Rolling Stone : Frank Zappa

Article : Exclusive Stream: Frank Zappa's "Lonely Little Girl" Single

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:49:46 PST

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: "Lonely Little Girl"

For the first time in 40 years, fans of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention will be able to hear the group's classic 1968 albums Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It For the Money the way Zappa originally intended, thanks to the new three-disc set Lumpy Money. Rolling Stone's David...

Album Review : Zappa/Wazoo

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:59:40 PST

Artist: Frank Zappa
Album: Zappa/Wazoo
Review: The big brass band that Frank Zappa briefly took on the road in 1972, just before the release of his instrumental LP The Grand Wazoo, was an army of twenty out for serious business. "Nobody sings," Zappa wrote at the time. "Nobody dances. They just play music." They didn't do it often enough. This two-CD set, the whole of a previously unissued concert in Boston, combines the complex, blaring...

New Release : Zappa/Wazoo

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:40:37 PST

Artist: Frank Zappa

New Release : Frank Zappa: The Classic Interviews

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:21:25 PST

Artist: Frank Zappa

Article : The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 71) Frank Zappa

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:48:56 PDT

In the early years of Phish, people often said we were like "Frank Zappa meets the Grateful Dead" -- which sounds very bizarre. But Zappa was incredibly vital to me, as a composer and guitarist. I think he was the best electric-guitar player, other than Jimi Hendrix. Zappa conceptualized the instrument in a completely different way, rhythmically and sonically. Every boundary that was possible on the guitar was examined by him.

I'll never forget the first time I saw him live, in New York, when...

Album Review : Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:26:52 PDT

Artist: Frank Zappa
Album: Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III
Review: Frank Zappa's satirical rock opera, Joe's Garage, is ambitious and mad, brilliant, peculiar and incoherent–epithets that have also been applied to German expressionist Georg Buchner's unfinished play, Woyzeck. This may seem like a ludicrously lofty cross-cultural reference to attach to an album most notorious for a song about Catholic girls' aptitude for fellatio, but there you have it. As a...