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 ...

Alex Winter’s “Zappa” is an odd, occasionally jarring documentary, but it wouldn’t make sense for it to be anything else. The film about the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa sometimes feels like an ...

It’s a happy “Franksgiving” for Zappa fans as director Alex Winter’s years-in-the-making authorized documentary Zappa has finally arrived. Touted as having unprecedented access to Zappa’s immense ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a few were obsessive Zappa fans who hoped to gain access to his fabled vaults. Housed in the sprawling basement of the Zappa family home, a treasure trove of thousands of hours of rarely or ...