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The next round of vault offerings from the Frank Zappa estate will include a reissue of his triple-disc Lumpy Money Project/Object as well as a trilogy of Road Tapes volumes.

Everything from orchestral notes gracing the music to the mocking cover art turned the Beatles on their heads.

The album was named after one of his favorite snacks in times of hunger emergency.

An unauthorized documentary about Frank Zappa will have its world premiere at Sundance next week.

Gail Zappa, widow of the late Frank Zappa, died this afternoon at the age of 70.

He really wasn't a "rock" musician. That fact is cemented on this first album.

Frank Zappa died on Dec. 4, 1993.

The famous fire at the Montreux Jazz Festival took place on Dec. 4, 1971

A mysterious group of pompadoured cartoon faces turned back the clock to highlight the golden era of doo-wop.

The Zappa Family Trust, headed by Frank Zappa's widow Gail, has announced that select titles from the massive Zappa catalog will be finding their way to vinyl this summer. In June, Zappa's Barking Pumpkin label will put out editions of 1973's 'Over-Nite Sensation' and the 1966 classic 'Freak Out!,' joining the recently released 'Finer Moments,' a collection of live material from the early-'70s. Re

More than 40 years after its initial release, Frank Zappa's '200 Motels' is scheduled to make its orchestral world premiere thanks to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Ray Collins, the singer and co-founder of the Mothers of Invention, died on Monday (Dec. 24) in Pomona, Calif. He had been hospitalized since Dec. 18 after suffering a massive heart attack, and was removed from life support on Saturday. He was 76 years old.