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"