As he recovers from surgery, the progressive guitar icon draws a line from Frank Zappa through Talking Heads, King Crimson ...

Ozzy Osbourne was more sceptical. Sabbath had found out about Zappa’s fandom when they toured the US in 1974. Both parties ...

Adrian Belew is currently touring alongside fellow electric guitar behemoth Steve Vai – as well as bass and drums extraordinaires Tony Levin and Danny Carey – under the moniker BEAT to celebrate his ...

A new Frank Zappa box has arrived just in time for Halloween. Halloween '73, a four-disc set recorded on Oct. 31 that year, includes two complete shows Zappa and his band performed in Chicago.

12. "You Didn’t Try to Call Me" – Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention 13. "Agency Man" – Frank Zappa 14. "Oh No" – The Mothers of Invention 15. "Mother People" – The Mothers of ...

Alex Winter's dense but accessible Frank Zappa doc doesn't capture all of who Zappa was so much as it conveys why that would be impossible. Sooner or later, any commercially viable documentary ...

Ahead of the November 27th release of 'Zappa,' see the new trailer for director Alex Winter’s long-in-the-works Frank Zappa documentary.

Frank Zappa's relationship with counterculture was very complex, and one facet of it he disagreed with was its emphasis on drugs.

Frank Zappa was a phenomenon completely out of the ordinary. Like a firework display for people who hate loud bangs, he ...

The Zappa Band – a group largely comprised of former members of Frank’s bands, will perform in Fall River on June 24.

The Frank Zappa Coloring Book, which is set be released in bookstores Nov. 5, is the latest for Fantoons, the publisher responsible for the upcoming Rush graphic novel The Making of Farewell to ...

“FZ on Varèse” – Frank Zappa interview with Craig Eldon Pinkus, Indiana University Radio-TV Center – April 25, 1974* Varèse: Ionisation – Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Pierre Boulez ...