The iconoclastic composer and guitarist was an odd choice for Lennon. Zappa's music was avant garde and frequently irreverent ...

Frank Zappa like it when an artist is given room to run with their ideas. Here, he doesn't think that quite came to fruition, ...

Frank Zappa once referred to Joe's Garage as a "stupid little story about how the government is going to do away with music." In other words, it was another Frank Zappa album. By the time Zappa ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1992 I went with a CBC crew to Los Angeles to make a radio series with Frank Zappa. He wrote music that had no boundaries — rock, classical, avant-garde, none of the usual descriptors ...

If you grew up with Frank Zappa, and he loomed large in your youth-cultural pop rebel sandbox (as he did in mine), he seemed to be many things at once. The outrageous hippie with the thick black ...

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 ...

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, ...

Frank Zappa was the musical mastermind who shredded the electric guitar just as easily as he composed contemporary classical hits. But when he wasn’t pioneering musique concrète or experimenting with ...

Plenty of jealous boyfriends have been peeved through the years when their girlfriends get into a major rock musician. Unfortunately for Frank Zappa, one particularly jilted boyfriend decided to get ...