Frank Zappa’s fascinating yet divisive 1971 band is celebrated in 'The Mothers 1971,' a box set announced in January 2022.

The entirety of Frank Zappa's epic two-night, four-show stand at Fillmore East in June 1971 will be released for the first time in March.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Zappa and the Mothers’ 1971 two-night run at the Fillmore East and a cherished period in Zappa’s legacy, Zappa ...

Check back into Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels with a massive, six-CD 50th-anniversary reissue for the 1971 film soundtrack.

Musical genius Frank Zappa was also a world-class iconoclast. This made for a difficult fit for him in both the corporate musical music world and in the political world of the second half of the ...

Forty years ago today on October 11, 1971, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention performed two marathon, full-length shows at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall. This is your ticket directly to the ...

Zappa and Lennon's paths crossed in 1971 when Village Voice writer Howard Smith met Frank at his hotel.

I’m privileged to be able to say that I saw Frank Zappa’s band, The Mothers of Invention, play three times - twice with the original lineup, at the Rhode Island Auditorium (1968) and at the ...

Frank Zappa’s former bandmates carry on his legacy with The Zappa Band at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia on Sunday and Ram’s Head in Annapolis, Maryland on Tuesday.

Zappa and Lennon's paths crossed in 1971 when Village Voice writer Howard Smith met Frank at his hotel. "A journalist in New York City woke me up, knocked on the door and is standing there with a ...