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.