Frank Zappa was and remains a prolific figure in progressive, experimental, and improvisational rock. He was a guitar master, a compositional genius, and his influence as a band leader and a solo ...

Mike Keneally has looked back on the time he scored the Frank Zappa gig – after cold-calling his guitar hero and impressing him with a photographic-like memory of his musical catalog. Keneally was ...

More than four decades after Frank Zappa and the Mothers filmed their three-night residency at Hollywood’s 500-person-capacity Roxy Theatre, Roxy: The Movie will finally be released. A trailer for the ...

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Zappa's 1978 tour of Europe, Belew's first, had reached Cologne, Germany, when Brian Eno – a longtime collaborator who knew Bowie was looking for a new guitarist – caught a show. He urged Bowie to see ...

Frank Zappa‘s digital stand-in cranks out a guitar solo in rehearsal footage for the upcoming tour featuring a hologram of the late guitarist-composer. In the clip, “Zappa” is decked out in blue jeans ...

Listen to a lot of what passes for popular music these days, the repetitive mouth noises droning along to minimalist synthesized sounds. When you’re ready for a change, check out Dweezil Zappa’s band.

MORRISTOWN - About 30 musicians enjoyed a true insider's peek into the legacy and process of one of the world's most celebrated guitar players when Dweezil Zappa hosted a master class on Wednesday at ...

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped. With his eccentric, experimental music, the rock iconoclast believed that, for all of his influential innovation, he was seen as a “threat” in the ...