On the Mothers of Invention’s 1969 Uncle Meat, you can hear Frank Zappa exhort keyboardist Don Preston to climb up to the Royal Albert Hall’s majestic pipe organ and belt out the riff to Louie Louie.

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

Describing Frank Zappa's music to someone who has never heard it is a bit like describing New Orleans to someone who has never been there. You can mention the obvious: It's colorful, raunchy, a bit ...

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

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 celebration of 50 years of Frank Zappa's legendary album, Over-Nite Sensation, a newly expanded 50th anniversary edition will be released November 17 via Zappa Records/UMe in a variety of formats, ...

The late Frank Zappa‘s “vaultmeister” has unearthed 23 previously unreleased and rare recordings that Zappa may have been considering for a sequel to his beloved jazz-rock masterpiece, 1969’s Hot Rats ...

Frank Zappa was a famously odd man with a famously bizarre sense of creativity. His music was really something to behold back in his prime, and his legacy in progressive rock and experimental blues ...

Dweezil Zappa is headed to Phoenix to launch a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of two career-defining albums that took his legendary father’s music to a wider mainstream audience than acts as ...

Celebrating Valentine’s Day, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra will present a program that ranges from Frank Zappa to the romantic melodies from opera’s most popular love tragedy. But for the major ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UMe and uDiscover Music are giving fans of the legendary Frank Zappa the chance to win exclusive items from The Vault, the near mythic storage facility that houses the ...

Frank Zappa took creative risks that few musicians would even consider. He also wrote experimental classical music and gallivanted around the world. But Frank Zappa's life wasn't always rosy. His ...