MARTIN: SHARP DRESSED MEMORIES: Looking Back at the Career and Life of ZZ Top Drummer Frank Beard

MARTIN: SHARP DRESSED MEMORIES: Looking back at the career and life of ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard

ZZ Top, that little ol’ band from Texas, lost another member last week when they announced that drummer Frank Beard had passed away. Though it was revealed he was on hospice care, no cause of death has been revealed.

Pop Loser: RIP ZZ Top Drummer Frank Beard, Sub Pop Expands Retail Empire, a Troubling Exposé of Ex-Maktub Frontman Reggie Watts

Welcome back to Pop Loser. I’m filling in for Audrey Vann again. In this week’s column, we mourn the sad passing of ZZ Top’s drummer since 1969, Frank Beard, note the expansion of Sub Pop Records’ retail empire, discuss King Youngblood leader Cameron Lavi-Jones’s newly launched youth voter outreach program, and recoil in horror at a recent Rolling Stone article that reveals some disturbing aspects of former Seattle musician/comedian Reggie Watts…

Frank Beard: The Steady Beat Behind ZZ Top’s Texas Sound Dies at 77

FrankBeard,thelongtime drummer whose steady, hard-drivingrhythmshelped define the unmistakable sound of ZZ Top for more than five decades, died at age 77. Beard died Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, while receiving hospice care and surrounded by family.

Her Sister Says Katherine Would Still Be Alive If She’d Never Met Reggie Watts

A Cornell Law graduate’s family and friends are pointing to her relationship with Reggie Watts as they try to make sense of her death. Katherine McCollough was a Cornell Law grad who scored near-perfect on the LSAT. Friends say that after she started dating Reggie Watts, her ketamine use turned near-daily, her mind went spacey, and the woman they knew slipped away. Her sister says Katherine would still be alive if she had never met Watts. Friend…