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 ...

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 ...

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NEW YORK, NY - March 31: MANDATORY CREDIT Bill Tompkins/Getty Images Micky Dolenz photographed on March 31, 2004 in New York City. HIGHER RATES APPLY. (Photo by Bill Tompkins/Getty Images) Jim Clash: ...

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

A few years before Roy Thomas Baker gained fame as the producer for some of the greatest albums by Queen and the Cars, he was one of several engineers to work with the ever-prolific Frank Zappa. A new ...

Some have called the 1971 European tour of Frank Zappa and his band, the Mothers, cursed. Famously, at the December 4, 1971 show a fan fired a flare gun at the Montreux Casino during Zappa's set, ...

If I had my druthers, the power, and a small cinema needing a terrific film to justify its existence, I would book the new Frank Zappa bio-doc Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words into a 30 ...

A pair of unreleased Frank Zappa concerts from 1980 — highlighting shows from a tiny New York club and a packed German arena — will feature on the latest archival release excavated from the Zappa ...

Universal Music Group has announced an agreement with Frank Zappa’s family to acquire the legendary musician’s recordings, publishing catalog, film archive, name and likeness, and the contents of “The ...

Miss Mercy, the effervescent rock ’n’ roll superfan who found fame as a member of Frank Zappa’s “groupie” girl-group the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), died after a long illness on Monday, at age ...