In January 2016, two days after Bowie’s death, Adrian Belew shared a story about how these two legends crossed paths. Belew ...

Frank Zappa’s music was known for pushing boundaries, but his former guitarist Steve Vai says what he did to his collection ...

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 ...

Announced on Jan. 27, Zappa Records (in partnership with UMe) will release a special Super Deluxe edition boxed set of Bongo Fury. This 5CD and Blu-Ray set consists of roughly 80% unreleased material, ...

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 ...

Legendary musician Frank Zappa kept an archive for years and years. This archive, known as The Vault, contains troves of music, interviews, concert recordings, and even 8mm and 35mm film footage. Few ...

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 ...

Thirty-five years ago, Newsweek rejected Frank Zappa. It's true. Zappa, the iconoclastic musician and bandleader whose 1966 Freak Out! double LP arrived 50 years ago last week and launched a career of ...

Unlike The Beatles, Frank Zappa never had a hit single called “Revolution.” But this erstwhile San Diego music visionary and cultural provocateur did help inspire a nonviolent revolution that, in 1989 ...

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’s legendary vault contains thousands of hours of the late artist’s album masters, experimental recordings, outtakes, alternate versions and concert tapes. Its contents, which remain at the ...