Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonColin Towns, the one-time rock pianist and TV and film composer, paints big musical canvases, full of colliding characters who sound like relatives of Stravinsky, Zappa, the Beatles, Miles Davis or Kurt Weill. He usually unleashes ... more info

Starpulse — Legendary rocker Frank Zappa's longtime bassist Roy Estrada has been sentenced to serve 25 years behind bars for child abuse. The 68 year old, who served time in a California prison for committing... more info

411 Mania — See you in 25 years, Roy! more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Legendary rocker Frank Zappa's longtime bassist Roy Estrada has been sentenced to serve 25 years behind bars for child abuse. more info

ContactMusic — Legendary rocker Frank Zappas longtime bassist Roy Estrada has been sentenced to serve 25 years behind bars for child abuse The 68 year old who served time in a California prison for committing a lewd act with a child is back in jail for molesting a ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Today's Live Performance comes from Joe Gooch's post-Ten Years After band Hundred Seventy Split. Even if you had a problem with Ten Years After without Alvin Lee - like I did - Gooch is a fine guitar player in his own right... so if you like... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Graham Reynolds is the quintessential modern composer, able to turn his hand to anything from rock to ballet to movie scores to jazz. In fusing a loose concerto format with the story of Charles Babbage and his invention of the difference engine, Re... more info

Guardian Music — Originally published in the Guardian on 9 February 1971The Royal Albert Hall yesterday banned a concert which was to have been given last night by the underground pop group, Mothers of Invention, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The Hall's letti... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Today's Live Performance actually is part live performance, part art-film, part animation, but it is definitely entirely - the full 2 hours and 45 minutes of it - Frank Zappa. Baby Snakes is a movie which includes footage from Frank Zappa's... more info

Guardian Music — Acclaimed singer-songwriter Jonathan Wilson tells Laura Barton why it's great to be from North CarolinaHair straggled, clothes creased, Jonathan Wilson is wearing the bewildered expression of the musician on tour. Sitting in the Roundhouse cafeteri... more info