Frank Zappa

Zappa review – a maverick sensibility

Alex Winter’s exhilarating documentary uses Frank Zappa’s own archive to draw us into the world of a musical one-off

Wendy Ide

21, Feb, 2021 @11:00 AM

Zappa review – under the skin of the wild man of American rock

Alex Winter weaves the early experiences of eccentric musician Frank Zappa into a portrait of the artist as a flawed man

Andrew Pulver

19, Feb, 2021 @7:00 AM

'Frank didn't adhere to any movements': behind the Zappa documentary

A new film aims to reflect the unusual life and career of Frank Zappa with help from his family and those who knew him best

Jim Farber

25, Nov, 2020 @8:09 AM

Keith Tippett obituary

Brilliant jazz pianist and composer who could make the outlands of modern music feel like the most hospitable of places

John Fordham

17, Jun, 2020 @4:22 PM

'He was a musical warlock': reflecting on Frank Zappa's greatest album at 50

The 50th anniversary of the experimental musician’s album Hot Rats carries with it resurfaced material and a re-examination of its finer points

Jim Farber

13, Dec, 2019 @7:15 AM

Back to life, back to virtual reality as music stars return to stage as holograms

As a Whitney Houston 3D tour is announced, the race is on to make hi-tech concerts just like the real thing

Vanessa Thorpe

25, May, 2019 @3:00 PM

The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa review – toking poodles and holographic necromancy

The latest star to be resurrected as a hologram is beamed in for a gloriously garish night of uncanny jazz-rock revelry

Graeme Virtue

10, May, 2019 @10:43 AM

Giant nappies, CD burning and 'perv bops': when girl bands go wrong

The history of girl group’s problematic pasts, from the shocking undertones of teen punks Bow Wow Wow to boycotting presidents and bloodied tampons

Leonie Cooper

08, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM

Kicking up a stink on Record Store Day | Letters

Brief letters

22, Apr, 2018 @5:23 PM

Record Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full

From Abba to Zero 7, the 500 singles, EPs, LPs and cassettes released for the annual celebration of independent record shops

Guardian music

07, Mar, 2018 @2:57 PM

Readers recommend playlist: songs about rendezvous

Artists ready to meet up for this week’s date include Basement Jaxx, Canned Heat, Frank Zappa and the Rolling Stones

George Boyland

08, Feb, 2018 @12:00 PM

Cosmik debris: Frank Zappa's son reveals details of hologram tour

Using unseen footage from the 1970s, the tour will take to the road later this year, with Zappa’s long-term band members

Laura Snapes

06, Feb, 2018 @10:51 AM

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