Hardly one known to phone in a show, Zappa seems to enjoy every minute of the Halloween extravaganza, from setting up ...

Everybody has their guilty pleasure artists, and for Joan Baez nobody typified that better than folk revivalist heroes The ...

Image courtesy of UMe / Provided with permission. The holiday season has begun, and music lovers have some tasty choices ...

Twenty-five years ago, I stumbled into a tiny bar show by a ferocious Los Angeles outfit called The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs.

When One Size Fits All was released in the summer of 1975, Frank Zappa complained about a lack of support from distributors Warner Bros. But the album achieved one of his highest chart positions, ...

There can be few people in the Netherlands who have never been to Paradiso in Amsterdam. Everyone has played there – the ...

Frank Zappa’s 1978 Halloween show at New York City’s Palladium will be released as a box set on Oct. 24. The Super Deluxe Edition of the set will feature 62 tracks on five CDs and will be packaged in ...

Following the success of 1974’s Apostrophe (’) album, tours, and his first Billboard Hot 100 single, Frank Zappa was disappointed to see ’75’s One Size Fits All not receive the attention that he felt ...

Call him weird, call him a genius, but the one thing you can’t call a once-in-a-lifetime creative like Frank Zappa is lazy. Chester Thompson had to learn the hard way just how much of an enthusiastic ...

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention’s Unaired TV Special Filmed In June 1974 To Be Freed From The Vault After More Than 50 Years As New Concert Film and Soundtrack “Cheaper Than Cheep” On May 9, ...

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 ...

When Diana Ross, the glittering soul siren of Motown, and Frank Zappa, the madcap maestro of musical anarchy, unveiled Soul Freak Symphony in March 1985 but was put in limbo due to contractual issues.