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Frank Zappa's music is not for the faint of heart or the humor impaired. The singer/songwriter/composer is probably best known by the masses for minor novelty hits such as the early 1980s tune Valley Girl, featuring his then-teenage daughter Moon Unit, Don't Eat the Yellow Snow or the disco sendup Dancin' Fool, which occasionally get played on ...

A famous son has created a musical tribute to his late father that will take on a historic status in Poughkeepsie Wednesday.

"I'm trying to keep it together," said Dweezil Zappa, flanked by his fellow Zappa Plays Zappa members after winning a Grammy Award earlier this year.

Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, also known as Flo & Eddie, were original members of The Turtles After a messy legal affair that marked the end for the band, they joined Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention.

99 minutes. Rated R. Not reviewed. The Loft. The Garden *** a ' A documentary about an inner-city Los Angeles garden that's threatened by developers.

By Barry Gordon SINCE Frank Zappa died in 1993, aged just 52, the world has become a greyer place.

At his concert in the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall on June 12, Dweezil Zappa will be playing songs originally written and performed by his father, Frank Zappa.

RAY COLLINS looks more like a grandfather, but he's actually a Mother. The white-haired Collins, 71, was the singer who invited a young Frank Zappa to join the Soul Giants, the band that became the Mothers of Invention in the mid-1960s. Four decades later, Collins is a familiar sight in the Claremont Village, where he spends his days strolling the ...

's "Mothermania" album is now available for the first time as a digital download directly from Zappa.com , according to a press release.

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IFC CENTER: A wife and a mistress plot to kill the man they have in common in Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Diabolique" , showing at 11 a.m. today through Sunday.

With her bold style, high-pitched voice, multicolored mop-top, and MacGyver-like ability to make mesmerizing bras out of things like electronic parts, bubble wrap, and Plexiglas gardening equipment, Missing Persons frontwoman Dale Bozzio planted herself firmly in the spotlight in the 1980s.

In its final Symphony 7 entry this season, the Alabama Symphony threw gentle curves to established symphonic aesthetics and the place of an orchestra in its community.

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I have no idea what compelled the folks at the Financial News Network to bring Frank Zappa in to guest host a couple episodes of their show Focus, but it's another one of those incredible moments brought out of the vaults courtesy of our good friend the internet.

Doppo Nagata is a composer, producer and flutist. He started playing piano at a young age of 5 with a strong classical music foundation.

Having already released King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa as part of its remastered reissue of Blue Note's 1976 two-disc compilation, Cantaloupe Island , which brought together King Kong and The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with The George Duke Trio , it's a little curious that England's BGO Records would reissue King Kong again ...

BRIEF LIFE, THE ICONOCLASTIC composer/guitarist Frank Zappa commanded a unique reverence among musicians for his demanding compositions, which required virtuosic ability and nearhumorous agility to play.

March 25th, 2009 11:30am EDT Post a comment The Slow Learners cocky musical swagger sounds as if it were born in New York City smoky bars and exclusive venues, you know, the kind in alleys with no signs.

There was a story Frank Zappa liked to tell about the time in the late '60s when he and the Mothers of Invention were booked, along with Woody Herman 's big band, to play a dinner for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.Seeing as these were the same folks who gave out the Grammy Awards each year, it should have been a real prestige ...