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Frank Zappa was a famously odd man with a famously bizarre sense of creativity. His music was really something to behold back in his prime, and his legacy in progressive rock and experimental blues ...

Spooky! Scary! I am, of course, referring to the compositional skill and dazzling technical chops on display by Frank Zappa ...

Describing Frank Zappa's music to someone who has never heard it is a bit like describing New Orleans to someone who has never been there. You can mention the obvious: It's colorful, raunchy, a bit ...

The performance took place on June 6, 1971, some of the last days of the Fillmore East’s existence. That in and of itself made the performance a milestone in the Fillmore’s career, but what also made ...

A previously unheard album of Frank Zappa material called Funky Nothingness will be released on June 30. Recorded in 1970, the songs are believed to have been earmarked for a follow-up to Zappa’s 1969 ...

Steve Vai is one of rock’s greatest and most influential guitar players, but even he had to start somewhere. And, as he told ...

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Dweezil Zappa is headed to Phoenix to launch a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of two career-defining albums that took his legendary father’s music to a wider mainstream audience than acts as ...