Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Mothers of Invention’s 1969 Uncle Meat, you can hear Frank Zappa exhort keyboardist Don Preston to climb up to the Royal ...

Though many regard the 1988 lineup as one of Zappa’s most musically formidable bands, the tour ended in disaster, with Zappa returning home, never to tour again ...

One-time Frank Zappa band guitarist Mike Keneally is back from spending most of June in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was ...

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 was one of the most innovative and versatile rock musicians of his generation, creating a vast body of work that encompassed almost every genre of music – but he wouldn't have wanted to ...

It's 1991 and controversial American musician Frank Zappa is standing in front of a capacity crowd in Prague's Sports Hall. In the wake of the Cold War ending and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, ...

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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 ...

I am eager to let Alex Winter know this Zoom interview for his new film isn’t with some noob. When he pops up on my screen to discuss Zappa, the first documentary with access to the heralded “Zappa ...

On CNET's I'm So Obsessed podcast, director Alex Winter and Frank Zappa's son Ahmet discuss making the documentary Zappa. As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, covering news and reviews on ...

The directors of "Zappa" and "Montage of Heck" swap stories and talk through the challenges of finding the truths hidden by the glare of fame. In “Zappa,” actor-turned-documentary filmmaker Alex ...