Chicago has plenty of alternatives to yet another jinglefest — some from other musical genres or cultures, some keeping offbeat traditions and some from musical organizations for which December is ...

John Lennon and Frank Zappa butted heads after spontaneously performing together at the Fillmore East in June 1971.

In 2024, for the second year in a row, Taylor Swift was named Spotify Wrapped's most-played artist. The megastar had more than 26.6-billion streams that year as she performed around the world, with ...

With an already unwieldy catalogue by the late 1960s, Frank Zappa nonetheless highlighted five songs to date that brought him ...

When One Size Fits All was released in the summer of 1975, Frank Zappa complained about a lack of support from distributors Warner Bros. But the album achieved one of his highest chart positions, ...

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 ...

There can be few people in the Netherlands who have never been to Paradiso in Amsterdam. Everyone has played there – the ...

Get the best of Vancouver in your inbox, every Tuesday and Thursday. Sign up for our free newsletter. Zappa Nite at the Rickshaw this Friday promises an abundant variety of Halloween madness, ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1717 George Frideric Handel composed music to keep the King of England entertained on his boat trip down the River Thames. We now call that music Handel’s “Water Music,” and the ...

“My humble curse: May your shit come to life and kiss you.” – Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” (1990) In death, Frank Zappa lives. You don’t have to know his work. Such is the digital ...

September is Classical Music Month and today is our first “Thematic Thursday” when each week we’ll feature great composers programmed around a theme. Today is “Famous Fifths.” Throughout the day ...