I just noticed that Steve Vai will be touring this Summer with Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa on the Zappa Plays Zappa tour in Europe, where the Zappa brothers will be playing the music of their father, Frank Zappa. The tour is the first official tour of Frank Zappa music since he last performed the music in 1993. … [Read more...]

Eric Clapton and his bandmates in Cream, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce are some of the recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement Awards given out by The Recording Academy for their work in Cream. Eric Clapton has also been nominated for two Grammy Awards, one in the category of Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and one in the category of Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. … [Read more...]

The Derek Trucks Band have announced that they will be releasing a new album on February 21, 2006, named Songlines. If you don't know who Derek Trucks is, he's related to Butch Trucks, who is the drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, and he's currently playing guitar in the Allman Brothers, in addition to fronting his own band. He's also married to Susan Tedeschi, and played … [Read more...]

Guitarist Robert Fripp, one of the founders of King Crimson, was recently at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, WA recording new sounds for Microsoft's new operating system being released later this year, Windows Vista. Some of Fripp's session was recorded for Microsoft's Channel 9 developer Web site, where you can watch video from the session. … [Read more...]