Steve Vai was just 21 when he made his San Diego concert debut in 1981 at the Fox Theater as the “stunt guitarist” in the band of former Grossmont and Mission Bay high schools student Frank Zappa. At ...

“Is that Don? Send him in.” Frank Zappa has been ad-libbing vocal prompts for a new composition, “Born To Suck”, when he spots old friend Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, enter the studio. The ...

Music feuds of recent years have been dominated by pop star shade and fiery hip-hop diss tracks. Yet classic rock has its fair share of beef. Neil Young’s “Southern Man” upset Lynyrd Skynyrd to the ...

Bongo Fury, the 1975 partly live album recorded by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, will celebrate a belated 50th anniversary in March with a new five-CD, one-Blu-ray box set. The upcoming ...

“Alright, this is it! This is the big one! Happy Halloween, everybody!” declares Frank Zappa to a rabid New York audience on Halloween 78, and his is no hollow boast. On Halloween night of 1978, at ...

Frank Zappa’s 1978 Halloween concert ‘The Big One’ released in full for the first time in a 5CD super deluxe box set with rare bonus tracks. Frank Zappa’s connection to New York City reached its peak ...

Frank Zappa’s 1978 Halloween show at New York City’s Palladium will be released as a box set on Oct. 24. The Super Deluxe Edition of the set will feature 62 tracks on five CDs and will be packaged in ...

An epic journey inside Zappa’s mid-70s progressive rock masterpiece. The 50th Anniversary 4CD + 1Blu-ray edition of Frank Zappa’s 1975 One Size Fits All takes fans deep into the creation of a ...

“My humble curse: May your shit come to life and kiss you.” – Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” (1990) In death, Frank Zappa lives. You don’t have to know his work. Such is the digital ...

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.

Frank Zappa is one of the most unique and off-the-wall rock stars to ever grace the mainstream. Zappa’s music and general brand certainly had their own special and identifiable mark. Though those ...

The Super Deluxe Edition box comes complete with a 36-page booklet and unseen photos from the archives of Sam Emerson, in addition to liner notes and new historical essays by noted music journalist ...