In January, Drake filed an explosive lawsuit against UMG Recordings (Courthouse News), the musical partner he's shared for ...

Cheaper Than Cheep’ was initially filmed in 1974 at the band’s rehearsal space, but technical difficulties kept it unseen for ...

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention’s Unaired TV Special ... Interspersed throughout the concert are segments with artist Cal Schenkel, who created many of Zappa’s album covers and Claymation ...

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Intimate performance from June 21, 1974 — long-shelved due to now-fixed syncing issues — arrives May 9 as Cheaper Than Cheep Blu-ray/CD/vinyl boxset ...

A previously unaired Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention ... who was responsible for many of Zappa's album covers, and Claymation animator and director Bruce Bickford, a frequent Zappa ...

from Jefferson Airplane’s famed album Crown Of Creation. This Frank Zappa and Jefferson Airplane collaboration shouldn’t be mistaken for the former’s song of the same name from 200 Motels.

In 1984, Frank Zappa released a studio version of the Allman Brothers Band‘s classic “Whipping Post” as the closing track on his album Them or Us. He would occasionally include the Southern ...

FEATURES 25 UNRELEASED AND RARE TRACKS AND MORE THAN THREE AND A HALF HOURS OF NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD COMPOSITIONS, COVERS ... disbanded, Frank Zappa released his groundbreaking solo debut, Hot Rats.

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Dweezil Zappa is headed to Phoenix ... acts as willfully eccentric as Frank Zappa tend to reach — “Apostrophe,” his only Top 10 entry on the Billboard album chart, and “Roxy & Elsewhere ...

I was also able to play some lead guitar parts here, because Frank needed someone to cover him in this area while he ... follow this through by being in the studio when Zappa added this dimension to ...