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Category Archives: Music
Beefheart ’74
Is anyone here who happens to like Captain Beefheart?
Posted in Music, Pop Cult
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Prussian Blue
Cutesy thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans. So what? Hang on: “We’re proud of being white, we want to keep being white,” said Lynx. “We … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Music
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The Cobain Case
Did Kurt Cobain not commit suicide, but was he murdered instead? Some people believe the latter to be true.
Black Metal
Black Metal: How-To? The second precondition is that you must be from Scandinavia, and it would be even better if you were from Norway. Countries such as Poland, Romania, Lithuania and Estonia are OK too, I suppose. Anyway, I suppose … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Pop Cult, Silly
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Ride My Face To Milano
…to hear the Metropolis Orchestra playing FZ’s music in an event called A Zappa Halloween Night (29 ottobre). “CLUUU-UUUCK!! CLUUU-UUUCK!!”
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
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Vagina Music
You have your vagina blog and then you have your vagina music mp3’s. Free! Please don’t ask how I found this.
Posted in Bizarre, Music
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“ZAPPADAG!” – Zapmen of Belgium, unite!
Zappa-day in Genk, Belgium! It seems to me, that one time it used to be a regular program (in Eindhoven, I think… Am I right?) After some FZ videos the belgian group Wrong Object will play. Hey! (from United Mutations)
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
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Exhausted Pattern Potentialities
Interesting take on “the decay of American culture”, using music as the marker: Eventually you run out of chairs for chords, variations on the order you play them, and their complexity. You reach the point that Kroeber described: “With pattern … Continue reading
Aerial
Kate Bush’s new album “Aerial” features cover art showing a bunch of shadowy rocks that could be interpreted as a soundwave. How long before someone tries to transpose the image to sound? Not long.
Posted in Music, Pop Cult
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Captain John
Anybody else out there feel like Dr. John is New Orleans’ bluesier version of Captain Beefheart? I bought his “Babylon” album just today, and the resemblance is striking at times. Those grunts, that weirdo orchestration… what a great album though!
Posted in Music
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Savage Beatles
When The Beatles were still The Quarry Men, they looked something like this. A fascinating collection of photos.
Posted in Music, Pop Cult
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Van The Man
Van Morrison’s Contractual Obligation Album: In order to fulfill his obligation to his early solo label Bang Records,Van Morrison sat down in 1967 or so and cranked out 31 songs on the spot, on topics ranging from ringworm to wanting … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Music
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Cash, The Musical
A musical featuring the songs of the late singer Johnny Cash is heading to the Broadway stage next year. Musical. Johnny Cash. That’s a bit like doing a rock-opera about Liberace, isn’t it?
Posted in Music
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