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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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