Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Springsteenmania hits Sweden

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  With two concerts in Stockholm this week the Swedish capital is in sort of Springsteen fever. One can see fans in band t-shirts on the str...
Sunday, June 02, 2024

Zappa percussionist Ed Mann dies

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American musician Ed Mann (b. 1954) has passed away. He played percussion in Frank Zappa's band for many years, making his debut there i...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Coming soon: The Mothers at The Whisky a Go Go 1968

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Whisky A Go Go, 1968 compiles everything The Mothers of Invention played across their three sets at the Whisky on July 23, 1968. This exten...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Joni Mitchell and Neil Young return to Spotify

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  In 2022 Joni Mitchell left the streaming platform Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young's protest over it hosting anti-vax content. No...
Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Official release: The Doors live in Sweden 1968

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The Doors’ two legendary sets in Stockholm, Sweden on September 20, 1968, will be officially released on Record Store Day 2024. The recordin...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Coming soon (?): Two books from inside the Zappa family

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Frank Zappa fans can expect two interesting books to be released in the nearby future: Frank's daughter Moon Unit Zappa's "Eart...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Robert Fripp and Darryl Hall play King Crimson

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 In the current season of Live From Daryl's House where Daryl Hall - formely of Hall &Oates -  eats, talks and and plays with favo...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

The Zappa Over-Nite Sensation monster set is here

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Here it is! 4 hours and 45 minutes of Frank Zappa music featuring one of his best lineups ever. The Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary rel...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

A third song released from the upcoming Zappa monster set

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An unexpected edit of Dirty Love is the third song released for streaming from the upcoming Over-Nite Sensation 50th anniversary album. The ...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

New: Zappa's Over-Nite Sensation as 5 disc monster set

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Release on November 17! Now this came as a surprise! Zappa Records/UMe has announced a super deluxe edition of Zappa's widely-acclaimed ...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Early Steely Dan beer commercial that was stopped for being too sexual

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Back in the early days of Steely Dan the group accepted the job of writing and recording a commercial for Shlitz Beer. This was 1972, so 50 ...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Hot Rats era related Zappa coming soon!

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The music on the upcoming Frank Zappa release Funky Nothingness is what is believed to have been planned for a potential sequel to Zappa...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

Di Leva on tour again with acclaimed Bowie tribute

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Swedish artist Thomas Di Leva is touring Sweden again with Changes – his tribute show to David Bowie.  The Radio Dupree staff has seen the s...
Saturday, March 04, 2023

New Zappa release featuring the spring/summer 1980 band

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"Mudd Club/Munich '80" is a 3 CD set featuring Frank Zappa's band during the spring and summer of 1980, the band that feat...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Terry Hall of The Specials dies

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Terry Hall, frontman of British band The Specials has died at the age of 63. The sad news came from the band on social media: "It is wi...