Well, January started in a blur and ended in a blast, an Arctic one that is. With wind chills hovering around the -50 degree mark, much of Mankato, and the Midwest as a whole, came to a standstill during the closing week of the month. It was so brutal outside that we weren’t able to get up to the KMSU studios to do a new show for Thursday, January 31st, so we just had to air the previous week’s show. That’s only happened a few times in our 13+ years of doing Free Form Freakout, but believe us, there was no good reason to leave the house (except maybe to go a buy a six-pack of beer to help endure the cabin fever). Anyways, thanks for checking in with us. We have several interesting developments happening around the show in the coming months, so we hope you’ll check in with us from time-to-time.
FFFreakout #649 (Aired on 1/24/19): Jungle Brothers “Straight Out the Jungle” from Straight Out the Jungle State Champion “If You Don’t Show Me” from Send Flowers Silver Jews “Smith & Jones Forever” from American Water Maxine Funke “Can’t Make Done” from Lace Flibbertigibbet “Whistling Jigs to the Moon” from Whistling Jigs to the Moon Christoph De Babalon “Leave Me In the Autumn” from Exquisite Angst Ugly Animal “Unco-Ordinating” from Unco-Ordinating EP AC/DC “Ride On” from Who Made Who Sleater-Kinney “Wilderness” from Woods R.E.M. “Cirus Envy” from Monster Fishbone “Sunless Saturday” from The Reality of My Surroundings David Bowie “Hang On To Yourself” from Live Santa Monica ’72 The Who “Sparks” from Live at Hull 1970
FFFreakout #648 (Aired on 1/17/19): Golden Teacher “Maladroit” from Sounds of the Universe Komare “Hot Tarmac” b/w “Got To Stop Me” Chrome “Electric Chair” from Anthology 1979-1983 Sonic Youth “Plastic Sun” from Murray Street Jim O’Rourke “Fuzzy Sun” from Halfway to a Threeway David Bixby “Waiting for the Rains” from Ode To Quetzalcoatl LAFMS “Wondo Wiltis Leaves” from 35 S. Raymond Ave. 1976 Amnesia Scanner “Faceless” from Another Life Gary Numan “Down in the Park” from Living Ornaments ’79 Blondie “The Hardest Part” from Eat to the Beat Stereolab “Lo Boob Oscillator” from ABC Music Chuck Mangione “Feels So Good” from Feels So Good The Floaters “Float On” from 70’s Soul
FFFreakout #647 (Aired on 1/10/19): Richard Papiercuts “The Riddle” from Twisting the Night Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes “Roc Alpin” from Paix Stack Waddy “Love Story” from S/T Circuit Rider “Old Charlie Polecat” from S/T Willie Lane “Folk Vortex” from Known Quantity Heather Leigh “Prelude to Goddess” from Throne Officer! “Life At the Water’s Edge” from Earlier Music Jodi “I Will Wait For You” from Pop Espontáneo Tin Machine “Under the God” from S/T David Bowie “Cactus” from Heathen David Bowie “Starman” from The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars David Bowie “Sound & Vision” from Low David Bowie “Day In, Day Out” from Never Let Me Down David Bowie “Space Oddity” (original UK mono single edit) from Five Years 1969-1973 David Bowie “Heroes” from Heroes
FFFreakout #646 (Aired on 1/3/19): Amnesia Scanner “AS Unlinear” (feat. Pan Daijing) from Another Life Camberwell Now “Daddy Needs A Throne” from The Ghost Trade Jodi “Wanna Change This World” from Pop Espontáneo The Cleaners From Venus “A Blue Wave” from Blow Away Your Troubles Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti 2 “For Kate I Wait” from Doldrums Ian William Craig “The Last Wesbrook Lament” from Thresholder Steven R. Smith “Copper Arches” from A Sketchbook of Endings Prairie Clamor “Controlled Burn” from Next 7 Exits Valle De Galgos “Anochese por vez primera…” from El Domo Spitzermeit Parquet Courts “NYC Observation” from Wide Awake The Breeders “Wait in the Car” from All Nerve Parquet Courts “Wide Awake” from Wide Awake The Good, The Bad, & The Queen “The Poison Tree” from Merrie Land Roger Daltrey “As Long As I Have You” from As Long As I Have You Captain & Taneille “Love Will Keep Us Together” from Love Will Keep Us Together ‘Mean Gene Okerlund “Tutti Frutti” from The Wrestling Album Leon Bridges “Bad Bad News” from Good Things King Tuff “Thru the Cracks” from The Other