Frank Zappa’s music was known for pushing boundaries, but his former guitarist Steve Vai says what he did to his collection ...

Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart's album "Bongo Fury" celebrates its 50th anniversary with a lavish box set, featuring unreleased tracks and live recordings from Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters ...

Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s 1975 ‘Bongo Fury’ collaborative album gets a 50th anniversary reissue. It's set for a ...

Mike Beigel's groundbreaking envelope filter made the world a funkier place ...

Channelling punk, jazz and classical influences, Scott Thunes is an enigma of modern bass-playing history and blazed a unique trail in creating his own spiky playing style. Yet his cult status is ...

Announced on Jan. 27, Zappa Records (in partnership with UMe) will release a special Super Deluxe edition boxed set of Bongo ...

Frank Zappa was and remains a prolific figure in progressive, experimental, and improvisational rock. He was a guitar master, a compositional genius, and his influence as a band leader and a solo ...

In the late 1960s, a decidedly horrible show at the Cheetah Club in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood led to the Alice Cooper Band crossing paths with the legendarily eccentric Frank Zappa. The latter ...

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 ...

Frank Zappa’s 1978 Halloween show at New York City’s Palladium will be released as a box set on Oct. 24. The Super Deluxe Edition of the set will feature 62 tracks on five CDs and will be packaged in ...

When Diana Ross, the glittering soul siren of Motown, and Frank Zappa, the madcap maestro of musical anarchy, unveiled Soul Freak Symphony in March 1985 but was put in limbo due to contractual issues.