Looking at how the intrumental talents of 1980s hair metallers was overlooked by noting how Billy Sheehan of Mr Big was inspired by Frank Zappa.

We count down the 100 Best Guitarists of All Time with the help of some of today's greatest guitar players to kick off ...

The Courant’s arts picks for April 13-19 included a plethora of women artists, a night of doo-wop, early rock ‘n’ roll acts ...

Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size ...

Do you have certain albums that you love but don't know who to recommend them to? Here are three of my favorites that need an ...

Can you recall your first emotional connection with the guitar ... Zappa nut.’ “There I was, all of a sudden, at sound check with George Duke and Chester Thompson; all my heroes. Frank ...

The veteran rocker recalls how Frank Zappa helped him get his first Les Paul – and also got him kicked out of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – and discusses his recordings with Jeff Beck, which Rogers says ...

Zappa has an eye for weird and wonderful instruments, and this heavily modded example – which began life as a Roxy SG – might be one of his finest ...

More recently, Canty formed experimental jazz-rock trio the Messthetics with his Fugazi bandmate Joe Lally; their 2024 collaborative album with James Brandon Lewis got a lot of love around here.

When Diana Ross, the glittering soul siren of Motown, and Frank Zappa, the madcap maestro of musical anarchy, unveiled Soul Freak Symphony in March 1985 but was put in limbo due to contractual issues.

Carlos Santana wants to collaborate with Taylor Swift on an album that "celebrates the female side of God". Santana — founder and lead guitarist of the rock band Santana — has revealed that ...

Zappa was fulsome in his praise of Vai in a 1982 Guitar World interview ... The only thing that’s in the final mix of the album is the melody. Frank just sliced the melody off and put ...