Frank Zappa Lather (Rykodisc) (star) (star) (star) (star) If you were a Frank Zappa fan in the late ’70s, you probably spent years combing record stores for a new, four-disc set rumored to be FZ ...

Frank Zappa issued 'Sleep Dirt' on Jan. 19, 1979. In 1977, Zappa gave Warners an ambitious four-album set called Lather, which was made up of various material recorded over the past eight years ...

Zappa, who died in 1993, left behind a trove of music. Bunk Gardner, a classically-trained woodwind player whose brother played trumpet for the Mothers of Invention, ...

Zappa had hoped to weather his ongoing legal wrangles with Cohen by emptying his vaults into a massive, quadruple-LP set to be released all at once under the eyebrow-arching title of Lather.But ...

Watch Zappa’s Halloween night performance of “City Of Tiny Lites” below, and check out the (long, long, long) tracklist below. Halloween 77 Costume Box Set tracklist 10-28-77 Show 1 ...

Zappa’s father died of cancer at 52, in 1993, after which her mother took control of his estate. When she died, in 2015, she cut Moon and one of her brothers out of the family business.

In “Zappa,” actor and filmmaker Alex Winter provides an economical, uncritical documentary about the eponymous musician, who died at 52 in 1993. Frank Zappa became famous as an iconoclast, his ...

Frank Zappa's game-changing legacy is explored through interviews, archival footage and intimate access in “Zappa,” which is directed by Alex Winter (Bill of the “Bill & Ted” movies).

Zappa Not rated. Running time: 2 hours 9 minutes. In theaters and available to rent or buy on iTunes, Google Play and other streaming platforms and pay TV operators.

Dweezil Zappa spoke to Rolling Stone about changing his tour name to avoid a lawsuit from his family, and reviving the 'Freak Out!' LP on tour.

By 1977, Frank Zappa's Halloween shows were already the stuff of legends. While the shows began in the late '60s, around 1972, these monumental performances would become annual events, initially ...