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Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher
The Tom Waits Book Has Materialized
You’ll remember my going on and on about the Tom Waits book Sharl and I illustrated. Ah, well a couple of days ago we finally got our copy: The front- and back-cover with some of the postcards. Some more postcards. … Continue reading
Posted in In Writing, Music, Personal, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, collage, illustration, tom waits
13 Comments
French FZ-Fans To Boycott ZPZ’s Paris Concert
This just in via Uni-Muta: French FZ fansite Les Fils de l’Invention are calling for a boycott of the upcoming ZPZ Concert in Paris. Translation: Just after last month’s dismissal of the case of the ZFT against the Arf Society, … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Frank Zappa, In The News, Zappa Plays Zappa
Tagged boycot, paris, Zappa Plays Zappa, Zappanale, zft, ZPZ
11 Comments
One Year Old Scotch Milk
Today this weblog turns one (although technically, it’s to turn eight in July)! Having made the switch in February 2008, we instantly lost a whole bunch of readers. The new KUR started out with about 12,000 views per month. We … Continue reading
Odds & Ends Some More
Time for another bag of miscellany that may or may not be of interest to you: In search of the click track: guess who wins, guess who loses. The Hush Now – free album download. I was given this link … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Heh Heh, Miscellany, Music
Tagged iggy pop, phil hartman, the beatles, the hush now, yellow snow
3 Comments
Confessions Of Robert Crumb
Am posting this just so I can watch it myself later: a fifty-five minute documentary from 1987 on one of my heroes, Robert Crumb. This film was apparently written by the man himself. Via Non-Stick Plans.
On/Off
A mix of things that you may or may not already know… New ZPZ tourdates are announced. Gail and Dweez talk about an upcoming Ruben & The Jets release (mp3 link), akin to, or so it seems, the MOFO project. … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, In Writing, Miscellany, Music, Pop Cult, Zappa Plays Zappa
Tagged 4chan, jimmy carl black, lagunitas, ruben & the jets, school of rock, trolls, ZPZ
9 Comments
Conceptual Continuity, Anyone?
A while ago, I was sent a link to a course on the music of Frank Zappa, given between 2001 and 2007 by one Jason Klein of the University of North Texas. Browsing around, I stumbled across this PDF (caution: … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, In Writing, Music
Tagged conceptual continuity, jason klein, unt, zappa's universe
20 Comments
The Berlusconi Protest Song Project
Michel Delville of Belgian FZ tribute band The Wrong Object writes in to announce an interesting project: There is a new myspace page devoted to musical responses to the New Fascism in all its guises and disguises. Please come and … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Heh Heh, Music, Politics, YouTubery
Tagged berlusconi, fascism, protest songs
3 Comments
ZPZ Wins At The Grammys
Dweezil Zappa’s ZPZ band has won this year’s Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “Did you feel it? The world actually fell off its axis,” said Dweezil Zappa, accepting the award for best rock instrumental performance for “Peaches en Regalia,” … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Plays Zappa
Tagged award, grammys, peaches en regalia, Zappa Plays Zappa, ZPZ
117 Comments
The Forum Is Dead, Long Live The Forum!
As of this moment, the forum located at killuglyradio.com/forum, has been shut down, although its archives can still be browsed. From its ashes, a new forum has arisen: forum.killuglyradio.com. Go register now! For those interested, a couple of reasons why … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Frank Zappa, Site News
Tagged enforced audience participation, forum
4 Comments