Qualifying certain music as “weird” of course, depends on the ear of the beholder. Still, in most cases, defining a certain ...

From Eccles Grammar School he studied music at the University of Manchester, taking composition classes at ... a rock band on the road directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer.

Sandy McKelvey, a guitarist and singer, will perform a 2023 composition ... Dogs”), David Bowie (“What in the World”) and Frank Zappa (“Black Napkins”). Along with Carolyn Llewellyn ...

Frank Zappa and Jefferson Airplane formed a collab that nobody was expecting, and the result was an avant-garde delight.

He’s mused on how songwriting has changed over the years, which has come at the expense of the riff and people’s exposure to ...

As well as being a pioneering and self-taught composer, incredible guitarist, genius editor, marketing innovator, and keen filmmaker, Frank Zappa had an instinctive understanding of the importance ...

Frank Zappa was certainly known for his eclecticism, and Sleep Dirt represents one of the least classifiable albums in his catalogue. It features some of his most extreme guitar statements ...

With his Guy Fawkes facial hair, Frank Zappa focused all his tyranny against convention. The term genre-defying is perhaps overused, in part because some people get so pernickety about categorisation ...

Lou Reed did not always live a harmonious life; in fact, it was often his various personal struggles and growth which made him such a talented songwriter. It is easy to imagine the hugely influential ...

When he was growing up in Nebraska, Ethen Frank had a decal of Alex Ovechkin on his wall. More than a dozen years later, they are teammates on the Washington Capitals. Frank’s journey to making ...

“Anne Frank the Exhibition” recreates the secret annex in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and seven other Jews hid for two years. This is the reconstruction of the room she shared with Fritz ...

"That's hot!" Nah. "That's red hot!" Paris Hilton is turning up the heat in a new collaboration with Frank's RedHot for Super Bowl 59 and encouraging fans to "put that (expletive) on everything." ...