Spooky! Scary! I am, of course, referring to the compositional skill and dazzling technical chops on display by Frank Zappa ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Frank Zappa fans can soon enjoy a previously unreleased 1972 concert recording, the latest material from the deceased rock star's archives to be unveiled. "Wazoo," a two-disc ...

Potentially the most voraciously creative musician of the entire 20th century, Frank Zappa’s astounding discography is as unique as it is monumental. Zappa was born on 21 December 1940 in Baltimore, ...

Sometime in the early 1970s, Frank Zappa wearily stated during a TV interview that average rock fans generally liked music they didn't have to try too hard to fathom — "Nothing too off-the-wall," FZ ...

The latest — and fourth — installment in the series of Halloween-themed super-deluxe Zappa sets features the full, nearly four-hour October 31, 1978 concert, which Zappa himself called ‘The Big One!’ ...

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped. With his eccentric, experimental music, the rock iconoclast believed that, for all of his influential innovation, he was seen as a “threat” in the ...

There were many Frank Zappas: guitar virtuoso, studio tinkerer, writer of raunchy rock songs. But at his core, he was a legitimate composer, with ideas often too massive for a typical band format.