Since the first Henry Cow album, Leg End, is where Fred Frith’s recorded output begins, it makes natural sense to begin a ...

Berklee College of Music Doctor of Music degrees to Grammy-winning artists Jacob Collier, Jill Scott, and Vinnie Colaiuta ’75 ...

Steve Vai was just 21 when he made his San Diego concert debut in 1981 at the Fox Theater as the “stunt guitarist” in the band of former Grossmont and Mission Bay high schools student Frank Zappa. At ...

Despite his sad passing over thirty years ago, Frank Zappa’s spirit continues to permeate pop culture. He is best remembered as one of rock’s foremost experimentalists, blending guitar music with ...

Bongo Fury, the 1975 partly live album recorded by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, will celebrate a belated 50th anniversary in March with a new five-CD, one-Blu-ray box set. The upcoming ...

“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 ...

Spooky! Scary! I am, of course, referring to the compositional skill and dazzling technical chops on display by Frank Zappa and his top-flight band on the Halloween night of 1978 in New York City.

Frank Zappa’s 1978 Halloween concert ‘The Big One’ released in full for the first time in a 5CD super deluxe box set with rare bonus tracks. Frank Zappa’s connection to New York City reached its peak ...

Many at my fraternity house worshipped at the altar of Zappa. He had a soda machine with one slot filled randomly with Tahitian Treat, YooHoo, and beer, and that slot was labelled Chunga’s Revenge ...

My music review column, Playback, first ran in February 1972 in The Herald newspapers of Paddock Publications in Arlington Heights, IL. It moved to The Camden Herald in 1977 and to The Courier Gazette ...

Jelly Roll and contemporary Christian artist Forrest Frank have straightened out their differences. Frank explained the situation in an Instagram update, saying that he and Jelly had a phone call to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frank Zappa’s famed and fiery Halloween 1978 residency at New York’s Palladium will be the focus of an upcoming box set, the ...