Frank Zappa

  • Forget the Haight and Woodstock

    A new book makes a compelling case that Laurel Canyon, home to Joni, Zappa, Mama Cass and many more, was the true center of '60s rock.
    By Stephen Amidon May 22, 2006

  • "Y Tu Mamá También (And Your Mother, Too)"

    Alfonso Cuarón's sexually explicit Mexican road movie burns with lustful jokes, liberating joy and the pleasure of life itself.
    By Charles Taylor March 15, 2002

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

    The composer of "the first great piece of electronic music" influenced the Beatles, Miles Davis and numberless others. And he comes from Sirius.
    By Paul McEnery January 16, 2001

  • Cynthia Plaster Caster: Art with staying power

    She made her name memorializing the most prized equipment of famed rockers like Hendrix. Three decades later the work's still hard, but satisfying.
    By Wendy Mitchell July 12, 2000

  • President Clinton, "zappa male"

    His guitar wants to kill your mama! The prez reveals a rocking campaign strategy to get Al Gore elected.
    By Sean Elder November 9, 1999

  • Sharps & flats

    New York combo Hasidic New Wave illustrates the difference between klezmer and Jewish jazz.
    By Seth Mnookin August 11, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Microsoft's not the only Web host that wants your content; George W. is a puppet and a paper tiger.
    Letters to the Editor July 9, 1999

  • Sharps & flats

    Oh, Captain, my Captain.
    By David Bowman June 23, 1999

  • Sharps & flats

    Cheech and Chong meet Leiber and Stoller: On "Paintin' the Town Brown," the brothers Ween plug in for a two-CD live in-joke.
    By Andy Battaglia June 22, 1999

  • Primus- The Brown Album

    By Ezra Gale July 18, 1997
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