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Music & Film Reviews: Frank Zappa’s ‘Cheaper Than Cheep,’ plus Janis Ian, Christian Parker, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed, and Big Love Car Wash

June 8, 2025July 4, 2025Jeff Burger0

Frank Zappa’s Cheaper Than Cheep, plus Janis Ian, Christian Parker, Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed, and Big Love Car Wash Frank Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, were riding high in June 1974. They’d just completed a 10th-anniversary tour and, only three months earlier, had released Apostrophe (’), their first and only Top 10 album. […]

Music Reviews: A ‘Girl Group’ Anthology, Grateful Dead’s Expanded ‘From the Mars Hotel,’ Frank Zappa & the Mothers’ ‘Whisky a Go Go 1968,’ and More

June 30, 2024July 7, 2024Jeff Burger0

Music Reviews: A ‘Girl Group’ Anthology, Grateful Dead’s Expanded ‘From the Mars Hotel,’ Frank Zappa & the Mothers’ ‘Whisky a Go Go 1968,’ and More A Joe Meek “Girl Group’ Anthology Unearths Some Gems The late rock and pop producer Joe Meek, who is widely regarded as England’s answer to Phil Spector, masterminded many British […]