RIO / Avant-prog

Frank Zappa's 2016 compilation "ZAPPAtite – Frank Zappa’s Tastiest Tracks" is getting a reissue on July 17 via Zappa Records/UMe, and for the first time it's coming out on vinyl too. The career-spanning collection first came out on CD…

Frank Zappa would have turned a round 80 today, had fate not had other plans. An unforgettable artistic genius, a great visionary and thinker, a brilliant creative mind, he opened up new musical horizons and new dimensions of rock's…

Label: Reprise Records/RykodiscRelease date: August 2, 1971Producer: Frank ZappaAlbum length: 44.17 minGenre: RIO / Avant-ProgRating: 8.5/10 "Filmore East – June 1971" was the first (official) live album from the legendary musical…

Marko Brecelj has died at the age of 70 (in his 71st year), one of the sharpest, wittiest and most sparkling Slovenian musical artists. In his ideas and expression he was most often "blood brothers" with a provocative avant-garde art pole,…