Mike Beigel's groundbreaking envelope filter made the world a funkier place ...

Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart's album "Bongo Fury" celebrates its 50th anniversary with a lavish box set, featuring unreleased tracks and live recordings from Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters ...

Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s 1975 ‘Bongo Fury’ collaborative album gets a 50th anniversary reissue. It's set for a ...

Announced on Jan. 27, Zappa Records (in partnership with UMe) will release a special Super Deluxe edition boxed set of Bongo ...

Channelling punk, jazz and classical influences, Scott Thunes is an enigma of modern bass-playing history and blazed a unique trail in creating his own spiky playing style. Yet his cult status is ...

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MOJO uncovers the story behind the surreal night in 1971 when John and Yoko joined forces with Frank Zappa – and the onstage freak-out that followed.

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 ...

Frank Zappa took creative risks that few musicians would even consider. He also wrote experimental classical music and gallivanted around the world. But Frank Zappa's life wasn't always rosy. His ...

In June of 1974, Frank Zappa and his rapturous band, the Mothers of Invention, invited a small audience to the their rehearsal hall on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, Calif. Together, they performed for ...

In the late 1960s, a decidedly horrible show at the Cheetah Club in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood led to the Alice Cooper Band crossing paths with the legendarily eccentric Frank Zappa. The latter ...

Celebrating Valentine’s Day, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra will present a program that ranges from Frank Zappa to the romantic melodies from opera’s most popular love tragedy. But for the major ...