Category Archives: Zappa Articles

Google has introduced archive search to their news service. That’s 200 years of news articles right at your fingertips (some of which you have to pay a small fee for unfortunately). Any Zappa articles? You bet — right back to … Continue reading →

Perfect Echo: It’s monday morning and at work i’m playing “Freak Out”. FZ collection 001. and I intend to make this trend last long enough to get to the end. I’m gonna listen to it all, and time permitting, review … Continue reading →

Interesting interview from Downbeat Magazine’s May ’78 edition, where Zappa talks (among other things) about foreground vs background in music and how he approaches the issue: The chord is like the establishing shot in a movie–where you see the exterior … Continue reading →

I dunno how it is where you’re at but outhere, it’s been raining cats and dogs all day week. What better circumstances to scan Relix Magazine’s April/May Zappa special, eh? So here it is: Zappa In Relix Magazine.

This week’s Humo Magazine has an article on the Zappa’s featuring interviews with Dweezil, Ahmet and Gail. I may be putting up a translated version later. For now though, here’s their intro, which I found rather amusing: On 15 November … Continue reading →

This guy is putting up a bunch of newspaper clippings, articles and pictures related to Frank Zappa. Nice reads, if you can ignore the background-music, the rotating smilies, and the fact that most of the articles are in dutch…

Frank Filipetti: “Currently, he’s working on a re-release of Paul Simon’s Graceland in 5.1 surround sound as well as a 1974 Frank Zappa live concert project.”

Zappa Tagebuch discusses one Zappa-phrase a day. In German.

Lovely bit of nostalgia: pictures of the ’57 and ’58 Antelope High yearbooks, and some background information: Many of us girls were forbidden by our parents to attend the “wild” Blackouts dances, but of course we went anyway. The dances … Continue reading →

With a hat tip to our pal of British persuasion Magic Fingers, KUR obtained scans of the original PMRC documents as they were sent out by Frank Zappa during (and following) the PMRC hearings back in ’85. Most of the … Continue reading →

From AlterDudes (a site well worth keeping an eye on, methinks), an interview with Frank Zappa in Electronic Musician, dated September ’86: EM: What about live performances? Would you go out with the Synclavier? FZ: I’ve been trying to figure … Continue reading →

Continuing the article posted last time, we made an interview with Peter E̦tv̦s, the composer/conductor, who was the last one to work with FZ, recording Varese. Nice text Рwith some bicycle, some Slonimsky and the Dangerous Kitchen.