The Lenny Zenith Interview – Part 1 – Figaro Just Another Zenophobic Android – Figaro  August 18, 1980 By BUNNY Matthews & JON NEWLIN One evening a long time ago, we were in the lobby of the Prytania buying a bag of popcorn and the person behind the counter — in between handing out Almond […]

Jenifer Convertible – Lenny Zenith Jenifer Convertible review–Aaron Poehler Wanna Drag? (CD)–Yum/Beloved Entertainment Group Jenifer Convertible is a traditional-lineup rock band that purveys punky pop music (or poppy punk music, your choice) that looks back with fondness at more innocent times, both of personal childhood and once-mainstream, now-camp antique values.  Nothing on Wanna Drag? is exactly breaking […]

  Jenifer Convertible – Pirate A&R – L.A. Rock   New York City is hot, humid and musty this July 1 night. Hot, humid, musty and inspired. The city is like a dragon’s throat, swallowing and spitting. and creating humans of a naked new species unseen anywhere also in the universe. The Lower East Side […]

Lenny Zenith and Pop Combo – Wavelength Armed with his songs and a new band that COOKS, Lenny is ready to take on the pop charts. Lenny Zenith first gained a small measure of notoriety as a singer/songwriter in a local band called RZA. Projecting a naive but confident sincerity, he’d bound up onto a […]

Lenny Zenith, of RZA is as polished an interviewee as he is a performer, surprisingly a relaxed in contrast to his frenetic stage presence. He’s been down the road before and referred to a Newlin/Matthews Figaro interview that took place at the very beginning of his RZA career. “You think, how do I want readers […]

New Orleans: Reconsiderations Of A Rock & Roll Birthplace The night I first heard James Booker in the French Quarter, I also met Lenny Zenith, who had likewise dropped by to listen. Lenny fronts RZA, a relatively new band on the New Orleans scene, and one that may be its most promising. When, several nights […]

Singer Becky Kury to join revived RZA by BUNNY MATTHEWS The other day, while I was examining a couple of $35,000 his-and-hers wristwatches encrusted with uncut diamonds and gilt piranha teeth at a local department store, it was brought to Iny attention that the clerk behind the counter was none other than Lenny Zenith, RZA’s […]