It's difficult to expect anything good from an artist whose reported m.o. includes Manhattan's legendary 52nd Street scene of the '40s, Motown during the '60s (he claims several Holland/Dozier/Zinger compositions), and a credit on "Strings of Life." (Mr. Zinger is actually former Galliano frontman Rob Gallagher.) Yes, Earl Zinger is a humorist at heart, a sleazy lounge persona who makes Jimi Tenor sound like Thomas Brinkmann. And in the worldwide dance scene, he has plen...   [ read more ]

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With fewer interesting (and thus satire-worthy) developments in the dance world circa 2004, Earl Zinger's sophomore album risked succumbing to a terrible fate -- irrelevance. In fact, Speaker Stack Commandments arrived at a time when it seemed the music industry as a whole had little material for parody excepting only its possible disappearance from the face of the earth. Granted, his uproarious debut did benefit from not only an eminently mockable scene but excellent productions and the superb pe...   [ read more ]

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