The prospect of two left-of-center creative giants like Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart releasing an album together would have been jaw-dropping for adventurous music fans in 1975. For these two old ...

Ike Willis, the longtime guitarist known for playing alongside Frank Zappa, has died. He was 70. The cause of death has not ...

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

Willis spent 10 years with Zappa, famously voicing the titular protagonist on the musician’s three-disc rock opera, Joe’s ...

Ike Willis, the singer who spent nearly a decade in Frank Zappa’s band, died of unspecified causes on Sunday at the age of 70. The news was reported on social media by multiple ...

Revisiting comments made by a series of musicians who hate The Beatles including The Strokes singer Julian Casablancas, Lou Reed and Quincy Jones.

Frank Zappa took creative risks that few musicians would even consider. He also wrote experimental classical music and gallivanted around the world. But Frank Zappa's life wasn't always rosy. His ...

In their lifetimes, Frank Zappaand Captain Beefheartwere unlike any other in their eccentric approaches to rock and roll. These two parallel geniuses—high school friends!—worked together sparingly in ...

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, ...

“Alright, this is it! This is the big one! Happy Halloween, everybody!” declares Frank Zappa to a rabid New York audience on Halloween 78, and his is no hollow boast. On Halloween night of 1978, at ...

An epic journey inside Zappa’s mid-70s progressive rock masterpiece. The 50th Anniversary 4CD + 1Blu-ray edition of Frank Zappa’s 1975 One Size Fits All takes fans deep into the creation of a ...