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Coachella music fest announces lineup
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival announced its 2013 lineup late Thursday evening, with headliners including Blur, the Stone Roses, Phoenix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Brit Awards: Another Swift Kick
The 33rd Brit Awards celebrated another year of music on Wednesday with Justin Timberlake rocking his U.K. return in a dapper pompadour and shiny suit, for his comeback perf of new single "Mirrors."
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Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac Shakur, Johnny Cash: Music’s Lucrative...
Tupac Shakur has been dead since 1996, but his star is only on the rise. Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Johnny Cash remain in the public eye with current projects.
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Jazz Keyboardist George Duke Dies at 67
George Duke, the Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer whose sound infused acoustic jazz, electronic jazz, funk, R&B and soul in a 40-year-plus career, has died. He was 67. A representative...
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Miley Cyrus Out-Gagas Lady Gaga at MTV’s Video Music Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Miley Cyrus made Lady Gaga look surprisingly tame as the pop stars opened the MTV Video Music Awards. Gaga changed costumes four times Sunday night during her first return to the stage...
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Zappa’s ‘200 Motels’ Is Readied for Its Close-up
The history of Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” is much like its composer; enigmatic and riddled with disparate dimensions.
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Avenged Sevenfold’s ‘King’ Reigns Supreme
Southern California metal unit Avenged Sevenfold has taken its second consecutive album to the top of the U.S. album chart. The Huntington Beach quintet’s “Hail to the King” (Warner Bros.) claimed the...
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‘Arsenio Hall Show’ Posts Strong Ratings in Premiere Week
Arsenio Hall is off to a good ratings start with his new latenight program, which scored the highest-rated premiere week for any syndicated talkshow in key demos in seven years. Overall, according to...
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Frank Zappa Documentary in Works From Alex Winter
Alex Winter is developing a documentary on the late musician Frank Zappa, which he will direct from his own script and produce with Glen Zipper. The Zappa Family Trust has given its backing to the...
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Sundance: Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Frank Zappa Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)
Sony Pictures Classics is close to a deal for the worldwide rights to “Eat That Question – Frank Zappa in His Own Words,” Variety has learned. The film about the musical iconoclast is scheduled to...
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Alex Winter’s Frank Zappa Film Sets Kickstarter Documentary Record
Alex Winter’s documentary on the late musician Frank Zappa — titled “Who the F*@% is Frank Zappa” — has raised $876,362 on Kickstarter, making it the top fundraising campaign for a documentary via...
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Iconoclast Musician Frank Zappa’s Longtime Compound in the Hollywood Hills...
SELLER: Estate of Frank and Gail Zappa LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA PRICE: $5,495,000 SIZE: 6,759 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms plus multiple guest units YOUR MAMA’S NOTES: In early March, 2016,...
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Lady Gaga Goes Gaga for Quirky Frank Zappa Compound (EXCLUSIVE)
The famously quirky Hollywood Hills compound of the late, great, and widely influential musician Frank Zappa sold for $5.25 million and, though the buyer’s identity is shielded behind an inscrutable...
View Article‘Zappa’ Director Alex Winter Talks About the Life of a Rock Legend and the...
Alex Winter was hit hard twice by the global pandemic lockdown this year, first as a director, and next as an actor. The first occasion was the premiere of his new documentary “Zappa” at SXSW in March....
View Article‘Zappa’ Review: Alex Winter’s Documentary Hauntingly Captures the Skewed...
If you grew up with Frank Zappa, and he loomed large in your youth-cultural pop rebel sandbox (as he did in mine), he seemed to be many things at once. The outrageous hippie with the thick black...
View ArticleAlex Winter on Telling the Story of ‘Paradoxical’ Frank Zappa in New Doc: ‘It...
Alex Winter, the “Bill and Ted’s” actor who is himself a noted director and producer, saw in Frank Zappa’s story an icon who embodied everything about music and culture in the 1970s. At the same time,...
View ArticleFrank Zappa’s Recordings, Song Catalog and More Acquired by Universal Music...
Universal Music Group has announced an agreement with Frank Zappa’s family to acquire the legendary musician’s recordings, publishing catalog, film archive, name and likeness, and the contents of “The...
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