Alex Winter's latest doc, 'Zappa,' digs into private vaults for a portrait of the singular musician. By John DeFore Even his most dedicated fans tend to accept that not all their friends will agree ...

They launched a Kickstarter campaign targeting Zappa fans around the world that in raising $1.25 million broke funding records for a documentary-related project. They spent the next two years spending ...

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s first album “Freak Out!” didn’t sell terribly well, but it was noticed. A steady stream of rock royalty including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and ...

Alex Winter's dense but accessible Frank Zappa doc doesn't capture all of who Zappa was so much as it conveys why that would be impossible. Sooner or later, any commercially viable documentary about ...

The “Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,” the companion album to the highly acclaimed Alex Winter-directed documentary “Zappa” about the prolific genius composer, free speech activist, cultural ...

If you grew up with Frank Zappa, and he loomed large in your youth-cultural pop rebel sandbox (as he did in mine), he seemed to be many things at once. The outrageous hippie with the thick black ...

A new documentary, “Zappa,” tells the story of rock musician and composer Frank Zappa. Represented through a trove of home movies, filmed interviews and more from the family’s vaults, Zappa, who died ...

There is no such thing as a casual Frank Zappa fan — it’s an all-or-nothing proposition. (Really, there’s no such thing as a casual Frank Zappa listener, period: You either immediately recoil from his ...