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  • Published on 05:36 GMT

    Von Hansen’s certainties: Life, death … and Frank Zappa

    Topeka-based composer and musician Von Hansen will present an evening of his music at Fisch Haus on Saturday, April 19. Titled “Music Is The Best or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Frank Zappa,” the presentation spotlights Hansen’s compositional …

    Source: KMUW - Kansas - Public Broadcaster
  • Published on Apr 14, 2025

    ‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’: The most mind-melting moment in Frank Zappa’s discography

    (Credits: Far Out / Alamy) During the 52 years that he spent with us on Earth, Frank Zappa released 62 albums. Since his 1994 death, his family have released a further 67 works in his name. To do the maths, he was quite simply, prolific. A singer, …

    Source: Far Out Magazine - Neutral
  • Published on 13:05 GMT

    Let the madness begin: An oral history of Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

    In 1936, a grainy black-and-white anti-marijuana propaganda film sought to spread misinformation about the dangers of weed. Reefer Madness is a “cautionary tale,” where Jimmy Harper falls in with a bad crowd and the devil’s lettuce turns its smokers into …

    Source: Paste - Neutral
  • Published on 11:45 GMT

    Zappa, Corbin at Newton Theatre

    Friday, April 18 Start the evening with a laid-back set by a local favorite: EZ Pete brings his tunes to the Lafayette House, 75 Route 15, at 6 p.m., while singer-songwriter Mark Coulter delivers a solo performance at McQ’s Pub at Lake Lenape, 165 Andover …

    Source: The Advertiser-News (South) - New Jersey - Pending
  • Published on 06:47 GMT

    ‘Have Moicy!’: Jeffrey Lewis’ favourite overlooked masterpiece

    (Credis: Far Out / YouTube Still / Rough Trade) It’s still a source of debate as to whether anti-folk is a pitch-perfect label or a dreary contrarian genre tag. Born from the late 1980s reaction against some of the movement’s more earnest singer- …

    Source: Far Out Magazine - Neutral
  • Published on Apr 15, 2025

    Black Country, New Road’s ‘Forever Howlong:’ a lesson in rolling with the punches

    The UK-based band has proved yet again why they’re a new force to be reckoned with, even without former lead singer-songwriter Isaac Wood.  There is no band without its lead singer. There is no Nirvana without Kurt Cobain. There is no Queen without Freddie …

    Source: The Highlander Newspaper - California - Neutral
  • Published on Apr 15, 2025

    Friend's Zappa tribute intriquing

    I have been to hundreds of concerts in my life. April 5, I caught a show I won’t forget for a long time. I was lucky enough to see Joe’s Garage Part II at the VFW club in Mankato. Full disclosure, I attended because my lifelong friend, Joe Tougas, created …

    Source: Mankato Free Press - Minnesota - Pending
  • Published on Apr 15, 2025

    The cosy Glasgow bar that has been open since 1819 on the banks of the Clyde

    The Clutha and Vicitoria has a long and storied history. When it comes to the sheer volume of top-quality pubs, it is hard to top Glasgow. Scotland's biggest city is home to a huge variety of bars every way you turn. Most of the city's watering …

    Source: Daily Record & Sunday Mail - Left-wing
  • Published on Apr 14, 2025

    Connecticut Concerts Showcase Diverse Lineup of Artists This Week

    HARTFORD, Conn. — Music lovers in Connecticut are in for a treat this week, as a host of extraordinary artists take the stage across various venues. From reggae legends to a lively tribute to a rock icon, the state’s entertainment schedule is packed with …

    Source: Times News Global - Pro-Government
  • Published on Apr 13, 2025

    White Light: Connecting Steve Urkel and the Velvet Underground

    When I hitmy late teens, like so many before me, I began to navigate my place in the world entirely through my relation to rock music. I had no aspirations to play music myself — I was just an eager listener. Having arrived at college with a CD collection …

    Source: Utne Reader - Left-wing
  • Published on Apr 13, 2025

    Tuning Out the Algorithm at WFMU

    In November 1980, Ken Freedman blasted Lesley Gore’s 1963 pop hit “It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry If I Want To)” on repeat for nineteen continuous hours over the airwaves of WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor’s college radio station. Ronald Reagan had just been elected …

    Source: Jacobin - Left-wing
  • Published on Apr 13, 2025

    5 '90s Alternative Rock Bands That Should've Been Bigger

    Here are five 1990s alternative rock bands that should've been bigger. With the introduction of Nirvana and Nevermind in 1991, the ‘90s were front row and center for the changing of musical tides; tossing away the notorious party scene of LA glam metal …

    Source: 95.5 KMBR - Montana - Pending
  • Published on Apr 13, 2025

    Jeff Bridges Is Digging It

    The interior of Jeff Bridges’s garage, in Santa Barbara, California, has the ramshackle ease of an extravagant dorm room: a tiger-print rug, a potter’s wheel, guitars, a rogue toothbrush, taped-up printouts of ideas he finds provocative or perhaps …

    Source: The New Yorker - Left-wing
  • Published on Apr 12, 2025

    From Patti Labelle to Melissa Etheridge to St. Vincent, women rock this week in CT arts

    Some extraordinary women command Connecticut stages this week. The Trinidad-born England-based reggae singer Queen Omega is at The Webster. La Luz, the flashy all-female futuristic rock band from Seattle, is fittingly playing the Space Ballroom. Soul-pop …

    Source: Hartford Courant - Connecticut - Neutral
  • Published on Apr 12, 2025

    "Everyone one of them said yes": Hank Marvin and Roger Taylor have just remade a classic for charity

    Together at last! Ever wondered what might happen if Roger Taylor severed his Brian May umbilical? Wonder no longer for he has just got with The Shadows legend Hank Marvin to rework Sandy Nelson’s much-loved Let There Be Drums. PLUS a cast of superstar …

    Source: MusicRadar - Pending
  • Published on Apr 11, 2025

    Jeff Bridges: I survived cancer, Covid and losing my house in the LA fires

    Actors rarely like to be mistaken for the characters they are most famous for portraying. In the case of Jeff Bridges and the Dude, the laid-back hippy Californian of The Big Lebowski fame, however, even the man himself can see more than a passing …

    Source: The Times - Center-right
  • Published on Apr 11, 2025

    Things That Came Out About Rock Stars After They Died

    Wailing away on a microphone, shredding a guitar, or banging away on a drum kit has made a relative handful of people very wealthy and very famous. In the latter half of the 20th century, a new and special breed of human being emerged called the rock star …

    Source: Grunge - Neutral
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