At the cusp of his blossoming freak rock career, Frank Zappa nearly packed it all in upon hearing one seismic single from one ...

(Dweezil Zappa and his late father, Frank Zappa. Photos: Getty Images) The late outsider virtuoso musician Frank Zappa released three instrumental volumes titled Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar. And for 24 ...

With an already unwieldy catalogue by the late 1960s, Frank Zappa nonetheless highlighted five songs to date that brought him ...

For a decade, Dweezil Zappa, a son of the rock star Frank Zappa and a noted guitarist in his own right, has been paying tribute to his father's music under the name Zappa Plays Zappa. The project, ...

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 ...

When Frank Zappa, shall we say, “punctuated” the '70s with his Apostrophe (‘) album, it was, amazingly, already his eighteenth studio or live release over a span not quite as long as a decade. Any way ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images/Anthony Pidgeon/Ginny Winn Alongside Frank Zappa, Scott Thunes became a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frank Vincent Zappa was born on 21 December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His parents were second-generation Sicilian Greeks, the family had arabian and french origins too. His father played ...

"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 ...

Whoever devised the slipknot contract clause “into perpetuity” hadn’t conceived a Gail Zappa. She’s made it her job to parse the music industry’s dense legalese, close contractual loopholes and, most ...