The latest — and fourth — installment in the series of Halloween-themed super-deluxe Zappa sets features the full, nearly four-hour October 31, 1978 concert, which Zappa himself called ‘The Big One!’ ...
Burnt Weeny Sandwich’ 1970 was a red-letter year for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. After five albums on the Verve ...
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Back in 1969, Denver was flooded with hippies. They were all here for the Denver Pop Festival, a heroic effort by legendary promoter Barry Fey that took place at Mile High Stadium from June 27 to 29.
In June of 1974, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were ready for their television closeups, but technology was unfortunately not on their side. Over 50 years later, Cheaper Than Cheep finally ...
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention’s Unaired TV Special Filmed In June 1974 To Be Freed From The Vault After More Than 50 Years As New Concert Film and Soundtrack “Cheaper Than Cheep” On May 9, ...
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 ...
Navigating Frank Zappa's extensive catalog can be one of the trickiest and frustrating endeavors a music fan can undertake. From his debut in June 1966 with the Mothers of Invention's double Freak Out ...
Back in the early '90s, the teenage Cillian Murphy was the frontman of Sons of Mr Green Genes, a Cork-based acid jazz group who took their name from an obscure Frank Zappa instrumental inspired by a ...
During his iconic 1985 testimony in front on the U.S. Senate PMRC hearing, American musician Frank Zappa railed against the committee's premise, labeling the PMRC an "ill-conceived piece of nonsense ...
Christian artist Forrest Frank’s hit song “Good Day” is helping thousands of people through dark times — including Frank himself. “Three days after that song came out, I went through the hardest trial ...
Moon Unit Zappa details her unconventional childhood with her Rock and Roll Hall of Famer dad in her new book 'Earth to Moon: A Memoir' Randall Slavin Growing up is hard to do, but it can be ...