More than 40 years into the band’s illustrious career, Phish has once again returned to the Billboard charts, claiming top ten spots on both the Vinyl Albums chart and the Top Album Sales chart with ...

“Alright, this is it! This is the big one! Happy Halloween, everybody!” declares Frank Zappa to a rabid New York audience on Halloween 78, and his is no hollow boast. On Halloween night of 1978, at ...

Frank Zappa’s 1978 Halloween concert ‘The Big One’ released in full for the first time in a 5CD super deluxe box set with rare bonus tracks. Frank Zappa’s connection to New York City reached its peak ...

My music review column, Playback, first ran in February 1972 in The Herald newspapers of Paddock Publications in Arlington Heights, IL. It moved to The Camden Herald in 1977 and to The Courier Gazette ...

Frank Zappa’s famed and fiery Halloween 1978 residency at New York’s Palladium will be the focus of an upcoming box set, the latest in a long series of live albums revolving around the guitarist’s ...

Back in 1969, Denver was flooded with hippies. They were all here for the Denver Pop Festival, a heroic effort by legendary promoter Barry Fey that took place at Mile High Stadium from June 27 to 29.

Frank Zappa is one of the most unique and off-the-wall rock stars to ever grace the mainstream. Zappa’s music and general brand certainly had their own special and identifiable mark. Though those ...

As the recent Back To The Beginning show and the subsequent outpouring of love in the wake of Ozzy Osbroune’s death proved, every musician who has ever turned their amp up to maximum volume owes a ...

In June of 1974, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were ready for their television closeups, but technology was unfortunately not on their side. Over 50 years later, Cheaper Than Cheep finally ...

Being in demand is usually a good problem for a band to have, but for the Stinkfoot Orchestra, going on the road has its challenges. Nick Chargin, who founded the Frank Zappa tribute band to celebrate ...