Frank Zappa’s ‘Freak Out!’ gets a 60th anniversary edition with 105 tracks, restored 1966 mixes, live recordings and Dolby ...

Freak Out! honored and deconstructed musical conventions in the same breath. Now 60 years old, the album has prompted Universal Music and Zappa Records to take a fresh deep dive into the archives for ...

Frank Zappa was less than thrilled with being tagged as the inventor of one of rock and pop's most celebrated movements. Read ...

Mike Keneally has looked back on the time he scored the Frank Zappa gig – after cold-calling his guitar hero and impressing him with a photographic-like memory of his musical catalog. Keneally was ...

While you can never quite be sure whether Frank Zappa loved or despised something, he made his true feelings clear about this underrated psychedelic gem.

A previously unheard album of Frank Zappa material called Funky Nothingness will be released on June 30. Recorded in 1970, the songs are believed to have been earmarked for a follow-up to Zappa’s 1969 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Mothers of Invention's 1969 Uncle Meat, you can hear Frank Zappa exhort keyboardist Don Preston to climb up to the Royal ...

Frank Zappa was the sardonic anti-hero of LA’s music scene in the 1960s. He was a relentless workaholic when rock stars were laid back. He didn’t drink alcohol or use drugs, unlike most of his ...

Our first look at the Frank Zappa hologram has arrived and it’s speaking out against censorship. In a new video released by Zappa’s team and Eyellusion, a dispute with Ticketmaster is addressed, ...

Is there a more intimidating discography for a neophyte to ponder than that of Frank Zappa? With about 110 albums to Zappa’s name, there are an ungodly number of entry points into his music. And no ...

Frank Zappa sadly died on this date in 1993 just 17 days before his 53rd birthday after a yearslong battle with cancer. The legendary composer, bandleader, guitarist and activist was born on December ...

Frank Zappa's first solo album is set for an expanded 50th-anniversary reissue. The new six-disc edition of Hot Rats includes unreleased basic tracks, rare and unedited mixes, work mixes and other ...