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Zappa Family Trust regains control of Zappa's Catalog, release in July

4748 days ago
Monsters and Critics more info

Steve Vai: The Story of Light

4751 days ago
Here Comes The Floodphoto: 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

Frank Zappa: The Roxy shows might see the light of that day

4777 days ago
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

All aboard the Tom Waits bus tour!

4797 days ago
Guardian MusicFrom 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

Old music: Frank Zappa – Charva

4797 days ago
Guardian MusicIn 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

Words about music (263): Frank Zappa

4800 days ago
Here Comes The Floodphoto: Heinrich Klaffs Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. Frank Zappa more info

From the archive, 19 April 1975: Can pop music really be the greatest art form?

4801 days ago
Guardian MusicStanley Reynolds tries to give modern music a fair hearingFor a whole decade now we have been putting up with the loud and aggressive artistic pretensions of pop music and mainly - and especially if we did not want to seem too outre - we have sat qui... more info

Write for us about: the best music autobiographies

4810 days ago
Guardian MusicWhich is the most compelling musical memoir? Let us know …"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," said Frank Zappa (or Elvis Costello, Laurie Anderson or someone else entirely depending on who you listen to). But is that a fair as... more info

New band of the day – No 1,242: Mafia Lights

4817 days ago
Guardian MusicThese Guildford goodfellas make gently atmospheric electro-pop. It's an offer you can easily refuse …Hometown: Guildford.The lineup: Joel Amey (vocals), James Balmont (bass, guitars, keyboards), Cameron Knight (lead guitars, beats).The background: ... more info

Sgt Pepper 2012: why so few black faces?

4818 days ago
Guardian MusicPeter Blake's updated cover to the classic Beatles album has plenty of interesting faces - but a conspicuous lack of people of colourIt has been parodied by people as varied as The Simpsons, Eric Idle-fronted spoof band the Rutles, Frank Zappa and ra... more info

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