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“It is far easier to experiment with xenochrony using computer technology,” he adds. “Back in the Seventies it required brilliant razor blade tape edits and ingenious fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants ...

Dweezil Zappa was born on September 5, 1969 in Los Angeles—the son of Frank and Gail Zappa. It was inevitable that from the moment of his birth his life would be filled wall-to wall with music (his ...

Frank Zappa’s rich musical and cultural legacy, and which children have a right to profit off it, have recently become the subject of a public and contentious family battle. The children of Frank and ...

Since Dweezil Zappa started the band Zappa Plays Zappa in 2006, he estimates he’s covered nearly 400 of his late father’s songs. But for his current tour, the guitarist and singer says he wanted to ...

Though he died in 1993 aged only 52, Frank Zappa recorded more than 80 albums which covered an astonishing amount of musical turf. Jazz-fusion, progressive rock, musique concrète, scatalogical satire, ...

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 ...

On June 27th, Frank Zappa‘s avant-garde double album Freak Out! turns 50. His son, Dweezil, is celebrating the rich debut album by Zappa and the Mothers of Invention by touring pivotal tracks from the ...

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with musician Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa, about his new album, Via Zammata, and his father's influence on his music. When I first heard this song, it reminded me of ...