Zenith Beast titles now available via Muve Music

Selected Zenith Beast titles are now available to download from Cricket's Muve Music! This includes albums, EPs and singles from Larry O. Dean, The Fussbudgets, The Injured Parties, Malcontent, Post Office, and Christine Wall.

Cricket phone users, get yours today!

Rock NYC

Nice piece in Rock NYC I somehow missed, from back in March.

Fussbudgets review!

Thanks to Reglar Wiglar for the swell review of The Fussbudgets' debut!

Fussbudgets, Christine Wall and Post Office releases

Three albums of material by The Fussbudgets (Hog Wash!, The Naked & the Daft, and Fresh Brood) are now available from iTunes, Bandcamp, and Amazon. In addition, the band now has their own official page on the web -- check it out!

Available May 8th from Zenith Beast is Christine Wall's remastered Kittenbush EP, but it may be pre-ordered now from Bandcamp and Amazon (and soon, iTunes).

Finally, Post Office's WNUR Demos is out May 22nd, but it too may be pre-ordered from Bandcamp as well as Amazon (with iTunes to follow).

Fussbudgets video

Here's the video for The Fussbudgets' "Jacqui Digs the Heads," off of their debut, Hog Wash!

Fussbudgets discography now available for pre-order; out April 3rd

It's been over twenty years in the making, but collected works by The Fussbudgets are now available for pre-order from Bandcamp!

Pre-ordering gives you instant access to selected tracks, and once the digital editions are released on April 3rd, you'll automatically be emailed a link to download the full albums at that time (some with bonus material). After the albums launch, you may also purchase them via iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, MediaNet, eMusic, Zune, Rhapsody, Nokia, and VerveLife.

In the ZB queue are selected demos, early recordings, and live material, but the band's haphazardly-released major works (the albums Hog Wash! and The Naked & the Daft, as well as the EPs Fresh Brood, Headache of the Gods, and sad fearful playful excited -- EPs gathered together in a single package -- constitute the band's oeuvre, for historical purposes).

Refer to individual releases for more background information on the recording, line-ups, and songs.

Hope you enjoy, and thanks for your support!

Second Fussbudgets remaster now available

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Fussbudgets remastered debut now available to download!

Continuing with archival remastered releases, here's The Fussbudgets' debut, Hog Wash! Enjoy!

"If You're Gonna Break My Heart"

Before The Injured Parties became a full-time concern, I recorded an early interpretation of this song, which appeared in a slightly different version on the IPs' debut, Fun with a Purpose.

The original take is now available on iTunes. It features backing vocals by the late, and extremely talented Stephanie Morris, Fussbudgets and Malcontent bassist Ned Doherty, and Me Decade and sometime Folk You! cohort, Derek Walvoord on viola.

Check it out -- hope you enjoy!

Fussbudgets group page on Facebook

Phase two in an ongoing attempt to migrate information previously available only on My Space to Facebook: a Fussbudgets page, about my San Francisco-era "savant pop" band. This is in anticipation of digitization of the Fussbudgets oeuvre, finally making it available via iTunes and other digital providers, as well as (hopefully) hard copy as well.

Friend The Fussbudgets!!

Cafe Press

Cafe Press now features an online store for Zenith Beast, featuring official merchandise from my various enterprises: solo music and books, as well as music-related material from The Injured Parties, The Fussbudgets, Post Office, The Me Decade, and the annual Alex Chilton Birthday Bash. Check it out! Be the first on your block to be gloriously betogged, and/or to quaff a beverage from an I Am Spam mug!

Throw the Lions to the Christians

Finally, my first solo album, Throw the Lions to the Christians has been made available for purchase on Amazon. It's also in the process of being made available digitally for download, via iTunes (US and international), Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, Lala, et al.

This is yet another step toward bringing my back catalog into print. Down the line I am anticipating full-scale releases of all the Fussbudgets recordings, as well as the voluminous home recordings done while I was in San Francisco, some of which were previously released in super-limited cassette-only capacity. All this work will be remastered.

Musical Natural Selections

OK, I lied ... here's a few songs from various outfits in which I've rocked/currently roll.















Thanks for listening!