Music legend and cultural provocateur Frank Zappa did a good number of interviews with the San Diego Union-Tribune over the years. So has his musician son, Dweezil, who is interviewed in the April 30 ...

But the Bill & Ted star insisted it was important to explore the truth behind the “paradoxical” history of Zappa’s career. The movie features rare exclusive interviews with his widow, Gail, who knew ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Frank Zappa was an unruly figure of 1960s rock, a free-speech advocate and devout parodist defined by his opposition to authority. His albums assembled the bones ...

Moon Unit Zappa remembers the moment she became the voice of a generation. It was a school night in 1982 when musician Frank Zappa jostled his 13-year-old daughter awake. Frank needed her in the home ...

Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson said one of his biggest regrets was failing to connect with Frank Zappa in 1993. The American icon was dying, and the British prog veteran was one of a group of people ...

America in 1969 was nearly as weird as it is today. A seemingly endless war in Southeast Asia, the horrific assassinations of political progressives and creepy Richard Nixon’s presidency cast shadows ...

Like their dad’s oddball rock songs, their family defied description. His music, and their pain, has endured. In her final years, Gail Zappa showed signs of becoming a hoarder, clinging to every scrap ...

A trio of Frank Zappa‘s Rust Belt-area concerts, performed during one of the rock legend’s most artistically fertile period, are the focus of an upcoming six-CD box set dubbed Zappa/Erie. Tracks from ...