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 ...

There aren't many who can match a track record like David Bowie had, but he felt that some records could have been much ...

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.

When we listen to our favorite songs on the radio, we often treat the lyrics as abstract pieces of creative poetry or general expressions of romantic longing. We assume that songwriters are dipping ...

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 ...

Frank Zappa’s Tastiest Tracks is being released on vinyl for the first time.The record will make its wax debut on July 17. It ...