into the 12XU label run by Gerard Cosloy in Austin, Texas. Cosloy is a veteran of the independent label and underground music scene in the U.S., dating back to his days working at Homestead Records and self-publishing his Conflict zine in the 1980s, to later…
On this episode of the podcast, I’ve got another round of mostly new music to highlight for you, and I’ve also included a few recent used bin finds and pulled out a few older albums to pay tribute to a couple of important figures in the world of experimental music that we recently lost. Hope you…
On this episode of the podcast, I play a bunch of new and forthcoming releases, along with some older albums that I’ve recently discovered or have come back around to. Hope you enjoy this one. Feel free to get in touch if you have any comments or questions. As always, thanks for looking and listening.…
On this episode of the podcast, I play a bunch of new and forthcoming releases that I’ve been enjoying of late. At the end of the show, I mentioned that Free Form Freakout is co-presenting the second annual Sound Art in the Naked Gallery event at the Arts Center of St. Peter on Saturday, January…
On this last episode of the podcast of the year, I’m joined by long-time friends and recurring guests of the show, Glenn Donaldson of The Reds, Pinks, & Purples, and Chris Berry of Soft Abuse Records, for a virtual and very informal roundtable-style discussion about some favorite albums of the year, music trends of 2025,…
I’ve once again compiled some of my favorite releases of the year and presented them below in an unranked, alphabetical list. As in the past, all of these releases have been played on the Free Form Freakout radio and podcast shows or will soon be included in an upcoming episode before the year’s end. Perhaps…
On this episode of the podcast, I get back to highlighting a bunch of brand-new releases, along with some other albums that came out earlier in the year that I’m getting caught up with. I plan to do some type of year-end recap show for the next episode, so be on the lookout for that…
On this installment of the podcast show, we dig into the work of the Santa Fe, New Mexico-based label, PHYSICAL. After over a decade and a half of running the genre-defying DIY label Friends and Relatives, Justin Rhody has returned with this new label, focused more directly on documenting the experimental film, improvised music, conceptual…
I’ve got another batch of mostly new sounds to play and discuss on this installment for you. There have been so many incredible albums coming out lately, so this is just a small sampling of some of the stuff I’ve been listening to over the past month. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to get in…
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the podcast show. I was considering a few different possibilities for a special episode to mark this minor milestone, or simply moving forward as usual. Staying aligned with the regular label features that I’ve been doing throughout the podcast show’s history, I decided that now was maybe a…
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the podcast show. For the next episode, I’m going to put together somewhat of a special feature focused on our in-house label, Round Bale Recordings, as I’ve always considered it an extension of the podcast show. For this installment, though, I have a solid batch of new releases,…
On this episode, I’m back with a batch of newer albums to highlight and a few notable older titles that I’d file under “essential listening.” I hope you enjoy this one and maybe find a few new discoveries along the way. Feel free to get in touch if you have any comments or questions. As…
On this installment of the podcast, I highlight some of the newer albums that I have acquired and have been listening to over the past month or so. I’m particularly excited about this episode because the majority of the artists included have never been played on the show before, so it’s been fun discovering these…
On this episode, we dig into the work of the Minneapolis-based record label, Tern and Crow. After being in bands and releasing music for over a decade, primarily in his instrumental experimental rock duo Falcon Arrow, Matt Reints decided to start up Tern and Crow in 2020 as a means to help some of the artists…
