Since the dawn of the new millennium there’s been a glut of music documentaries, with no band too obscure and no subject too niche for examination. First it was forgotten artists, then particular ...

The late legendary musician Frank Zappa was known as an innovative composer and champion of the strange. This was a man who played a bicycle as an instrument and named one of his sons after his wife's ...

Frank Zappa’s Vaulternative Records returns after a decade with Zappa ’66 Vol 1 Live At TTG Studios, featuring 17 unreleased Mothers Of Invention recordings from 1966.

ROYAL OAK – Dweezil Zappa clearly inherited more than just a penchant for playing killer guitar from his father, Frank Zappa. He inherited the elder Zappa’s renowned wit as well. Amid a contentious ...

On the liner notes to Freak Out!, the 1967 debut album by Zappa's original band the Mothers of Invention, Zappa listed some seventy-two names on the liner notes and cited them as influences. The Freak ...

On June 27th, Frank Zappa‘s avant-garde double album Freak Out! turns 50. His son, Dweezil, is celebrating the rich debut album by Zappa and the Mothers of Invention by touring pivotal tracks from the ...

Frank Zappa's 1966 debut Freak Out! was presciently titled. Zappa's music evokes a range of reactions, almost all some form of freak-out. You might fall into fits of laughter, go hopelessly bonkers, ...

Guitarist Frank Zappa was best known for his intricate brand of rock music, coupled with a sardonic social commentary. Not as well known is the classical side of his composing. This month, the ...

Arriving to Hollywood's TGT studios full of creative ideas, one piece proved too much for Frank Zappa's label in the mid ...

ROYAL OAK – Dweezil Zappa clearly inherited more than just a penchant for playing killer guitar from his father, Frank Zappa. He inherited the elder Zappa’s renowned wit as well. Amid a contentious ...