There are few things in today’s music industry more valuable than the song catalogs of and rights management for past rock legends. Anyone following the story of Prince and his vault full of ...

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.

The post Frank Zappa’s Catalog and Archives Sold to Universal Music Group appeared first on Consequence. Universal Music Group announced on Thursday, June 30th that it has purchased what essentially ...

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 ...

At the cusp of his blossoming freak rock career, Frank Zappa nearly packed it all in upon hearing one seismic single from one ...

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It's an old adage that fits well when speaking of Zappa Plays Zappa, a national touring project that finds guitar virtuoso Dweezil Zappa recreating the music of his late great father, Frank Zappa.

Frank Zappa would have turned 70 this December — and the music world misses him still. Not just the rock music world, but also the classical music world, to which he originally aspired and which was ...

Dweezil Zappa is on a mission, and it’s a pretty personal one. Since 2006, the son of the late guitarist/composer/bandleader Frank Zappa has toured the world ...

BALTIMORE — “What’s new in Baltimore?” Frank Zappa used to sing at the end of a long, characteristically off-the-wall rock jam he called “Clowns on Velvet.” What’s new in Baltimore, the city in which ...

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