A look at the love-in between Frank Zappa and Steely Dan and how the two alternative voices lampooned counterculture like the ...

Frank Zappa was well known for his critical outlook on life, and unsurprisingly, he hated some of the biggest bands of the ...

Few artists were more prolific than the late Frank Zappa. He released a whopping 62 records in his lifetime, with the Zappa ...

The musician’s acclaimed sixth solo album, which was originally released in 1974, will see a 75-track, six-disc re-release, due for September 13. Along with the original nine tracks, which includes ...

Moon Unit Zappa remembers the moment she became the voice of a generation. It was a school night in 1982 when musician Frank Zappa jostled his 13-year-old daughter awake. Frank needed her in the home ...

Swans’ Michael Gira regrets that Frank Zappa succumbed to “unfortunate prog tendencies” after his early creativity ...

Frank Zappa, one of the most confounding musicians ever to grace the rock 'n' roll, had a penchant for taking what essentially amounted to full-blown avant-garde compositions and arranging them for ...

Frank Zappa’s Vaulternative Records returns after a decade with Zappa ’66 Vol 1 Live At TTG Studios, featuring 17 unreleased Mothers Of Invention recordings from 1966.

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 ...

In 1982, avant garde rock genius Frank Zappa scored his only top 40 hit, the Grammy-nominated, Zeitgeist-capturing “Valley Girl.” The satirical send-up of suburban SoCal teen life unexpectedly spawned ...