Gail Zappa has lost a court case in Germany in which she tried to prevent the use of her late husband Frank Zappa's name and image.

Not too long ago Troy Sanders stopped by for a Progress Report on Crack the Skye Mastodon's fourth album and followup to their indie (and Grammy) crossover Blood Mountain. Now we have some sounds to go with the King Crimson, Yes, and Frank Zappa references via first single, "Divinations." It's opens with a bit of banjo and then moves into a thre...

It's this kind of lame crap that is destroying music. We actually received a press release about the t-shirt Randy Jackson wore on American Idle. It gets worse as they place Jackson in the same category as Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Robert Plant, Joe Strummer and Jeff Buckley.

Jimmy Carl Black, the drummer for Frank Zappa's legendary band The Mothers Of Invention, has died. He was 70.