ContactMusic — TOM WAITS and FRANK ZAPPA's former music manager HERB COHEN has died, aged 77.Cohen died of unknown causes on Tuesday (16Mar10) in Napa, California. In addition... more info

Stereogum — Devendra Banhart sports some serious Frank Zappa facial hair in this video, and gets friends like the Strokes’ Fabrizio Moretti, MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden, and GZA to guest star. But the most surprising part of this clip must be where Banhart a... more info

Here Comes The Flood — John Cale picks ten records that have made a mark in his career in the April Issue of UK magazine Uncut: All Night Workers - Why Don't You Smile The record that made me love Lou Reed "It's all "Louie, Louie" changes, and the first song that Lo... more info

Pasta Primavera — Yesterday MGMT released the first track from the upcoming Congratulations.  Check it: mp3: MGMT – Flash Delirium A bit all over the place on this one.  The song really reminds me of Bowie and Zappa.  Perhaps that’s the direction they’r... more info

All About Jazz — Los Angeles, CA - Don Preston and Bunk Gardner, both original members of the the legendary Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa, are gearing up for an exciting east coast tour called The Don and Bunk Show. The duo will be playing a full range of Zap... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Steve Gullick UK experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear are on the forefront of the rejuvenation of jazz as a musical force that can cross-over to music lovers of other genres, or at least ot people who can handle buckets full of ideas that co... more info

All About Jazz — Dweezil Zappa Musical Bootcamp Coming in June Dweezil Zappa Dweezilla is a four-day, five-night music bootcamp where musicians will be surrounded by Dweezil Zappa and members of his core band for a musical bootcamp designed to expand the harmonic... more info

All About Jazz — One of the most recorded bassists in history, she has a purported 10,000-plus tracks to her credit You may not know Carol Kaye's name, but you know her work. You've probably heard at least a few dozen examples, and all the words, too. She spent th... more info

Guardian Music — If Darth Vader was in a band, then this would be his chosen instrumentWhat is it? In our previous column, we looked at synthesisers that pretend to be guitars. Now we take a look at the keytar's evil 1980s twin-synthesisers pretending to be guitars. ... more info

Stereogum — We passed along details about M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel's sophomore album Volume 2 many moons ago, but now we can offer the album art, a tracklist (eleven originals plus NRBQ and Skeeter Davis covers), a listen to first single "In The Sun" (feat... more info