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Universal Music Group has agreed to a deal with Frank Zappa’s family to acquire the legendary rocker-composer’s entire estate, including his prolific catalog, film archive, publishing rights and his ...

FEATURES 25 UNRELEASED AND RARE TRACKS AND MORE THAN THREE AND A HALF HOURS OF NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD COMPOSITIONS, COVERS, AND JAMS FROM 1970 WITH CORE GROUP OF AYNSLEY DUNBAR, DON “SUGARCANE” HARRIS, ...

Composer, guitar virtuoso, activist, iconoclast – and now the latest rock artist whose entire catalog belongs to a corporation. Frank Zappa’s estate – including his recordings, songs, film archive and ...

America in 1969 was nearly as weird as it is today. A seemingly endless war in Southeast Asia, the horrific assassinations of political progressives and creepy Richard Nixon’s presidency cast shadows ...

Frank Zappa’s Halloween 1981 residency at New York’s Palladium will feature in the upcoming 6-CD box set Halloween 81, the latest entry in a series of collections dedicated to the guitar great’s ...

Frank Zappa was a man who you could describe as aggressively anti-commercial and someone who courted divisiveness. He made all sorts of different kinds of music. He made jazz that only the most ardent ...

Describing Frank Zappa's music to someone who has never heard it is a bit like describing New Orleans to someone who has never been there. You can mention the obvious: It's colorful, raunchy, a bit ...

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 ...

When it comes to the late Frank Zappa’s complex, satirical, genre-defying rock and jazz fusion, one size never fit all. But the music does have a place in the 21st century. That’s the mission ...