Frank Zappa's first solo album is set for an expanded 50th-anniversary reissue. The new six-disc edition of Hot Rats includes unreleased basic tracks, rare and unedited mixes, work mixes and other ...

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 ...

Frank Zappa‘s estate will mark the 50th anniversary of the guitarist and composer’s Hot Rats — released on this date in 1969 — with a six-disc reissue that offers a deep dive into the sessions that ...

Unless you were around and musically aware in 1969 when this, Frank Zappa’s first official solo album, was unleashed, it’s hard to understand how revolutionary it was. Fifty years later, little has ...

Basic Track Recording Sessions, TTG Studios Hollywood, CA; 7-18-69; Piano Music (Section 1); Piano Music (Section 3); 7-28-69; Peaches En Regalia (Prototype); Peaches En Regalia (Section 1, In session ...

Welcome to The Vinyl Voyager. My weekly diary of what music on vinyl, in its purest form, means to me. Track-by-track, note-by-note: Here’s what influences me and keeps me moving forward in a world ...

The late Frank Zappa‘s “vaultmeister” has unearthed 23 previously unreleased and rare recordings that Zappa may have been considering for a sequel to his beloved jazz-rock masterpiece, 1969’s Hot Rats ...

In the summer of 1969, 19-year-old Bill Gubbins aspired to interview his musical hero, Frank Zappa, then touring with The Mothers of Invention in Warrensville Heights, Ohio. What Gubbins didn’t know ...

FEATURES 25 UNRELEASED AND RARE TRACKS AND MORE THAN THREE AND A HALF HOURS OF NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD COMPOSITIONS, COVERS, AND JAMS FROM 1970 WITH CORE GROUP OF AYNSLEY DUNBAR, DON “SUGARCANE” HARRIS, ...

Dweezil Zappa, foreground, will pay tribute to his father, Frank Zappa, at the Tower Theatre on Friday. Dweezil Zappa is still surprised by his father’s music. That’s no small feat, considering he has ...