FFFreakout #194 "FFF 2009 Favorites" (Aired on 12/31/09)

*Dan Melchoir und Das Manace - "O! Anxiety" (S-S Records)
*The Intelligence - "Tower" (In The Red Records)
*Sonny & The Sunsets - "Too Young To Burn" (Soft Abuse Records)
*The Clean - "Asleep in the Wheel" (Merge Records)
*Real Estate - "Beach Comber" (Woodsist Records)
*Oneida - "I Will Haunt You" (Jagjaguwar Records)
*Kurt Vile - "Heart Attack" (Matador Records)
*Amen Dunes - "Castles" (Locust Music)
#The Heavy - "How You Like Me Now" (Counter Records)
#Metric - "Sick Muse" (PIAS/Metric)
#Pearl Jam - "Supersonic" (Monkeywrench)
#Mexican Institute of Sound - "Sinfonia Agridulce" (Nacional Records)
#Black Joe Lewis - "I'm Broke" (Lost Highway)
#Phoenix - "Fences" (Glass Note)

*Dave's picks
#Carl's picks

**Buy locally**

Tune in next week for round two of this year end nonsense.

FFFreakout #193 "Carl's Holiday Hootenanny" (Aired on 12/24/09)

Tiny Tim - Rudolph
Herb Alpert - Christmas Song
Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel - Baby It's Cold
Mikey Rooney (Santa Claus is Coming to Town-O.S.T.) - Put One Foot in Front of the Other
Chipmunks - Chipmunk Song
El Vez - Feliz Navidad
Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)
Bruce Springsteen - Santa is Coming to Town
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
James Brown - Santa Goes Straight to the Ghetto
Blue Hawaiians - Mele Kalikimaka
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Sleigh Ride
Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross - Deck Us All with Boston Charlie
Brian Setzer - Nutcracker Suite
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
Yogi Yorgesson - I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas

Hope today's show put you in the holiday spirit. Tune in the next few weeks as we run through some of our favorites from 2009. Happy Holidays!!!

FFFreakout #192 (Aired on 12/17/09)

Curtis Mayfield - Wild and Free
Sonny & the Sunsets - Chapters
Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser
Wet Hair - Stepping Razor (to Heaven's Door)
El-g - Rendez-vous au fort de Queuleu
The Flaming Lips - Worm Mountain
Loop - Cinnamon Girl
To Kill A Petty Bourgeoise - The Needle
Zomby - Tarantula
Burial - Fostercare
Animal Collective - Taste
Tortoise - Gigantes
Times New Viking - Devo & Wine
The Intelligence - Warm Transfers
(Outro Music: Martyn - Mega Drive Generation)

Make sure you tune in next week for Carl's special holiday music show, which is sure to lift your spirits.

FFFreakout #191 (Aired on 12/10/09)

The Suburbs - Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling
The Suburbs - Love is the Law
David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging
The Kinks - Victoria
The Pixies - Velouria
Sigur Ros - Staralfur
Ryan Adams & Beth Orton - Brown Sugar
Voks - Okse
Bugskull - High Steppin II
Jack Rose - White Mule
El-g - Ce Russe Blanc
King Midas Sound - Meltdown
Animal Collective - On A Highway
Amen Dunes - Castles
(Outro Music: Burial - Fostercare)

R.I.P. Bruce C. Allen


R.I.P. Jack Rose

FFFreakout #190 (Aired on 12/3/09)

Kurt Vile - Amplifier
Silver Apples - Oscillations
Dub Syndicate (feat. Lee Perry) - Dubbing Psycho Thriller
Burial - Near Dark
Omega Redstar - Egy lany nem ment haz
Rod & The MSR Singers - Beat of the Traps
Ducktails - Pizza Time
Residents - Suburban Bathers / Picnic Boy
Lee Hazlewood - Suzi Jane is Back in Town
Walkmen - The Rat
Violent Femmes - Out The Window
The Trash Can Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks
Paul Weller - English Rose
Wham! - Young Guns (Go For It)
Ween - Push th Little Daisies
UB40 - Smoke It
Veruca Salt - Victrola

Carl spun some discs before sending them to the used bin and Dave played some delicious dub provided by Steve from Dreadbeats, which can be heard every Saturday at 6:00 p.m. here on KMSU.

FFFreakout #189 (Aired on 11/19/09)

Haunted House - Oriental Rugs
Sonny & The Sunsets - Too Young to Burn
el-g - Armelle
Raymond Scott - Sprite: Melonball Bounce
Simply Saucer - Here Come the Cyborgs Pt. 1
Teepee - Your Majesty
The Breeders - Grunggae
Willie Nelson - The Harder They Come
Blur - Tender (Cornelius Remix)
Urge Overkill - Crackbabies (live
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (Same as it Never Was)
Raymond Scott (& Jim Henson) - Limbo: The Organized Mind
The Clean - Asleep in the Tunnel
Ween - Even If You Don't
Chris Knox - Vol Au Vent
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Heavy
(Outro Music: The Avalanches - Radio)

FFFreakout #188 (Aired on 11/12/09)

The Laughing - Elevators
El-g - Tim et Henri
Fleetwood Mac - The Ledge
Gary War - No Payoff
The Flaming Lips - See the Leaves
Kraftwerk - The Model
Clark - Growls Garden
Shahs - Guts
Tangerine Dream - Sequent C
Low Red Center - Peace Walking
Michael Yonkers & the Mumbles - Need Your Love, Oh No
Can - Vitamin C
Junk Culture - Daydream on Olea
Edan - Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
Twinsistermoon - Kingdom of the Sea
Fire on Fire - Squeeze Box

FFFreakout #187 "Art for Spastics" (Aired on 11/5/09)

Reigning Sound - Drowning
The Intelligence - Tower
Vivian Girls - Such A Joke
The Hunches - Two Ghosts
The Hospitals - I'm A Bug
Kurt Vile - Hunchback
Eternal Tapestry - Prism Light Traveler (edit)
Swell Maps - Border Country
Digital Dinosaurs - The Sideways Man

Today we aired an interview we recently completed with DJ Rick from the great Art For Spastics radio show heard on KDVS and we played some artists that you might hear on his show, including The Intelligence.

FFFreakout #186 (Aired on 10/29/09)

Evans Carroll - The Monster
Southern Culture on the Skids - Werewolf
Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash
Comateens - The Munsters Theme
The Who - Boris the Spider
Tegan & Sara - Walkin' with the Ghost
The Shaggs - It's Halloween
Beat Happening - Black Candy
The Cramps - Zombie Dance
Misfits - Night of the Living Dead
Motorhead - Dancing on Your Grave
Michael Jackson - Thriller
MX-80 Sound - Theme from Halloween
Rev. Horton Heat - Halloween Dance
Donovan - Season of the Witch
Roky Erikson - I Walked With a Zombie
The Ramones - Pet Cemetery

Broke out the Halloween-related tunes for today's show to get people in that ghoulish mood. Of course, we had to break out The Misfits.

FFFreakout #185 (Aired on 10/22/09)

Air - Do the Joy
Mayer Hawthorne - Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'
Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
The Kinks - Nothin' in this World
Elvis Costello - Watch Your Step
Johnny Cash - Highway Patrolman
Luna - California
Ska-talites - Ringo's Theme
The Replacements - Beer for Breakfast
The Rolling Stones - Hang Fire
Beck - Beercan
(Outro Music: "Powerhouse")

Carl did this show live and on his own today, leading things off with something from the new Air album. Here's something from "Talkie Walkie" from 2004.

FFFreakout #184 (Aired on 10/15/09)

Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings
Los Lonely Boys - She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Hacienda - Angela
Alejandro Escovedo - Pale Blue Eyes
Kurt Vile - Freeway
Flaming Lips - The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine
Kati Kovacs - Add Mar Uram az Esot!
Beulah - If We Can Land a Man on the Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart
Yim Yames - My Sweet Lord
George Harrison - Blow Away
The Beatles - The Ballad of John & Yoko
Gary War - Eye in the Sky
Karen O & The Kids - Head Up
(Outro Music: Trouble Funk)

Thanks to those people who made a donation during the show today for the KMSU Fall Pledge Drive. There's still plenty of time to pledge your support to the station and the diverse programming that it continues to provide. You can make your pledge by calling (507)389-5678 or 1-800-456-7810. You can also head over to the KMSU website, which has been given a much-needed makeover, to make a donation.

FFFreakout #183 (Aired on 10/8/09)

The Twilight Sad - Reflection of the Television
Le Loup - Beach Town
The Clean - Asleep in the Tunnel
Times New Viking - New Times, New Hope
Kraus - Happening for Lulu
Cheater Slicks - Walk Up the Street
Sa-Ra Creative Partners - He Say She Say
Clutchy Hopkins - Sound of the Ghost
Miles Davis - John McLaughlin
Shape of Broad Minds - Let's Go (feat. DOOM)
Godflesh - Spite
The Shadow Ring - Tiny Creatures
To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - The Needle
The Beatles - I'm Looking Through You

Cool video for the To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie track we played on today's show:

FFFreakout #182 (Aired on 10/1/09)

Dan Melchoir und Das Menace - O! Anxiety
The Clean - Rubber Soul
Julian Lynch - Winterer One
The Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale (live)
Broadcast - Pendulum
Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies
Oneohtrix Point Never - Zones Without People
The Residents - Sinister Exaggerator
Big Black - The Model
The Deadnotes - Through the Hoop / Broken Wheel / Orange Trumpet
The Minutemen - Cut
Mayo Thompson - Horses
The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
Jay Mitchell - Funky Fever
(Outro Music: John Fahey - Desperate Man Blues)

Dave did this show on his own today. While The Beatles reissue mania has occupied our interest for weeks now, thought it would be worthwhile to mention that the entire Kraftwerk catalog is going to be remastered and reissued in October as well. Mute Records is going to release each album individually on CD and there is a boxset and vinyl pressings slated for release in November. You can scope the specifics here. One wouldn't expect a Rock Band edition from this group of man machines, but who knows.

FFFreakout #181 (Aired on 9/24/09)

Arctic Monkeys - My Propellar
Pearl Jam - Supersonic
Black Crowes - I Ain't Hiding
Alice in Chains - Check My Brain
Dex Romweber Duo (w/ Neko Case) - Still Around
Barracudas - We're in Violent Times
The Cramps - New Kind of Kick
M.I.S. - Sinfonia Agridulce
Mason Jennings - Ain't No Friend of Mine
Times New Viking - M.L.K. Day
Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place
The La's - There She Goes
Fruit Bats - The Hobo Girl
Brendan Benson - Eyes on the Horizon
Timber Timber - Demon Host
Dex Romweber Duo - Lookout

Carl was live and flying solo for today's show. In his words, things were looking very 1991 during the early part of the show, but he was indeed spinning a bunch of new sounds. Here's another track from the brand spankin' new Times New Viking album out on Matador called "Born Again Revisited":

FFFreakout #180 (Aired on 9/17/09)

The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
George Harrison - Wah Wah
Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy
Paul McCartney - Let Me Roll It
John Lennon - I'm Losing You
To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - In Peoples Homes
The Jaguar Club - Sleepwalking
Damon McMahon - Somewhere in France
Ducktails - Dancing With the One You Love
The Intelligence - Universal Babysitter
The Who - Acid Queen
The Misunderstand - Children of the Sun
The Pixies - Broken Face (live)
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Vivian Girls - Going Insane

The topic of The Beatles solo albums was discussed on today's show. Do you think George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" or John Lennon's "Plastic Ono Band" is the best or are we overlooking something in Ringo Starr's discography?

FFFreakout #179 (Aired on 9/10/09)

The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
Damon & Naomi - Blue Moon
Vivian Girls - Such A Joke
Nudge - Two Hands
The Clean - Drawing To A Hole
Destroy All Monsters - That's My Ideal
The Sa-Ra Creative Partners - I Swear
Air - Radio #1
Freedom Fighters - Crows Nest
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
The Beatles - Julia
The Beatles - Come Together
The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
The Beatles - Fixing A Hole

While The Beatles remastered CDs are surely the big draw for music fans this week, there are a number of other great releases that happen to be coming out as well. Both of The Feelies albums have been given the remastered treatment, along with new albums by Jim O'Rourke, Vivian Girls, Nudge, The Clean, and Yo La Tengo. A good time to throw down some serious coin at your favorite independent record store.

FFFreakout #178 (Aired on 9/3/09)

Carl did this show live and played various selections from the new remastered Beatles albums which come out on 9/9/09. Time to save up!

FFFreakout #177 (Aired on 8/27/09)

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash - Redemption Song (w/ Joe Strummer)
Julian Plenti - Skyscraper
New Order - Love Vigilantes
Pop Levi - Wannamama
T. Rex - Jeepster
Six Organs of Admittance - Words For Two
Theo Angell - A Crime From the Vine
Black Tambourine - For Ex-Lovers Only
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
The British Expeditionary Force - The Engine
Elvis Costello - No Hiding Place
Old 97's - Victoria
Talking Heads - Pulled Up
Headless Heroes - Just One Time
Blank Dogs - Blue Lights

FFFreakout #176 (Aired on 8/20/09)

Oneida - Brownout in Lagos
Julian Lynch - Venom
Ducktails - The Mall
Kiila - Fireburnfoot
Crystal Castles - Good Time
Rolling Stones - Monkey Man
Jay Reatard - Before I Was Caught
Jack Penate - Tonight's Today
R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend
Ha Ha Tonka - Hold My Feet to the Fire
Waco Brothers - Waco Express
Ben Weaver - Red Red Fox
Deadstring Brothers - Tennessee Sure Enough
Alejandro Escovedo - Always A Friend
The Bottle Rockets Better Than Broken

Check out the Bloodshot Records website for more information about their 15th Anniversary Beer-B-Q Event taking place in Minneapolis this Sunday.

FFFreakout #175 (Aired on 8/13/09)

Dirty Projectors - The Bride
The Big Pink - Velvet
Love and Rockets - Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)
Green Day - Peacemaker
Tubeway Army - Our Friends Electric
The Antlers - Bear
Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To
Sic Alps - Who Has Time To Protest
Kraus - O'erdose
Chris Knox - Half-Man/Half-Mole
Discovery - Osaka Loop Line
Dimitri from Paris - Une Very Stylish Fille
James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing
Meteor & Demjen Ferenc - Kivanj te is nekem szep, jo ejszakat
Alejandro Escovedo - Real As An Animal

Anyone who tunes in to our show on a regular basis knows how much we like Pumice. One of his fellow New Zealanders, and some time collaborator, Kraus also is churning out some wonderfully demented sounds of his own. Check out the Free Music Archive website for a generous sampling of his music.

FFFreakout #174 (Aired on 8/6/09)

Link Wray - Handclapper
Pissed Jeans - False Jesii Part 2
Oneida - The Life You Preferred
Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin
Julian Lynch - Track 8 from "Born 2 Run" CDr
Blackout Beach - The Roman
Nico - Sagen Die Gelehrten
Amen Dunes - Fleshless Esta Mira Wife of Space
Sam and the Plants - Never or Now
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Different Daylight
Times New Viking - A Lot of Paintings
Reykiavik! - Repticon
The Nocturnes - Trojan
Betty Davis - Game is my Middle Name
A Tribe Called Quest - Excursions

As mentioned on today's show, been lovin' the sounds that Julian Lynch has been creatin'. You can get caught up real quick and for real cheap by heading over to his website and purchasing his three CD-rs (well worth it). In addition, he has a new full-length LP coming out on Olde English Spelling Bee called "Orange You Glad", as well as a split seven inch with the equally great Ducktails on Underwater Peoples.

FFFreakout #173 (Aired on 7/30/09)

David Bowie - Drive in Saturday
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
Unclubbed (w/ Bess Cavendish) - Groove is in the Heart
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge (live)
Free Design - Bubbles
Oneida - I Will Haunt You
Loop - Head On
13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House
Sarolta Zalatray - Hadd mondjan el
Naked City - A Shot in the Dark
Bottle Rockets - Shame On Me
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
Beastie Boys - Super Disco Breakin'
Hard-Fi - Seven Nation Army
(Outro Music: Tortoise - Gigantes)

Here's a live version of "Ghost in the Room" from the new triple album "Rated O" from Oneida:

FFFreakout #172 (Aired on 7/23/09)

Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
Cat Stevens - If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out
Tortoise - Northern Something
Pumice - Open Up
Amen Dunes - By the Bridal
Megafaun - Kaufman's Ballad
Riceboy Sleeps - Boy 1984
God Help The Girl - Act of the Apostle
Bongo Herman, Eric 'Bingy Bunny' Lamont & Les Chen - Salaam
Nick Glider - Hot Child in the City
Jacuzzi Boys - Black Sand
Family Portrait - Mega Secrets
Discovery - Swing Tree
Jack Penate - Tonight's Today
Fruit Bats - Primitive Man
Love Is All - Last Choice

Some more from "Beacons of Ancestorship", which finds Tortoise back in fine form:

FFFreakout #171 (Aired on 7/16/09)

Anna Adamis & Gabor Presser - Ringasd el magod no.2
Pumice - Persevere
Amen Dunes - Castles
39 Clocks - Fast Cars
Loop - 16 Dreams
Portishead - Glory Box
Luscious Jackson - City Song
Mull Historical Society - Watching Xanadu
Olivia Newton John - Xanadu
The Pixies - Head On
The Intelligence - Debt & E.S.P.
Harvester - When the Lingonberries are Ripen
Old 97's - Time Bomb
Pavement - Summer Babe
Possum Dixon - Emergency's About to End
The Monkees - Mary Mary
(Outro Music by MF Doom)

Stephen Malkus talking Velvet Underground, shredding, and sports, among other things on Soft Focus hosted by Ian Svenonius of Nation of Ulyssis/The Make-Up fame.

FFFreakout #170 (Aired on 7/9/09)

Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (long version)
Moby - Study War
The Cure - A Forest
The Field - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Hall & Oates - Out of Touch
Theo Angell - The Shadow Ring
Akron Family - The Alps & Their Orange Evergreen
Suicide - Fast Money Music
Masanka Sankayi & Kasai Allstars - Wa Muluendu
Jeremy Jay - Will You Dance With Me?
Crocodiles - Screaming Chrome
Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Morning Comin' Down

FFFreakout #169 (Aired on 7/2/09)

Sonic Youth - Poison Arrow
39 Clocks - Psycho Beat
Julian Lynch - Droplet on a Hot Stone
Olivia Tremor Control - Courtyard
Kati Kovacs - Add mar Uram az Esot!
Meat Puppets - I'm Not You
Wilco - Wilco (The Song)
XTC - Ball and Chain
The Raconteurs - Old Enough
Bill Justis - Raunchy
Cheval Sombre - Where Did Our Love Go
Peaking Lights - Silver Tongues Soft Whisper
Mexican Institute of Sound - Sinfonia Agridulce
The Beatles - Any Bird Can Sing
J Dilla - Geek Down
(Outro Music: Raymond Scott - Dinner Music For a Pack of Hungry Cannibals)

The folks on Breakfast at Sulimay's weigh in on "Wilco The Song" from their new album.

FFFreakout #168 (Aired on 6/25/09)

Real Estate - Beach Comber
Pill Wonder - Wishing Whale
Ducktails - Backyards
The Shadow Ring - Apricot Rat
The Intelligence - Tower
The Deviants - Let's Loot the Supermarket
David Blue - It Tastes Like Candy
Chrome - TV As Eyes
Dengue Fever - We Were Gonna
Scott Walker - Jean the Machine
Cheer Accident - According to the Spiral
Baja - Graph-Vlak
Blank Dogs - The Things
Sun City Girls - Cigar-Shaped Moonlight
Ex-Models - The Fun System
Bill Fay - We Have Laid Here
Alvarius B. - Deader Gentlemen

Nora from The Dirty Birds joined us on today's show. We exchanged sets of music and discussed our mutual affection for the Sun City Girls and Sir Richard Bishop, whom will be performing at the 7th St. Entry in Minneapolis this Saturday. Here's some recent footage of Sir Richard Bishop performing material from his new album on Drag City called The Freak of Araby:

FFFreakout #167 (Aired on 6/17/09)

Sonic Youth - Antenna
Spinal Tap - Sex Farm (Funky Version)
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
Prince - Mountains
Moby - Run On
Blank Dogs - No Compass
Michael Hurley - Eyes Eyes
Pumice - Pebbles
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Sometimes
Ween - Take Me Away
Meat Puppets - Blanket of Weeds
Dinosaur Jr. - Little Fury Things
Minutemen - This Ain't No Picnic
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
Kid Thomas - Rockin' This Joint To-Nite

The Meat Puppets, feature all the original members, will be playing at The What's Up Lounge here in Mankato on July 9 in support of their new full-length. Should be a great show.

FFFreakout #166 (Aired on 6/10/09)

Akron Family - Everyone is Guilty
Papercuts - Future Primitive
The Heptones - Make Up Your Mind
Eight Minutes - Here's Some Dances
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Drum Thunder Suite
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Nodzzz - In the City (Contact High)(demo)
Beat Happening - What's Important
The Wipers - Return of the Rat
The Verlaines - Pyromaniac
Suicide - Johnny
Strategy - Can't Roll Back
Dum Dum Girls - Brite Futures
Mark Sultan - Two Left Feet
25 Cents - The Witch
Ponies in the Surf - Walkin' in the City
(Outro Music: Augustus Pablo meets the Upsetter - Vibrate On)

FFFreakout #165 (Aired on 6/4/09)

Sylvia Hall - Don't Touch That Thing
Wet Hair - Ordinary Lives
Russian Tsarlag - I Know David
Love Is All - Make Out Fall Out
Abner Jay - I Wanna Job**
Meatballs O.S.T. - Are You Ready for the Summer
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (live on Conan O'Brien Show)
The Damned - New Rose
Alternative TV - Action Time Vision
Zola Jesus - Clay Bodies**
Tortoise - Eden 2
Carl Simmons - Scotty Guffy Sings**
Ween - The Mollusk (live at First Avenue)
Lou Snider & The World's Most Dangerous Polka Band - Danke Schoen
Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock
Jim Backus - Delicious

The tracks marked ** came from an excellent compilation that came with the new Yeti #7, one of the best music/art/literature publications in print. Here the are specifics for this issue:

"On the 80-minute CD: rare/previously unreleased music from: Grouper, Abner Jay, Dum Dum Girls, Wooden Shjips, Dutchess and the Duke, Jacuzzi Boys, the Great Unwashed, Nodzzz, Zola Jesus, Crystal Stilts, Finally Punk, 39 Clocks, the Bible Aires Spiritual Singers, Fresh + Onlys, Moon Duo (an awesome W. Shjips "offshoot" band), Explode Into Colors, Limes, Eternal Tapestry, Woods, Christmas Island, some Jamaican gospel -- and yes. even more. Probably the best CD we've ever done.

Inside the 200-page book: Joe Brainard's remarkable book cover designs, a rare manuscript by Abner Jay detailing his time at the antebellum-fetishizing Stepehen Foster Center in Florida, Grouper talking to Ilyas Ahmed, the life and work of poet/educator Nancy Dupree, comics by clients at Portland's Full Life center for developmentally disabled adults, drawings by J. Bradley Earl of Woods, and the music of Black Twig Pickers and Jack Rose. Plus interviews with artist Jim Woodring, author Lynne Tillman, SF-based band the Nodzzz, author/screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer, also SF-based band the Wooden Shjips, and fiction by Mimi Lipson. Contributors include Erik Davis, Doug Elliott, Justin Farrar, Ross Simonini, Sara Jaffe, Kevin Elliott, Jesse Studenberg, and Michael Neault."

FFFreakout #164 (Aired on 5/28/09)

Vivian Girls - Lake House
Blank Dogs - Ages Ago
Times New Viking - A Lot of Painting
Intelligence - The Beetles
Guinea Worms - Soiled Sender
Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
Meat Puppets - Severed Goddess Hand
Wilco - Say You Miss Me
The Pink Noise - Fortress
Russian Tsarlag - I'll Walk Through It
The Tornadoes - Telstar
Los Straitjackets - California Sun
Southern Culture on the Skids - Shotgun
Southern Culture on the Skids - Doublewide

The first five songs from today's show came from an excellent new LP compilation called "The World's Lousy with Ideas Vol. 8" out on Almost Ready Records, which features a primo selection of current noise-pop groups.

Here's a new song from the brand new Blank Dogs album "Under and Under" that was just released on In The Red Records this week.

FFFreakout #163 (Aired on 5/21/09)

The Suburbs - Music for Boys
Semisonic - F.N.T.
The Suburbs - Tape My Wife to the Ceiling
Trip Shakespeare - Diane
Semisonic - Secret Smile
The New Standards - Love is the Law
The Suburbs - Waiting
The Suburbs - Cows
Trip Shakespeare - Bachelorette
The New Standards - Androgynous
Semisonic - In Another Life
The Suburbs - Baby Heartbeat
The Suburbs - Rattle My Bones
Semisonic - Because
The Suburbs - Bongo Rock

Carl did this show on his own today live, playing a bunch of songs in anticipation for the KMSU Listener Appreciation concert at the Red Sky Lounge on May 30th featuring The New Standards.

FFFreakout #162 (Aired on 5/14/09)

Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin
Talking Heads - Stay Up Late
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Talking Heads - Pulled Up
Cage the Elephant - This Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Nick Cave - Something's Gotten a Hold of My Heart
The New Standards - Maps
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Lily Allen - Not Fair
April March - Chick Habit
S.C.O.T.S - Funnel of Love
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Ween - Take Me Away
The Clash - Magnificent Seven

Carl did this show on his own, live in the studio, playing a set of Talking Heads tracks in honor of David Byrne's birthday.

FFFreakout #161 (Aired on 5/7/09)

Sonic Youth - "Green Light"
Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes"
Black Dice - "Treetops"
Magik Markers - "Taste"
The Shaggs - "I'm So Happy When You're Near"
Wilco - "A Shot In The Arm"
Neil Young - "Revolution Blues"
Wooden Shjips - "We Ask You To Ride"
Sir Richard Bishop - "Quiescent Return"
CIV - "Can't Wait One Minute More"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll"
Tinted Windows - "Messing With My Head"
Ben Harper & Relentless 7 - "Shimmer & Shine"
The Replacements - "Someone Take the Wheel"
The Hunches - "Droning Fades On"

Here's some new Black Dice who will be playing at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis on May 21st with Wolf Eyes.

FFFreakout #160 (Aired on 4/30/09)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"
King Khan & The Shrines - "I Wanna Be a Girl"
Hepcat - "I Can't Wait"
De La Soul - "The Magic Number"
Gene Loves Jezebel - "Desire"
Boris - "Statement"
Pocahaunted - "Riddum Queen"
Big Youth - "Killer"
Arthur Russell - "Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart"
Shellac - "Steady As She Goes"
Dan Auerbach - "Heartbroken, In Disrepair"
The Beatles - "Flying"
Pavement - "Stereo"
The Replacements - "I Will Dare"
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "The Ballad of the Sin Eater"
Gary Numan - "Cars"

Some more Pocahaunted from the "Island Diamonds" album, which the track we played on today's show was also from.

FFFreakout #159 (Aired on 4/23/09)

Jeremy Jay - "Gallop"
My Morning Jacket - "El Caporal"
Lazy Magnet - "Wilder Climes"
The Hospitals - "Getting Out of Bed"
Robert Wilkins - "That's No Way To Get Along"
Papercuts - "A Dictator's Lament"
Jon Doe & The Sadies - "I Still Miss Someone"
Booker T. Jones - "Hey Ya"
The White Stripes - "Jolene"
Elvez - "Viva La Raza"
Iggy Pop - "Search and Destroy"
The Cure - "Fire in Cairo"
The Stray Cats - "Runaway Boys"
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - "Low Yo Yo Stuff"
Rodd Keith - "Lettuce and Lace"
Intelligence - "Secret Signals"
Kraftwerk - "Airwaves"

FFFreakout #158 (Aired on 4/16/09)

Flight of the Conchords - "Pencils in the Wind"**
Sonic Youth - "Pay No Mind"**
Beck - "Green Light"**
Tom Waits - "Bottom of the World" (live)**
Pavement - "Shady Lane" (live-1997)**
Iron & Wine - "Woman King" (live-2005)**
Metric - "Sick Muse"
The Papercuts - "Future Primitive"
Zola Jesus - "Soeur Sewer"
Flamin' Groovies - "Teenagehead"
Wild Man Fischer - "Derailroaded"
The Handsome Family - "Little Sparrows"
Wayne Hancock - "Jump the Blues"
Mexican Institute of Sound - "Sinfonia Agridulce"
The Vaselines - "Molly's Lips"

Get out and support your local independent record stores this weekend for the second annual Record Store Day. The tracks listed above with the ** are exclusive releases made only available to independent record shops, which is just a small sampling, and can be purchased here in Mankato at Tune Town.

FFFreakout #157 (Aired on 4/9/09)

Jeremy Jay - "We Were There"
The Handsome Family - "The Loneliness of Magnets"
Speck Mountain - "Angela"
The Upsetters - "Bad Lamp"
Vampire Hands - "Safe Word"
Wavves - "No Hope Kids"
Gary War - "Bounce Four"
Rodd Keith - "How Can a Man Overcome His Heartbroken Pain"
Bill Moss - "Number One"
Ovens - "I Can't Hang"
Beirut - "My Wife, Lost in the Wild"
Digital Dinosaurs - "Baby Snakes"
Michael Yonkers Band - "Jasontown"
Dirtbombs - "Kiss Kiss Kiss"
Twizlers - "We Are The Twizlers / Motorbike"
Prince Jammy - "Fist of Fury"
Sun Ra - "New Day"

Some more Rodd Keith:

FFFreakout #156 (Aired on 4/2/09)

The Decemberists - The Infanta
Lily Allen - Everyone's At It
Flying Lizards - Money, That's What I Want
Paul Weller - The Changingman
Massive Attack - Karma Coma
Gary War - Eye in the Sky
Speck Mountain - Fidelity Shake
Keijo - Old Dusty Road
Julie Doiron - The Life of Dreams
Blank Dogs - Three Window Room
Radiohead - Inside My Head
Radiohead - Just
Radiohead - Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)
13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me

Here's the blissful "Angela" from the new Speck Mountain album "Some Sweet Relief".

FFFreakout #155 "Spring Pledge Drive" (Aired on 3/26/09)

The Bitter Tears - "Worthless Sleaze"
Ovens - "Same Shit, Different Day"
Ovens - "PCP Song"
Julie Doiron - "Tailor"
Wavves - "So Bored"
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - "Inspiration Information"
U2 - "Magnificent"
Big Audio Dynamite - "The Bottom Line"
Sammy Davis Jr. - "You Can Count On Me"
Nina Simone - "My Baby Just Cares For Me"
Beirut - "La Llorona"
Spoon - "Well-Alright"
The Beatles - "All Things Must Pass"
Radiohead - "No Surprises"

It's the start of the Spring Pledge Drive here at KMSU. Please take a minute or two to offer up your support for the diverse programming and unique voice that KMSU provides to our community by calling (507)389-5678 or 1-800-456-7810. Any dollar amount is accepted and much appreciated. Check out the KMSU website for details on some of the cool premiums being offered at various pledge levels.

FFFreakout #154 (Aired on 3/19/09)

Beck - "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat"
The Decemberists - "Hazards of Love"
The Beatles - "Oh Darling"
Black Joe Lewis - "Sugarfoot"
Honeydogs - "Sunshine Committee"
Sam Roberts - "Them Kids"
MGMT - "Kids"
Rick James - "Give It To Me Baby"
Prince - "When You Were Mine"
Lily Allen - "Never Gonna Happen"
M. Ward - "Chinese Translation"
Statler Brothers - "Flowers on the Wall"
Pearl Jam - "Why Go"
The Pixies - "Gouge Away"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Sheena is a Punk Rocker"

Carl did the show today on his own live in the studio, something we seldom get the chance to do together. Hopefully when summer rolls around we'll get to do this more often.

FFFreakout #153 "Pumice" (Aired on 3/12/09)

Pumice - "Pumicequo" from Quo
Pumice - "Upsets # Four" from White
Pumice - "Warmhorn / Classicalfist" from Raft
Pumice - "Thermos in the Studio" from Quo
Pumice - "Both Beasts" from Pebbles
Pumice - "Worsted" from Yeahnahvienna
Pumice - "Heavy Punter" from Quo
(Pumice Phone Interview)
Pumice - Twin Neck Double Kick Bum Chin" from new split 7" w/ Grouper
Axemen - "The Wharf With No Name" from Flying Nun Boxset
Kraus - "Lancashire" from Lamentations of an Ape
Claypipe - "Constant" from The Jewelled Antler Library Boxset
The Ivytree - "The Withering Tree" from The Jewelled Antler Boxset
The Dead C - "Scarey Nest" from Eusa Kills

We featured one of our favorite artists on today's show, Stefan Neville (a.k.a. Pumice), including a recent phone interview we were fortunate enough to do with him. We had a chance to spin his track from the new split 7" with Grouper out on Soft Abuse Records. Also got to discuss some of his work with the NZ Audio Foundation and some of his upcoming projects. For more information and further listening check out his myspace site.

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FFFreakout #152 (Aired on 3/5/09)

Jellyfish - That is Why
U2 - The Wanderer
U2 - Staring At The Sun
Love & Rockets - No New Tale to Tell
House of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You
The Shadow Ring - Stella Drive
Tinariwen - Chert Boghassa
This Kind of Punishment - Holding
Pumice - Eyebath
Big Star - September Gurls
The Other Ones - Holiday
Dead Milkmen - Beach Party Vietnam
Flatt & Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Beastie Boys - Five Chicken Dinner / Lookin' Down a Barrel of a Gun
Devo - Freedom of Choice

Would somebody please re-issue all of the This Kind of Punishment material or, even better, put together a Jefferies brothers box set?

FFFreakout #151 (Aired on 2/26/09)

Fire on Fire - The Orchard
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo
Boris - My Neighbor Satan
Children's Hospital - Preschool of Atonement
Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak - Suicide Jimmy Snuffa
The Bats - Too Much
Sarandon - Welcome
Tinariwen - Oualahila Ar Tesninany
Royal Trux - Low Ass Mountain Song
Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies
Beastie Boys - Body Movin (Fatboy Slim Remix)
Beastie Boys (feat. Miho Hatori) - Start!
Lily Allen - Not Fair
The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night
Senor Coconut - Showroom Dummies

Some desert jammin' with Tinariwen:

FFFreakout #150 (Aired on 2/19/09)

Cheval Sombre - Where Did Our Love Go
The BPA - He's Frank (Slight Return) (feat. Iggy Pop)
Death in Vegas - Aisha
Teddy Bears - Punkrocker
The Shadow Ring - City Lights
The Tower Recordings - Braille Metronome
Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
Harry Pussy - No Hey
Animal Collective - Taste
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
George Harrison - If Not For You
M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
The BPA - Toe Jam (feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal)
Wilco - I Must Be High
(Outro Music: Mark Tucker - Shelley)

Wasn't sure if other Harry P. tracks would translate well at 2:00 in the afternoon. Imagine some area dentist office tuned to KMSU and hearing this!

FFFreakout #149 "Singles Going Steady?" (Aired on 2/12/09)

Urge Overkill - Positive Bleeding
Tenacious D - Tribute
Badly Drawn Boy - Pissing In The Wind
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality (Flute Mini Mix)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Blur - Girls and Boys (Pet Shop Boys remix)
Mike Watt - E-Ticket Ride
Marine Research - Sick & Wrong
Red Rumsey - Shine On
Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul (on flexi-disc!!)
Noise Addict - The Frail Girl
Beastie Boys - Root Down
Stereolab - Wow and Flutter
The Breeders - Grunggae
The Beatles - I'll Follow The Sun

More Mike Watt from the Ballhog or Tugboat album. Here's the Spike Jonze-directed video for "Big Train".

FFFreakout #148 (Aired on 2/5/09)

Phosphorescent - Reasons to Quit
Cheval Sombre - I Found It Not So
Marianne Nowottny & The All American Band - Ain't Gonna Be Pretty
Tortoise - Gooseneck
Pronto - Listen Lover
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
The Breeders - Do You Love Me Now? (feat. J. Mascis)
R.E.M. - Wichita Lineman
Blur - Tender (Cornelius Remix)
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)
Balloon Guy - Incidentally
Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Israelites
Vampire Hands - No Fun
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
(Outro Music: Massive Attack - Angel)

Today marked our 3-Year Anniversary of doing the show. We hadn't planned anything special in advance, though strangely enough we both arrived at the studio armed with singles that we hadn't listened to in years. In Carl's case it was a rather large box of CD singles he has amassed, and I had a small stack of 7 inch singles that have been tucked away. We mixed in some newer stuff this week, but next week we'll plunge full-on into these "forgotten treasures."

The Fall's cover of "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" was the first song played on our show three years back.

FFFreakout #147 (Aired on 1/29/09)

Animal Collective - Brother Sport
Blank dogs - Blaring Speeches
Children's Hospital - Exodus Return
Fire on Fire - Heavy D
Phosphorescent - Pick Up The Tempo
Bruce Springsteen - Outlaw Pete
A.C. Newman - The Heartbreak Rules
Pixies - Dig For Fire
Gore - Search
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Love Comes In Spurts
Arthur Russell - Time Away
Buddy Holly - Note Fade Away
Buddy Holly - Maybe Baby
Buddy Holly - Everyday
Buddy Holly - You're So Square Baby I Don't Care
Buddy Holly - Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

FFFreakout #146 (Aired on 1/22/09)

Roxy Music - Love is A Drug
Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
The Fleshtones - American Beat '84
Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump
Steve Treatment - Change of Plan
Phosphorescent - At Death, A Proclamation
The Hunches - Static Disaster
Jeremy Jay - We Stay Here (in our secret world)
Jakob Olausson - Live To Tell
Big Dipper - She's Fetching
Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Love Songs
Milkshake Melon - Walk Oates Walk
Sunburned Hand of the Man - The Parakeet Beat
The Piranhas - Girls Like It Too
Rejects - Vision Smashed
Outro Music: Circle - Snow Olympics)

Here's a video for Big Dipper's "Faith Healer". Their 3CD anthology Supercluster that came out on Merge last year was one of the year's best re-issues. Fellow Boston-based rockers from the 80's the Volcano Suns, which featured Peter Prescott of Mission of Burma, will also be getting the re-issue treatment from Merge here in the next week.Something to check out!

FFFreakout #145 (Aired on 1/15/09)

1) Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts
2) Danny & The Dressmakers - Eggs on Legs
3) Psychic Ills - Red Split
4) Dan Melchoir's Broke Revue - I'm A Robot
5) Six Organs of Admittance - Thicker Than a Smokey
6) The Cure - Hot Hot Hot!!!
7) Kiss - Hotter Than Hell
8) B-52's - Lava
9) Neil Diamond - Solitary Man
10) Style Council - Long Hot Summer
11) The Intelligence - Tropical Struggle
12) The Gories - Boogie Chillun
13) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natural Mystic
14) The Maytals - Pressure Drop
15) Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie
16) Martin Denny - Swamp Fire

With temperatures hovering around -10 degrees outside, Carl tried his best to bring some warmth to the afternoon, hence his reggae and heat-related selections. Here's some Dan Melchoir whom can certainly get things cooking as well:

FFFreakout #144 "Carl's Picks of '08" (Aired on 1/8/09)

1) Fireman - Nothing Too Much
2) Liam Finn - Second Chance
3) Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
4) The Hold Steady - Navy Sheets
5) Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
6) MGMT - Kids
7) Litle Joy - Brand New Start
8) She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
9) B.B. King - I Get So Weary
10) Alejandro Escovedo - Always A Friend
11) The Pretenders - Boots of Chinese Plastic
12) R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious
13) My Morning Jacket - Two Halves
14) Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
15) Cat Power - I Believe In You

Liam Finn "Second Chance"