On the first day of summer, June 21, 1974, Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, invited a small audience to their humble rehearsal hall on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, Calif., for what would be ...

A never-aired Frank Zappa concert, dubbed 'Cheaper Than Cheep,' will be released on May 9 via Zappa Records/UMe in a 'super deluxe' box set.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention’s unaired television special ‘Cheaper Than Cheep’ will finally be available later ...

Intimate performance from June 21, 1974 — long-shelved due to now-fixed syncing issues — arrives May 9 as Cheaper Than Cheep ...

A previously unaired Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention television special from 1974 is finally being released after ...

Frank Zappa is one of the most ... to ‘Black Napkins’, a song off his 1976 album Zoot Allures. It’s an entirely instrumental piece whose sole focus is the guitar solo, and rightfully so. As Zappa ...

Is Frank Ocean teasing a comeback? A decade removed from his 2015 masterpiece Blonde, the R&B singer seems to be cryptically hinting at an upcoming album. The chatter is mostly focused on the ...

While 2018’s one-off singles and the mythical Endless project kept the flame alive, nothing has matched the cultural quake of a full Frank Ocean album drop. Now, with 2025 in full swing, signs point ...

A titan of musical innovation and experimentation, Frank Zappa was a true original ... comes on the opening track of his 1966 album Freak Out!. An odd composition, even for Zappa, ‘Hungry Freaks, ...

The cover artwork for Crosby, Stills and Nash’s 1969 debut ranks among the most recognizable of its era. So why did the band initially want the image reshot? During a recent conversation with ...

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Mick is – he’s a bass player and he’s a big Zappa nut.’ “There I was, all of a sudden, at sound check with George Duke and Chester Thompson; all my heroes. Frank came over and said ...