Consequence of Sound — On recording, Zappa, soul music, and maintaining relationships. more info

Guardian Music — Dirty Projectors have become more accessible without sacrificing their originality – whether they meant to or notDirty Projectors' mastermind David Longstreth has talked up the Brooklyn collective's Swing Lo Magellan as "an album of songs". As a US... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - Back home where it belongs, the music of Frank Zappa is back in the hands of the Zappa Family Trust. To celebrate this, the estate has signed a global license and distribution deal with USM/UMe to release... more info

Consequence of Sound — First 12 releases will be available in July. more info

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Here Comes The Flood — photo: Larry Dimarzio It was popular game among guitar geeks in the Eighties: who is the better guitar player? Steve Vai or Joe Satriani. Vai played with Zappa as his resident stunt guitarist, Satriani was far more prolific as a composer and scored ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Mention The Roxy shows in Hollywood, CA, and all Zappa fans will go ape. When Frank Zappa performed there (December 8–10, 1973), a camera crew was on hand to film it, but the footage failed to surface, with the trailer on the 2003 DVD release of ... more info

Guardian Music — From downtown dives to the Hollywood hills, a trawl around the singer's former stomping ground is a glimpse of a vanishing LAYou can't get more than 10ft down the main drag of Hollywood Boulevard without being offered a Los Angeles bus tour. But the ... more info

Guardian Music — In which our hero becomes the first person in history to listen to Frank Zappa in an effort to enhance his sexual attractivenessLooking through my CD collection one afternoon in the mid-90s, it occurred to me that my music tastes were in need of a sh... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Heinrich Klaffs Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. Frank Zappa more info