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 ...

At the cusp of his blossoming freak rock career, Frank Zappa nearly packed it all in upon hearing one seismic single from one ...

The latest — and fourth — installment in the series of Halloween-themed super-deluxe Zappa sets features the full, nearly four-hour October 31, 1978 concert, which Zappa himself called ‘The Big One!’ ...

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.

Frank Zappa would have turned 70 this December — and the music world misses him still. Not just the rock music world, but also the classical music world, to which he originally aspired and which was ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE — “What’s new in Baltimore?” Frank Zappa used to sing at the end of a long, characteristically off-the-wall rock jam he called “Clowns on Velvet.” What’s new in Baltimore, the city in which ...

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 ...

There’s a certain association with the name “Zappa.” Whether it’s by way of the late composer/guitarist Frank Zappa or his offspring, the name elicits the notion of irreverence and musical ...

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 ...