Zappa (2020) is an engaging American biographical drama film. Directed by noted director Alex Winter, the film delves deep into the unseen and private vaults to give an insight into the rock and roll ...

Frank Zappa suffers from a curious condition in the pages of rock history: His popular work was hard to take seriously and his serious work wasn’t popular. Nearly three decades after his 1993 death, ...

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Anti-maskers trying to overcome the Black Plague of the 21st Century through force of will? Streaming media services paying musicians pennies on the dollar? Celebrities who are famous for being famous ...

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped. With his eccentric, experimental music, the rock iconoclast believed that, for all of his influential innovation, he was seen as a “threat” in the ...

Alex Winter’s “Zappa,” a documentary biopic of the experimental rock pioneer, composer, and activist Frank Zappa is a sprawling at times shaggy work, testing the outer limits of mood and tone, ...

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star ...

When Alex Winter approached the widow of rock musician and composer Frank Zappa with his pitch to make a documentary on the man and his music, he was thrilled when Gail Zappa said yes. What her ...

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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 ...

Some of progressive rock’s most legendary music will be performed on the same stage this summer, as King Crimson have announced a 2020 tour with the Zappa Band. Last year, King Crimson celebrated ...