Here Comes The Flood — Zappatika have announced their traditional end-of-the-year at extravaganza the Q-Bus in Leiden. Plenty of Frank Zappa tunes and original songs, including their latest single TiME!. A three hour tribute to FZ happens two weeks earlier in Amsterdam. ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Roxy Music's The Complete Studio Recordings 1972 - 1982 is a 10-CD box set that includes the band's eight studio albums released in that eleven year period plus two discs of unreleased material. The wave of Frank Zappa reissues... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — In rock 'n' roll history there have existed lines in the sand: Polarizing musical thresholds beyond which your average listener will not step. Bob Dylan’s baffling “Self Portrait,” for example, or Lil Wayne’s rock album “Rebirth.” Muddy W... more info

Guardian Music — The singer-songwriter picks the music that means the most to her as part of our Six Songs of Me projectWhat was the first song you ever bought? Keep the Customer Satisfied – Simon and GarfunkelI bought it on cassette in a charity shop when I was 14... more info

Guardian Music — This remarkable creator – of orchestral pieces and chamber works as well as hybrids of film and performance art – draws on a plethora of influences, yet devises her own astonishing sound All articles in this seriesAfter Igor Stravinsky, it's a bi... more info

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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