Hardly one known to phone in a show, Zappa seems to enjoy every minute of the Halloween extravaganza, from setting up ...

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!’ ...

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 ...

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

Rock musician Frank Zappa performs at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C., in 1988. Rock musician Frank Zappa performs at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C., in 1988. Reuters Thirty-five years ...

In June of 1974, Frank Zappa and his rapturous band, the Mothers of Invention, invited a small audience to the their rehearsal hall on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, Calif. Together, they performed for ...

On CNET's I'm So Obsessed podcast, director Alex Winter and Frank Zappa's son Ahmet discuss making the documentary Zappa. Patrick Holland has been a phone reviewer for CNET since 2016. He is a former ...

Frank Zappa had a chaotic mind, but within that chaos, he may well have managed to predict the future on this particular ...

When he resurfaced not long afterward with Hot Rats, his second solo album, he sounded little like the bizarre innovator who had skewered the mainstream and counterculture alike with the Mothers. Yet ...

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 ...

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 ...