Frank Zappa

Related Search

News Home News Blog Ask a Mexican Archives Search Weekly Newsletter Get Mobile

Calendar Home Top Picks Submit an Event Events Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads Tickets

Music Home Music Blog Henry Rollins Concert Calendar Bars and Clubs Submit an Event Music Newsletter Get Mobile Music Ads

Restaurants Home Food Blog Find a Restaurant Menus Happy Hours Deals Dining Newsletter Get Mobile Restaurant Ads

Arts Home Arts Blog Theater The Advice Goddess Arts Newsletter Get Mobile Entertainment Ads

Film Home Showtimes Film Festivals Film Newsletter Get Mobile Free Stuff

Best Of Home 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 Best Of Newsletter Get Mobile Best Of Ads

Promotions Home Promotional Events Street Team Free Stuff Promotions Newsletter Get Mobile Deals Tickets

Advertiser Index Deals Deals Newsletter Alternative Healing

MMJ Home MMJ News Dispensary Guide MMJ Newsletter

Blogs
October 4, 2012
Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America
[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Today: I am in Oklahoma City. Outside the tour bus, the wind is blowing nonstop, hair-dryer ho ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2012
The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend
Friday, September 21 Azure Ray LARGO AT THE CORONET Both Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor went on to successful solo careers and side projects after their band Azure Ray broke up in 2004, but there was something irreplaceable about the way the two singers used to blend their sweetly sad voices together ... More >>
Music
September 20, 2012
Music Picks: Dublab Anniversary, Ladyhawke, Flying Lotus
Friday, September 21 Azure Ray LARGO AT THE CORONET Both Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor went on to successful solo careers and side projects after their band Azure Ray broke up in 2004, but there was something irreplaceable about the way the two singers used to blend their sweetly sad voices together ... More >>
Music
March 1, 2012
Music Picks: Smokeout Festival, Mike Miller Group, Zola Jesus, Saul Williams
Also, New Multitudes, Cool Moms, Alpha & Omega, Cloud Nothings and others
Film+TV
February 9, 2012
Your Weekly Movie To-Do List
From screwball to Singles to "Outrageous Fucks"
Blogs
January 25, 2012
George Duke Is  A Lot Older Than You.  And A Lot More Hip
Nanette Gonzales[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Q: What's cooler than being cool? A: George Duke. All apologies to Andre 3000, Antarctica and Wilt the Stilt circa 1971. But jazz ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Procedure Club, Horrors
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #124 for Saturday, July 23. Fanatics! Another week, another great show lined up for you! I am listening down to the songs at this moment and it's going to be an excellent night of jams. I wanted to make a show that rocked out but had some quiet dynamics. I am r ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Top 10 Totally Awesome Artists Inspired by the Valley, plus She Wants Revenge's Valleyheart
She Wants Revenge releases Valleyheart today, the band's third full length release, which sees them submerging themselves in blissful nostalgia. Not for dark '80s sounds as they are unremittingly accused of (though, yes there is still some of that), but for the breeding grounds that made the ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock (Only Three Call Themselves Groupies!)
Jena Ardell Everyone has had a crush on rockstar before, but these woman actually pursued and conquered rockstars. In order to make our Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock list, these ladies had to have dated (or bedded) six or more famous musicians. There's one musician who appears on four o ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Top 10 Under-the-Radar Grammy Artists You Should Know
Sure, you may secretly dance to Justin Bieber in your Wonder Woman undies or fantasize about Drake making you a hot fudge sundae, but there's a lot more talented, relatively unknown musicians hiding in the Grammy nominee list. The Grammys, on the most part, are about the awards gifted to peo ... More >>
Music
January 20, 2011
Page Two: Music Roundup
Sure, you may secretly dance to Justin Bieber in your Wonder Woman undies or fantasize about Drake making you a hot fudge sundae, but there's a lot more talented, relatively unknown musicians hiding in the Grammy nominee list. The Grammys, on the most part, are about the awards gifted to peo ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2010
Morrissey As a No Limit Gangsta Rapper?: The Awesome World of Fake No Limit CD Covers (Featuring Frank Zappa, Hall & Oates, They Might Be Giants and More Artists Who Could Use More Bling)
somethingawful.comMorrissey, the Masta P years The wonderful Beautiful Decay blog dug up some amazing Photoshops from the pre-Twitter days of 2007 where some enterprising 'Shoopers redesigned some classic album covers applying the decadent aesthetics of early 2000s No Limit records. Ever fe ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
Top 14 Reasons Why Captain Beefheart Was a True American Genius
Captain Beefheart, with the most legendary lineup of his Magic Band A Don Van Vliet Atomizer Air-bulb Invention By Rob Chalfen "We're matter - the stars are matter - but it doesn't matter" 14. a fine artist before he was a musician, after his musical career ended he resumed painting and a ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Henry Rollins: Out of Africa and Into the Land of Acting Without a Script (with Cameo Appearance by Princess Leia and His Favorite Dylan Song)
Timothy NorrisHenry Rollins' Weird Record Academy for the Open of Ears: Last night at the Echoplex [For more exclusive shots from Henry Rollins' event last night, see Timothy Norris' slideshow 'Henry Rollins @ The Echoplex'.] I am back from Africa. That was a long haul. From Entebbe, Uganda ... More >>
Calendar
December 2, 2010
Road Strories: The Musicians
Timothy NorrisHenry Rollins' Weird Record Academy for the Open of Ears: Last night at the Echoplex [For more exclusive shots from Henry Rollins' event last night, see Timothy Norris' slideshow 'Henry Rollins @ The Echoplex'.] I am back from Africa. That was a long haul. From Entebbe, Uganda ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
Yoko Ono is Coming to Los Angeles. This Is Why You Should Go See Her.
John Lennon's favorite musicianI wrote this column for this week's print edition of the LA Weekly about this weekend's very special, star-studded concert celebrating Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band: Listening to Yoko Do it, without prejudice Circa 1970, John Lennon was savagely mocked whe ... More >>
Music
September 30, 2010
Listening to Yoko
Do it, without prejudice
Blogs
June 11, 2010
Bringing Zappa's "The Yellow Shark" to the Ojai Festival Stage: An Interview with Ensemble Modern's Uwe Dierksen
The 2010 Ojai Music Festival (June 10-13) spotlights the music and legacy of Frank Zappa, with panel discussions and performances of his music. The Friday-night concert on June 11 pairs Zappa pieces from the albums Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions and The Yellow Shark with Density and Oct ... More >>
Music
June 3, 2010
Schoenberg and Zappa in Shangri-La
Ojai Festival curator George Benjamin on programming for adventurous ears
LA Life
May 20, 2010
Pamela Des Barres: She Had Your Fun
Ojai Festival curator George Benjamin on programming for adventurous ears
Blogs
December 29, 2009
Today in O-Face News: I'll Have What The Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López Is Having!
In the annals of "Guitar Face"--that pseudo-orgasmic grimace that some players pull-off, pretending they're playing something with the complexity of John Fahey when in fact they're running scales up and down really fast--there is a noble lineage going from the guy from Free to G.E. Smith (the SNL ba ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2009
Holy Warhol Maos! China's Carsick Cars Cover the Velvets' "Sunday Morning"
Meet the Carsick CarsThis morning you woke up and we bet you didn't think "You know what my life needs right now? An underground Chinese band doing a live cover of the Velvet Underground's 'Sunday Morning'!" Let's pretend you thought that and, magically, the godess of music (Euterpe or somet ... More >>
LA Life
April 23, 2009
LA People 2009: Renaissance Man — Ruben Guevara
Meet the Carsick CarsThis morning you woke up and we bet you didn't think "You know what my life needs right now? An underground Chinese band doing a live cover of the Velvet Underground's 'Sunday Morning'!" Let's pretend you thought that and, magically, the godess of music (Euterpe or somet ... More >>
Stage
January 1, 2009
Bringing Frank Zappa's Garage to Life
The Rock Opera Is the Thing: September 17, 2008
Music
December 11, 2008
The Resurrection of Frank Zappa's Soul
Two of the iconic Southern California artist's classic compositions, Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It for the Money, will get the grand reissue treatment
Blogs
December 5, 2008
Stage Raw: Ivanov
IVANOV Ivanov Photo Credit: Thomas Aurin Berlin's Volksbühne presents its U.S. premiere of Chekhov's Ivanov at UCLA's Freud Playhouse tonight and Satruday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m. Click here for more information. FOURPLAY @ BOSTON COURT The Pasadena theater hosts readings of four new ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2008
Stage Raw: Lodestone Says Goodnight and Good Luck
Check back here Monday after noon for the upcoming weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS of The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about being oneself in Hollywood and elsewhere, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Deborah Pryor's mystical Appalachian one-act The Love Talker at Son of Semele Ens ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2008
Stage Raw: Critic-O-Meter
CRITIC-O-METER In case you're wondering what Rob Kendt has been up to in New York City, since leaving his post as editor of Back Stage West, first look no further than his byline - now Rob Weinert-Kendt. That's what a wedding can do. He's also been having bowls of matzoh ball soup at the Polish ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2008
Stage Raw: One Sucker's Lament
Woyzeck Photo by Andrew Rothenberg >NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK WOYZECK 19th Century German playwright Georg Büchner's an unfinished horror story of the common man crushed by military and medical machines, has been fodder for myriad adaptations throughout the last century, and there's no sign of ... More >>
Calendar
October 9, 2008
Writers Rock
Woyzeck Photo by Andrew Rothenberg >NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK WOYZECK 19th Century German playwright Georg Büchner's an unfinished horror story of the common man crushed by military and medical machines, has been fodder for myriad adaptations throughout the last century, and there's no sign of ... More >>
Calendar
October 2, 2008
Zappa's Everymusician
Woyzeck Photo by Andrew Rothenberg >NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK WOYZECK 19th Century German playwright Georg Büchner's an unfinished horror story of the common man crushed by military and medical machines, has been fodder for myriad adaptations throughout the last century, and there's no sign of ... More >>
Stage
October 2, 2008
Theater Reviews: Joe's Garage, Sea Change, Fatboy
Also, Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and more
Stage
September 18, 2008
Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage Gets Its Premiere 29 Years On
Rock opera, like its revered creator, was ahead of its time
Blogs
September 5, 2008
WORN OUT: Kn"it" Girl Diva Zappa
Daddy's off-kilter musical sensibility isn't all that's rubbed off on the Zappa clan. Moon Unit, Dweezil and Ahmet have shown their dexterity with melody (and even some acting), but Frank Zappa's youngest daughter Diva has a craft that's much more, well crafty. Zappa's knitted wearables aren't y ... More >>
Film+TV
August 21, 2008
Film and Video Events
Revival house screenings and other events, Aug. 22-28
Calendar
June 26, 2008
British Psych, Prog & Alt. Rock Extravaganza
Revival house screenings and other events, Aug. 22-28
Stage
January 10, 2008
A Rocky Landscape
The cathouse afire
Music
January 3, 2008
L.A. Phil Contemplates the Sound of the City
"Frequency" Response
Music
August 3, 2006
Hot for Teacher
"Frequency" Response
News
June 15, 2006
Back to the Garden
The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon
Calendar
January 5, 2006
Hard and Harder, Abstract and Abstracter
2005 in metal and jazz
Film+TV
October 20, 2005
Into the Boosh
2005 in metal and jazz
News
June 17, 2004
Letters
2005 in metal and jazz
News
April 8, 2004
Time of the Session
When the music was fast, and the players anonymous
Music
September 14, 2000
Let It Burn
When the music was fast, and the players anonymous
Music
September 16, 1999
JAM on It
Radical Jews and the abstract truth
Music
August 26, 1999
Keys to the Kingdom
Don Preston opens music
Music
July 8, 1999
Sugar 'N' Spikes
Captain Beefheart: The Mirror Man as mere man
Music
July 1, 1999
Wavemakers
At work and play in musical L.A.
Music
February 5, 1998
Sealed
Tuna Bolero
More >>

My Account
Log In
Join
Connect
Facebook
Twitter
Newsletters
Things To Do App
Advertising
LA Weekly
National
Classified
Community Forums
Infographics
Company
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Site Problems?

Browse Voice Nation

Voice Places

Find everything you're looking for in your city
Happy Hour App

Find the best happy hour deals in your city
Daily Deals

Get today's exclusive deals at savings of anywhere from 50-90%
Best Of...

Check out the hottest list of places and things to do around your city

Join

My Voice Nation

Profile
Newsletters
Mobile
Logout
Publishing:

ON

OFF

Blogs

Blogs

Music

Music

Film+TV

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Music

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Calendar

Blogs

Music

Blogs

Music

LA Life

Blogs

Blogs

LA Life

Stage

Music

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Calendar

Calendar

Stage

Stage

Blogs

Film+TV

Calendar

Stage

Music

Music

News

Calendar

Film+TV

News

News

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Now Trending

My Account

Connect

Advertising

Company