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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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, ...