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

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, ...

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

Bongo Fury, the 1975 partly live album recorded by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, will celebrate a belated 50th anniversary in March with a new five-CD, one-Blu-ray box set. The upcoming ...

Frank Zappa was and remains a prolific figure in progressive, experimental, and improvisational rock. He was a guitar master, a compositional genius, and his influence as a band leader and a solo ...

In the late 1960s, a decidedly horrible show at the Cheetah Club in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood led to the Alice Cooper Band crossing paths with the legendarily eccentric Frank Zappa. The latter ...

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 ...

The daughter of Frank Zappa recounts her brief romance with the 'Cheers' star in her new book 'Earth to Moon, A Memoir' Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of rock ...

When Diana Ross, the glittering soul siren of Motown, and Frank Zappa, the madcap maestro of musical anarchy, unveiled Soul Freak Symphony in March 1985 but was put in limbo due to contractual issues.

Mike Beigel's groundbreaking envelope filter made the world a funkier place ...