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Category Archives: Community
Musik & Mythos Giveaway!
Update: Contest closed! Winners to be announced shortly — stay tuned… Now that the book is finally up for sale, Sharl and I are giving away: A/ one copy of Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos, the book, along with one … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Music, Pop Cult, Visual Arts
Tagged biography, contest, free stuff, illustration, tom waits
29 Comments
Remember That Baltimore Bust?
Back in May 2008, KUR was notified of the fact that an FZ statue donated by the state of Lithuania, risked being put on the outskirts on the city of Baltimore — “because Frank Zappa was not an appropriate image … Continue reading
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
Zappa, YouTube, Censorship
The above video was posted by flowerpunkchip on YouTube April 15, 2008. Along with the video he posted the following statement: CENSORED. Music replaced. Gee thanks Gail, if i ever do make money from your husband’s genius, I’ll let you … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Frank Zappa, In The News, Miscellany, YouTubery
Tagged copyright infringement, fan videos, Warner Brothers, youtube, Zappa
17 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
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
ZFT Litigation Frenzy: School of Rock Edition
I kid you not. Incredibly, having just lost the Zappanale lawsuit, the ZFT is now going after Paul Green’s School of Rock — more specifically Napoleon M. Brock’s envolvement therein. Here’s the Berger-Kahn letter (pdf). Quote: It recently came to … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Frank Zappa, In The News
Tagged berger kahn, gail zappa, lawsuit, litigation, napoleon murphy brock, school of rock, zft
56 Comments
ZFT vs Zappanale: Gail Loses
Taken straight from Der Spiegel (and translated to English by yours truly): His name belongs to me, thought Zappa widow Gail — and so she started a lawsuit against the music festival “Zappanale”, organized each year in his honor by … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Frank Zappa, In The News, Zappanale
Tagged copyright, gail zappa, lawsuit, zft
9 Comments
On Twitter
As you all know I’m a… …recent father of a newborn child [who] behaves like an old man. — bernard Whatever. Just wanted to announce I’ve had a Twitter account for some time now, where I post tweets: tiny messages … Continue reading