In June of 1974, Frank Zappa and his rapturous band, the Mothers of Invention, invited a small audience to the their rehearsal hall on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, Calif. Together, they performed ...

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is taking a leave of absence due to an upcoming medical procedure. On Sunday, the band's official Instagram account announced that Beard, 75, will be stepping away from ...

Sceptics! Neophytes! Zappa obsessives! Check out MOJO’s bespoke Frank Zappa mixtape – ditching the dirty gags (er, mostly) for hot grooves, hotter guitars and exquisite orchestrations... “Four ...

prosegue al ritmo di quattro titoli all'anno la pubblicazione di album inediti di Frank Zappa. Dopo l'uscita di Mudd Club/Munich 1980, album francamente non imprescindibile a meno di essere ...

In her new memoir, 'Earth to Moon', the actress and author details her stormy relationship with her late parents, from beginning to end When rock legend Frank Zappa died in 1993 after a years-long ...

Moon Unit Zappa remembers the moment she became the voice of a generation. It was a school night in 1982 when musician Frank Zappa jostled his 13-year-old daughter awake. Frank needed her in the ...

Dweezil Zappa is headed to Phoenix to launch a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of two career-defining albums that took his legendary father’s music to a wider mainstream audience than acts ...

Terry Bozzio and Adrian Belew look back on the year Frank Zappa created Baby Snakes, Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage and more When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As fans of the late hippie-hater will know, ‘Bobby Brown’, taken from the 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti ... released today, Zappa would have undoubtedly faced serious and scrutinous questions. Whilst this ...

Despite his relatively short life, Frank Zappa had quite the run as a musician. In his lifetime, he shared 62 albums. His estate has since shared 64 albums posthumously, making a grand total of ...

Newly discovered tapes reveal the missing link. RELEASED STATESIDE in October 1969, Hot Rats was Frank Zappa’s breakout solo album, an assertion both of his compositional powers, and – vital in those ...