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

Before he was a superstar solo artist, becoming David Lee Roth's choice of guitarist to wage war against Eddie Van Halen, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The exhibit, "Someplace Else Right Now," features works from local and international artists and continues through March 2. By Chris Gardner Make no mistake: Frank Zappa’s legendary recording facility ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gail Zappa, widow of the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa and a zealous advocate for artists’ ownership rights over their work, has died. She was 70. Zappa’s death Wednesday at her Laurel Canyon home ...