Halloween was always an important holiday for Frank Zappa. The maestro’s outrageous, superbly performed concerts at the Palladium in New York City in the late ’70s and early ’80s are legendary (for ...

Dweezil Zappa stressed again and again how thoroughly his band had done their homework. At several points during Monday’s two and a half hour show, he explained how the seven-member ensemble had ...

When Frank Zappa passed away in 1993 at the age of 52, he had released around 60 albums. Crossing genres and weighing heavily on classical flavorings, Frankʼs huge catalog of music defines diverse. In ...

Frank Zappa said the mind is like a parachute: It doesn’t work unless it’s open. Thirteen years after Zappa’s death, his son Dweezil is on a mission to open minds by playing his father’s complex genre ...

Listen to a lot of what passes for popular music these days, the repetitive mouth noises droning along to minimalist synthesized sounds. When you’re ready for a change, check out Dweezil Zappa’s band.

Through his long-running Zappa Plays Zappa band, Dweezil Zappa has sought to keep the music of his late father, Frank, alive. If there's one through-line you can draw through all of the elder Zappa's ...

"My last name is Zappa; my father was Frank Zappa, but I am not allowed to use the name on its own," guitarist says In the wake of matriarch and longtime estate executrix Gail Zappa’s death in October ...

While in the past, Dweezil’s touring band has included alums from his dad’s touring ensembles, musicians like Terry Bozzio, Steve Vai and Ray White, Dweezil’s pared down the band to six members for ...

Dweezil Zappa is headed to Phoenix to launch a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of two career-defining albums that took his legendary father’s music to a wider mainstream audience than acts as ...

Dweezil Zappa was born on September 5, 1969 in Los Angeles—the son of Frank and Gail Zappa. It was inevitable that from the moment of his birth his life would be filled wall-to wall with music (his ...

Dweezil Zappa had no idea he’d grow up to be a guitarist and band leader. But his famous father, the late Frank Zappa, certainly did. “It seemed predestined to my dad, because he wrote ‘musician’ on ...

There are few things in today’s music industry more valuable than the song catalogs of and rights management for past rock legends. Anyone following the story of Prince and his vault full of ...