On this installment, we spotlight the work of the Oakland-based label and mailorder outlet, Digital Regress. In its roughly five years of operation, Digital Regress has moved from initially documenting some of the arty, DIY punk activity taking place in the Bay Area to reissuing some lesser known classics from the New Zealand underground. Digital…
In this installment of Failure Of All Pop, Glenn Donaldson tackles a trio of post-Xpressway disembodied rockers in Christopher Alan Durham, CJA, and The Futurians.
New releases from The Cool Greenhouse, R.E. Seraphin, and Cloud Nothings are reviewed by Glenn Donaldson in this installment of Failure Of All Pop.
On this installment, I get back to playing a bunch of new music that I have acquired during these past several months of lockdown. A few of these I’ve played on the weekly radio show, but I’ve yet to include them in any of the podcasts or the Stay-at-Home Editions that I was producing there…
Here’s what has been happening over the past two weeks on the Free Form Freakout radio show heard every Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. (CST) on KMSU in Mankato, Minnesota. For the time being, the show continues to be produced at home in the FFF bunker. If you’re unable to listen to the show live, they…
Dusting out the mental cobwebs from quarantine to finally bring you a new installment of the Down in the Bunker column featuring reviews of brand new releases from Skyminds, Silver Scrolls, and Malvern Brume.
In this installment of Failure Of All Pop, Glenn Donaldson highlights another hidden gem from the Bay Area underground in the band, Cindy, and a pair of self-released EPs from the upstart art-punk outfits, The Beauticians and Soot. Give it a read and a listen.
Glenn Donaldson delivers another installment of his Failure Of All Pop column, this time with a special Alt Rock edition focused on Campbell Kneale’s Brilliant Swords project, the surprise return of 90’s guitar rock darlings Hum, and the super-charged songcraft of Hotline TNT.
Free Form Freakout returned to the KMSU airwaves on May 14th after an extended hiatus due to Governor Walz’s daily press briefings being aired during our usual 2:00 p.m. time slot. As is the case for many radio stations right now, or everything for that matter, we haven’t been able to fully return to business…
Here are the playlists from the weekly Free Form Freakout show from earlier in the year. Sure, it was only a few months ago, but typing these out felt almost like stepping back into a completely different reality altogether. When we did these shows, we were discussing live shows that we were hosting in town…