If the venue had suddenly and spontaneously combusted as the band formerly known as Zappa Plays Zappa burned through explosive versions of “Teen-age Wind,” “Montana,” “Zombie Woof” and “Doreen,” it ...

"Having played my father's music live on tour for the past decade, I've had many opportunities to share the stage with exceptionally talented musicians," says Dweezil. "It's been a thrill and at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Courtesy of Dweezil Zappa Twenty years after first bringing his father's groundbreaking music back to concert stages, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It must be genetic. That profane obsession with groupie boobies, the monster chops on guitar, the theatrical freakiness, the ear for melding jazz, rock and ...

While in the past, Dweezil’s touring band has included alums from his dad’s touring ensembles, musicians like Terry Bozzio, Steve Vai and Ray White, Dweezil’s pared down the band to six members for ...

Dweezil Zappa stressed again and again how thoroughly his band had done their homework. At several points during Monday’s two and a half hour show, he explained how the seven-member ensemble had ...

Before Dweezil Zappa and his band take the stage next month in Orlando, the founding member of Zappa Plays Zappa will offer musicians a chance to sit down for a guitar class. “What I try to do for ...

“Is there anybody here who was at CBGB?” Guitarist Captain Sensible of the Damned asked that question early in the first set of the band’s marathon show at the Gramercy Theatre on October 29th. He was ...

to all the Frank Zappa albums you want to, but there’s no substitute for hearing Zappa’s wild, crazy, and complex compositions performed live. When the Baltimore-born innovator died of prostate cancer ...

Touring on one of his favorites of his father’s records, Dweezil Zappa celebrates 40 years since the release of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention’s One Size Fits All by recreating the album live.