Category Archives: Music

Frank Zappa–Pioneer Of Future Music

Directed by Frank Scheffer, “Frank Zappa–Pioneer Of Future Music” (2007) is a two part documentary which combined and re-edited footage and interviews from “Frank Zappa: The Present Day Composer Refuses to Die” (2000) and “Frank Zappa: Phaze II, The Big … Continue reading

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Trent Reznor Has Some Advice

The point is this: music IS free whether you want to believe that or not. Every piece of music you can think of is available free right now a click away. This is a fact – it sucks as the … Continue reading

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Jimmy’s Last Tour — Jimmy Carl Black & The Muffin Men

After stumbling across this 1993 promo video of Frank Zappa’s “Willie the Pimp” featuring Jimmy Carl Black and The Muffin Men (live with studio footage), I found the following Podcast on The Muffin Men homepage. The band reminisces about Jimmy’s … Continue reading

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Marianne Faithfull — BBC Four Interview/Sessions

Marianne Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter and actress whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse and heroin addiction in the 1970s. … Continue reading

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Elsewhere

How does your language shape the way you think? Fascinating photo gallery: American pictures Living with Jesus (dot com) The Coolness Index Mutiny! The Big Pirate Bay Sellout Your browser is the new OS – Kottke nailed it 5 years … Continue reading

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Zappanale (Then & Now) – Frank Zappa Memorial Pancake Breakfast

The Frank Zappa Memorial Pancake Breakfast, also known as Finnish Zappa Tribute band (featuring Napoleon Murphy Brock and Denny Walley) perform “Montana” at Zappanale 19 in Bad Doberan, Germany, on August 17th, 2008 before an enthusiastic and appreciative audience.

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Rufus Wainwright’s Shakespeare Sonnets

Rufus Wainwright‘s newest project, following the critically acclaimed Want One, Want Two, Release The Stars and Rufus Does Judy, envolves putting Shakespeare sonnets to music. Apparently a work in progress still but what I’ve heard so far sounds beautiful: Both … Continue reading

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Boz Scaggs at Wolfgang’s Vault

Boz Scaggs‘ voice was a very big part in the soundtrack of the seventies, so it’s really not a big surprise that this artist’s music still resonates with me (myself, having come of age in the mid-seventies). For me, Scaggs … Continue reading

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Hip Hop Meets The Violin

You know hip hop really isn’t my thing — never has been. Hook it up with a classically skilled violinist though, and things get interesting: More violinesque YouTubery, courtesy of Paul Dateh. More of his music can be downloaded here.

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Eric Dolphy Quintet — Berlin ’61

A recent post made me think of another great innovator of free jazz, as well as third stream music: Eric Dolphy.

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