A look into the early influences of Frank Zappa and how he was freaking people out with avant-garde rock long before the Mothers of Invention were started.

Dweezil Zappa learned of Jimi Hendrix as a kid. Of course, that was from his legendary musical genius and rock ’n’ roll madman father, Frank Zappa, who died in 1993. “While I didn’t have ...

Simmons’s larger-than-life personality helped him inveigle his way into rarefied social circles, and he enjoyed unlikely love ...

“Music is viewed as one of the highest art forms, if not the highest artform, because it is able to be spiritual and sacred”: ...

For over half a century, Micky Dolenz has been entertaining audiences as a singer, drummer, actor, director, and all-around showman. Best known as a primary voice and energy behind The Monkees (the ...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame often chooses the wrong bands to be inducted, but this left-out band deserves to get in.

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Navigating Frank Zappa's extensive catalog can be one of the trickiest and frustrating endeavors a music fan can undertake. From his debut in June 1966 with the Mothers of Invention's double Freak ...

It wasn’t all satirical mocks. This six-minute response to the 1965 Watts Riots found Zappa the social commentator at his ...

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.