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"

FFFreakout #143 "Dave's Faves of '08" (Aired on 1/1/09)

1) Magnetic Fields - Old Fools from Distortion (Nonesuch)
2) Sic Alps - Gelly Roll Gum Drop from U.S. EZ (Siltbreeze)
3) Times New Viking - Another Day from Rip It Up (Matador)
4) No Age - Teen Creeps from Nouns (Sub Pop)
5) Pumice - Pebbles from Quo (Soft Abuse)
6) Crystal Stilts - Shattered Shine from Alight of Night (Slumberland)
7) Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out from Street Horsssing (ATP Records)
8) The Alps - Cloud One from III (Type)
9) Scott Tuma - Moccasoclea from Not For Nobody (Digitalis)
10) Steinski - Jazz from What Does It All Mean? (Illegal Art)
11) Arthur Russell - Close My Eyes from Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika)
12) Blind Boy Fuller - Step It Up & Go from Victrola Favorites (Dust-to-Digital)
13) Blank Dogs - Spinning from the Yeti #6 compilation (Yeti Publishing)
14) Spiritualized - I Gotta Fire from Songs in A & E (Castle)
15) Sun City Girls - Wild World of Animals from You're Never Alone With a Cigarette (Abduction)
16) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Moonland from Dig, Lazurus, Dig!!! (Anti-)

Happy New Year!!! Took the opportunity on today's show to run through some of my favorites from 2008 (in no particular order) and next week Carl will do the same. This is just a small sampling of some of the things I enjoyed. If I had more time I would have loved to delve deeper into some of the re-issues I discovered. Also, I should have played something off of Hairdryer Peace by The Hospitals, but I thought after some late night New Year's partying this may give some people the head spins and cause some gastro-intestinal upheaval. Maybe next time!

Crystal Stilts "Prismatic Room"

FFFreakout #142 (Aired on 12/25/08)

1) Rev. J.M. Bates - Gettin' Ready For Christmas Day
2) Blind Lemon Jefferson - All I Want is That Pure Religion
3) Skip James - Jesus is a Mighty Good Leader
4) Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden . . .
5) Rev. Gary Davis - I Belong To the Band
6) Eddie Head and Family - - Lord, I'm the True Vine
7) Carter Family - Keep on the Sunny Side
8) Roosevelt Graves and Brother - Woke Up This Morning
9) Bessie Johnson's Sanctified Singers - The Whole World is in His Hands
10) Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys - I'll Have a New Body
11) Edward W. Clayborn - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You
12) Blind Willie McTell - I Got to Cross the River Jordan
13) Louvin Brothers - I'll Never Go Back
14) Flatts & Scruggs - That Home Above
15) Rev. D.C. Rice and Sanctified Congregation - We Got the Same Kinda Power Over Here
16) Lil McClintock - Sow Good Seeds
17) Rev. Edward Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist) - This Time Another Year You May Be Gone
18) Mahalia Jackson - God's Gonna Separate the Wheat From the Tares

Even though it was Christmas Day, we figured most people had probably had their fill of Christmas music, so we decided to play a bunch of old time gospel and sanctified blues. Here's some footage of Rev. Gary Davis, a personal favorite.

FFFreakout #141 (Aired on 12/18/08)

1) James Brown - Go Power At Christmas Time
2) Clarence Carter - Backdoor Santa
3) Los Lobos - Rudolf the Manic Reindeer
4) Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
5) The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
6) David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy
7) Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas
8) Ramones - Merry Christmas, I Don't Want To Fight Tonight
9) Squirrel Nut Zippers - Carolina Christmas
10) Weird Al Yankovic - Christmas at Ground Zero
11) Elvis Presley - Here Comes Santa Claus
12) Sammy Davis, Jr. - Jingle Bells
13) The Blue Hawaiians - Christmas Time is Here
14) The Rat Pack - A Marshmellow World (live)
15) Les Brown & His Band of Renown - The Nutcracker Suite
16) El Vez - Feliz Navidad

El Vez wants to wish you a Merry Christmas!

FFFreakout #140 (Aired on 12/11/08)

1) David Byrne & Brian Eno - Home
2) Alejandro Escovedo - Chelsea
3) Cat Power - New York
4) The Who - A Quick One, While He's Away
5) Knife World - Aerial Chariot
6) Times New Viking - Teen Drama
7) Ilyas Ahmed - Returned Prayer
8) Brady "Doc" and Lucy Barnes - Free Go Lily
9) Dead C - Speed Kills
10) Billy Paul - Am I Black Enough For You?
11) Sly & The Family Stone - Loose Booty
12) The Temptations

Carl mentioned that the Alejandro Escovedo record was one of his favorites of the year, and we brought up the time we saw him live doing a scorching version of "I Wanna Be Your Dog". Here he is performing it in 2007, minus the rockin' cello player.

FFFreakout #139 (Aired on 12/4/08)

Alan & Richard Bishop - My Painted Tomb
Frida Hyvonen - Dirty Dancing
Blank Dogs - Spinning
Twinsistermoon - Kingdom of the Sea
King Tuff - Lazerbeam
The Fireman - Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight
The Black Keys - Psychotic Girl
Johnny Cash - Rowboat
The Pretenders - Boots of Chinese Plastic
School of Seven Bells - Iamundernodisguise
Kemialliset Ystavat - KYY4
George Childers - Turkey in the Straw
Pumice - World With Worms
Jenny Lewis - Jack Killed Mom
The Kinks - Set Me Free

Here's a video for "Leaving the Light On" by the mysterious Blank Dogs who are reported to have a new full-length out on In The Red Records in the coming months.

Happy Thanksgiving

Due to our busy schedules and the holiday, we just re-aired show #136 from a few weeks back. We'll be back with a new show for next week. Hope you all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving Day and that you didn't fill yourselves with too much turkey (or tofurkey).

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.