There's a reason certain guitar riffs stop you cold the moment they hit. They don't just open songs - they carry whole worlds inside them. A real riff is a story compressed into a few seconds of sound ...

“ZAPPAtite – Frank Zappa’s Tastiest Tracks” will arrive on vinyl for the first time on July 17. The set was originally ...

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There's few people that sparked as much musical controversy as Frank Zappa, but the demon of rock mockery is called upon to make a new society with John Cale.

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There’s a reason why Les Claypool is often viewed as alternative rock’s Frank Zappa. For the better part of four decades, the eccentric and fearless bassist, who arrived on the national music scene ...

When Barret Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento, recently ended his weekly show, he had spent 55 years spinning weird, silly, ...

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Originally released back in 2016, a career spanning compilation titled ‘ZAPPAtite – Frank Zappa’s Tastiest Tracks’ is coming ...

Recorded at now-legendary FAME Studios, “Steal Away” was one of the first hits recorded in Muscle Shoals Leighton, Alabama ...

Ike Willis, the longtime vocalist and guitarist best known for his work with Frank Zappa on albums like “Joe’s Garage,” has ...