SJAKO! ANNOUNCED A NEW ALBUM

 A new album, "Senior Citizens", and new concert dates for Dutch band Sjako!.

February 27, 2026, The tour will kick off in Haarlem.
Check https://sjako.eu/

Here's Sjako! performing FZ's 'Magic Fingers', in concert in Apeldoorn in 2016.

BOBBY BRANDFORD, MARK DRESSER & GLENN FERRIS - LIVE IN L.A.

• Bobby Bradford, Mark Dresser & Glenn Ferris: Live In L.A.
      (2011, cd, Portugal, clean feed)

Bobby Bradford (who also recorded with Don Preston) on cornet, Mark Dresser on bass, and Glenn Ferris (who performed and recorded with Frank Zappa) on trombone.
A live session, not recorded in a club before an audience, but in Bruce Fowler's (another famous Frank Zappa trombone player) living room.

-- info: Jan van Kemenade

DARKO THE SUPER - BEWARE OF BOB

Darko The Super has just released "Beware Of Bob".
Produced by MF Grimm.

‘Beware of Bob’ is an out-of-this-world album that is inspired by the truly singular television experience ‘Twin Peaks’ and rooted in Hip-Hop.

I like it.

NEW BOOK ON ZAPPA - - - FRANK ZAPPA - THE LIFE, MUSIC, AND LEGACY...

"Frank Zappa, The LIfe, Music, and Legacy of an Unconvnetional Artist - An Independent Biography"
by Susan M. Chloe

90 pages, hardcover.
It looks and reads like some sort of an AI supported introduction to FZ.

NEW BOOK ON FRANK ZAPPA'S DISSONANT PHILOSOPHY BY BEBO BEST

 Available in English and in Italian:
"Frank Zappa, The Dissonant Philosophy"
and
"Contro Ogni Autorita' - La Filosofia Dissonante Di Frank Zappa"
by Bebo Best

The different chapters discuss politics, dogmas and religion, technology, pop as parody, family man, the yellow shark, dweezil & the ZFT.

50 pages.
Nothing new, but nice to browse through.

MAURO PAWLOWSKI - ALWAYS SOMEONE

'Always Someone'
From Mauro Pawlowski's "Eternal Sunday Drive".

Also out on 7". On gold swirl vinyl.

• Mauro Pawlowski: Always Someone
      (2020, 7", Belgium, unday records)

ANGINE DE POITRINE

 

MOO-AH !

The upcoming Moo-Ah! Frank Zappa tribute festival has the most amazing line-up.

This 5th edition will feature John Etheridge' Zappatistas, Treacherous Cretins and The Muffin Men. Gabba Zappa Hey!, Fred Händl, and Turbulator.

March 20 & 21, 2026. 

https://www.festivalmoo-ah.com/

Check out the German Rockradio special:
https://www.rockradio.de/sendung_info.php?auswahl_lfdnr=39019&name_der_seite1=zappatime

THE LOVE SUBSTITUTES

The Love Substitutes have released two albums, plus one EP.
(The Love Substitutes = Mauro Pawlowski, Craig Ward, Rudy Trouvé & Bert Lenaerts)

I already mentioned "Meet The Love Substitutes While The House Is On Fire", but "The Velvet Sailor EP" (a 12" EP from 2005) and "More Songs About Hangovers And Sailors" (CD, 2006) also need your attention, if only for the beautiful artwork by Rudy Trouvé.

• The Love Substitutes: The Velvet Sailer EP
      (2005, 12”, Belgium, heavenhhotel hh0502)

• The Love Substitutes: More Songs About Hangovers And Sailors
      (2006, cd, Belgium, heavenhotel hh0601)

KATZENJAMMER - A KISS BEFORE YOU GO

• Katzenjammer: A Kiss Before You Go
      (2011, cd, Norway, propeller recordings)

Katzenjammer is a Norwegian female folk / world music quartet.
Dweezil Zappa added electric guitar feedback to one of the tracks...

Here's the track, 'Gypsy Flee':

Here's some more Katzenjammer