At around the age of 13, Schutte discovered Zappa's music when a teacher played it for him in school, and was hooked. Sponsor Message "It was something that I hadn't heard before," Schutte says.

If you need a cheat sheet to the late rocker, here are five ways to get into Frank’s world. ... The band One Shot Deal performs Frank Zappa's music at the Whisky a Go Go on June 10.

Here are 11 things we learned from the long-awaited, authorized documentary about the uncompromising rocker and composer Frank Zappa.

Zappa was never one for floating in the mainstream. Whether it was his music, opinions, or the names of his children (especially Moon Unit and Dweezil), the individualistic guitarist marched to ...

They cost about between $2,000 and $3,000 just to get the sheet music here. "When you open the score and you look at it, it's almost like doing a math problem." JB: Yeah it's a lot.

Writer-producer Zappa, whose Monsterfoot Productions has a first-look deal at Disney, has signed with ICM. Skip to main content Plus Icon Click to expand the Mega Menu ...

For the Disney Hall concert, Gail Zappa and assistants went through her husband’s sometimes scattered sheet music for the orchestral portions of “200 Motels” and tried to reassemble it in ...

The Monkees and Frank Zappa made very different music, however, Zappa wanted to work with The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz. Despite this, Dolenz didn’t work with him. Here’s why — and why Dolenz ...

Frank Zappa famously had a very individualistic approach to rock: groupies, no sheet music and extra-strong coffee instead of drugs. In an interview with SPIEGEL, ex-Mothers of Invention singer ...