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

The performance took place on June 6, 1971, some of the last days of the Fillmore East’s existence. That in and of itself made the performance a milestone in the Fillmore’s career, but what also made ...

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!’ ...

The New Orleans Saints have been to Kansas City. Four times to be exact. Three of those match ups–in 1976, 1991 and 2008–ended in a Saints victory, with the only loss coming in 1997. The Saints came, ...

When One Size Fits All was released in the summer of 1975, Frank Zappa complained about a lack of support from distributors ...

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A new live set by Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention will arrive this summer featuring nearly five hours of material, most previously unreleased. Whisky a Go Go, 1968 includes a three-set concert ...

The first hit album of Frank Zappa‘s career, Apostrophe (‘), will be expanded into a comprehensive box set for its 50th anniversary. Available in a variety of formats on Sept. 13, the reissue in its ...

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 ...