A look into Frank Zappa as a bandleader, based around interviews with two musicians, one who made the cut after auditioning ...

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard took a break from the group's tour to deal with an unspecified health issue in March 2025.

It wasn’t all satirical mocks. This six-minute response to the 1965 Watts Riots found Zappa the social commentator at his ...

Dweezil Zappa learned of Jimi Hendrix as a kid. Of course, that was from his legendary musical genius and rock ’n’ roll madman father, Frank Zappa, who died in 1993. “While I didn’t have ...

A look into the early influences of Frank Zappa and how he was freaking people out with avant-garde rock long before the Mothers of Invention were started.

Buckethead performs at the House of Blues, 308 Euclid Ave., Cleveland this Tuesday, March 18. Doors are at 6:30 p.m.; show at ...

What would be totally ridiculous and would grab everyone’s interest? I said, ‘I’m going to make my guitar talk!’”: When Steve Vai was in direct competition with Eddie Van Halen ...

Well, maybe not so much an “answer” per se, but a different perspective at least. Indeed, according to Frank Zappa, it doesn’t really matter what becomes of the broken hearted, because, well, ...

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Not terribly long ago, I made the observation that you never really see Frank Zappa cover bands. And then a million people ... leaving the listener with deep cuts and scorching guitars. What's not to ...

Bear McCreary has shared two previously unreleased B-sides from his epic concept album, The Singularity. “Escape from the Machines (1995 Demo)” – recorded when McCreary was just 15 years old – and ...