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

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 ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Frank Zappa’s landmark Over-Nite Sensation, and in November, Zappa Records/UMe will celebrate the LP with a deluxe reissue of the 1973 album complete with ...

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Frank Zappa's celebrated December 1976 concerts at New York's Palladium are getting boxed up for a new 40th-anniversary set. The four shows – held the week between Christmas and New Year's – were ...

Sceptics! Neophytes! Zappa obsessives! Check out MOJO’s bespoke Frank Zappa mixtape – ditching the dirty gags (er, mostly) for hot grooves, hotter guitars and exquisite orchestrations... “Four ...

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, ...

Frank Zappa was a famously odd man with a famously bizarre sense of creativity. His music was really something to behold back in his prime, and his legacy in progressive rock and experimental blues ...

The performance took place on June 6, 1971, some of the last days of the Fillmore East’s existence. That in and of itself made the performance a milestone in the Fillmore’s career, but what also made ...

LOS ANGELES – MARCH 1979: Rock and roll guitar player Frank Zappa poses for a portrait wearing an Uncle Sam stars & stripes top hat in March 1979 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs ...

Frank Zappa's music isn't for all tastes. He knew this: He made it that way. While his peers and contemporaries were incorporating R&B and blues into their psych-out rock 'n' roll, Zappa played around ...