All Things To All People
I’m a bit bummed that I only found out about the most recent My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult tour (with Lords of Acid!) via this awesome Popshifter review of their live show… a couple days after they played Seattle. D’oh!…
Cover of Mofo Project/Object Greasy Love Songs was my introduction to the new series of Frank Zappa Audio Documentary projects (that one on Crusin’ With Ruben & The Jets), and having loved it so much, I’ve gone back for the other two…
Cover via Amazon It’s no secret that I’m a huge, obessive Frank Zappa fan (not that, in my experience, there’s any other kind of Zappa fan). Back around ‘98 or ‘99 I discovered Ed Palermo’s album The Ed Palermo Big Band Plays…
[Purchase CD] I might be an anomaly, I don’t know, but Cruising With Ruben & The Jets is one of my favorite Zappa albums. I get the impression that it’s one of those albums that’s kind of an also-ran for a lot of…
The murder ballad is one of the few really American forms of music. Strange, I suppose, but it’s not one you really see in other cultures. Actually, truthfully, you don’t really see it much in our culture anymore — there’s a few…
[Purchase MP3s] I’m not really much of a download-only music buyer; I am what Frank Zappa called a record fetishist. I like the music, sure, but I also like the cover art, the liner notes, the credits, the physicality of the whole…
[Purchase Book] Wild Man Fischer is one of the most enigmatic names of pop music. Fisher was discovered by Frank Zappa, named by Solomon Burke, and the first artist to release a single (and later, the first LP) on Rhino Records. He’s…
Image via Wikipedia These are the top ten songs — in no particular order save for number one — ever recorded by anyone. If a song is not on the list, it undoubtedly was a good try, however, I feel your pain….
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase CD] In 1972, an anonymous group of musicians from Shreveport, Louisiana released their first single, “Santa Dog” — but not in the normal fashion one normally goes about releasing a debut single. This band pressed up 300 copies…