On the Mothers of Invention’s 1969 Uncle Meat, you can hear Frank Zappa exhort keyboardist Don Preston to climb up to the Royal Albert Hall’s majestic pipe organ and belt out the riff to Louie Louie.

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 ...

Frank Zappa’s music was known for pushing boundaries, but his former guitarist Steve Vai says what he did to his collection ...

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.

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 celebration of 50 years of Frank Zappa's legendary album, Over-Nite Sensation, a newly expanded 50th anniversary edition will be released November 17 via Zappa Records/UMe in a variety of formats, ...

Frank Zappa was as influential as he was divisive, which is to say, immensely. Despite the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rejecting him twice for admission to its musical ranks during his lifetime, Zappa ...

In celebration of 50 years of Frank Zappa's legendary album, Over-Nite Sensation, a newly expanded 50th anniversary edition is now available via Zappa Records/UMe in a variety of formats, including a ...

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 ...

Ed Mann, a percussionist who played on more than 30 albums with Frank Zappa, has died. He was 70. “Rest easy my old friend Ed Mann,” Wackerman wrote on Instagram. “A masterful and brilliant ...

David Bowie and Frank Zappa's contempt for each other culminated in Zappa shouting F--k you, Captain Tom! at Bowie in a Berlin restaurant.

In the 1960s, he and his fellow singer Howard Kaylan embodied the feel-good sound of a popular pop-rock band. The two later found new fame as Flo & Eddie. By Michael S. Rosenwald She missed a shot at ...