Drummer, composer and painter recalls his experiences with Captain Beefheart, UK and others, names the best band he’s ever ...

Zappa's original plan for the post-Mothers era was to release all the material in a massive, 12-record set. But he nixed the idea after considering the financial logistics. "We did a cost breakdown on ...

Frank Zappa once referred to Joe's Garage as a "stupid little story about how the government is going to do away with music." In other words, it was another Frank Zappa album. By the time Zappa ...

Best known for his work with the veteran jazz group Yellowjackets, the left-handed Jimmy Haslip discovered the bass guitar in ...

Inside a home recording studio known as the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, where the late Frank Zappa composed and recorded some of his most adventurous works, his youngest son, Ahmet, reflects on ...

Alex Winter's dense but accessible Frank Zappa doc doesn't capture all of who Zappa was so much as it conveys why that would be impossible. Sooner or later, any commercially viable documentary about ...

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped. With his eccentric, experimental music, the rock iconoclast believed that, for all of his influential innovation, he was seen as a “threat” in the ...

Frank Zappa’s son Dweezil Zappa has again been forced to change the name of his upcoming band and tour after receiving a cease and desist letter from the Zappa Family Trust, which owns and administers ...

Frank Zappa is hitting the road again – nearly 24 years after his death. Live music hologram production company Eyellusion and the Zappa Family Trust announced Thursday that a Zappa musical hologram ...

Linda Ronstadt once performed an off-the-wall duet with Frank Zappa. Emphasis on the word "once." (And with good reason.) ...

"My mother's parents had a restaurant...on the Maryland waterfront. She used to tell a story about a guy who came in and started a fight. I believe it was my mother's Dad who took one of those big ...

Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musician Frank Zappa, says she was “conditioned” to believe a bizarre date she once had with Woody Harrelson was “perfectly normal.” The pair, who went on a handful of ...