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Frank Zappa might be linked to rock music today, but that was never his intention when he started playing guitar in the late 1950s.

Dweezil Zappa is headed to Phoenix to launch a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of two career-defining albums that took his legendary father’s music to a wider mainstream audience than acts as ...

Controversial Rock Icon Once Accused a Beatle of Stealing His Song originally appeared on Parade. Those who gathered at New York City's Fillmore East on June 6, 1971, were treated to a ...

In celebration of 50 years of Frank Zappa's legendary album, Over-Nite Sensation, a newly expanded 50th anniversary edition will be released November 17 via Zappa Records/UMe in a variety of formats, ...

When your first name is “Dweezil,” you probably don’t need a last name. But if you have a last name, it may as well be Zappa, making you the heir to one of the deepest and most unconventional catalogs ...

When it comes to musical iconoclasts, the late Frank Zappa left behind quite the creative legacy despite only living to the age of 52 before succumbing to prostate cancer in 1993. Three-plus decades ...

A previously unheard album of Frank Zappa material called Funky Nothingness will be released on June 30. Recorded in 1970, the songs are believed to have been earmarked for a follow-up to Zappa’s 1969 ...

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention’s Unaired TV Special Filmed In June 1974 To Be Freed From The Vault After More Than 50 Years As New Concert Film and Soundtrack “Cheaper Than Cheep” On May 9, ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Frank Zappa’s landmark Over-Nite Sensation, and in November, Zappa Records/UMe will celebrate the LP with a deluxe reissue of the 1973 album complete with ...

Frank Zappa was as influential as he was divisive, which is to say, immensely. Despite the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rejecting him twice for admission to its musical ranks during his lifetime, Zappa ...

Aug. 9, 2007, is the first-ever Frank Zappa Day in Baltimore. Zappa was born Dec. 21, 1940, in Baltimore. So why celebrate now? It happens to be the day that Zappa's son, Dweezil, has chosen to visit ...