ZOOGZ TOOZDAY: Early Rarities

Zoogz Toozday is back, for one post - a large collection of early recordings from the late Zappa/Beefheart-inspired-bandleader-gone-punk/ co...

ZOOGZ-APALOOZA

Last year I posted 10 albums, one a week, by the late, great Los Angeles loony Zoogz Rift and his Amazing Shitheads.  Our best-est new pal i...

New Wave Covers For Oldies Lovers - Part 2

As I wrote in PART ONE , " During the upheaval of the late '70s/early '80s punk days, there was a real changing-of-the-guard ...

R.I.P. ZOOGZ RIFT

Planet Earth just got a little more boring. Zoogz is dead at age 57 after a long illness. We posted 10 big albums by the man last year. R.I...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 10: War Zone

New to Zoogz? Start HERE . We've come to end of our brief survey of the wildly prolific and imaginative Zoogz Rift. Remember, you can n...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 9: Torment

New to Zoogz? start HERE . We're in the home stretch - I only have one more album of his after this. Torment is right. This 1989 rele...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 8: "Murdering Hell's Happy Cretins"

(New to Zoogz? Start HERE ) If you thought Zoogz was getting soft with last week's offering, this 1988 release should reassure you that ...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 7: (Nonentity) Water III

Don't know Zoogz? Start HERE ! But even if you do think you know him, you'll be surprised by this 1988 album - there's no spok...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 6: Water II (At A Safe Distance)

Don't know Zoogz? Start HERE ! Otherwise, let's dive into a 1987 release that, although it's pretty quirky by the usual standa...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 5: Water

Start HERE ! (If you haven't already). As Los Angeles has just experienced the hottest day in our recorded history, an album called ...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 4: The Island of Living Puke

Start HERE ! (if you haven't already) Hoo boy, we've got a live one here - this 1986 release is one of Zoogz Rift's most confron...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 3: Ipecac

Start HERE ! (If you haven't already) This is the 1984 album (named after a medicine used to induce vomiting) that got me into Zoogz, ...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 2: Amputees In Limbo

Read THIS first! (If you haven't already.) Proceeding chronologically, here's a collection from 1982 that kicks off with Zoogz scre...

ZOOGZ TOOZDAY 1: Idiots On The Miniature Golf Course

Every Tuesday for the next couple of months I'm going to try to post a Zoogz Rift album. That's the plan, at least. Even if I post...