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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Universal Music Group has announced the purchase of Frank Zappa's estate from the family trust maintained by his children. The rights deal includes Zappa's myriad recordings, his 60-plus-album ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Thirty-five years ago, Newsweek rejected Frank Zappa. It's true. Zappa, the iconoclastic musician and bandleader whose ...

As leader of the Ed Palermo Big Band for the past 30 years, it was about 13 years ago, when my boyhood hero, Frank Zappa, died that I decided to put my own original compositions on hold and focus on ...