Zappagram #98: Is this worth $1 to you?
I'm starting to question what I'm doing here.
Hey Zappagrammers,
I’ve been working hard to consistently bring you the best music newsletter possible every week for nearly two years now, and I’d like to carry on for as long as possible if the support is there.
Would you consider supporting Zappagram for $1 per week?
If you feel that I provide value and entertainment through what I do here, please consider taking advantage of the offer. Your support is the only thing that makes Zappagram possible. Thanks for considering helping out.
I have to be honest and tell you that I’m considering throwing in the towel here bcause the support just isn’t there, which is not in any way to disparage those of you who have shown your support with dollars. I love and appreciate you. You have made a difference. I just wish there were more wonderful humans like you. That’s all.
Ground control to reader: Take your protein pills. Put your helmet on.
This newsletter ain’t gonna read itself.
“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
—Frank Zappa
ROCK THE VOTE
:: MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD
Last week’s poll: 50% of you guessed correctly that Luther Vandross sang backup vocals on David Bowie’s “Young Americans.” How many of you already knew that and how many of you Googled it? Be honest.
MUSIC NEWS
:: WHAT’S GOING ON
THANKS BUT NO THANKS
Marilyn Manson Attempts Comeback Tour Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
IS THIS 1979?
No Nukes’ Jackson Browne and Graham Nash Sign Open Letter Warning of Nuclear Weapons
HALL & COSTELLO
Daryl Hall and Elvis Costello Announce Spring and Summer 2024 Tour
I WANT TO OWN SO MANY BOOKS
The Roots’ Questlove Announces New Hip-Hop Is History Book
BE WELL, DEANER
Ween Cancel April Tour Dates as Dean Ween Tends to “Mental and Spiritual Well Being”
JFC
Planned Terror Attack on Brussel Music Venue La Botanique Foiled by Police
YOU DON’T SAY
NEED TO PRACTICE MY PAPER AIRPLANE
Ben Folds to Reprise His “Paper Airplane Request Tour” in Summer 2024
SHE’S A POET AND DON’T KNOW IT
Taylor Swift Revealed to be Related to Emily Dickinson
BYE BYE PAZ
Pixies Announce Departure of Bassist Paz Lenchantin
Z-REX
:: ZAPPA’S RECOMMENDATIONS
I’ve become a little obsessed with Sierra Ferrell as of late. Here’s “The Sea”, the first single from her 2022 debut album Long Time Coming. She has a new album coming out in a couple weeks that I’m pretty excited for, too. Is anyone else here a fan of hers?
NEW RELEASES
:: RECENTLY DROPPED MUSIC
Air: Moon Safari (25th Anniversary Edition)
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Bleachers: Bleachers
The Cars: Candy-O (Vinyl Reissue)
Grateful Dead: American Beauty (Vinyl Reissue)
Kim Gordon: The Collective
The Libertines: All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade
Norah Jones: Visions
The Rolling Stones: Live At The Wiltern
RELEASE RADAR
:: UPCOMING RELEASES
- MAR 15 -
The Black Crowes: Happiness Bastards
Dan Boeckner (of Wolf Parade): Boeckner!
The Dandy Warhols: Rockmaker
Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well
Lenny Kravitz: Blue Electric Light
Miles Davis: Volume 2 (Vinyl Reissue)
Nina Simone: Nina’s Back (Reissue)
- MAR 22 -
A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, and Failure: Cinquanta
Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future
Alice in Chains: Jar of Flies EP (30th Anniversary Reissue)
The Cure: Paris (30th Anniversary Edition)
Elbow: Audio Vertigo
Illiterate Light: Slow Down Time EP
The Jesus and Mary Chain: Glasgow Eyes
Julia Holter: Something in the Room She Moves
Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol: Big Dumb Riffs
Sierra Ferrell: Trail of Flowers
Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood
Wye Oak: Shriek: Variations
- MAR 29 -
The Church: Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers: Revelations
Sheryl Crow: Evolution
- APR 5 -
The Black Keys: Ohio Players
Khruangbin: A la Sala
The Libertines: All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
Lizzy McAlpine: Older
Novo Amor: Collapse List
Old 97’s: American Primitive
Phosphorescent: Revelator
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us
ON THIS DATE
:: MUSICAL HAPPENINGS OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
- MAR 11 -
Birthdays: Bobby McFerrin (1950) • Lisa Loeb (1968) • Rami Jaffee (1969) • Deja Vu, the first album by Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, (and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash), was released. (1970) • Neil Young went to #1 on the U.S. & UK album chart with his fourth studio album Harvest. (1972) • The front door of Ozzy Osbourne's childhood home in Birmingham, England went up for sale because the current owner was fed up with fans defacing it. (2005)
- MAR 12 -
Birthdays: Leonard Chess, founder of the Chess Records (1917) • Al Jarreau (1940) • James Taylor (1948) • Pete Doherty (1979) • Charlie Parker died of a heart attack in New York City. He was 34. (1955) • The Velvet Underground’s debut album was released. (1967) • The Rolling Stones started recording “Jumpin' Jack Flash.” (1968) • Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman. (1969) • The Allman Brothers Band played the first of two nights at the Fillmore East in New York. Both shows were recorded and released as a live double album. (1971) • Amy Winehouse made her U.S. television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman performing “Rehab.” (2007)
- MAR 13 -
Birthdays: Neil Sedaka (1939) • Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü (1959) • Adam Clayton of U2 (1960) • Jack Harlow (1998) • Iggy Pop kicked off the North American leg of The Idiot World Tour in Montreal (with David Bowie in the band on keyboards and backing vocals). Blondie opened. (1977) • Radiohead released The Bends. (1995) • American drummer Jim Gordon died in prison at the age of 77. (2023)
- MAR 14 -
Birthdays: Quincy Jones (1933) • Michael Martin Murphey (1945) • Este Haim (1986) • Peter Blake, who designed the Sgt. Pepper album cover, sued the Beatles’ record company for more money. Blake was initially paid £200 ($340) in 1967, but was now 'cheesed off' that EMI had never offered to pay more. (2001)
- MAR 15 -
Birthdays: Lightnin' Hopkins (1912) • Phil Lesh (1940) • Mike Love (1941) • Sly Stone (1944) • Ry Cooder (1947) • Howard Devoto of Buzzcocks (1952) • Dee Snider of Twisted Sister (1955) • Terence Trent D'arby (1962) • Bret Michaels (1963) • Kennedy Gordy. a.k.a. Rockwell (1964) • Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 (1972) • Will.i.am (1975) • Bob Dylan was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. (1982) • Bruce Springsteen was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame by Bono. (1999) • Scott Asheton, drummer for the Stooges, died of a heart attack aged 64. (2014)
- MAR 16 -
Birthdays: Nancy Wilson of Heart (1954) • Flavor Flav (1959) • Aziz Ibrahim, guitarist for Simply Red, The Stone Roses (1964) • Alex Lee, guitarist for Goldfrapp, Suede, Placebo (1970) • Andrew Dunlop, guitarist for Travis (1972) • Motown singer Tammi Terrell died of a brain tumor, aged 24. She collapsed onstage on October 14, 1967, into Marvin Gaye's arms during a concert in Hampton, Virginia. (1970) • Dick Dale died of heart failure, aged 81. (2019)
- MAR 17 -
Birthdays: Nat King Cole (1919) • Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane (1941) • John Sebastian (1944) • Mike Lindup of Level 42 (1959) • Billy Corgan (1967) • Caroline Corr (1973) • Justin Hawkins (1975) • Hozier (1990) • Alex Chilton died in hospital of heart problems in New Orleans aged 59. (2010) • Taylor Swift kicked off her history-making Eras Tour in Glendale, CA. (2023)
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