Frank Zappa's first solo album is set for an expanded 50th-anniversary reissue. The new six-disc edition of Hot Rats includes unreleased basic tracks, rare and unedited mixes, work mixes and other ...

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s first album “Freak Out!” didn’t sell terribly well, but it was noticed. A steady stream of rock royalty including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and ...

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 for ...

It’s a happy “Franksgiving” for Zappa fans as director Alex Winter’s years-in-the-making authorized documentary Zappa has finally arrived. Touted as having unprecedented access to Zappa’s immense ...

A new documentary, “Zappa,” tells the story of rock musician and composer Frank Zappa. Represented through a trove of home movies, filmed interviews and more from the family’s vaults, Zappa, who died ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frank Zappa’s estate has revived their archival Vaulternative Records for the first time in nearly a decade to showcase a Mothers ...

There’s a certain association with the name “Zappa.” Whether it’s by way of the late composer/guitarist Frank Zappa or his offspring, the name elicits the notion of irreverence and musical ...

NORTHAMPTON - Very few people in the world may be more familiar with the music of Frank Zappa than his son. That's why, when Dweezil Zappa - who'll be coming to Northampton's Academy of Music on ...

EXCLUSIVE: It won’t be absolutely free, but a new Frank Zappa movie is coming to North America. Magnolia Pictures has acquired rights to Zappa, a documentary directed by Bill & Ted’s Alex Winter that ...

If you grew up with Frank Zappa, and he loomed large in your youth-cultural pop rebel sandbox (as he did in mine), he seemed to be many things at once. The outrageous hippie with the thick black ...

There is no such thing as a casual Frank Zappa fan — it’s an all-or-nothing proposition. (Really, there’s no such thing as a casual Frank Zappa listener, period: You either immediately recoil from his ...