Before he was a superstar solo artist, becoming David Lee Roth's choice of guitarist to wage war against Eddie Van Halen, and ...

Frank Zappa once referred to Joe's Garage as a "stupid little story about how the government is going to do away with music." In other words, it was another Frank Zappa album. By the time Zappa ...

Zappa's original plan for the post-Mothers era was to release all the material in a massive, 12-record set. But he nixed the idea after considering the financial logistics. "We did a cost breakdown on ...

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped. With his eccentric, experimental music, the rock iconoclast believed that, for all of his influential innovation, he was seen as a “threat” in the ...

It’s been 40 years since Bob Dylan’s “Biograph” became the first CD box set to be released and there’s still gold to be mined ...

Inside a home recording studio known as the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, where the late Frank Zappa composed and recorded some of his most adventurous works, his youngest son, Ahmet, reflects on ...

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 home ...

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 about ...

“Whenever anyone asks me where to start with Frank Zappa, I tell them ‘Hot Rats’. Zappa is an artist of extremes; I really see him more as an avant garde composer than as a rock and roll musician and ...

Frank Zappa’s son Dweezil Zappa has again been forced to change the name of his upcoming band and tour after receiving a cease and desist letter from the Zappa Family Trust, which owns and administers ...

Sometime in the autumn, the powers-that-be at the Aspen Skiing Co. decided to place the napkin dispensers on tables instead ...

"My mother's parents had a restaurant...on the Maryland waterfront. She used to tell a story about a guy who came in and started a fight. I believe it was my mother's Dad who took one of those big ...