FFFreakout #138 "Carl Live and Solo" (Aired on 11/20/08)

Postmarks - You Only Live Twice
My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed
Blondie - Hardest Part
Blur - Parklife
Killers - Somebody Told Me
Noah & The Whale - 5 Years Time (Sun, Sun, Sun)
Beatles - Across the Universe
Shout Out Louds - Impossible
Cars - Since Your Gone
Breeders - Tip City
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What My Condition Was In)
Ash - Girl From Mars
Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
Archers of Loaf -
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love

FFFreakout #137 (Aired on 11/13/08)

1) Little Joy - The Next Time Around
2) Senor Coconut & His Orchestra - Kiss
3) Prince - Starfish and Coffee
4) The Clash - Hitsville U.K.
5) The Hold Steady - Party Pit
6) The Dead C - Children
7) Natural Snow Buildings - Breaking Waters
8) Hospital Ships - Baby for J
9) The Might Underdogs - Escape
10) Unicorn Basement - Oh God
11) Jack Nitzsche - The Lost Race
12) Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Theme from Rocky and Bullwinkle
13) Naked City - The James Bond Theme
14) Raymond Scott - The Penguin
15) George Brigman - I Feel Alright
16) Dreamend - If Only For a Day

Here's a live version of "The James Bond Theme" performed by a Big Band version of Naked City. How often do you see jazz cats sportin' Extreme Noise Terror t-shirts? You gotta love that John Zorn!

FFFreakout #136 (Aired on 11/6/08)

1) Flaming Lips - Turn It On
2) Suicide - Johnny
3) Dead C - Mansions
4) Medeski, Martin & Wood - Pat A Cake
5) Sun Ra - Looking Outward
6) Of Montreal - I'd Engager It
7) Scott Walker - Tilt
8) David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
9) New York Dolls - Trash
10 Tenacious D - History
11) Chrome - March of the Chrome (A Cold Clamey Bombing)
12) It's A Musical - The Circus
13) Fennesz - Shisheido
14) Hasil Adkins - Chicken Shake
15) Steinski - Lesson 1

Lots of activity from the great New Zealand band The Dead C of late, including a brand new full length out on Ba Da Bing Records entitled "Secret Earth" which the track from today's show was taken from. Ba Da Bing, along with Jagjaguwar Records, have also just reissued their first two albums "DR503" and "Eusa Kills" on beautiful vinyl. Both releases, housed in heavy gatefold jackets, include an additional 12" EP of material. Here they are performing "Sky" and later discussing the band Suicide.

FFFreakout #135(Carl's Halloween Hootenanny) (Aired on 10/30/08)

1) Luna - Season of the Witch
2) Southern Culture on the Skids - Werewolf
3) Nouvelle Vague - Bela Lugosi's Dead
4) David Seville - Witchdoctor
5) Rocky Horror Picture Show - Sweet Transvestite
6) Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
7) Big Bee Kornegay - At The House of Frankenstein
8) Roky Erikson & The Aliens - I Walked With A Zombie
9) Devo - Peek-A-Boo
10) Theme to Dr. Who
11) Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
12) Frankiestein & His Ghouls - Ouch, My Head
13) Los Straitjackets - Munster's Theme
14) Fred Schneider - Monster
15) The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
16) B.B. King - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

Everyone's favorite horror-rockers, The Cramps, performing "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" circa 1980.

FFFreakout #134 (Aired on 10/23/08)

1) Love is All - Talk Talk Talk Talk
2) Vampire Hands - Safe Word
3) Grails - Reincarnation Blues
4) Rig 1 - Dirty Little Sica
5) Wire - Dot Dash
6) The Chris McGregor Septet - Up To Earth
7) King Tuff - Just Strut
8) Polvo - City Spirit
9) Robert Johnson - He'll Make A Way
10) Arthur Russell - Instrumentals (#1)
11) Frank Zappa - Duck Duck Goose
12) Mike Osborne - Pure
13) Paavoharju - Pimeankarkelo
14) Wire - Strange

Theatrical trailor for "Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell" due out on November 18th on Plexifilm.

FFFreakout #133 (Aired on 10/16/08)

1) Ramones - Pinhead
2) Josh Rouse - Directions
3) Kings of Leon - Crawl
4) Devo - Girl U Want
5) Vampire Weekend - One (Blake's Got A New Face)
6) Gang Gang Dance - Glory in Itself
7) Christophe Bailleau & Neal Williams - Moistened Palms
8) Othar Turner - Bumble Bee
9) The Roots - Dave vs. Us
10) The Jam - Set the House Ablaze
11) The Streets - The Way of the Dodo
12) Harry Nilsson - Jump in the Fire
13) Of Montreal - Cato As a Pun
14) Ramones - Judy is a Punk

Here's some live footage of Gang Gang Dance performing "House Jam" from their new record "Saint Dymphna" which comes out next Tuesday.

FFFreakout #132 (Aired on 10/9/08)

1) Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak - Suicide Jimmy Snuffa
2) Portugal. The Man - Lay Me Back Down
3) Talkdemonic - Ending The Orange Glow
4) The Poison Arrow - Casual Wave
5) R.L. Burnside - Goin' Down South
6) Pavement - Starlings of the Slipstream
7) Pretenders - The Nothing Maker
8) Pretenders - The Wait
9) The White Stripes - Conquest (Acoustic Mariachi Version)
10) James - Waterfall
11) The Creation - Makin' Time
12) Dub Narcotic Soundsystem Meets The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Banana Meltdown
13) Liquid Liquid - Cavern

Liquid Liquid eye candy:

FFFreakout #131 (Aired on 10/2/08)

1) The Alps - Cloud One
2) Andy Dixon - Save Your Nails
3) Kenny Tompkins - Avery
4) Furry Lewis - Shake 'Em On Down
5) Marianne Nowottny & The All American Band - Mr. So & So (German Version)
6) The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait (Outtake - Electric)
7) Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey (I Love You)
8) Portishead - Only You
9) Chemical Brothers - Golden Path
10) Legendary Pink Dots - Peek-A-Boo
11) Pocahaunted - Warpaint
12) Black Star - Definition
13) Low - Sunflower
14) Andre Williams & The New Orleans Hellhounds - If you Leave Me
(Outro Music: Nurse With Wound - Groove Grease Hot Catz)

Here is a video for the song "Rainbows Too" from the new Legendary Pink Dots album "Plutonium Blonde" that is set for release next week. Also, the LPD will be performing at the Varsity Theatre in Minneapolis on October 23.

FFFreakout #130 (Aired on 9/25/08)

1) The Replacements- Alex Chilton (Alternate Version)
2) Golden Smog - Pecan Pie
3) Stooges - No Fun
4) Benji Hughes - You Stood Me Up
5) Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker
6) It's A Musical - The Music Makes Me Sick
7) Neil Michael Haggerty & The Howling Hex - Firebase Ripchord
8) Nurse With Wound - Ketamineaphonia
9) George Brigman - Jungle Rot
10) Danielson - Cast It At The Setting Sail
11) Jeny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
12) Tina Turner - Natbush City Limits
13) The Replacements - Achin' To Be
14) Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

Will this be what the talking breaks on Free Form Freakout will sound like if we hang around for another 40 years?

FFFreakout #129 (Aired on 9/18/08)

1) B.B. King - I Get So Weary
2) Ani DiFranco - Red Letter Year
3) Prince - Controversy
4) Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
5) Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
6) King Tuff - Dancing On You
7) The King Khan & BBQ Show - I'll Never Belong
8) Nurse With Wound - Yagga Blues
9) George Childers - Nobody's Business
10) Parenthetical Girls - Gut Symmetries
11) Nerf Herder - Van Halen
12) Rush - Tom Sawyer (Remix)
13) Beastie Boys - Sabrosa

Nurse With Wound (a.k.a. Steven Stapleton) will be doing a rare interview with WFMU's Brian Turner on his show on September 30th. Tune in for what is sure to be an interesting conversation along with some incredible sounds. To give you a taste of NWW's surrealist vision check out this video:

FFFreakout #128 (Aired on 9/11/08)

1) Magnetic Fields - California Girls
2) Ghost in the Water - Lake Ice
3) Tommy Jay - Batman
4) The Christmas Lights! - Atlas
5) The Alps - Trem Fanstasma
6) Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With the Blues
7) Larry Williams - Slow Down
8) Tapes 'N Tapes - Time Of Songs
9) Velvet Underground - Rock 'N' Roll
10) Delta Spirit - Trashcan
11) Sarah June - When Doves Cry
12) Holy Sons - Nothing Left
13) The North Sea - Bengali
14) Rev. Howard Finster - Five to My Five
15) Pumice - Thermos in the Studio

Here's a video for "Show Your Teeth" from the new Christmas Lights! album titled "Walk Like a Human".

FFFreakout #127 "Carl Live and Solo" (Aired on 9/4/08)

1) BB King - See That My Grave is Kept Clean
2) The Verve - Love is Noise
3) Langhorne Slim - Rebel Side of Heaven
4) Ike & Tina Turner - Funkier Than a Mosquitos Tweeter
5) Beastie Boys - Groove Holmes
6) Glen Campbell - All I Want is You
7) Calexico - Alone Again Or
8) Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd.
9) She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
10) Ambulance Ltd. - Primitive (The Way I Treat You)
11) Louis Prima - Closer to the Bone
12) Beck - Youthless
13) Robyn Hitchcock - Madonna of the Wasp
14) My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed
15) Booker T & The MG's - Boot-leg
16) Alejandro Escovedo - Always a Friend

"Madonna of the Wasp" live on Letterman:

FFFreakout #126 (Aired on 8/28/08)

1) Tricky - Bacative
2) The Cure - Freakshow
3) Oxford Collapse - Vernon-Jackson
4) My Morning Jacket - Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 1
5) Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion
6) Steinski - Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix)
7) Superchunk - Seed Toss
8) ESG - You Make No Sense
9) Tall Dwarfs - Crush
10) The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Can't Pay the Bills
11) Dr. Dog - The Rabbit, the Bat, and the Reindeer
12) Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
13) Johnny Flynn - The Box
14) Husker Du - Could You Be The One?
(Outro Music: Sandy Bull)

More Tall Dwarfs

FFFreakout #125 (Aired on 8/21/08)

1) Rafter - Love Time Now Please
2) CSS - Rat is Dead (Rage)
3) Sic Alps - Mater
4) Last of the Blacksmiths - At a Early Hour
5) Veljeni Valas - Lento
6) Lifter Puller - Man Park
7) Kevin Blechdom - Interspecies Love
8) Excepter - Any and Every
9) Rites of Spring - For Want Of
10) Wipers - Return of the Rat
11) Rodriguez - Sugar Man
12) Southern Culture on the Skids - Camel Walk
13) Alejandro Escovedo - Sister Lost Soul
14) George Harrison - What is Life
15) The National - You've Done It Again Virginia
16) King Khan & The Shrines - Crackin' Up

King Khan & The Shrines gettin' loose at the Pitchfork Music Festival.

FFFreakout #124 (Aired on 8/14/08)

1) Incredible String Band - Little Cloud
2) Azeda Booth - Well
3) The Dodos - Winter
4) Robyn Hitchcock - Queen Elvis II
5) Monique et Aviv - I Want To Go Outside
6) Dennis Duck - Davey the Worm
7) Big Dipper - All Going Out Together
8) Suburbs - Tired of my Plans
9) Stereolab - Three Women
10) Nurse With Wound - Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair
11) Los Beat 4 - Pobre Gato
12) Dominique Leone - Duyen
13) Graeme Jefferies - If the Moon Dies
14) Albert Ayler - Holy Family
15) XTC - Senses Working Overtime
16) Townes Van Zandt - Standin'
(Outro Music: Yahowa 13 - Ho)

Some more Graeme Jefferies, this time playing "Dave the Pimp" with his group Cakekitchen.

FFFreakout #123 (Aired on 8/7/08)

1) Sic Alps - Gelly Roll Gum Drop
2) Feral Children - Zyghost
3) Dosh - If You Want To, You Have To
4) Dennis Wilson - You and I
5) Stereolab - Neon Beanbag
6) Cheap Trick - On the Radio
7) Pumice - Pebbles
8) Ennio Morricone - Titoli
9) Madvillain - Curls
10) Experimental Dental School - Whale Drone
11) Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight
12) Long John Hunter - Hey Mrs. Jones
13) Sandy Bull - Little Maggie
14) Tower Recordings - Other Kinds Run
15) Painkiller - Dr. Phibes
16) Kurt Weill - Mack the Knife
(Outro Music: Madvillain - Sickfit)

"Mack the Knife" instructional dance video anyone?

FFFreakout #122 (Aired on 7/31/08)

1) Neil Diamond - If I Don't See You Again
2) M83 - You, Appearing
3) Wolf Parade - California Dreamer
4) Southern Culture on the Skids - Muswell Hillbilly
5) Nick Lowe - So It Goes
6) Vampire Hands - No Fun
7) Big Dipper - She's Fetching
8) Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb
9) Stone Breath - Path of Nails
10) The Gories - Goin' to the River
11) The Bats - Sighting the Sound
12) Abiku - Secret
13) The Hold Steady - One for the Cutters
14) Man Child Singers - Right On
15) Desmond Dekker & The Aces - It Mek

Gettin' down with The Gories

FFFreakout #121 (Aired on 7/24/08)

1) Steinski - Jazz
2) Abe Vigoda - Bear Face
3) Sic Alps - Who Has Time To Protest?
4) Francoise Hardy - Suzanne
5) Raymond Scott - The Penguin
6) U2 - Gloria
7) U2 - With A Shout
8) U2 - I Will Follow
9) U2 - Touch
10) U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One
11) U2 - Angels Too Tired To The Ground
12) Wire - One Of Us
13) Sun City Girls - 3D Girls
14) Red Krayola - Save The House
15) Mudcrutch - Shady Grove
(Outro Music: Raymond Scott - War Dance for Wooden Indian)

Some footage of the Raymond Scott Quintette:

FFFreakout #120 (Aired on 7/17/08)

1) Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
2) Dr. Dog - The Breeze
3) Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
4) English Beat - Twist and Crawl
5) The Specials - Rudi, A Message To You
6) James Jackson Toth - Nothing Hides
7) The Gun Club - Walkin With the Beast
8) Moby Grape - Omaha
9) Pumice - Thermos in the Studio
10) Captain Beefheat & The Magic Band - Doctor Dark
11) Elvis Costello & The Imposters - American Gangster Time
12) The White Stripes - Cannon
13) Pixies - Brick is Red
14) Pixies - Caribou
15) Wilco - Pot Kettle Black
16) Levon Helm - Poor Old Dirt Farmer
17) Pulp - Disco 2000

You Gotta Love Beefheart!!

FFFreakout #119 (Aired on 7/10/08)

1) Silver Jews - Strange Victory, Strange Defeat
2) Ponies in the Surf - Heaven
3) King Khan & The Shrines - Torture
4) No Age - Cappo
5) Beck - Youthless
6) The Ting Tings - Great DJ
7) The Replacements - Hey, Good Lookin'
8) Glen Campbell - Sadly Beautiful
9) The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
10) The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy
11) Minutemen - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
12) Bob Dylan - Worried Blues
13) Nina Simone - Real Real
14) RZA as Bobby Digital - Drama
15) Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin (Every Time You're Near)
16)My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
(Outro Music: M83 - Couleurs)

"Meet Glen Campbell"