Free Form Freakout: Stay-at-Home Edition #3

Welcome to the third episode of Free Form Freakout’s new weekly Stay-at-Home Edition. I hope you have all been staying healthy and hanging in there wherever you’re checking in from. This installment features a bunch of music that I’ve been listening to over the past week at home, mainly new releases, but there are few…

Free Form Freakout: Stay-at-Home Edition #2

Welcome to the second episode of Free Form Freakout’s new weekly Stay-at-Home Edition. This is my attempt to continue to share and spotlight mostly a bunch of new music that I’ve been enjoying during this strange period of time where so many of our lives have not only been restricted but also completely turned upside…

Failure Of All Pop #9 by Glenn Donaldson

Glenn Donaldson returns to deliver another installment of his Failure Of All Pop column after a few weeks on lockdown. This time around he sheds some light on the gorgeous new album from Ian William Craig and an under-the-radar release from last year by the group Strange Passage.

On Blandness and Being Beside Yourself: An Interview with Crys Cole

After several collaborative projects with Oren Ambarchi, Francis Plagne, James Rushford, and Leif Elggren, Beside Myself, just issued on Students of Decay, marks the first solo material that the nomadic sound artist, Crys Cole, has released in five years. Beside Myself finds Cole continuing to shape highly textural sounds through the subtlest of gestures. The…

Free Form Freakout: Stay-at-Home Edition #1

Welcome to Free Form Freakout’s new weekly Stay-at-Home Edition. With access to the KMSU studios being restricted for the time being and with Gov. Walz providing us with his invaluable press conferences during our usual 2 o’clock afternoon time slot, I thought this would be a good opportunity to attempt to learn some new home…

Mutually Assured Marginality #1 by Thomas D’Angelo

We are very pleased to have Thomas D’Angelo joining our Free Form Freakout “team” for a semi-regular column of reviews and random music & art musings that he’s calling Mutually Assured Marginality. We always admired the level of detail and the razor sharp wit that D’Angelo displayed with his former print zine, Put the Music…

FFFoxy Podcast #159: Sophomore Lounge feature

On this episode of the FFFoxy Podcast, we dig deeper into the work of Louisville-based, Sophomore Lounge, a label that has been active for well beyond a decade and has issued over 100 releases from artists that cover a broad spectrum of homespun, DIY sounds.

Failure Of All Pop #8 by Glenn Donaldson

In this week’s installment of Failure Of All Pop, Glenn Donaldson put together a mini-round-up on recent releases from the French micro-label, Hidden Bay Records, and he included a bonus review of the House Deposit release out on Spoilsport Records.