Magazine indexes
Chronological (texts in English only):
- 1953
- October 3
Saturday Evening Post : Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- October 3
- 1956
- September
Man's Life : Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- September
- 1965
- August 13
The Bakersfield Californian : The Run Home Slow ad
- September 10
Los Angeles Free Press : The Mothers ad - "The Mothers is a nice little band"
- September 25
KRLA Beat : Tiny ad for a group called The Mothers
- October 1
Los Angeles Free Press : The Mothers ad - "Rasputin say: The Mothers is a nice little band ... I suppose"
- October 2
KRLA Beat : Tiny ad for a group called The Mothers
- October 9
KRLA Beat : Tiny ad for a group called The Mothers
- October 16
KRLA Beat : Tiny ad for a group called The Mothers
- October 23
KRLA Beat : The Mothers ad - call "Frank Zapa"
- December 8
KFWB/98 Hitline : Look Out Plastic People The Mothers Have Arrived
- December 31
Los Angeles Free Press : A Year End Garland from the Free Press
- August 13
- 1966
- June 24
Berkeley Barb : Rock’n’ Freak
- July 8
Los Angeles Free Press : Kooks, Little Green Books And Zappa ...
- July 9
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Freak Out!
- July 9
Record World : MGM Goes Way Out For 'Freak Out'
- July 10
San Francisco Examiner : Rock LPs – Some Remarkable Experiments
- July 15
Detroit Free Press : If You Get Headache
- July 23
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner : Mothers Invent Sounds Worse Than Music
- July 24
Courier-Post : Like Lawrence In Ara...Baby!
- July 29
Los Angeles Free Press : GUAMBO Is An Act Of Love – Mothers ...
- August 7
Los Angeles Times : Popular Records: Pass Aspirin, Please
- August 13
Record World : N.Y. 'Freak Out'
- September 10
KRLA Beat : Psychedelic Music – Is It Next?
- September 12
Daily Trojan : Ad - the Mothers at the Shrine Exposition Hall
- September
Audio : Jazz and all that. Mothers of Invention: Freak Out!
- September
Los Angeles Free Press
- October 3
Daily Trojan : Pot Is Good But LSD Is Better
- October 4
Los Angeles Times : The Mothers Are Something to See
- October 5
Daily Trojan : Wild Freaks Run Amok To Save Mankind
- October 14
NME : [The annual croquet match]
- October 31
IT : Portrait of a freak
- November 4
NME : The Mothers of Invention "It Can't Happen Here"/"How Could I Be Such A Fool"
- November 12
Cash Box : Newcomer Picks - Trouble Comin' Every Day
- November 19
Disc and Music Echo : [Freak Out!]
- November 19
Record Mirror : The Mothers of Invention: It Can't Happen Here; How Could I Be Such A Fool
- November 27
Los Angeles Times : The Frenzied Frontier of Pop Music
- November
TeenSet : Hollywood Group Scene
- December 1
The Paper : Concert ad
- December 1
The Village Voice : The Pop Bag
- December 8
The Paper : Concert ad
- December 25
The New York Times : Son of Suzy Creamcheese
- December 30
Los Angeles Free Press : Zappa Zaps the Big Lie
- December
Beat Instrumental : The 'Unbelievably Awful' Mothers of Invention
- December
Cavalier : Freak Out! - picture story
- December
Teen : My Fair & Frantic Hollywood
- June 24
- 1967
- January 14
Montreal Gazette : Mothers Of The World Unite! Inventively!
- January
Teen : Freakout!
- January
TeenSet
- Fifty-Four Fab, Boss Questions
- ZOWIEWOWIE
- February 1
East Village Other : Mutation Blues
- February 11
Melody Maker : Psychedelic Pop
- March 4
Melody Maker : Freak out with the Mothers
- March 13
IT : Zappa
- March 25
KRLA Beat : The Generation G-a-p ... It's Widening
- March
Hit Parader : Eric Burdon Is Freaking Out
- March
Hullabaloo : Mothers Of Invention
- April 27
Wellesley News : "Mother-Images" Freak Out, Creamcheese, Psychedelics
- April
Beat Instrumental : Freak Out - Mothers Of Invention VLP 9154 (review)
- April
The Sun : Frank Zappa
- May 6
Billboard : Centerfold ad
- May 20
Cash Box : Best Bets - Why Don't You Do Me Right
- May 25
The New York Times : Mothers of Invention at the Garrick
- May 25
The Village Voice : 21 Win '67 'Obies'
- May 26
The Wall Street Journal : 'Mothers,' Hip Style
- May
Hit Parader : Granny' Gossip
- May
World Countdown : Zappa statement on poison gas and FZ poster giveaway
- June 1
The Village Voice : Theatre: Absolutely Freeeee
- June 24
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Absolutely Free
- June 24
Melody Maker : Mothers here in October
- June 29
DownBeat : Panther organs ad
- June
Hit Parader : Frank Zappa the Incredible Boss Mother
- June
Jazz : The Joyful Noise
- July 29
Billboard : Merson's 'Invention' Radio Spot Clicking
- July
Hit Parader : The Boss Mother Meets The Animals
- August 21
IT
- August 26
Melody Maker : Meet the Boss Mother, sussing out Britain...
- August
Evergreen Review : Absolutely Free ad
- August
Hit Parader : My Favorite Records
- September 2
Disc and Music Echo : [Absolutely Free]
- September 2
Record Mirror : Frank Zappa of the Mothers of Invention – the Hard Guy who doesn't radiate love ...
- September 9
Fabulous 208 : On Our Wavelength
- September 23
Disc and Music Echo : Big Leg Emma
- September 23
Intro : In It For The Money
- September 23
NME : The Mothers of Invention - tame but really great ("Big Leg Emma")
- September 23
Record Mirror : The Mothers Of Invention: Big Leg Mama; Why Don't You Do Me Right
- September 30
Disc and Music Echo
- September 30
Melody Maker : Mothers – Almost A Freak Out, Not A Love In, Definitely A Send-up!
- September 30
NME : Mothers Woo In-Crowd
- September 30
Record Mirror : The Mothers Of Invention "Absolutely Free"
- September
16 : Spot The Errors!
- September
High Fidelity : Mothers Of Invention: Absolutely Free
- September
Hit Parader : Hagstrom guitar & Absolutely Free ads
- September
Hullabaloo : The Mothers Of Invention
- September
Jazz & Pop : Frank Zappa (Pt I)
- September
Rave : The Big Pop Movement - Underground Groups
- September
Song Hits : Mother Of Two Runs Off With Uncle Meat
- Fall
Freak Out, U.S.A. : Mothers Of Invention: Strange People ...
- Fall
GQ Scene : Mother-Mother
- Autumn
Pop-See-Cul : Heroes And Villains
- October 7
Melody Maker : Mothers live up to their name
- October 20
Berkeley Barb : Waving at the Fickle Future
- October
Cavalier : Claudia On The California Pop Circuit
- October
Cheetah : In-Person: The Mothers Of Invention
- October
Esquire : Secular Music
- October
Hit Parader : Frank Zappa On Freedom
- October
Jazz & Pop : Frank Zappa (Pt II)
- October
Music Maker : Speaking Of Mothers, Meet Frank
- November 11
Record Mirror : 'The biggest talent I have ever come across' says ex Dylan producer Tom Wilson of Frank Zappa
- November 15
Fifth Estate : Mothers To Zap Detroit
- November
Audio : Jazz, Blues And The Mothers
- November
Escapade
- December 1
Fifth Estate : Head Mother Speaks
- December 1
The Varsity : The Mothers of Invention
- December 2
Cash Box : Best Bets - Sonics - Any Way The Wind Blows
- December 16
Record Mirror : Frank Zappa - the Hitler of song, says Eric
- December 22
Open City
- December 23
The New York Times : Town Hall Rocks To A Zany Group
- December 23
Toronto Daily Star : Opera – the next big thing in rock
- December 30
Cash Box : Best Bets - Lonely Little Girl
- December
Hit Parader : Hagstrom guitar & United Mutation ads
- January 14
- 1968
- January 5
East Village Other : Pop, Rock and Jelly
- January 11
The Village Voice : Zappa and the Mothers: Ugly Can Be Beautiful
- January 12
GO Magazine : New Mothers' LP Sleeve The Wildest Yet
- January 13
Saturday Evening Post : Does this Mother know best?
- January 26
The Varsity : The Mothers – A nice place to visit
- January 29
Toronto Daily Star : Mothers of Invention, un-convention provide a tremendously wild evening
- January 29
The Varsity : The Mothers – A nice place to visit
- January
New England Scene : The Mothers
- January
Rave : Rave's New Year Honours List
- February 3
Melody Maker : Those Beefheart Blues
- February 10
KRLA Beat : Zappa Voted Top Musician
- February 29
San Francisco Express Times : The Apocalypse According To Saint Zappa
- February
Discoscene : Necessity Is ...
- February
Jazz & Pop : Motherly Love
- February
Teen Scoop : The Mothers "Thing" – Invention
- March 4
Rat Subterranean News : Greatest Mother Of Them All
- March 9
Cash Box : Album Reviews - We're Only In It For The Money
- March 23
Disc and Music Echo : 'Mothers' LP: send-up of the Beatles
- March 28
New York Free Press : Leader Of The Mothers
- March
Underground Digest : Head Mother Speaks Out
- April 6
Rolling Stone : We're Only In It For The Money (review)
- April 26
Avatar : The Mothers
- April 27
Rolling Stone
- Monkees Give Zappa Bum Steer
- Tragedy Comes To Frank Zappa: 'They Called Us Entertainment
- May 11
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Lumpy Gravy
- May 17
Daily Sundial : Zappa's Dream: Super Pool Of Musicians
- May 25
NME : Eric Clapton a Mother
- May
Big Ten : Frank Zappa - The Head Mother
- May
Discoscene : Where Is Frank Zappa? Part I
- May
Dude : The Mothers Of Invention
- May/June
Hullabaloo
- Live From N.Y. The Others Brothers Show
- Records
- June 3
Newsweek : Zapping With Zappa
- June 3
The San Diego Union : The Mothers Of Invention In Hit Concert
- June 4
Fifth Estate : [Head Mother Frank Zappa ...]
- June 10
KXOA Music Scene : Concert announcement
- June 15
Melody Maker : Zappa masterminds a Mothers' masterpiece
- June 15
Record Mirror : The Mothers Of Invention "We're Only In It For The Money"
- June 16
Datebook : What I Am, See, Is I'm an Appliance – an Ugly Reminder
- June 21
Los Angeles Free Press : Mother Is A Mother Is A Mother Is A Mother
- June 22
Rolling Stone
- Los Angeles Scene
- Lumpy Gravy (review)
- June 28
Life
- The Most Popular Music
- The Oracle Has It All Psyched Out
- June
Discoscene : Where Is Frank Zappa? Part II
- June
High Fidelity : Mothers Of Invention: We're Only In It For The Money
- June
Hit Parader : The Incredible History Of The Mothers
- July 12
IT : Lumpy Gravy
- July 15
The Paper : Zap And Other Hungers
- July 20
Rolling Stone : Frank Zappa
- July
Beat Instrumental : We're Only In It For The Money (review)
- July
Discoscene : Where Is Frank Zappa? Part III
- July
Orpheus : Zappa At The Rock-And-Roll
- August 5
The New York Times : Park Show Offers Satiric Ensemble
- August 9
Kaleidoscope : Zappa: Musical Trip
- August 17
Melody Maker : Mothers for London date
- August 23
Kaleidoscope
- August 30
Georgia Straight : Zappazappazappafrankzappa
- August 31
Record Mirror : From The Underworld: Undergroung Groups by Derek Boltwood
- August
Discoscene : Where Is Frank Zappa? Part IV
- August
Jazz & Pop : My Brother Is An Italian Mother
- August
The Rebel Breed : Freakout!
- August
Stereo Review : Mothers Of Invention: We're Only In It For The Money
- September 10
Ogdensburg Journal : The Mothers’ Musical Message Called Meaningful And Warped
- September 14
Record Mirror : From New York The Hawk Report
- September
Crawdaddy! : Frank Zappa cartoon on the cover
- September
TeenSet : That's Funny, You Don't Look Like The Musician Of The Year
- October 4
IT : Full page ad
- October 5
Melody Maker
- October 5
Record Mirror
- October 17
Der Abend : All the Toys Are Broken
- October 18
IT : ----
- October
Guitar Player - Zap
- October
Hit Parader : Granny's Gossip
- October
TeenSet : Centerfold "Incredible Zappa Pinup!"
- November 1
Berkeley Barb : The BARBer
- November 2
Melody Maker : Who Would Have Thought The Mothers Could Be Boring?
- November 22
Berkeley Barb : Ya Muddah!
- November 28
Fifth Estate : Mixed Mead-Ear
- November 30
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
- November
Eye
- What's Sexy? Fifteen celebrities tell what turns them on
- Frank Zappa Songbook
- November
New England Scene : "We fixed Zappa's amp!!" ad
- December 2
San Francisco Chronicle : The Mothers Can Really Play
- December 6
Teaspoon Door : Ruben And The Jets By The Mothers Of Invention
- December 11
San Francisco Express Times : Who's Ruben?
- December 13
IT : The 1955 Zappa
- December 13
Open City : A Bizarre Night At The Shrine
- December 21
Melody Maker : FZ on the cover and centerfold
- December 21
Rolling Stone : Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (review)
- December 28
Melody Maker : Zappa Versus The States
- December
Beat Instrumental : Lumpy Gravy (review)
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Arrows : Lumpy Gravy
- January 5
- 1969
- February 1
Cash Box : Bizarre Deal Brings Mothers To Reprise
- February 15
Melody Maker : The Mothers take an hilarious look at the heyday of rock and roll
- February 15
Rolling Stone : The Groupies and Other Girls
- February 22
Disc and Music Echo : Zappa rocks
- February 24
Toronto Telegram : Scorching Blast Of Fresh Air
- February 25
Counterpoint
- February 28
Time : Manners And Morals. The Groupies.
- February
OZ : Cruising With Ruben And The Jets (review)
- March 8
Record World : Bizarre Inks 5 Acts
- March
Creem : Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
- March
High Fidelity : Mothers Of Invention: Cruising With Ruben And The Jets
- March
Psyche Pscene : Zappa
- March
SoCal : Frank Zappa
- March
TeenSet : Bizarre Isn't The Word ...
- March
Distant Drummer : An Album For Germans
- April 19
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Uncle Meat
- April 24
The Daily Pennsylvanian : They've come a long way, but not really so far
- April 24
San Diego Door : Rock Scene
- April 28
The Spectrum : Mothers Of Invention
- May 1
DownBeat : Boston Globe Jazz Festival
- May 1
Washington Free Press : The Money Game
- May 3
Melody Maker : The Mothers Are Coming!
- May 7
The Spectrum : Concert review - Mothers Of Invention
- May 9
IT : Frank Zappa versus the teenage archetypal America theme (part 6)
- May 10
Billboard : Zappa Paints a Picture Of Two Worlds Divided
- May 24
Top Pops : The Mothers Of Invention: Mothermania
- May 31
Melody Maker : Will Brum Ever Be The Same Again
- May 31
Record Mirror : Cool, But Rare
- May 31
Rolling Stone : Uncle Meat
- May
Hit Parader : Platter Chatter: Cruising With Ruben And The Jets
- June 1
The Black Dwarf : Zappa
- June 7
Disc and Music Echo : Mother Superior
- June 7
Melody Maker
- June 7
Record Mirror : The Incurable Frank Zappa
- June 8
The Sunday Press : Contemporary Music Has Message
- June 13
IT
- Frank Zappa versus the Incredible Hulk
- Pete talks about Tommy
- June 14
Melody Maker : From the tongue in cheek, to the brain in ferment (Uncle Meat review)
- June 18
Daily Variety : Mothers of Invention, Chicago, Youngbloods
- June 19
Ann Arbor Argus : Zappa Interview
- June 26
DownBeat : The Mothers of Invention: Uncle Meat
- June
Beat Instrumental : L.P. Reviews - Mothermania
- June
Circus : Hello boys and girls, my name is Frank ...
- June
Creem : Uncle Meat
- June
Take One : Frank Zappa
- June 7
Melody Maker
- July 12
Billboard : The New Trends in Music
- July 16
East Village Other : Newport Jazz Festival
- July 18
Miami Free Press
- The Miami Jazz Festival
- Wow
- July
Beat Instrumental : Father Of The Mothers
- July
Circus : Rock And Revolution
- July
Hit Parader : The Lead Guitar Of Henry Vestine
- July
OZ : Uncle Meat
- July
ZigZag : ZigZag Unzips
- August 8
Los Angeles Free Press : Frank Zappa ... He's Bizarre
- August 29
IT : Zapparap
- August
Beat Instrumental : L.P. Reviews - Uncle Meat
- August
Creem
- Trout Mask Replica (Lester Bangs)
- The Age Of Rock
- Trout Mask Replica (Richard C. Walls)
- August
Stereo Review : Mothers Of Invention: Uncle Meat
- September 5
Fusion
- Frank Zappa Interview
- Trout Mask Replica
- September
Esquire : The Unco-optables
- October 3
Sarasota Journal : Collegiate Survey Indicates Zappa And Wald Are Favourites
- October 17
GO Magazine : Zappa Interviewed
- October 18
Rolling Stone : Mother's Day Has Finally Come
- October 25
Melody Maker : The Mothers Are Dead, But Zappa's Still Very Much Alive
- October 30
DownBeat
- Frank Zappa: The Mother of Us All
- Music Workshop: Little House by Frank Zappa
- October 31
Time : Mephisto In Hollywood
- November 5
Record Mirror : Zappa and the Crawling Eye
- November 8
Disc and Music Echo
- Zappa: Now It's Time For Gravy
- Beefheart, Hamburgers, Hang-Ups ...
- November 8
Melody Maker : The Beefheart Zappa Talk-in
- November 15
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Hot Rats
- November 18
The Observer : A Typical Zappa Trick
- November 19
The Polytechnic : Motherless Child's Latest Invention
- November
Audio : Light listening. Uncle Meat.
- November
Knight : Boss Of The Mothers
- November
STROBE : The Frank Zappa Column?
- December
Beat Instrumental : L.P. Reviews - Trout Mask Replica
- December 4
Helix : Goodbye Mothers: The Frank Zappa Press Release
- December 5
Los Angeles Free Press : Frank Zappa/Hot Rats
- December 12
Fusion : The Mother of Some of Us
- December 12
Friends
- It's all in self-defence
- There are forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers
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LA Star : Frank Zappa & Paul Eberle Rapping In Los Angeles '69
- February 1
- 1970
- January 17
Record Mirror
- Understanding The Underground
- 21st Century Pop People, P-Z
- January 22
DownBeat : Europe's Answer To Woodstock: The First Actuel ...
- January 28
IT : Rats
- January
Stardock : Grandson Of Ives
- January
Stereo Review : The Mothers Of Invention: The **** Of The Mothers
- February 21
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Burnt Weeny Sandwich
- March 7
Disc and Music Echo : Frank Zappa "Hot Rats"
- March 7
Rolling Stone : Hot Rats
- March 11
New University : Bill Graham Opens Olympic
- March 19
Daily Trojan : Zappa To Perform Tonight In Bovard
- March 19
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
- March 21
Disc and Music Echo
- Zappa for Pop Proms
- Zappa's 100-man session!
- March 21
Melody Maker : Hot Rats is hot stuff!
- March 28
New Musical Express : Zappa Leads Way From 60's To 70's
- March 30
Crawdaddy : No Commercial Value
- April 3
Daily Sundial : bePOPalua
- April 4
Melody Maker : Hot Rats - hot Zappa!
- April 9
IT : The Mothers of Invention, their achievement and last albums
- April 11
Melody Maker : IOW Bid For Zappa
- April
Beat Instrumental
- Hot Rats
- Permanent Damage
- April
Creem : Mothers / Rezapped
- April
The Echo : "Contempo '70" Plans Announced
- April
Hit Parader : What Ever Happened To The Mothers Of Invention?
- May 3
The Sun Magazine : Frank Zappa Of Necessity Founded The Mothers Of Invention
- May 7
Chicago Tribune : Glad Zappa's Back
- May 9
New Musical Express : Zappa - Outrageous Star
- May 11
New York : . . . And Thy Mother
- May 14
Rolling Stone : The Odyssey of Captain Beefheart
- May 23
Melody Maker : Zappa For Britain
- May 25
Crawdaddy
- May 28
DownBeat : GTOs Permanent Damage
- May 30
Disc and Music Echo : Zappa saves his show from shambles
- May
Beat Instrumental : FZ on the cover
- June 1
Time : Hit It, Zubin
- June 8
Rock Magazine : You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
- June 18
IT : A GTO is an average
- June 22
The Great Speckled Bird : Cosmic Ripoff
- June 25
DownBeat : The Mothers Of Invention: Burnt Weenie Sandwich
- June
The Eagle Bone Whistle : Concert ad
- June
Revolution : Frank Zappa "Hot Rats"
- June
Stereo Review : The Mothers Of Invention: Burnt Weeny Sandwich
- July 4
Disc and Music Echo : Zappa's band of band leaders!
- July 4
New Musical Express
- Shrewd, But With A Lot Of Heart
- Bath - Hub Of World's Pop Talent
- July 9
Rolling Stone : What Zappa Did To Zubin Mehta
- July 10
Friends
- July 10
Hundred Flowers
- July 11
Melody Maker
- July
The Eagle Bone Whistle : Zappa In San Antonio
- August 4
East Village Other : Mothers
- August 6
Rolling Stone : King Kong. Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
- August 28
Los Angeles Free Press : Adderly blows but Zappa's at the wheel
- August 29
Disc and Music Echo : A frank talk with Zappa on being a 'rebel chief'!
- August
Beat Instrumental
- Zappa with Mothers
- An Evening With Wild Man Fischer
- August
Evergreen Review : '50s Teenagers And '50s Rock
- August
Jazz & Pop : Frank Zappa
- August
The Guardian : Frank Zappa: he observes our extremes, absurdities
- September 11
Strange Days
- September 15
Changes : Frank Zappa Gonna Get You If You Don't Watch Out
- September 19
Disc and Music Echo : Inventive Mothers offer some ripping old album material
- September 19
Melody Maker
- Zappa dates
- 1970 Pop Poll results
- September
Circus : Zappa Reforms Mothers For Money-Making Tour
- September
High Fidelity : Mothers Of Invention: Burnt Weeny Sandwich
- September
National Lampoon : College Concert Cut-Ups
- October 1
Rolling Stone : Weasels Ripped My Flesh (review)
- October 12
Florida Flambeau : Rock Minstrel's Life Not Rosey
- October 9
San Francisco Foghorn
- October 21
The Round Table
- These Mothers is Crazy
- It's Homecoming - College Hi-Jinx
- October 28
The Heights : Zappa Pie And Motherhood
- October
Creem
- October
The Eagle Bone Whistle : Concert ad
- October
Friends : Weasels Ripped My Flesh ad
- November 5
IT : Half page ad
- November 7
Sounds : Zappa – the great satirist
- November 8
The New York Times : Zapparap on the Zappaplan
- November 13
New University : Zappa Et. Al.
- November 19
IT : King Kong
- November 28
Disc and Music Echo : Why I'm Sick Of Zappa
- November 29
Winona Daily News : Back Pages
- November
OZ : Chunga's Revenge (review)
- December 5
Melody Maker
- December 5
Music Now : Zappa's Return
- December 5
New Musical Express
- December 5
Sounds
- December 10
DownBeat : The Mothers Of Invention: Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- December 21
Impact : Students Rap With Frank Zappa
- December 24
DownBeat : 35th Annual DownBeat Readers Poll
- December 24
Rolling Stone : Chunga's Revenge (review)
- December
Revolution : Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band "Trout Mask Replica"
- December
The Seed : Zappa
- December
ZigZag : Chunga's Revenge album ad
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The Image : Editorial
- January 17
- 1971
- January 16
NME : Establishment Versus The Underground
- January 21
Door : Chunga's Revenge
- January 23
Record Mirror : Was this the real Reuben Sano standing up at last?
- January 25
Rock Magazine : I Dreamed I Interviewed Frank Zappa In My Maidenform Bra
- January 28
IT : Zappa 200 Motels: File Under Popular
- January
Stereo Review : The Mothers Of Invention: Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- February 1
Music Now : Zappa: 'The Albert Hall Is Obscene'
- February 13
Melody Maker
- February 13
The Spectator : Necessity and Invention
- February
High Fidelity : Chunga's Revenge / Lick My Decals Off, Baby
- March 19
Fusion : Captain Beefheart
- March
Changes : Zappa On 200 Motels
- March
Creem
- March
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Chunga's Revenge
- April 10
Record Mirror : Say A Good Word For The Groupies, Frank
- April 28
Door : Frank Zappa & Zubin Mehta – 200 Hotels (Bootleg)
- April 29
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: Chunga's Revenge
- April
Playboy : Zubin And The Mothers
- May 21
Scene : Coming: Humble Pie & Mothers
- May-June
Albert : Live Interview With Frank Zappa
- June 3
Fifth Estate : Mothers Of Invention
- June 3
Scene : Humble Pie equals The Mothers in Fantastic Concert
- June 5
Go-Set : A Frank Zappa Spectacular 200 Motels starring Ringo Starr.....
- June 6
The Smith Tapes : Frank Zappa
- June 7
Psyche Pscene News : Frank Zappa
- June 19
Melody Maker : The ballad of John, Yoko and Frank Zappa
- June
Hit Parader : Zappa On The Move Again
- June
Stereo Review
- July 14
The Manitoban : Zappa And The Horse
- August 7
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Fillmore East, June 1971
- August 16
Circular : Mothers Contest
- August 18
Door : The Mothers "Fillmore East, June 1971"
- August 20
Fusion : Zappa. Another look at last season's genius
- August 23
Circular
- 18 Sides of The Mothers
- Notorious Chicken Killers
- August 26
Scene : The Mothers "Fillmore East - June 1971"
- August
Honey : Zapp! Frank Zappa Versus The Follower Of Convention
- September 10
San Francisco Foghorn : Mothers and Turtles (record review)
- September 15
Beetle : Zappa Rings Our Chimes
- September 16
Rolling Stone : Kaylan: Mother Was A Turtle
- September 20
Circular : Hey Hey Hey, Mister Snazzy Exec!
- September 23
Scene : Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica"
- September 24
Life : Rock stars at home with their parents
- September 30
Rolling Stone : Fillmore East (review)
- September
High Fidelity : The Worst of The Mothers
- September
RDH Comix : 200 Motels
- September
Creem : Glendora High School wall painting
- Fall
Movies Now
- Zappa Cartoons
- Zap! Into Zappaland
- October 7
Scene : The Mothers Of Invention "200 Motels" (Sound Track)
- October 11
Circular : You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
- October 15
Statesman : Zappa: In it for the Money
- October 21
IT : Hey Hey Hey Mister Snazzy Executive!
- October 22
Statesman : Zappa: Profane of Insane
- October 23
Melody Maker : Mudsharks, Motels and Mothers
- October 23
Sounds : 200 Motels – The Film – The Album
- October 26
The Vidette : '200 Motels' – Zappa's most fulfilling
- October 28
Kaleidoscope : Zappa: Vieved / Interviewed
- October 29
Daily Trojan : Zappa Glorifies Himself On Film
- November 6
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
- November 6
Sounds : Looking For A Leader
- November 11
Scene : Gift List Grows For Half-Time Drawing "An Orgy Of Giving"
- November 12
Ann Arbor Sun : 200 Motels
- November 13
Melody Maker : Is Herb a father to the Mothers?
- November 15
SoCal : The Future Of Concert Music And The L.A. Philharmonic
- November 20
Billboard : Zappa's Zany Zooms Perk Stormy 'Trip'
- November 22
The Great Speckled Bird : 200 Motels
- November 27
New Musical Express
- November 27
Sounds : Zappa's Latest Box Of Tricks
- November 27
Disc and Music Echo : Why Zappa chose Albert Steptoe as his new bass player
- November 29
Time : Reservations Required
- November
High Fidelity : The Mothers: Fillmore East, June 1971
- November
Phonograph Record Magazine : Hypothetical Interview With Frank Zappa by Frank Zappa As Told To Suzie ...
- November
Stereo Review : The Mothers Of Invention: The Mothers, Fillmore East – June 1971
- December 1
Grapevine : 200 Motels – Life On The Road, Part 1
- December 4
Sounds : Frank's turtles in disguise
- December 5
The Milwaukee Journal : On Tour With the Mothers of Invention
- December 9
DownBeat : Film review: Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
- December 11
Melody Maker : Mother's lose gear in fire
- December 17
Ink : Our Frank, which art in Mothers, hallowed be Thy Motels...
- December 17
Time Out : Touring Can Make You Crazy
- December 18
Disc and Music Echo
- Frank Zappa out for three weeks
- Original Zappa
- December 18
Melody Maker
- December 23
Fifth Estate : 10, 50, 100, 200 Motels
- December 23
Grapevine : 200 Motels – Life On The Road, Part 2
- December 25
Disc and Music Echo : FZ on the cover
- December 27
Circular : Guess Who
- December
Audience : 200 Motels
- December
High Times : Frank's Dirty Song
- December
Ink : Our Frank, which art in Mothers, hallowed be Thy Motels...
- December
OZ : 2001 Motels – Thus Spake Zappathusa
- December
Planet : Planet Saluts A Vanguard Of Giants
- December
The Seed : 200 Motels
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DownBeat : The Aesthetics Of Freakery
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KMET: Interview with Martin Perlich
- January 16
- 1972
- January 13
Door : Mothers End In Flames
- January 19
Planet : Zappa Kills 'Em And Is Almost ..... Killed Too
- January 20
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: 200 Motels
- January 27
Door : 200 Motels
- January
Beat Instrumental : Being Perfectly Frank
- January
Cream : Frank Zappa: Portrait of the Artist as a Businessman
- January
Impact : Zap! Zap! Zappa!
- January
Right On! : Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
- January
Soundblast : The Zany Business of Being Frank Zappa
- February 5
New Musical Express : Forget the leg a while. It’s ZAPPA on rock, porn and blues.
- February 12
New Musical Express
- February 12
The Great Speckled Bird : No Commercial Potential (review)
- February 17
The Vidette : Madhouse in "200 Motels"
- February
After Dark : It's All Music
- February
Creem : 200 Motels: What's The Deal?
- February
High Fidelity : 200 Motels
- February
Muther Grumble : Zappa
- March
Seventeen : Close-up: On Zest in the West - Rocking in the Sun
- April 8
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Just Another Band From L.A.
- April 8
Record Mirror : Love Over Gold (Captain Beefheart)
- April 10
Circular : Just Another Band From L.A. featured on the cover
- April 13
Scene : The Mothers "Just Another Band From L.A."
- April 27
Door : Geronimo Black
- May
Muther Grumble : Captain Beefheart
- June 8
Rolling Stone : Just Another Band From L.A. (review)
- June 8
Scene : Geronimo Black
- June 17
Billboard : Redding Sues Frank Zappa
- June
Fusion : Frank Zappa Unfurled
- July 17
The Crimson White : "Waka-Jawaka" Zappa's Best Yet
- July 20
Scene : Frank Zappa "Waka/Jawaka"
- July 22
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Waka/Jawaka
- July
Circus : See the thigs of L.A. / In Your Chevrolet
- July
Creem : Just Another Band From L.A. full page ad
- July
High Fidelity : The Mothers: Just Another Band from L.A.
- August 18
Los Angeles Free Press : Frank Jumped
- August 25
Melody Maker : Zappa: past flops and future shocks
- August 26
Disc : Zappa back to Britain for just one day
- August 26
Sounds : Zappa Rock Back At The Oval
- August
Beat Instrumental : Just Another Band From L.A.
- September 1
The Staff : Hot Rats concert ad
- September 2
Disc
- September 2
Melody Maker : Zappa At Oval
- September 2
New Musical Express
- Fearless Frank tells what he'll lay on you at the Oval concert
- Everything you always wanted to know about the Mothers...
- September 8
The Staff : Hot Rats concert ad
- September 14
DownBeat : The Mothers: Just Another Band From L.A.
- September 14
Rolling Stone : No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- September 16
New Musical Express : Zapped At The Oval
- September 23
Sounds
- The Zappa Talk-In
- Zappa: Red Hot Rat
- September 24
The New York Times : Zappa Creates Musical Magic
- September 29
The Echo
- Just Another Band From L.A. (review)
- Waka/Jawaka (review)
- September
Creem : Rock 'n' Roll News on No Commercial Potention book
- October 4
IT : Oval Gas Work
- October 9
Circular : The Complete History of Last Week's Mothers of Inve ...
- October 12
Rolling Stone : Waka / Jawaka (review)
- October 18
IT : No Commercial Potential
- October 21
The Digger : A letter to Unka Frank, MCP supreme
- October
Circus
- Waka/Jawaka * Hot Rats
- The Phlorescent Leech and Eddy: The Saga of the Great Zappa Escape
- November 2
Rock Magazine : Frank Zappa: If His "Friends" Could Hear Him Now
- November 3
The Citizen-Advertiser : Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- November 9
DownBeat : Meet The Grand Wazoo
- November 13
Circular : The Garden of Burbank
- November 17
Argus/Dimension : Music like mothers used to make
- November
Creem : The Phloresent Leech and Eddie
- November
Stereo Review : The Mothers: Just Another Band from L.A.
- December 7
Scene : Frank Zappa "Grand Wazoo"
- December 22
The San Francisco Phoenix : Frank Zaps in for a fine concert
- December
High Fidelity : Frank Zappa: Waka/Jawaka – Hot Rats
- Spring
Fat Angel : Frank Zappa
- Fall/Winter
Concert : Frank Zappa
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DownBeat : The Many Sides of Buell Neidlinger
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ZigZag
- The Mothers: Just Another Band From L.A.
- Just A Few More Bands From L.A.
- January 13
- 1973
- January 2
The Straight Creek Journal : SCJ Interview: Capt. Beefheart
- January 13
Melody Maker : Pray silence for the Grand Wazoo
- Januar
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Waka/Jawaka – Hot Rats
- January
Words & Music : Let's Talk Clothes
- February 1
Rolling Stone : The Grand Wazoo (review)
- February
Beat Instrumental : Grand Wazoo
- March 10
Disc : Frank Talk
- March 12
The Great Speckled Bird : Mother Music
- April 4
Spartan Daily : A Dedicated Musician
- April 7
New Musical Express
- Bizarre goings on with Uncle Meat
- Zappa: nine-album set of Mothers out soon
- April 18
New Times : Zappa: An Interview
- April 21
Go-Set : Bizarre Goings On With Uncle Meat
- April 26
Scene : Two top jazz bands Mothers & John McLaughlin come to Kent
- April 26
Zoo World : Frank Zappa: The Great Southern and Western Expedition Is On!
- May 3
Daily Kent Stater
- An extraordinary evening of music
- Zappa: his music, himself
- May 10
Scene : Bring him home, mother to mom
- May 14
SoCal : Filling The Hall With Music
- May 24
DownBeat : The Mothers: The Grand Wazoo
- May 26
Go-Set : Zappa Tour
- May 26
Fifth Estate : Concert Review: Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra
- May
Soundblast : Zappa Is Coming
- May
Rock Scene : Captain Beefheart's Clear Spot
- June 2
New Musical Express : Zappa here for gigs in September
- June 7
DownBeat : Caught In The Act
- June 23
The Digger : Here, anybody want to do it with this giraffe?
- June
The Digger : Zappa Talks Movies
- June
Soundblast : Inside Frank Zappa
- July 7
Go-Set : Freak no more
- July 14
The Digger
- July 14
Go-Set
- July 19
DownBeat : Zappa Inprovisation
- July 21
Go-Set : Zappa In Australia
- July 25
On Dit : More groupies, less dope: Zappa
- July
Beetle : 946 Motels Later
- August 2
Woroni : The Life & Times Of Frank Zappa And The Mothers
- August 25
Melody Maker : Zappa: Past Flops And Future Shocks
- August 25
New Musical Express : Godmother
- August 25
Record Mirror : Zappa - a booga of a good talker
- August
Creem : The Androgyny Hall Of Fame
- September 1
Disc : The life and times of Frank Zappa
- September 1
New Musical Express
- September 13
DownBeat : The Perspective of Frank Zappa
- September 21
IT : Dirty Frank
- September 22
Go-Set : Godmother Zappa
- September 22
New Musical Express : Frank Zappa / Wembley
- September 23
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Over-Nite Sensation
- October 4
Scene : The Mothers "Over-Nite Sensation"
- October 6
The Hornet : The Hornet File On Frank Zappa
- October 10
The Daily Pennsylvanian : Mothers' Release: Mind Pollution is Satirized by Zappa
- October 18
Shakin' Street Gazette : concert ad
- November 10
Fifth Estate : Concert Review: Zappa
- November 15
Shakin' Street Gazette : concert ad
- November 22
Eyeopener : Frank Zappa – his own favourite recording artist
- November 23
The Varsity : Frank Zappa likes Stravinsky: an interview
- November 29
Daily Kent Stater : Finest display of musical talent
- November 29
Scene : Frank Zappa and The Mothers. Akron Civic Center. November 27
- November 30
The Record : Frank Zappa twitches and tangos with his Mothers in Aud
- December 10
Circular A Chat With The Mother Superior
- December 20
Rolling Stone : Over-Nite Sensation (review)
- December 22
Sounds : Ultra-Modern String Bean
- December 26
Montreal Gazette : Zappa Still Baffles His Fans
- December 31
Rock Magazine : A Conversation (?) with The Eternally Charming Frank Zappa
- December
Creem : As They Were book review
- January 2
- 1974
- January 5
Melody Maker : Mother In Lore
- January 26
New Musical Express
- Kicks in the ear
- Zappa gigging in Hollywood
- January 31
DownBeat : Frank Zappa and The Mothers: Over-Nite Sensation
- February 20
Spartan Daily : Zappa Shows Flair For Weirdness
- February 21
The Stanford Daily : Zappa Wires Crowd
- February 22
L.A. Voice : Antelope Valley Blues
- February
Coq : Dialogue: Frank Zappa
- February
Sunshine : Zappa Is A Mother (Plus An Overnite Sensation)
- March 15
Iconoclast : Zappa: The Composer Speaks
- March 20
Salient : Overnite Sensation: Frank Zappa
- March 25
The Great Speckled Bird : Zappa: "there are all different kinds of crazy"
- March
Music Canada Quarterly : Hungry Freaks Zappa
- April 6
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Apostrophe (')
- April 18
Scene : Frank Zappa "Apostrophe"
- April 19
Ann Arbor Sun : Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
- April 29
Circular : The Grand Design of Which Apostrophe Is but an Element
- April
Buddy : Zappa Rappa
- April
High Fidelity : Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Over-nite Sensation
- April
The Spectacle : Zappa: Apostrophe
- May 1
Exit
- May 1
Shakin' Street Gazette : Z'A'P'P'A' Apostrophe (')
- May 2
Bugle American
- May 3
Reflector : An Evening With Frank Zappa
- May 13
The UMBC Retriever : Backstage With The Grand Wazoo
- May 23
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (')
- May 25
New Musical Express : Mother's Day memories
- May
The Hot Flash
- May
River City Review : Zappa
- June 6
Rolling Stone : Apostrophe (') (review)
- June 10
Daily Variety : Zappa Asks $2 Mil In Contract Breach Suit Against ATIL
- July 4
Rolling Stone : Zappa: Continuity Is the Mother's Mother
- July 9
The Vidette : Zappa receives abnormal reaction
- July 17
The Crimson White : The original performer of bizarre rock 'n roll
- July 20
Melody Maker : Grand Mother
- July
IT : Smelly feet and dog wee: Uncle Frank does it again
- June 2
TV Prevue : Frank Zappa on the cover
- August 3
Cash Box : Cash Box Profile: Frank Zappa after 10 years ...
- August
Circus Raves
- Captain Beefheart – Unconditionally Guaranteed
- Frank Zappa – Apostrophe
- August
Creem : Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
- August
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : The Father Of Mothers Plus One Son
- August
Hot Licks : Whatever happened to the good old nihilistic anachy of Frank Zappa and his Mothers?
- August
Hustler : Frank Zappa's Got Brand New Shoes
- September 7
Billboard : Frank Zappa: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
- September 15
Borrowed Times : The Notorious Zappa
- September 21
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Roxy & Elsewhere
- September
Creem : Frank Zappa Doin' The Hand Jive
- October 1
Shakin' Street Gazette : 'Mhuman Getsme Blues: The Story of Bizarre/Straight Records
- October 4
Argus/Dimension : Roxy and Elsewhere, Frank Zappa/Mothers
- October 5
Melody Maker : Monsieur Zappa's Rock Circus
- October 5
New Musical Express : Relax, Frank. We ain't no liggers. A few of us just came to join in ...
- October 7
Circular : Celluloid Artifacts Meet Reality
- October 10
Shakin' Street Gazette : Zappa. Roxy And Elsewhere (review)
- October 23
American Eye : Frank Zappa: a Mother Only a Face Could Love
- November 16
New Musical Express
- November 18
Circular : Zappa/Mothers tour schedule
- November 21
The Lantern : Zappa: Bard of the bizarre
- November 23
New Musical Express : How to sub and lay out a Frank Zappa Lookin' Back (II)
- November 29
Los Angeles Free Press : Frank Zappa
- November 30
New Musical Express : How to complete the subbing and layout of a very long Frank Zappa Lookin' Back (II)
- November
Circus Raves : Frank Zappa Leaps Out Of The Underground With 'The Mothers Of Invention, Live All Over The Place'
- December 5
The Advocate : Zappa is Misunderstood
- December 5
Scene : Frank Zappa and The Mothers, Mannfred Mann's Earth Band. Public Hall. December 3
- December 14
Indiana Evening Gazette : Frank Zappa's Dream: A Rock Group Of 80 Or More Musicians
- December 19
Scene : Duke has love affair with variety
- December
Beetle : Frank Zappa – Funny Mother
- December
Concert : A Rendezvouz With the Grand Wazoo
- December
Creem : Frank Zappa vs. The Tooth Fairy:
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Popular Music & Society : Frank Zappa and the Enterprise of Serious Contemporary Music
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SunRise : The Poodle Chews It
- January 5
- 1975
- January 2
Rolling Stone : Roxy & Elsewhere (review)
- January 2
Zoo World : What's A Mother To Do?
- January 15
The Advocate : New Zappa album is mixture of new, old
- January 15
DownBeat : Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Roxy & Elsewhere
- February 27
The Polytechnic : Zappa and crews live album showcases bizarre brilliance
- February
Playboy : Playboy After Hours. Recordings. Roxy & Elsewhere
- March
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa/Mothers: Roxy & Elsewhere
- April 26
Disc
- Zappa In Court
- One Size Fits All
- April 26
Melody Maker : Court in the act
- April 26
New Musical Express : 'What is a groupie?' asked his Lordship...
- April 26
Sounds : Frank and his law suit – he wears it well
- April 30
The Cowl
- Zappa Climaxes Successful Spring Weekend
- Zapping Around With Head Mother
- April
Creem : The Frank Truth
- May 3
Sounds
- Allen Toussant: 'Why Would Anyone Dig Me?'
- Zappa And The Groupie Papers
- May 8
The Vidette : Zappa displays unique performance
- May 23
Ann Arbor Sun : Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart at Cobo Arena
- May 26
The Rag : Zappa
- May
Creem : Lip Stiffeners: A Guide To Facial Foliage
- May
Modern Hi-Fi & Music : Zappa
- June
Let It Rock
- July 3
Rolling Stone : Zappa and the Captain Cook
- July 5
Cash Box : Album Reviews - One Size Fits All
- July 17
Scene : Frank Zappa and The Mothers "One Size Fits All"
- July 19
New Musical Express : Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All (review)
- July
Crawdaddy : Zappa Downs Beefheart
- September 11
Rolling Stone : One Size Fits All (review)
- September 12
Los Angeles Free Press : Frank Zappa – expecting the remarkable
- September 25
Daily Trojan : Zappa Gives UCLA Audience The Bird
- September
Crawdaddy : When In Doubt Say 'Arf'
- September
Creem : One Size Fits All
- Fall
Stereo : All About Motherhood
- October 18
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Bongo Fury
- October 19
Advance News : Frank Zappa: Blazing New Trails
- October 19
The Dallas Times Herald : Wielding words 'like chemicals'
- October 20
Technician : Zappa: Weirdly Great
- October 20
The Chronicle : Zappa in concert – unfulfilled potential
- November
Argus : Zappa: Answering To His Own Image
- December 17
Bugle American : A Matter Of Taste
- December 21
Oakland Tribune : Frank Zappa: "The Beat Goes On, But Backwards"
- December 24
San Francisco Examiner : A 'Blacklisted Genius' Zaps The S.F. Sound
- December 26
Berkeley Barb : Zappa As Reporter, Historian And Cynic
- December 27
San Francisco Examiner : An Old Flame Flickers Low
- December 28
Tennessean Showcase : Zappa Carries Musical 'Mothers' Tongue to Yugoslavian Crouds
- December
Circus Raves : Frank Zappa: Outraged Customer
- December
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention: One Size Fits All
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Popular Music and Society : Frank Zappa and the Enterprise of Serious Contemporary Music
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SunRise : Zappa & The Mothers : One Size Fits All
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SunRise : Zappa & Beefheart : Bongo Fury
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ZigZag : The Earliest Days Of The Mothers – Just Another Band From L.A.
- January 2
- 1976
- January 1
Rolling Stone : Bongo Fury (review)
- January 3
New Musical Express : BLLLAAAaaaaahhhhhHHHHHH
- January
Creem : Penguins In Bondage. Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart
- February 26
DownBeat : Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury
- March 6
Melody Maker : Zappa: "I AM a human being"
- March
Crawdaddy : Trout Mask Replica / Uncle Meat
- March
Rock Scene : Labelle Hysteria
- March
Stereo Review : Zappa - Beefheart - Mothers: Bongo Fury
- April 1
Cooper Point Journal Beefheart and Schenkel Display Bizarre Art
- April 8
Cooper Point Journal Portrait of the Mutants as Young Artists
- April 17
New Musical Express : At last the truth can be told: Frank Zappa has no underware
- April 29
Cooper Point Journal 200 Motels Can Make You Crazy
- April
Stereo : Hello Goodbye: Guest of the Month - Frank Zappa
- June 27
The Valley News : A Unique Musical Force or Blasphemous Freak: Which Is Frank Zappa?
- August 14
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Good Singin', Good Playin'
- September 25
Record Mirror : Frankly Funky - How Zappa Got Railroaded
- September
Crawdaddy : Zappa's Post-Funk LP "Zoot" Suits Him Just Fine
- September
Creem Zappa's been workin' on de railroad
- September
Foxtrot Rock Humor (?)
- October 12
Circus Zappa's Zoot Allures!: DiscReet Charm From Un-Bourgeois Z
- November 20
Sounds : Zoot Suits
- November 24
Scene : Frank Zappa "Zoot Allures"
- November
Foxtrot
- One Too Many Motels With Frank Zappa
- Zoot Allures (review)
- November
High Fidelity : Grand Funk: Good Singin', Good Playin'
- December 4
New Musical Express : Any Resemblance is Purely Conceptual
- December 6
The Vidette : Zappa exhibits finest talents in Chicago
- December 15
Focus Rock Entertainment : The Father Of The Mothers Zappa!
- December 18
Sounds : Could a man who stamps on poodles and sings about lonely person devices become president of the US?
- December 27
Good Times : Frank Zappa: Felt Forum
- December 30
Rolling Stone : Zoot Allures (review)
- December
BLAST : The Secret Life Of Zappa
- December
Music Media : The Frankness of Zappa
- December
Reporter : Zoot Allures: Unadulterated Zappa
- January 1
- 1977
- January 1
Melody Maker : I’ll give the Queen a backstage pass
- January 13
DownBeat : Electronic Projections
- January
Beat Instrumental : Frank Zappa: Zoot Allures
- January
Rock Scene : Hot Pix
- January
Triad : How Frank Zappa Runs His Rock Orphanage: No more Mothers, no more Invention?
- January
Guitar Player
- January
Sideburns : Zoot Allures - Zappa
- February 12
Sounds : It Can't Happen Here
- February 19
Melody Maker
- February 19
Record Mirror : Frank Zappa. London
- February 19
The Spectator : Father of invention
- February
Crawdaddy : Frank Zappa Gets The Mothership
- February
Creem : Stars Car No. 24. Frank Zappa
- February
Gig : Zoot Allures!
- February
Modern Recording & Music : Frank Zappa: Zoot Allures
- March 5
Billboard : Discreet Zaps Suit Over Zappa Tapes
- March 5
New Musical Express : Frank Zappa: O.K. Frank, Let It Roll …
- March
Beat Instrumental : Frank Zappa
- March
International Musician And Recording World : Zappa
- March
IT : Zappa
- March
Creem : Zoot Allures (review)
- March
Punk : Good For A Few Yawns - Frank Zappa ... (comics)
- April
Nuggets : Zappa On Air
- April
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Zoot Allures
- May 7
New Musical Express : Zappa sues previous licensees of Rainbow
- May 7
Record Mirror : Zappa sues over injury
- May
Rock Scene : Backstage at Madison Square Garden with Ted Nugent
- May
Teenage News : The Return Of The Grand Wazoo
- August
Musician's Guide : Formula Perfecto
- September 8
The Daily Aztec : Frank Zappa concert set
- September 13
The Daily Aztec : Zappa's music isn't tiring
- September 24
The Des Moines Register : Zappa presents 'zircon-incrusted' concert season
- September 26
The Gazette : Zappa Concert At Iowa City Promotes Album
- September 27
The Vidette : Audience experiences Zappa
- September 30
Austin Sun : Brillo-ant
- October 3
The Signal : Zap Out
- October 6
The Daily Aztec : Individuality exemplifies Zappa's music
- October 7
The Lantern : Zappa breaks out new 'Dynamo Hum-dingers'
- October 11
Scene : Frank Zappa. Public Hall. October 9
- October 28
Triad : What's A Mother To Do?
- November 3
Scene : Zappa a muse?
- November 5
Billboard : Zappa Zaps WB, Discreet Over Album
- November 17
The Daily Pennsylvanian : It's Not Easy Being a Genius
- November
Musician : Frank Zappa: A Study In Survival
- December 15
DownBeat : Readers' Poll Results
- December 19
Good Times : Frank Zappa: The Palladium
- December 30
Los Angeles Free Press : Zappa takes aim for the New Year
- December 30
The Valley News : Frank Zappa – A Would-be Chemist Who Turned to Music
- December
Collage : Frank Zappa Interview
- December
Creem : Creem's Profiles: Frank Zappa
- December
Primo Times : Frank Zappa Vs. The Bleeding Gums
- January 1
- 1978
- January 7
New Musical Express : Uncle Frank back in town
- January 7
Record Mirror : Frank zaps in
- January 11
The Aquarian Weekly : Backstage With Zappa And The Angels
- January 12
DownBeat : Zappa: Urgent Zaniness ... (concert review)
- January 21
Record World : Frank Zappa On His Current State Of Affairs
- January 28
Melody Maker : Carry On Composing
- January 28
Sounds
- Zappa Digs Sabs Shock!
- Ecstasy for dirtyminded boys and girls (For the boys...) (Review)
- January 28
New Musical Express : Stern Words In Knightsbridge
- January
Acid Rock : Phi Zappa Crappa Interview
- January
BAM : Rebel Without Applause
- January
Rocky Mountain Musical Express : [Formula Perfecto]
- January
ZigZag : Captain Beefheart: The Return of ... the Zig Zag Wanderer
- February 4
New Musical Express : I just wanna be an all-round entertainer
- February 4
Record Mirror : Frank Zzzzzappa
- February 4
Sounds : Zappa's fun-filled spectacular
- March
Modern Recording & Music : Artists' Profile: Frank Zappa
- April 1
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Zappa In New York
- April 1
New Musical Express : Growing Up With Captain Beefheart
- April 8
Melody Maker : Double dose of declining Zappa (Zappa In New York)
- April 8
Sounds : Obscene and heard
- April 13
Scene : Frank Zappa "Zappa In New York"
- April 15
Record Mirror : Frank Zappa: Zappa In New York
- April 19
Eggz : Pipco Is An Act Of Love (Zappa In New York)
- May 18
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: Garni Du Jour, Lizard King Poetry ...
- May
Creem : Frank Zappa Vs. The Bunny Thugs
- May
Roadrunner : Frank Zappa In New York (review)
- May
Stereo Review : Pop Rotogravure
- May
Synapse
- Frank Zappa: A Mother Speaks Frankly, Pt. I
- Don Preston: Synthesist
- June
Crawdaddy : Plastic Man
- June
Record Review : Frank Zappa: ????
- July 14
The Canberra Times : Great Zappa As Usual
- July 13
DownBeat : Zappa In New York
- July
High Fidelity : Frank Zappa: Zappa In New York
- July
Rock Scene : Frank's Funny Punky's Whips
- September 9
Sounds : I hate playing in England
- September 16
Melody Maker : Knebworth the beautiful
- September 16
Music Week : Knebworth
- September 16
Record Mirror : Out To Lunch
- September 21
The Lantern : Zappa zaps religion and drugs
- September 26
The Stars And Stripes : Zappa Speaks Up
- September 29
Chronicle Telegram : Frank Zappa: Bad weather in person
- September 30
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Studio Tan
- September
Studio Sound : Frank Zappa Live
- October 5
Scene : Frank Zappa. Public Hall. October 1
- October 6
The Vidette : Zappa's concerts: a unique experience
- October 12
The Lumberjack : Frank Zappa "Studio Tan"
- October 14
Music Week : Fact Sheets. Studio Tan
- October 16
Southern Jam : Frank Zappa (concert review)
- October 17
Fuse
- Frank Zappa: Statistical Density Is A Necessity
- Studio Tan (review)
- October 18
Statesman : Where's That Zappa Comin' From
- October 20
Radio & Record News: Studio Tan
- October 20
Towerlight : Zappa: Overnight Sensation at U.M.
- October 28
Record Mirror : Frank Zappa: Studio Tan
- November 16
Music Connection : Saturday Night Loud
- November 22
The Aquarian Weekly : When Confronting Frank Zappa There Is No Middle Ground
- December
Rip It Up : Studio Tan
- December
Trouser Press : Studio Tan (review)
- Fall/Winter
Rock Spectacular : Mothers Of Invention
-
Obelisk II : Frank Zappa
- January 7
- 1979
- January
Feature
- Wild Magic
- Zappa And The New Reich
- January
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Rock (incl. Studio Tan)
- January
High Fidelity : Top 12 Best Pop Album Covers of 1978 (incl. Studio Tan)
- January
Trouser Press : 100 Best Rock Guitarists
- February 3
Music Week : Zappa, CBS, WEA and the Nolans
- February 10
Music Week : CBS zaps into John Fruin
- February 24
New Musical Express : A Tasty Change From So-so Soup
- February 24
Record Mirror : Hail the not so hippy sheik
- February 26
Record Business : Zappa: faultless professionalism
- February
Feature : Frank Zappa's ten favorite things in 1978.
- February
International Musician And Recording World : A Mother in the studio
- March 3
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Sheik Yerbouti
- March 3
Melody Maker : Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
- March 3
Music Week : Frank Zappa: Hammersmith Odeon
- March 10
Music Week : Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
- March 10
Sounds : Up Yours
- March 17
Music Week : Fact Sheets. Sheik Yerbouti. Sleep Dirt
- March 24
Music Week : Frank Zappa: Sleep Dirt
- March
Cheri : Cherry Bomb Unzips Frank Zappa
- March
International Musician And Recording World : A Mother in the studio
- March
Roadrunner : Frank Zappa Sleep Dirt (review)
- April 12
The Ithacan : Sheik Yerbouti – Frank Zappa
- April 27
San Francisco Foghorn : Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa (record review)
- April
Genesis : Interview: Frank Zappa
- April
Oui : A Conversation With Frank Zappa
- April
Record Review : Record Review Interview: Frank Zappa
- April
Sound International : 2000 Mots
- April
Stereo Review : A Little Visit With Frank Zappa
- April
Trouser Press : Bad Taste Is Timeless: Cruising Down Memory Line With Frank Zappa
- May 3
Rolling Stone : Sheik Yerbouti (review)
- May 8
Good Times : Frank Zappa: The Original Freak Strikes Oil ...
- May 12
Record Mirror : Dancin' Fool (single)
- May 19
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Orchestral Favorites
- May
Guitar
- Frank Zappa (Pt I)
- Sheik Yerbouti Tango
- May
People : Frank Zappa Mothers One Invention Too Many, And Furious Jewish Princesses Bite Back
- May
Rock Scene : New York Rock Scene / Nova Convention
- May
Sound International : Just a Second Part from FZ
- May
Trouser Press : Sleep Dirt (review)
- June 4
Record Business : Airplay chart (incl. Dancin' Fool)
- June
Guitar
- Frank Zappa (Pt II)
- Rat Tomago
- June
Creem : Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
- June
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti
- June
Trouser Press : Sheik Yerbouti (review)
- July 26
Rolling Stone : Frank Zappa's Basement Tapes
- July
Rip It Up : Sheik Yerbouti
- July
Roadrunner : Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti
- August
Musician : Zappa
- September 8
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Joe's Garage, Act I
- September 24
Island Ear : The Island-Ear Interview: Frank Zappa
- September 29
Gold Coast Free Press : Warning! The Real Zappa
- September 29
Sounds : Uncle Meat
- October 4
Scene : Frank Zappa "Joe's Garage. Act I"
- October 5
BAM : Frank Zappa vs. The World
- October 12
Radio & Record News: Joe's Garage Act I
- October 27
Cash Box : Single Reviews - Joe's Garage
- October 30
Circus : Zappa still makes bizarre music
- November
Relix : Frank Zappa: He's Only 38 And He Knows How To Nasty
- November
Sweet Potato : Frank Zappa Unveils Secrets Of The Universe
- November
M.I. : Pop Music's Central Scrutinizer
- December 1
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Joe's Garage, Acts II & III
- December 13
Rolling Stone : Frank Zappa: The Myth Of 'Joe's Garage'
- December 28
Daily Intelligencer : Zappa Rides Again
- December 29
Sounds : He's A Gar(b)age Band
- December
Collage : Unfolding the Cosmic Truth
- December
Rip It Up : Orchestral Favorites , Joe's Garage Act I
- December
Roadrunner : Frank Zappa Joe's Garage (Act 1) (review)
- December
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage, Act I
- December
Trouser Press : Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage Act 1 (review)
- January
- 1980
- January 12
Record Mirror : Joe's Garage (single)
- January 14
Record Business : Joe’s Garage Acts II & III
- January 19
Sounds : Rock 'n' Roll Zoo
- January 26
Melody Maker : Enjoying the glandular arena
- January 26
Musicians Only : Zappa: Speak Out
- February 19
Circus : Mecanic of 'Joe's Garage' father of 'Baby Snakes' ...
- February 21
Music Connection : Quotable notes
- February 21
Rolling Stone : Frank Zappa’s ‘Baby Snakes’ (review)
- February
Record Review : Zappa Busy As Ever While Coming Out of Joe's Garage
- February
Trouser Press : Interview with the Composer
- March 3
Rolling Stone : Mensch with a dirty mind
- March 27
Berkeley Barb : Zappa Comes Clean
- March
High Times
- Frank Zappa: America's Weirdest Rock Star Comes Clean
- Reasons For A Lube Job, Part I
- March
Musician : Joe's Garage - Live & Uncensored - Broken English
- April 4
RAM : The Sanest Man In The World Today?
- April 7
The San Bernardino Sun
- Frank Zappa remembers San Ber'dino
- Zappa sings medley of the unknown
- April 12
Cash Box : Single Reviews - I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted
- April 19
Music Week
- CBS's Klinteberg optimistic
- Norway welcomes a more sophisticated soul sound
- April 26
Prairie Sun : Zingers From Zappa
- April
After Dark : All about Bette: Her co-stars, friends, and admirers talk back
- April
DownBeat : Frank Zappa. Joe's Garage.
- April
Rip It Up : Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage Acts II & III
- May 9
The Baltimore Sun
- May
Freebird : Common Sense
- May
Rip It Up
- May/June
WET Magazine : Captain Beefheart
- June 21
Record Mirror : I Don't Wanna Get Drafted (single)
- June 28
Melody Maker : Why Zappa has gone overground
- June
Genesis : Frank Zappa's Baby Snakes
- June
Keyboard : Little Band We Used To Play In
- June
Songwriter : Totally Frank
- July
Enlisted Times
- July
Music Pulse : Madman Or Genius
- July
Roadrunner : Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (review)
- September
Guitar World : On The Record - Frank Zappa
- October 28
The Record : Zappa music still superior; flaws blamed on audio-overkill
- October 29
Statesman : Freaked Out in the Gym
- November 1
New Musical Express : Tales of transmutation from the Mojave Magic Man
- November 26
The Vidette : Zappa performance filled with goods, bads
- December 6
Record Mirror : Frank Zappa. The Palladium, New York
- December
Musician : Captain Beefheart's Iridescent Logic
- December
Radio Times : CFMU Interview
- December
Upbeat : Frankly Speaking
-
Hot Wacks : Zappa
- January 12
- 1981
- January 10
Melody Maker : Mothers In Lore
- January 22
Music Connection
- Zappa's New Album Spoofs Local Scene
- Captain Beefheart At The Whisky
- January
Trouser Press : Captain Beefheart
- February
Roadrunner : Beefheart Blows It! (concert review)
- March
Rock Scene : Hot Pix
- March
Sound International : Mick Glossop
- April 6
The Manitoban : In and out the meatgrinder
- April
DownBeat : Captain Beefheart
- May 11
New York : The Zapping Of Edgard Varèse
- May 16
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Tinseltown Rebellion
- May 23
Record Mirror : Frank Zappa. 'Tinsel Town Rebellion'
- May
Boulevards : Beating 'Round The Bush With Beefheart
- June 1
Record Business : The Old Grey Whistle Test
- June
24 Hours : Frank, In Earnest
- July
Modern Drummer : Drum Soloist: Terry Bozzio
- Summer
WLIR Free Flight : Frank Zappa
- August
Musician : Frank Zappa: Tinsel Town Rebellion
- September 3
Music Connection : Zappa's Manager Branching Out
- September 19
Cash Box : Album Reviews - You Are What You Is
- September
Trouser Press : Tinseltown Rebellion (review)
- October 3
Cash Box : Album Breakout Of The Week: You Are What You Is - Frank Zappa
- October 15
The Oklahoman : Zappa Musical Talents Wild, Outrageous, But Controlled
- October
Musician : Two Orchestral Stupidities
- October
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Tinsel Town Rebellion
- November 25
Scene : Frank Zappa. Public Hall, November 19
- November
DownBeat : Frank Zappa On Edgar Varèse
- November
High Times : Say Cheese
- November
Its' Only Rock 'N' Roll : Frank Zappa, Austin Special Events Center, October 18th
- November
Modern Drummer : Terry Bozzio: Burnin'
- November
The Rocket : Zappa: Still Crude After All These Years
- Nov/Dec
ThroTTle : Zappa's self-portrait and letter
- December 1
Good Times : Zappa: He Are What He Is
- December
The Event : A Look At The Salt Lake Favorite
- December
Its' Only Rock 'N' Roll : Frank Zappa / You Are What You Is
- January 10
- 1982
- January
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Rock (incl. You Are What You Is)
- January
Milkshake Madmoiselle : Close Encounter With Zappa
- January
Rock Scene : Johansen Rocks The Ritz
- February 11
Daily Trojan : Ex-Zappa Vocalist Discusses Politics Of Music Industry
- March
Guitar World : Frank Zappa: The Interview
- March
Roadrunner : Frank Zappa: Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar
- April
Bite : Zappa
- April
Musician : Frank Zappa
- April
Rip It Up : Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is
- May 16
Co de Kloet : Fuck Unions is what I got to say
- May
Modern Drummer : Aynsley Dunbar
- June 5
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
- June 17
Scene : Frank Zappa "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch"
- June 21
Record Business : Ship Arriving Too Late To Save a Drowning Witch
- June 26
New Musical Express : Frank Zappa: Valley Girl
- June
Record Review : Frank Zappa Interview
- July
Record Collector
- Frank Zappa: many of his earliest releases are now attracting high prices
- Complete U.K. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention discography + values
- August
Musician
- Steve Vai. Flash And Theory
- Zappa: Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
- August
Record
- Missing Persons' First Album Will Be A Cricket's Favorite
- Beefheart Gets Past Mama-Heartbeat In Desert
- August
Relix : Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (review)
- Aug/Sept.
Modern Drummer : Ed Mann: Expanding Percussion
- September 11
Cash Box : On the cover
- September 18
NME : Extra Terrestrial Man
- October 19
The Advocate : The Valley Girl Mirrors The Eighties
- November
Creem : Frank And Moon Zappa Go AM
- November
Guitar Player : Absolutely Frank: First Steps In Odd Meters
- November
Modern Drummer : Vinnie Colaiuta
- November
Playboy : 20 Questions: Frank And Moon Unit Zappa
- December
Guitar Player : Absolutely Frank: Putting Some Garlic In Your ...
- December
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
- January
- 1983
- January 17
Record Business : Clatter, clatter goes Zappa
- January 22
NME : Zap It To 'em' Frank
- January 23
Sounds : To Be Perfectly Frank
- January
Guitar Player : Non-Foods: Stepping Outside The Beat
- January
Joystik : The Zappas On Video Games
- February 2
Bay Guardian : Frank Zappa's not only in it for the money
- February 11
San Francisco Chronicle : Opera Crowd Whoops for Zappa
- February
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: Guitar Player
- February
Guitar Player
- Frank Zappa "I'm Different"
- Steve Vai: Zappa's "Little Italian Virtuoso"
- February
High Times : Groupies As People
- March 12
Cash Box : Album Reviews - The Man From Utopia
- March
Guitar Player : Non-Foods: Bass, Sports, And Adventure
- March
Happening : Frank Zappa - Right or Wrong?
- Spring
Muppet Magazine : Moon Zappa Meets Janice, or "Tubular Meets Groovy"
- April 7
Scene : Frank Zappa "The Man From Utopia"
- April
Guitar Player : Non-Foods: Coming To Grips With Polyrhythms
- April
Happening : Frank Zappa - Right or Wrong?
- April
Hi-Fi for Pleasure : Rebel With A Cause
- April
Musician
- Carvin MX mixer full page ad
- Missing Persons
- April
Trouser Press : Watch Your Language
- May 6
BAM : Big Bad Frank Rails Against the World
- May 26
Rolling Stone : The Man From Utopia (review)
- May
Guitar Player : Non-Foods: Stretching Out With Vamps
- May
Happening : Frank Zappa - Right or Wrong?
- May
Modern Drummer : Chad Wackerman: Enjoying All Challenges
- June
Mix
- July 9
Cash Box : Album Reviews - Zappa Vol. I - London Symphony Orchestra
- July 21
Music Connection : Zappa, Vol. 1
- July
Guitar Player : Non-Foods: Feedbacks, Effects, And Tone
- August
Heavy Metal : An Old Fart At Play: Conversations With Captain Beefheart
- October
Musician : AKG microphones ad
- October
Rip It Up : Frank Zappa: The Man From Utopia
- November 11
RAM : Who's Weird?
- November
Guitar Player : Non-Foods: Not The Moody Blues
- November
Stereo Review : Zappa
- December
Guitar Player : Non-Foods: Digital Sampling And Guitar
- December
Trouser Press : 1983-1984
-
Hot Wacks
- Collecting Zappa
- The Mud Shark Anthology, Pt. I
-
Hot Wacks : The Mud Shark Anthology, Pt. II
-
The Journal For Serious Record Collectors
- Zappalog (The First Step of Zappalogy)
- Frank Zappa Interview
-
Ritz Newspaper : Frank Zappa
- January 17
- 1984
- January 5
Gold Coast Free Press : Z=AP2
- January 10
International Herald Tribune : Music by the Zappa-Boulez Duo
- January 19
Music Connection
- January
Hustler : It's About Mr. Flynt
- February
Recordings of Experimental Music : ZAPPA, VOL.1
- Spring
American Music : No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa, Then and Now
- April 1
Capitol
- April
Guitar Player : Non-Foods: Video-Assisted Ignorance
- April
Hustler : Thing-Fish
- May 18
San Francisco Examiner : The serious side of Frank Zappa
- May
One Two Testing : The Best Guitar Breaks In The World
- May/June
In Performance : Puppets - Symphony - Zappa: How It All Happened
- June 10
San Francisco Chronicle : The '60s Mother Still Breaks Social, Musical Convention
- June 15
East Bay Express : In Tune
- June 18
Oakland Tribune : Zappa Pokes Into The Fine Arts
- June 18
San Francisco Examiner : Zappa's Entertaining Concert
- June 18
Time : Class clown: Zappa with the puppet cast of his ballet
- June 21
Bay Area Reporter : Berkeley Symphony Does Zappa
- June 22
East Bay Express : Zappa in Polyester
- June
KPFA Folio : The Berkeley Symphony Plays Frank Zappa
- June
Music U.K. : A Rap A Zappa
- June
One Two Testing : The Best Producers In The World
- June
San Francisco : Zappa And The Symphony Set
- August 15
MSU Reporter : 'Mothers to modern' – Zappa concert revives old, reveals new
- August 16
Scene : Frank Zappa. Blossom. August 12
- August
Modern Recording & Music : Orchestral Maneuvers
- August
Musician : Bookends. Frank Zappa's Scott Thunes and Chad Wackerman
- August
Slow Dazzle : Panchromatic Resonance And Other Highly Ambient Domains
- September 6
Scene : His Best Friends Are Computers
- September 29
Music Week : Zappa signs to EMI
- September 30
The New York Times : Meeting Of Musial Extremes
- September
Record Collector : Frank Zappa
- October 4
Kerrang! : (F)rank Hypocrisy
- October 18
Kerrang! : Frank Zappa, Hammersmith Odeon, London
- October 18
USA Today : I care about music, not about middle-age
- October 20
Sounds : Let's Be Frank. Frank Zappa 'Them Or Us'
- October
Digital Audio : Modern Music Is A Sick Puppy
- November 7
Statesman : Frankie Goes To Stony Brook
- November 10
Sounds : Total Freak Out
- November 21
Scene : Frank Zappa. Front Row. November 14
- November 29
Scene : Frank Zappa "Them Or Us"
- November 30
The Pitt News : I stand accused: Zappa lays down the law
- November
Digital Audio : Modern Music Is A Sick Puppy (Part 2)
- November
RockBill : It Just Might Be Frank
- November
Songwriter Connection : Frank Zappa
- December 12
Public News : Zappa Dishes It Out
- December
Gramophone : Boulez Conducts Zappa
- December
Modern Drummer
- Terry Bozzio
- The Rhythms Of Frank Zappa
- December
Relix : FZ on the cover and 2 photos inside
- Winter
Puppetry Journal : A Zappa Affair
-
Ecolibrium Interviews : Artist As A Genetic Design Flaw
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The History Of Rock : The Great Musicians: Frank Zappa
- January 5
- 1985
- January 24
Music : The Music Interview With Frank Zappa
- February 7
Scene : Frank Zappa "Thing-Fish" "Francesco Zappa"
- February
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
- February
High Fidelity : Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
- March
BAM Rock and Video : Richard McCaffrey's Favorite Pics
- March
Express
- March
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Them Or Us
- March
Musician : Grand Wazoo Refuses to Kazoo
- March
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa Established
- April 13
NME : Frank Zappa: Thing-Fish (review)
- April
Modern Drummer : Update: Jimmy Carl Black
- June
International Musician And Recording World : The Art Of Being Frank
- July 13
Music Week : Satire is the Mother of Invention
- July
Gramophone : Frank Zappa plays Francesco Zappa
- July
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Thing-Fish
- August 31
Cash Box : Extortion, Pure And Simple ... An Open Letter To The Music Industry
- September 11
Metro Times
- September 27
The Georgetowner : Frank Zappa vs. Kandy Stroud
- September 30
Time : Rock Is A Four-Letter Word
- September
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Zappa: The Music of Francesco Zappa
- September
Mix : Lynching With Bonzai: Frank Zappa
- October 11
City Paper : Mothers of Invention: Frank Zappa Defends Rock
- October 14
Maclean's : Rock's War Of Words
- November 22
Rockpool : Frank Zappa Rates the Ratings
- November
Alternative Rhythms : Zappa Says No!
- November
Manhattan Arts : Frank Zappa, Abbey Lincoln & Johnny Colon ...
- December 16
The Long Beach Union : Mothers of Prevention. An interview with Frank Zappa
- December 21
Sounds : Frank Zappa "Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention"
- December 27
Scene : Frank Zappa "Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention"
- December
International Musician And Recording World : To Be Frank
- December
Music Connection
-
The History Of Rock
- Sounds of Subversion
- Unconditionally Guaranteed
- Zappa
- January 24
- 1986
- January 9
Music : Zappa On Rating Records
- January 15
Fairfield County Advocate : Why Pin It On Rock and Roll?
- January
COMPUTE! : The Computerized Musician
- January
Mix : Mr. Z Goes to Washington
- January
Spin : Mothers of Prevention
- February
KPFA Folio : Frank Zappa live on KPFA
- February
The Rocket : Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Prevention
- March 1
Music Week : Zappa albums for EMI reissue
- March 22
Billboard
- April
Keyboards, Computers & Software : Megabytes at Barking Pumpkin
- April
Playboy : Strict Constructionist Of The Year
- May 26
Maclean's : People
- May
Audio : Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers of Prevention
- May
Guitar For The Practicing Musician
- Zappa: Now And Then ...
- Peaches En Regalia
- May
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong In Music?
- June
Guitar Player : The Sin In Synclavier
- June
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Meets The Mothers Of Prevention (European version)
- Summer
Speakout : Zappa
- September
Electronic Musician : Frank Zappa and His Digital Orchestra
- September
Musician : FZ on CD full page ad
- October 12
The Baltimore Sun Magazine : Frank Zappa: The Maryland Years
- October 13
Music Connection : Dweezil Zappa, Self-Made Boy
- October
Musician : The License To Be A Maniac
- October
Relix : Frank Zappa Meets The PMRC
- November 6
Rolling Stone : Frank Talk
- November 12
The Diamondback : Zappa urges speech audience to fight censorship and conformity by thinking
- November 13
Daily Sundial : Frank Zappa Addresses Issue Of Censorship
- November 25
Duckberg Times : Frank Zappa
- November
The Progressive : Revolt Against Mediocrity
- December
Making Music : Influences - One Size Fits All
- December
The Wire : The All American Composer
- January 9
- 1987
- January 10
Music Week : Jazz From Hell
- January 16
BAM :Interview From Hell
- January 17
Cash Box : Album Releases - Jazz From Hell
- January
Cut : Frank Zappa: Jazz From Hell
- January
Guitar Player
- January
Making Music : Album Interview - Jazz From Hell
- February
Details : [Cynthia Miles and Frank Zappa picture]
- February
Keyboard
- Sample This!
- Pervasive Polythythms in Zappa's "The Black Page"
- February
Music Technology : Father Of Invention
- February
Option : Winter In America
- February
Sound On Sound : Frank Zappa: Jazz From Hell
- March 12
Rolling Stone : Jazz From Hell
- March 26
Scene : Frank Zappa "Jazz From Hell"
- March
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Jazz From Hell
- March
Music & Sound Output
- Frank Zappa: Samplin' Fool
- Engineering Jazz From Hell With Bob Stone
- Bob Rice's Synclavier Secrets
- Zappa On Jazz From Hell
- March
Option
- March
Jazziz : Zappa
- April 24
Goldmine : Frank Zappa: CD collector tracks and remixes
- April
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: Jazz From Hell
- April
Guitar World
- April
High Fidelity : The CD Software Parade - Frank Zappa
- April
Sound Engineer and Producer : At Home In His Kitchen
- May
Record Collector : Frank Zappa: The Early Albums
- June 12
Los Angeles Times : Frank Zappa Zapped By 'Late Show'
- June
Rip : Frank Zappa and the Scarlet Letter
- June
Stereo Review : Zappa
- July 2
Music : Frank Zappa's Revenge
- July 31
The Gazette
- Master of the musically absurd
- Zappa not for the faint-heated
- July
Audio : Jazz From Hell. Shut Up'n Play Yer Guitar.
- July
Creem Rock-Shots : Dweezil Zaps Into The Spotlight
- July
Guitar World
- The Importance Of Being Dweezil
- Zappa's Whole Life - Part I
- August 3
Information Week : Zappa Embraces 'Music Information Systems'
- August 27
Rolling Stone : We're Only In It For The Money
- September
Guitar World : Zappa's Whole Life - Part II
- October
Boogie Magazine : Jimmy Carl Black – One Of Mother's Finest
- October
Omni : In Search Of A Definition
- November 8
San Francisco Chronicle : State-of-the-art Weirdness From Zappa
- November
Stereophile : FRANK ZAPPA on CD (and LP) Part I
- December
Rock & Roll Disc : The Rock & Roll Disc Interview: Frank Zappa
- Holiday
Guitar Synth and MIDI : Guitar Sythesizer Artists Speak: Frank Zappa
- January 10
- 1988
- January
Musician : The Return of FZ on CD full page ad
- January
Q : Megalomaniac
- February 7
Ann Arbor News
- Zappa: still feisty after all these years
- Energetic, eclectic dances on tap
- February 15
The Eagle : Zappa: A Review/Interview
- February 16
Hartford Courant : Zappa Keeps Zinging Along
- February 21
Chicago Sun-Times : Frank Zappa Waves Flag For Freedom
- February
Buzz : Frank Zappa '88
- March 3
Scene : A Talk With Frank Zappa
- March 10
Scene : Frank Zappa. Music Hall. March 5
- March 11
The Record : Zappa performance a Shea's crowd-pleaser
- March 16
New Paper : Citizen Zappa
- March 21
Monroe Doctrine : The Zappa Interview
- March 24
Rolling Stone : Frank Zappa
- March 30
East Coast Rocker
- March
Buzz
- March
Maryland Musician Magazine : Frank, You Mother ... a retrospective and beyond
- April 18
Fairfield County Advocate : Perfectly Frank
- April 28
Register-Pajaronian : Frank Zappa - a misunderstood man
- April 30
Melody Maker : Frank Zappa. Wembley Arena
- April
DownBeat : FZ on CD
- April
Harper's Magazine : Meeting Zappa
- May
Musician : The Zappa Chronicles half page ad
- May
RockBill : Zappa vs. The Mothers Of Prevention
- May
Stereophile : FRANK ZAPPA on CD (and LP) Part II
- June
Spin : Vote!
- August 25
The Beat : Frank Zappa interview
- August
Life : The Zappa Zoo
- August
Society Pages : Yes, I Am A Rich Man: The Sheraton Hotel Press Conference, Oslo
- September
Musician : Frank Zappa
- October 30
Los Angeles Times Magazine : Democracy's Pitchman
- October
Bob Marshall : Frank Zappa Interview
- Occtober
High Fidelity : All CDs Great And Small
- November 7
Time : Critic's Choice. Frank Zappa: Guitar
- November 8
The Milwaukee Journal : Frank Zappa's Getting Out The Vote (!)
- November 26
Cash Box : A Mind For The Body Politic
- December 3
Cash Box : Album Releases - Jazz From Hell
- December
Modern Drummer : Chad Wackerman
- Winter
New Perspectives Quarterly : On Junk Food for the Soul. In Defense of Rock and Roll.
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Pulse : Maverick
- January
- 1989
- January 27
Goldmine
- Frank Zappa: Moving On To Phase Three
- Frank Zappa U.S. Discography And Price Guide
- January
Stereophile : Zappalanche!
- February 2
The Philadelphia Inquirer : Zappa Sells Zappa
- March
The Note : Censorship And Zappa
- April 22
Music & Media : Zappa Plans World Orchestra
- April
Relix : Frank Zappa: What You Can Do Onstage With New Records, CDs, Videos
- April
Strange Things Are Happening : Frank Zappa And The Mothers Investigations/Straight Records
- May 22
People : Frank Zappa
- May 29
Music Connection : Local Notes
- May
Penthouse : The Porn Wars
- May
Spin : Absolutely Free, Waka/Jawaka, One Size Fits All (review)
- June 6
The San Bernardino Sun : At 48, Zappa isn't afraid to face the music
- June
Gallery : Sharp Words From Music's Cutting Edge
- June
Record Collector : Frank Zappa: The Bizarre Years
- January
Stereophile : The Old Masters
- July
Rhythm : Zappa
- July
The Rock Report : Frank Zappa ... Live!
- August 11
Antelope Valley Press : Zappa talks frankly about art, politics
- September 3
The Observer : Frankly A Freak
- September
Tuttifrutti : About the abortion issue in the United States
- Fall
Gray Areas : Frank Zappa Talks About Tapes
- October 13
Los Angeles Reader : Frank Zappa Has a Tip for Serious Musicians...
- December
High Times : Frank Zappa: Somebody up there doesn't like me
- December
Guitarist : No More Heroes
- December
Q : Frank's Wild Years
- January 27
- 1990
- January
Modern Drummer : Ed Mann
- February 7
East Coast Rocker : Zappa Faces Lawsuit From Former Mothers
- February
Overseas! : Frank Zappa Interview
- March 19
The Nation : Frank Zappa – Trading Partner
- March
Audio : You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
- March
Sh-Boom
- April 13
The Gavin Report : Twenty Five Years Since Frank Zappa's Hungry Freaks Daddy
- April
Music Technology : Electric Eclectic
- April
Society Pages (US) : The Interview Of The Century, Part 1
- May 19
Billboard
- May
Continental Profiles : Das Capitalist
- May
DownBeat : Son of FZ on CD
- June 2
Music & Media : Zappa Looks East From The West
- June 29
Boston After Dark : The mother of invention Frank Zappa cont...
- June
Society Pages (US) : The Interview Of The Century, Part 2
- June
Australian Left Review : Zapping Czechs
- Summer
RockHEAD : Zappa!
- September
ICE : Frank Zappa Discusses Upcoming CD Projects
- September
Music Monitor : Frank Zappa on Rock of the 60s and the '90s ...
- September
Society Pages (US) : The Interview Of The Century, Part 3
- October
Angeles : Father Of Invention
- October
ICE : Frank Zappa Discusses Upcoming CD Projects (2)
- December 2
Datebook : Maverick Zappa Takes on the World
- December
Music Collector : Frank Zappa, Part 1
- Winter
Damp
- The Beefheart Poll
- Phone Calls To Don
- The Duplex Planet The Beefheart Edition
- Playing That Long Lunar Note With Zoot Horn Rollo
- The Unissued Beefheart
-
Bat Chain Puller : Frank Zappa (1988)
- January
- 1991
- January 31
Scene : Zappa zaps back
- January
Record Hunter : Frankie goes to Hellandback
- Spring
Telos
- Introduction: Popular Music from Adorno to Zappa
- The Mother of All Interviews: Zappa on Music and Society
- May 16
Rolling Stone : McCartney and Zappa "Bootlegs" Due
- June 21
LA Weekly : Great Pop Things: The Frank Zappa Story: Part One
- June 28
LA Weekly : Great Pop Things: The Frank Zappa Story: Part Two
- June
Select
- Dweezil Zappa: Confessions (review)
- Frank Zappa: The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (review)
- June
Society Pages (US) : He's A Human Being. He Has Emotions, Just Like Us. Part 1
- July 5
LA Weekly : Great Pop Things: The Frank Zappa Story: Part Three
- July 8
Time : If You Can't Beat Them ...
- July 12
LA Weekly : Great Pop Things: The Frank Zappa Story: Part Four
- July 13
Cash Box : Independent Record News - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
- July
DownBeat : Frank Zappa Makes A Jazz Noise
- July
Spin : Signs Of The Times
- August
Record Hunter : You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 4 / Make A Jazz Noise Here
- August
The Wire : Zappa - The Works I
- September
The Wire : Zappa - The Works II
- September
Society Pages (US) : He's A Human Being. He Has Emotions, Just Like Us. Part 2
- October
Record Hunter : Frank's Old Boots
- October
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Beat The Boots, Vol. 2
- November 14
Rolling Stone : 100 Classic Album Covers - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- November
Musician : Poetic Justice: Frank Zappa Puts Us In Our Place
- November
Stereophile : 15 new Zappa CDs, 10 new LPs
- Winter
Mondo 2000 : Frank Zappa for President
- January 31
- 1992
- January
Music Express : Make A Zappa Noise Here
- February
Keyboard : Happy Birthday, Frank!
- March 9
Maclean's : Tuning in the fathers of pop
- April
Select : Roxy And Elsewhere (review)
- July
Record Hunter : Frank's Wild Years
- July
Select : The Perfect Stanger / The Music Of Francesco Zappa (review)
- July
VOX : Frank's Wild Years
- September
Rock World : The Father of Invention
- October 1
Rolling Stone : Zappa Première Set
- December
Rock World : Frank Zappa "Playground Psychotics"
- Autumn
Ptolemaic Terrascope : The Mothers Of Invention
-
The Portable Curmudgeon Redux : Drowning in the News Bath
-
Guitar Player Presents - Zappa!
- The Century's Preeminent Lexicographer Nails Zappa Down
- Premiering Zappa with the London Symphony Orchestra
- Preparing the Ensemble Modern for the Frankfurt Festival
- Ratt Guitarist Turns Zappa Stylist
- Former Mothers Of Invention Drummer
- Like Father Like Munchkins
- The Simpson's Creator: "Frank Was My Elvis"
- Frank Zappa: The Mother Of All Interviews: Part 1 Part 2
- Zappa Music To Make Your Skin Crawl
- How it All Works with Gail Zappa
- Utility Muffin Research Kitchen: Dave Dondorf, Spencer Chrislu, Ali Askin, Todd Yvega ...
- January
- 1993
- January
Spin : Matt Groening. Interview.
- February 6
Music Week : Transforming Metal Into Gold
- February
DISCoveries : The Collected History and Improvisations of Frank ...
- February
Musician : The 100 Greatest Guitarists Of The 20th Century - Frank Zappa
- March
Sound Waves : Frank Zappa: Viva La Bizarre
- Spring
Ptolemaic Terrascope : of Free Meat Money and Weasels: the Bunk Gardner interview
- April 7
Hot Press : A Mother Of Invention
- April
Esquire : Cucamonga Years: The Early Works of Frank Zappa, 1962-1964
- April
Playboy : Playboy Interview: Frank Zappa
- May 15
The Guardian Weekend : Frank: Fearless and still fighting
- May
Record Collector : Frank Zappa On CD: 1966-1979
- June 25
International Herald Tribune : Sons of Invention? The Zappa Brothers
- June
Guitarist
- Unholy mother
- Three sides ...
- June
RCD : Frank's Wild Years
- July
Q : Frank Zappa Presents: The Amazing Mr Bickford
- Summer
Ptolemaic Terrascope : The Mothers Tapes (Spool Three) – Don Preston
- August
Pulse : Frank Zappa
- August
Cutting Edge : Just when you thought it was safe
- August
Q : And Now, The End Is Near (book reviews)
- October 9
Billboard : PolyGram, Zappa In Legal Clash Over Song Rights
- October
EQ : Cooking With Frank
- November 27
Cash Box : Pop Albums Reviews - The Yellow Shark
- November
Record Collector : Frank Zappa on CD: 1979-1988
- December 7
Daily Mirror : The Father Of Invention
- December 7
The Guardian
- December 7
The Independent : Obituary: Frank Zappa
- December 7
The Times
- December 9
Scene : Frank Zappa: 1941-1993
- December 10
The Irish Times : An indefatigable inventor
- December 16
Humo : My epitaph: anything, anytime, any place, for no reason at all
- December 18
Cash Box : Remembering Zappa
- December 18
Melody Maker : Frank Zappa R.I.P.
- December 18
Music Week : Frank Zappa 1940-1993
- December 18
New Musical Express
- Sittin' In The Dock With The Crazed
- Francis Vincent Zappa: 1940-1993
- December
In Tune : Frank Zappa dead at 52
- December
Mojo : Dropout Boogie
- December
The New Yorker
- December
Riveted : FZ on the cover
- January
- 1994
- January 19
City Paper : Zappa
- January 27
Rolling Stone
- Frank Zappa 1940-1993
- The Essential Zappa
- January
The Beat Goes On
- Frank Zappa 1940-1993
- Obituary
- January
EQ : Zappa: The Innovator
- January
The Guitar Magazine : Albert Collins and Frank Zappa tributes
- January
Hi-Fi World : Kiss my Aura, Dora ad.
- January
Mojo : Frank Zappa/Ensemble Modern "The Yellow Shark"
- January
Playgirl : Sons of Invention
- January
Socialist Review : Frank Zappa: Spanner in the works
- January
Sun Zoom Spark : Frank Zappa 1940-1993
- February
Exposé : Remembering Zappa
- February
Guitar For The Practicing Musician
- Frank's Garage
- Dirty Love
- February
Jazz Trumpet Journal
- Father Of Invention
- Zappa's Trumpets
- February
Loafing The Donkey : Editorial
- February
Making Music : Frank Zappa 1940-1993
- February
Musician : Frank Zappa
- February
Q : A Real Mother: Francis Vincent Zappa II, 1940-1993
- February
Select : Frank Zappa 1940-1993
- February
VOX : VOX Closing Shot
- February
The Wire
- Hail And Farewell
- Frank Zappa: The Yellow Shark (review)
- March
Audio : Zappa's Universe & The Yellow Shar
- March
CD International : The Mother Of Perversion
- March
EQ
- March
Guitar Player : Absolutely Frank
- March
DownBeat : The Satirist Is Silenced
- March
Mojo
- The Last Days Of Frank Zappa
- Dr. Zircon's Secret Lab
- The Antichrist
- The Grand Wazoo
- The Addams Family
- March
Spin : Viva Zappa! 1940-1993
- March
Stereo Review : Track Records
- April
Guitar World
- Perfectly Frank
- Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar: A Tribute To A Guitar Genius
- April
Keyboard : The Zappa Legacy
- April
Q : The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play (review)
- April
Relix : Forever Frank: An Appreciation
- May
DISCoveries : Frank Zappa. His life in music. ... Pt I
- May
Record Collector : Frank Zappa on CD: 1988-1994
- June
DISCoveries : Frank Zappa. His life in music. ... Pt II
- Summer
The Puppetry Journal : In Memoriam Frank Zappa
- August
Gramophone : A Chance Operation - John Cage Tribute
- August
Mojo : Frankologically Zappatistical
- August
VOX : Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play (review)
- September 21
Public News : Zappa
- September
DownBeat : Legacy Of A Cultural Guerilla
- October
Musician : Zappa Rocks (Asteroid Zappafrank)
- December 6
Los Angeles Times : 'Civilization' à la Zappa
- December 9
Goldmine : Frank Zappa: The Present Day Composer
- December 24
Melody Maker : John Peel on the highlights of his first 40-odd years as a music lover
- December
CompuServe Magazine : Which Way to Planet Zappa
- Winter
Atom Mind : Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
-
The Best of Guitar Player - A Definitive Tribute To Frank Zappa
-
Blue Suede News
- Frank Zappa: Child Of The 1950s
- Help! I'm A Rock
-
SongTalk : Frank Zappa: The SongTalk Interview
-
Why A Pig? : Frank Zappa - Apocrypha
- January 19
- 1995
- January 12
Scene : Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees: The Class Of 1995
- January
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
- May 5
Album Network : Kill Ugly Radio sampler
- May 6
Billboard
- May
Collector's Choice Music : The Complete Frank Zappa Catalog
- May
Seconds : Cal Schenkel
- May/June
Radical Philosophy : King Kong
- June
it : Collecting Frank Zappa: Part I – The Early Years
- June
Musician : Frank Zappa: Civilization Phaze III
- July
huH
- July
Mojo : A scabrous disembowelling of the hippy dream (Review of 6 albums)
- July
Record Collector
- Promotional Toolbox: A Round-up Of Recent Collectable Promos
- Frank Zappa – You Can't Do That Again!
- July
Stereo Review : Perfectly Frank
- July
The Wire : Don't Do That On Stage Anymore
- August 2
The Orange County Register : Viva Zappa!
- August 21
The New Yorker : Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum
- August 24
Rolling Stone : Civilization Phase III
- August
Guitar World : Absolutely Frank
- August
Mojo : The 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made
- August
Q : Frank Zappa: this was your life
- September
Ptolemaic Terrascope : Frank Zappa Review
- September
Real Groove : The Plateful Dead
- Fall
Schwann Spectrum : The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die!
- October 25
The Aquarian Weekly
- October
Audio : Zappa's Rules on Ryko
- October
Guitar Player
- My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
- Shut Up 'n Learn This Lesson
- October
Musician
- More Music Maestro
- Frankly Speaking: Interview with Gail Zappa
- October
Relix : Frank Zappa: Withstanding The Test Of Time
- December
it : The Big Kahuna #8
- December
Music Trader : Zappa: A Retrospective
- December
Top 40 : Mother Of All Musicians
-
College Music Symposium : "Broadway the Hard Way:" Techniques of Allusion in Music by Frank Zappa
-
Exploitation Retrospect : Zappa Crappa. An Appreciation Of and ...
-
Talking Drums : Not Your Average Joe
- January 12
- 1996
- January 15
The New Yorker : Postscript Nicolas Slonimsky
- February
Esquire : Reality check. The Grand Wazoo
- February
The Wire : The Final Conflict
- March
Guitar For The Practicing Musician
- The Father Of Invention
- Pet Sounds: Z's Dweezil Zappa and Mike Keneally
- Warren Cuccurullo
- The Experimentalist: Adrian Belew
- March
Mojo : Only In It For The Funnies (The Lost Episodes review)
- March
Record Collector
- Promotional Toolbox: A Round-up Of Recent Collectable Promos
- Zappa's "Lost Episodes"
- April
DISCoveries : Zappa Catalog At Ryko
- April
Gramophone : Prime Meridian
- July
Audio : Omnibus Wind Ensemble: Music by Frank Zappa
- Summer
Performing Songwriter : Frank Zappa: Barking Pumpkin Records
- September
Record Collector
- Promotional Toolbox: A Round-up Of Recent Collectable Promos
- Zappa In Läther
- September
Total Guitar
- Frank Zappa: The Re-Issues
- San Ber'dino on CD
- November
Mojo : FZ on the cover
- November
Musician : Frank Zappa: Läther
- November
People : Hollywood Heirs: Dweezil, Moon Unit, Ahmet & Diva Zappa ...
- December
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: Läther
- December
Mojo : Electric Don Quixote (review)
- January 15
- 1997
- January
Mojo : Frank Zappa Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa (review)
- January
Stereo Review : Frank Zappa: Läther
- February
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Apostrophe. One Size Fits All
- February
Musician
- Excerpt from the August 1979 interview
- Dweezil Zappa: Home Studio
- February
Q : Electric Don Quixote (review)
- March
Bass Player : Scott Thunes. Requiem For A Heavyweight?
- March
In Tune : Läther
- May
Select : Have I Offended Someone? (review)
- June
Mojo : No Commercial Potential: The Saga Of Frank Zappa (review)
- July
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Have I Offended Someone?
- August
EQ : Dweezil Engine
- August
Sound On Sound : Technological Tribute to Frank Zappa
- September
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Strictly Genteel
- September
Seconds : Gail Zappa
- December
Mixdown : Frank Zappa: a career of unmitigated audacity no cliques, no categories, no bullshit
- Winter
Avant : Zappa's Amateur Anthropology: Food, Dwarfs, Conspiracy and Sex
- January
- 1998
- January
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: 200 Motels
- February 11
The Independent : The tornado that hits the classical G-spot
- June
Guitar Player : Classic Riffs: Zappa's Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
- September
Guitar World : 100 Greatest Solos: #60 "Zoot Allures"
- November
Guitar Techniques : Frank Zappa - Mystery Disc (review)
- November
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Mystery Disc
- December
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Mystery Disc
- December
Mojo : "I was a teenage MOOSE freak!"
- January
- 1999
- February
Guitar World
- May
Gadfly : The Universe of Frank Zappa
- May
Guitar Techniques : Frank Zappa soloing study
- June
Guitar World
- July
DownBeat : Hall of Fame Outcasts: Jimi Hendrix & Frank Zappa
- July
Modern Drummer : The Drummers Of Frank Zappa
- September 23
San Diego Reader : Dirty Zappa's Dirty Little Secret
- October
Bizarre : Frank Zappa
- December
Spin : The Making Of Trout Mask Replica
- Christmas
Guitar Techniques : Confessions Of A Stunt Guitarist - Mike Keneally
-
READ Magazine : The Lost Interview
-
The Interview : The Interview
- February
- 2000
- March 23
Buffalo Beat : Strictly Genteel: The BPO tackles Zappa
- May/June
American Record Guide : Frank Zappa: Never Strictly Genteel
- July
Record Collector
- Zappa: the ongoing legacy
- Jimmy Carl Black
- September
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa: Everything Is Healing Nicely
- September
Uncut : Sacred Cows. Reputations reassessed: Frank Zappa
-
Play Guitar Guitar Greats: Frank Zappa and Richie Blackmore
-
Seconds : Terry : Prince of Percussion
- Autumn
Avant : Zappening 2000: Peoria, Illinois USA, 11th - 13th August 2000
- March 23
- 2001
- January
Gramophone : (The) Zappa Album
- July
Juxtapoz : Zapped! The Anti-Psychedelic Artistry of Cal Schenkel
- Summer
Ugly Things
- Kim Fowley's Sins & Secrets Of The Silver Sixties
- The latest West Coast way of life-rebels with a cause, & their music
- October
Record Collector : Zappa '69
- Winter
Mojo Collections : Master Strokes
-
Acta Musicologica : The Mother of Invention and Uncle Meat
- January
- 2002
- January 17
Rolling Stone : RS Hall Of Fame: Joe's Garage, Act I
- January
Vintage Guitar : Sustaining the Zappa Legacy
- January/Feb
Film Comment : Knocking On Heaven's Door
- Spring
Mojo Collections : Mothers Superior
- April
The Wire : Epiphanies
- August
Uncut : From Here To Maternity (Threesome album review)
- October
Guitar Buyer
- Hendrix/Zappa Strat: Burn Baby Burn
- Dweezil Zappa: Junior's Wailing
- November 2
The Weekend Australian : Their Mamas & Their Papas
- November 29
Goldmine
- Frank Zappa: The controversy and touring hell of 1970-71
- Zappa acetate discovered
- 25 Collectible Frank Zappa Records
- December
Relix : Frank Zappa: Zappa Picks by Jon Fishman and Larry LaLonde
- January 17
- 2003
- January
Uncut : Zappa Picks by Larry Lalonde and Zappa Picks by John Fishman (review)
- January
Guitar Techniques : Frankly Speaking
- January
Mix : We are the Mothers...and This Is What We Sound Like!
- January
Mojo : Through The Keyhole
- Spring
Juxtapoz : Zappa
- June
Uncut : Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World Of Zappa (review)
- August
Uncut : A Grandmothers Night at the Gewandhaus ad
- October
Australian Guitar : The Frank Zappa Memorial Barbecue
- November
Classic Rock : Trippin' The Light Fantastic
- November
Mojo
- The Mojo Hall Of Fame 100: #30 Frank Zappa
- I'm The Slime on Piece Of Cake CD
- December 11
Rolling Stone : The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- December
Guitar World
- Dynamo Frank
- In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky
- December
Jazzwise
- Frank Zappa's jazz legacy
- Interviews with Don Preston, Dweezil Zappa, George Duke, John Etheridge, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Vinnie Colaiuta, Colin Towns, Olli Vitaperko
- The great 'Bognor Regis mystery'
- Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar
- Frank Zappa: Halloween DVD-A
- January
- 2004
- January
DownBeat : What Can You Do That's Fantastic
- January
Hi-Fi World : Frank Zappa "Halloween"
- January
Film Comment : Knocking On Heaven's Door
- January
Mojo
- The Father Of Invention
- The Many Faces Of Frank Zappa
- Shhhh ... Genius At Work
- The Last Post
- Keeper Of The Flame
- January
Uncut : "Jazz is not dead" albums ad
- January
United Entertainment Preview : Audio channel programmed with FZ ... still available
- February
Guitar Techniques : Baby Snakes (review)
- February
Uncut : Son Of Suzy Creamcheese on CD
- March
Uncut : The Torture Never Stops DVD ad
- May
Gramphone : Ensemble Moderne plays Frank Zappa
- June
Guitar Techniques : Frank Zappa: Zoot Allures
- July
Mojo : Son Of Mr Green Genes on CD
- September
Sound On Sound : Dweezil Zappa: 64-bit Computing & The Frank Zappa Archive
- Autumn
Eye : Cal Schenkel
- October
T Magazine : The Maths Of Music
- October
ICE : Surround-Sound Seventies Magic
- November 25
Rolling Stone : Joe's Corsage
-
Circuit
- January
- 2005
- January
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Mark Guillermont: Zappostrophe. Tribute to Frank Zappa
- January
Hi-Fi World : Frank Zappa "Quaudiophiliac"
- March
Warrior : Nobody Looks Good Wearing Brown Lipstick
- March
Mojo : The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time
- April 21
Rolling Stone : The Immortals #71 - Frank Zappa
- June
Relix : Exposed: Baron Wolman
- October
Guitar & Bass
- Father of invention
- Let's Be Frank
- October
Guitarist : Viva Zappa!
- October
Popular Science : A Beetle by Any Other Name
- January
- 2006
- January
Guitar One : Frank Zappa poster
- February
Guitarist Australia
- Viva Zappa!
- Frank was extraordinary
- Drummers were dropping like flies...
- Spring
Guitar Techniques : Dweezil Zappa - Artist Interview
- April
Relix : The Many Minds Of Frank Zappa
- July
Guitar Techniques : Dweezil Zappa - Licks, Part 2
- August
Guitar Player
- All In The Family
- Frank's Little Italian Virtuoso
- The Vaultmeister
- August
Guitar World : Let's Be Frank
- Autumn
Traps : Family Tree of Frank Zappa drummers
- November
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: One Size Fits All
- November
Mojo : Pimp My Ride
- January
- 2007
- February
Guitarist Australia : The weird and wonderful mixolydian modes of Mr Zappa
- March
Guitar One
- Mike Keneally. Rules? What rules?
- Frank Zappa. Shut Up and Take Yer Guitar Lessons.
- May
Bass Player : Arthur Barrow. Audition Absurdities: Frank Zappa's "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast"
- May
Mojo : Lou Pals Up To Zappa
- May
The Wire : The Inner Sleeve (Weasels Ripped My Flesh)
- June
Uncut : Apostrophe and Over-Nite Sensation DVD ad
- July
Record Collector : Classic Albums: Apostrophe ('); Over-Nite Sensation DVD
- August
Guitar Techniques : Classic Albums: Apostrophe/Over-Nite Sensation (review)
- Autumn
Traps : Family Tree of Frank Zappa drummers
- November
Guitar Player : Guitar Heroes A–Z
- November
Keyboard : Getting The Call, Giving It All (Peter Wolf interview)
- Holiday
Hustler : A Frank Conversation With Dweezil Zappa
-
TONEAudio : A Guide To Getting Lucky (Burnt Weeny Sandwich review)
- February
- 2008
- February
Modern Drummer : Zappa Plays Zappa's Joe Travers The Vaultmeister
- May
Guitar Techniques : Zappa In Barcelona (review)
- May
Record Collector : Flo & Eddie: The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie / Flo & Eddie
- June
Guitar Techniques : Frank Zappa - Live Transmission (review)
- July
Elmore
- Days Of The Expanding (Jazz) Man
- Dweezil Zappa On Frank's Jazz
- July
Mojo : Double Trouble
- July
Stubble : Zappa Plays Zappa
- August
Guitar Player
- Frank Zappa's Rare Gear
- The secret weapons behind Dweezil's killer tones
- In the studio with Dweezil Zappa
- September 19
LA Weekly : Racy Against Time
- September
Record Collector News : Big Bidding on eBay
- Autumn
Traps
- Terry Bozzio: Making Of A Complex Man
- Ed Mann: Learning From The Master
- Patrick O'Hearn: Fun With The Bozzio Show
- Chad Wackerman: Double The Trouble On Traps
- October
DownBeat : Zappa Lives!
- November
Record Collector News : Frank Zappa Mystery Disk: The Birth Of The Mothers Of Invention
- November
Stereophile
- February
- 2009
- January 16
Goldmine : Frank Zappa: A peek inside the vaults
- January
Uncut : Jimmy Carl Black 1938-2008
- February
DownBeat : 75 Great Guitarists
- February
The Wire : Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention: In The 1960s (DVD review)
- March
The Word : Mother Superior
- April
Bass Player
- Frank Zappa's "Alien Orifice" - Scott Thunes's ...
- Kids These Days
- May
Guitar Techniques : Dweezil Zappa - Zappa Plays Zappa (review)
- May
Guitarist : Excerpts of Frank Zappa interview
- May
Record Collector : Frank Talk
- May
Guitar Legends : 1969 - The Greatest Year Of Rock
- July
DownBeat : The Aesthetics Of Freakery
- August
Classic Rock : Dee Snider of Twisted Sister on Frank Zappa/John Denver
- August
Hi-Fi News & Record Review : Zappa's Hot Rats LP
- September
Classic Rock : The Impossible Made Possible: Frank Zappa
- September
Guitar Legends
- Gravest Hits
- Dynamo Frank
- "Apostrophe'" (score)
- October
DownBeat : Ed Palermo Big Band: Obsessed With Zappa
- December 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- King Kong: A Conversational Analysis – Paul Carr & Michel Delville
- The Bard Of Baltimore – Kanguy Chow
- Zappa’s Music Is a Sphere – Guillaume Dauzou & Sabrina Bergamin
- Author/Recipient Relationships in FZ Movies – Manuel de la Fuente
- My Dogs Are Barking – Andrew Greenaway
- Trouble With Pigs And Ponies – Andy Hollinden
- FZ And The English Language – John Loska
- When Zappa Played Like Coltrane – Philippe Mérigot
- La Dérive Uncle Meat – Didier Mervelet
- Waxing Lyrical; Why I Love Frank – Sarah Moore
- Isn’t It Romantic, Punky? – Simon Prentis
- Frank Zappa Versus the People – Pacôme Thiellement
- Are You Hung Up? – Hugo Vanneck
- On “Oh No” From Weasels Ripped My Flesh – Ben Watson
- December
Guitar World : The Big Three-Oh!
-
TONEAudio
- The Wild Man Is Back
- Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (review)
- January 16
- 2010
- January
Uncut : 20 Best Music DVDs : In The 1960s
- March 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- Thus Spake Zappathustra – Jordi Cuenca
- Zappa Over Miles – Susan Doanim
- Zappa So What - But Still – Silke Groetschel
- Trouble With Pigs & Ponies Pt Ii – Andy Hollinden
- The Chrome-Plated Megaphone Of Destiny – Pawnshop Marimba
- You Was A Fool – Philippe Merigot
- The Art Of The Ballet – Didier Mervelet
- Zappa In Asia – Kohjitsu Ohyama
- Monkish Meditations – Simon Prentis
- God Vibrations – Homer Shiroy
- The Fake Id Of Mr Green Genes – Vladimir Sovetov
- When I Went Into The Steinway – Daniel Whitehorse
- One More Time For The World – English Versions
- March
Guitar World : Dad To The Bone
- March
Notes : Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in the '60s
- Spring
Progression : The Second Coming
- Spring
Progression : A Couple Of Real Creative Mothers
- April
The Wire : Frank Zappa: The Freak-Out List (review)
- May
Mojo : How To Buy: Frank Zappa
- May
Spin : Mr. Zappa Goes To Washington
- May
Uncut : The 20 best albums of 1966
- June 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- The Origins Of IINK – Román García Albertos
- Cruisin’ For A Ruben – Sue Barashy
- Zappa’s Music Is A Time Machine – Guillaume Dauzou & Sabrina Bergamin
- Nostalgia For The Old Folks? – Tom Demonay
- I’m A Bandleader – Richard Hemmings
- Ten (Zen) Commendments – Simon Prentis
- Pourquoi Vouloir Mettre Un Caniche Dans Un Bocal? – John Raby
- A View From India – Mahesh Ramchandani
- There Is Such A Thing As Progress – Hugo Vanneck
- One More Time For The World – English Versions
- June
Classic Rock : The Freak-Out! List / 200 Motels
- July
Classic Rock : The 50 Albums That Built Prog Rock
- August
Classic Rock : Dweezil Zappa: Return Of The Son Of ...
- September 17
The Baltimore Sun : Zappa Days
- September 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- Don't Mess With Magdalena – Matt Aku
- A Note On Pumpkins – Corya Dereuter
- Narrativium Experiment – The Grotchy
- Trouble With Pigs And Ponies Pt III – Andy Hollinden
- Meeting The Man – Tina Irei
- Personal And Collective Memory – Philippe Mérigot
- The Ultimate Best Album – Kohjitsu Ohyama
- No Poo-Poo Jokes – Simon Prentis
- One More Time For The World – Original Versions
- September
Guitar World : The 30 Coolest Guitarists Of All Time
- October 30
The Guardian : You still sense Frank here - there's electricity in the air
- October
Classic Rock
- 150 Greatest Debut Albums Of All Time - Freak Out
- Buyer's Guide - Captain Beefheart
- October
Flux : Frank Zappa
- November
Guitarist : Dweezil Zappa
- November
Mojo Specials : Mojo Classic 148-page Zappa special
- November
Uncut : Frank Zappa: Album By Album
- November
The Word
- The Agony & The Ecstasy
- What Has Zappa Ever Done For Us?
- December 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- LINGUA FRANKA PART 1 / Arjun von CAEMMERER
- FRANK ZAPPA TRIBUTE / Paul CARR
- THE LIL' IPOD SHUFFLE / Sally GENAKU
- DIONYSUS ON A HALF SHELL / Ivor GOLDKIND
- FZ: A MEMORIAL CURLICUE / Ron GUY
- ZAPPA THE DATE-RAPE BASTARD / Eli MICHAELI
- PLAGUE-A-RHYTHM / Simon PRENTIS
- SGT PEPPER VS SGT FURY / John RABY
- RAT TOMAGO / Ozzy TING
- ONE MORE TIME FOR THE WORLD / English VERSIONS
- December
Classic Rock : Zappa: The Hard Way (book review)
- December
Guitar Player
- Viva Evolution!
- Gearzilla
- January
- 2011
- January 7
LA Weekly : School Of Beefheart (CB tribute)
- January 8
NME : Captain Beefheart (CB tribute)
- January 20
Rolling Stone : Captain Beefheart 1941-2010 (CB tribute)
- January
Uncut : Paul Weller on "Peaches En Regalia"
- February
Guitar & Bass : Gene Genius
- February
Guitarist : Frank Zappa. The Torture Never Stops DVD
- February
The Wire : Don The Revelator (CB tribute)
- March 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- LINGUA FRANKA PART II / Arjun von CAEMMERER
- INCUR ODES / Sue GOYNDA
- ONE SHOT DEAL / Simon PRENTIS
- 500 WORDS ON FRANK / Pamela Goodheart ZARUBICA
- March
Classic Rock
- Captain Beefheart, January 15, 1941 - December 17, 2010
- Captain Beefhearts Far Cry
- March
Mojo : The Black Rider (CB tribute)
- March
Uncut : Captain Beefheart, American Visionary, 1941-2010 (CB tribute)
- March/April
Radical Philosophy : Captain Beefheart, Vorticist artist.
- March/April
Record Collector News : Captain Beefheart - Musical Mystic (CB tribute)
- June 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- LINGUA FRANKA PART III / Arjun von CAEMMERER
- CONFESSIONS OF A KUR ADDICT / Urban GRAFFITO
- IN PRAISE OF THE SHUFFLE / Harry KEATER
- HIT IT, FRANCESCO! / Ella KUNIGH
- NOTES ON THE AMAZING MR BICKFORD / John RILEY
- CRYSTALS AND TURDS / Paul SUTTON
- MERRY-GO-ROUND MADNESS / Bim YODER
- June
Guitar Player Vault
- Frank Zappa "I'm Different"
- Steve Vai: Zappa's "Little Italian Virtuoso"
- June
Guitarist : Solid Gold. The 10 greatest SG players.
- July/August
Record Collector News : Howard Kaylan - Let's Talk Frank Zappa (CB tribute)
- September 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- SHUT UP AND LISTEN SOME MORE? / Sam AYORE
- LINGUA FRANKA PART IV / Arjun von CAEMMERER
- REVIEW OF ‘MY LIFE WITH FRANK ZAPPA’ / Avner CLEW
- CALL ME BRUNO/FULAX / Bruno FARRUGIA
- FINE GIRL VS JEWISH PRINCESS / Anne SCHINDER
- FZ THE BRAVE ONE / Pamela Goodheart ZARUBICA
- September
Uncut : Wild Man Fisher 1944-2011
- October 1
Telegraph Magazine : Pauline Butcher remembers life as Frank Zappa's personal assistant, 1968
- October
Mojo Specials : The Crazy Gang
- October
Muse Magazine : Zappa. Joe's Garage
- October
Record Collector : Born To Be Wild Man
- December
Classic Rock : Portraits: Baron Wolman
- December
Guitar Player : What I Learned At Dweezilla Boot Camp
- January 7
- 2012
- January
Guitarist : What goes around
- March 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- STRAVINSKY'S INFLUENCE IN FZ'S MUSIC, PART 1 / John ANTHONY
- SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GUY / Billie BARBOUR
- REVIEW OF ‘MY LIFE WITH FRANK ZAPPA’ / Avner CLEWLINGUA FRANKA PART VI / Arjun von CAEMMERER
- TAKING THEMSELVES SURREALIOUSLY / Tom DEMONAY
- IF ONLY THEY COULDA HEARD IT / Andy HOLLINDEN
- FRANK ZAPPA'S NIGHTMARE / DJ PANGBURN
- THE MONSTER WHO NEEDED NO MAKEUP/ John RILEY
- March
Mixdown : Zappa Plays Zappa: Frank Assessment
- March
Uncut
- Jim Sherwood (obituary)
- From Straight To Bizarre (DVD review)
- Spring
Guitar Techniques : Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention - Carnegie Hall (review)
- April
The Wire
- Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band Bat Chain Puller
- From Straight To Bizarre: Zappa, Beefheart, Alice Cooper And LA's Lunatic Fringe (DVD)
- June 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- STRAVINSKY’S INFLUENCE, Pt 2 / John ANTHONY
- LINGUA FRANKA PART VII / Arjun von CAEMMERER
- FZ AND THE SET-LIST / Sean GAFFNEY
- DON’T JUBILEE’VE IT / Ken MAY
- BONGO ZAPPA, Pt 1 / Steve MOORE
- THE APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE / Sheila NYE
- INSIDE NOW / Simon PRENTIS
- BEN WATSON RUINED MY LIFE / John RILEY
- July
Guitar Player : Artists: Dweezil Zappa
- July
Rhythm : Vinnie Colaiuta
- July
The Wire : Frank Zappa & Ray Collins "Fountain Of Love"
- August
Collector's Choice Music : Frank Zappa - The First 12 Albums! Remastered and Back In Print!
- September 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- LINGUA FRANKA PART VIII / Arjun von CAEMMERER
- THE POVERTY OF COMPLETISM / Mimi GABIN-KHAN
- WATERMELON IN EASTER HEY / Madge IMMANEY
- ZAPPA SURVIVOR / Scott SCHROEN
- WHEN COMPOSERS DECOMPOSE / Larry TESHMOW
- ZAPPA: HEGEL, OR, NOT AGAIN (AGAIN) / Ben WATSON
- September
Uncut : Dropouts Boogie
- September
Guitar Techniques : Lydian Mode
- Fall
Pomona College Magazine : A Carefully Calculated Caper
- October
Classic Rock
- GTO's Permanent Damage (review)
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - The Lost Broadcasts (review)
- The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money (review)
- October
Guitarist : The Story Of Steve Vai
- October
Prog
- The Albums that Built Prog - Freak Out
- Frank Zappa/Mothers Of Invention (12 reissues)
- October
Uncut : The Zappa Motherlode: 12 albums reissued this month and 48 more by the end of the year
- October
The Wire : Frank Zappa: Reissues
- November
Gramphone : Zappa arranged for the RAM’s new music ensemble
- November
Hound Dawg Music
- Mother People: The Formation Of Frank Zappa And The Mothers
- Classical Album: The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out
- The Original Mothers Of Invention: The Best Band In The World
- The Making Of 200 Motels
- Classic Album: The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money
- An Interview With Zappa's Former Secretary Pauline Butcher
- John "Drumbo" French Talks Beefheart And Trout Mask Replica
- Recording Captain Beefheart's Masterpiece Trout Mask Replica
- The Story Of Wild Man Fischer
- Bill Mumy On Wild Man Fischer
- Dr. Demento On Wild Man Fischer And Zappa
- November
Q : Frank's Ocean
- December 21
The Rondo Hatton Report
- THE BEST COVERS YOU NEVER HEARD / John ANTHONY
- LINGUA FRANKA PART IX / Arjun von CAEMMERER
- THE CRUX OF THE BISCUIT / Mary HALLEY
- PTTAOASAGM / Simon PRENTIS
- ZAPPA SURVIVOR PT II / Scott SCHROEN
- December
Classic Rock : The Fabulous Furry Freak Brother!
- December
Guitarist
- The Band From Utopia
- Frank Zappa Style File
- December
Hi-Fi World : Frank Zappa "Hot Rats"
- Autumn
Another Man : A Conversation Between Oscar Wilde and Frank Zappa
- January
- 2013
- March
DownBeat : CJO Tips Hat to Zappa
- March
Gramphone : Rewriting The Rite
- March
Uncut : Ray Collins 1936-2012
- April
DRUM! : Vinnie Colaiuta On "Keep On Greasey"
- May
DownBeat : Frank Zappa: A Serious Man
- May
The Wire : Frank Zappa: Finer Moments
- May/June
Record Collector News : Shell Shocked
- July
Guitar & Bass : Roxy Music
- July
Record Collector
- The Confessions Of Kaylan
- A Token Of His Extreme
- July
Uncut : Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme (review)
- August 2
Music Week : Kobalt signs major Frank Zappa deal
- Summer
Guitarist : Shell Shocked (book review)
- September
TONEAudio : Audiophile Pressings (Freak Out! review)
- September
Keyboard : George Duke - The Final Interview
- December
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (review)
- October
La Scena Musicale : Frank Zappa, American Composer
- October
Performances Magazine : Frank Zappa: 200 Motes - The Suite
- November
Premier Guitar : Spontaneous Audio Devices - Son of Kong
- December
Classic Rock : 1993 AC/DC Meet Zappa!
- December
Prog
- Frank Zappa: A Man For All Seasons
- Make A Prog Noise Here
- Frank Zappa: The Last Interview
- December
Uncut : Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica (review)
- Winter
Total Guitar : The A-Z Of Prog Guitar
- March
- 2014
- January
TONEAudio : Audiophile Pressings (Freak Out! review)
- February 7
Pasatiempo : Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar: Dweezil Zappa
- February
Prog : Uncle Meat / Roxy & Elsewhere (review)
- February
Rock N Roll Industries : Zappa Plays Zappa
- March
Premier Guitar : Pro Pedalboards: Dweezil Zappa
- April
Uncut : Feat Don't Fail Me Now
- May
Guitar Player : Classic Column: Frank Zappa Non-Foods - Feedbacks, Effects, And Tone
- May
Guitarist : Adrian Belew
- May
Steez : Dweezil Zappa
- September
Shindig!
- Maternal Flame
- Hand Signals
- Happy Together
- December
Guitar Player
- Shut Up & Look at this Guitar!
- Classic Column: Frank Zappa Absolutely Frank - Putting Some Garlic In Your Playing
- December
Uncut : Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972
- January
- 2015
- January
Shindig! : Blame Lucille
- March
Uncut : The Story Of Discreet Records
- April 25
NME : This Week In 1975 - Frank's Wild Years
- June
Classic Rock : Amercian Graffity
- July
Prog
- The Torture Never Stops
- Over-nite Sensations
- One Last Dance
- July
Uncut : Ringo Starr on 200 Motels
- September
The Wire : Frank Zappa Dance Me This
- Fall
L.A. Record : The Holloway Files. Frank Zappa (1972)
- October 9
Newsweek : Parental Advisory Forever: An Oral History Of The PMRC's War On Dirty Lyrics
- October
Guitar & Bass : My Spinal Tap Moment ...
- October
Premier Guitar : Forgotten Heroes: Denny Walley
- October/Nov
Record Collector News : A Memorial and a Celebration
- December
Relix
- In Memoriam: Gail Zappa
- Frank Zappa. Roxy: The Movie
- December
Uncut : Gail Zappa 1945-2015
- December
The Wire : Zappa Plays Zappa / Grandmothers Of Invention (concert reviews)
- Christmas
Record Collector : Zappa And Jazz: Did It Really Smell Funny, Frank?
-
Rhythm Presents 100 Drum Heroes
- Vinnie Colaiuta
- Terry Bozzio
- Aynsley Dunbar
- January
- 2016
- January
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa "Roxy: The Movie"
- January
Premier Guitar : Roots & Branches
- January
Prog : The 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time
- January
Uncut : Frank Zappa: Roxy The Movie (review)
- February
NUTS! : Bow Tie Daddy comic
- March
Bass Player : Kurt Morgan. Zappa Zealot
- March
DownBeat : Zappa Swings
- March
Guitar Player
- Sharing The Force
- Dweezil Zappa's Creative Rhythmic Breakthroughts
- March
Guitar World : Dweezil Zappa
- March
Uncut : Pierre Boulez 1925-2016
- Spring
Jocks & Nerds : Frank Zappa
- April 15
NME : Excelleeeeeeeeent!
- May
JazzTimes : The Ed Palermo Big Band One Child Left Behind
- June
Uncut : Who The Fuck Is Frank Zappa?
- June
Vintage Guitar : Solo Sounds
- July
Film Comment : Total Freak-Out
- July
Prog : See For Miles
- July
Radical Philosophy : Open your head
- August 11
Rolling Stone : Zappa Vs. Zappa
- August
Mojo Specials : The Surreal People
- September
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa: The Lumpy Money Project/Object/ Road Tapes Venue #1 - #3
- October
Guitarist : Mike Keneally
- October
Record Collector : Lumpy Money, Road Tapes, Venue #1, Road Tapes, Venue #2, Road Tapes, Venue #3
- October
Uncut : Frank Zappa for President/The Crux Of The Biscuit (review)
- November
BBC Music Magazine : Z is for Zappa
- Christmas
Record Collector : Putting The Eyebrows On It
- January
- 2017
- January
Sight and Sound : Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
- January
Uncut : Films. Eat That Question (review)
- January
The Wire : Zappa/Mothers. Meat Light (review)
- February
Illinois Entertainer : We're Only In It For The Money - Lumpy Gravy - Ruben And The Jets (review)
- February
Prog : The Prog Interview: Terry Bozzio
- March
Loud And Quiet: Singing Pictures: One of Frank Zappa’s biggest risks was his 1971 movie 200 Motels
- March
Uncut : 101 Weirdest Albums Of All Time
- March
Mojo Specials : Posters - Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart
- March
Relix : Securing Zappa's Vault
- April
Rhythm : Terry Bozzio: Six Of The Best
- May
JazzTimes : Ed Palermo: The Gil Evans of Prog-Rock
- June
The Wire : Invisible Jukebox. Louis Moholo-Moholo
- July 11
Good Times : Dweezil Zappa Calling His Own Shots In Westhampton Beach
- July
Long Live Vinyl : The Story Behing The Sleeve - We're Only In It For The Money
- Septmber
British GQ : Build a Woah! Record Library: #8 Hot Rats
- October
Uncut : Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention: Absolutely Free (review)
- October
Relix : Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention: Absolutely Free
- November 17
TLS : Complicity in the vaudeville
- November
Vintage Rock : Top 40 Classic Rockers
- Christmas
Record Collector : Freak Out! The Roots Of US Prog Rock
- January
- 2018
- January
Computer Music : Blast From The Past. New England Digital Synclavier
- January
Guitar World : Adrian Belew
- January
Mojo : Gary Lucas and Captain Beefheart
- January
Record Collector : Summer Of '82: When Zappa Came To Sicily (review)
- March
JazzTimes : The Ed Palermo Big Band The Adventures Of Zodd Zundgren
- March
Vintage Guitar : Frank Zappa: Halloween 77
- March
The Wire : Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention. Absolutely Free: Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition
- May 19
Billboard : Holograms Hit The Road
- May
Classic Rock : Zappa/Mothers: The Roxy Performances (review)
- May
Guitar Techniques : Fretboard Fluency
- May
Uncut : Anything You Want
- June
Guitarist : Frank Zappa: The Roxy Performances (review)
- June
Illinois Entertainer : Burnt Weeny Sandwich The Roxy Performances
- June
Prog : Zappa/Mothers: The Roxy Performances (review)
- July
Record Collector : Mid-life crisis? Mid-life Freak Out!
- July/August
JazzTimes : Loud Jazz
- August
Classic Rock : From Russia With Love
- August
Hi-Fi World : I said "Yes"! (The book by Arthur Barrow)
- October
Record Collector : Most Wanted (1966 Balloon Farm concert poster)
- October
Uncut : Power To The People (We're Only In It For The Money)
- November
Mojo : Frank Zappa
- December
DownBeat : A Burst Of Zappa Reissues
- December
Guitar Player
- December
Long Live Vinyl : The Essential Laurel Canyon
- January
- 2019
- March 23
The Spectator : Playing dead
- March
Classic Rock : 100 Greatest Albums of the 60s
- April
Record Collector News : The Bizarre World Of Zappa
- April
Guitar Player : Dweezil Comes Clean
- May
Mojo : Zappa's Holo-spectre Spooks London, As A Play Remembers The Days
- June
Goldmine : Mondo Zappa Live
- June
Prog
- This Is What I Call Genius!
- Zappa Lives Again
- August
Mojo : Diary Of A Genius?
- August
Prog
- Frank Zappa (from 100 Icons That Changed Our World)
- The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa (review)
- September
The Wire : Crude Awakenings
- November
Prog : Dweezil And The Time Machine
- December
Guitarist : Mission Impossible
- March 23
- 2020
- January
Classic Rock : The Hot Rats Sessions (review)
- January
Guitarist : The Hot Rats Sessions (review)
- January
Music Legends : Frank Zappa: The Mothers Freak Out!
- January
Prog : The Hot Rats Sessions (review)
- January
Record Collector : The Hot Rats Sessions (review)
- January
Shindig : Peaches And Cream And Jams
- Jan / Feb
Rhythms : Classic album: Frank Zappa. Hot Rats
- Jan / Feb
YAM : Iconoclast Meets Colossus
- February
Hi-Fi World : Frank Zappa "Halloween 73"
- February
DownBeat : Ed Palermo Big Band: Run With It
- February
Goldmine : The Hot Rats Sessions (review)
- February
Long Live Vinyl : The Hot Rats Sessions (review)
- February
Mojo : Vermin In Ermine
- February
Uncut : Frank Zappa: The Hot Rats Sessions
- February
The Wire : Frank Zappa. The Hot Rats Sessions (review)
- Mar / Apr
Rhythms : Honour Thy Father!
- April
JazzTimes : The Father of Invention. The Hot Rats Sessions (review)
- May
Stereophile : Recording Of The Month: Frank Zappa - The Hot Rats Sessions
- July
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa: Brighton Centre, April 16, 1988 (concert review)
- July
Illinois Entertainer : The Mothers 1970
- July
Prog : The Mothers 1970 (review)
- July
Shindig : Enormous Cadenzas (The Mothers 1970 review)
- August
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa: The Mothers 1970 (review)
- August
Goldmine : Mothers & Others (The Mothers 1970 review)
- August
Mojo : The Tao Of Zappa
- August
Record Collector : Frank Zappa: The Mothers 1970 (review)
- August
Rock And Blues International : The Mothers 1970
- August
Sound On Sound : Craig Parker Adams: Mixing Frank Zappa
- August
Uncut : Frank Zappa: Mothers 1970 (review)
- September
Rock And Blues International : Lady Bianca
- September
Uncut : An Audience With Archie Shepp
- October
Uncut : The GTO's: Permanent Damage
- October
Vintage Guitar : Zappa For President
- November
Illinois Entertainer : Halloween '81
- November
Record Collector News : A new Frank Zappa documentary from director Alex Winter ...
- December 7
The New Yorker : The Treasure in Frank Zappa’s Secret Subterranean Vault
- December
DownBeat : Holiday Hits: Frank Zappa 200 Motels
- December
Guitar Techniques : Frank Zappa - Halloween '81 (review)
- December
The Wire : Zappa. Alex Winter (review)
- January
- 2021
- January 20
Riverfront Times : Keeper Of The Mystic Scrolls
- January
Classic Rock : Zappa (DVD review)
- January
Guitar Player : Best of 2020 Artist Picks : Dweezil Zappa
- January
Guitarist : To Be Frank
- February
DownBeat : Ed Palermo Big Band: Run With It
- February
Uncut : Captain Beefheart: Well, I Was Born In The Desert
- March
Uncut : Zappa (DVD review)
- March
Rhythms
- Frank Zappa: Live Detroit 1976
- Zappa (film)
- April
Guitar Player : 25 Essentials Prog Rock Guitarists : Frank Zappa
- May
Classic Rock : 100 Most Influential Guitar Heroes
- May
Rock And Blues International : Frank Zappa's Final American Show To Be Released For First Time Ever
- June
Guitarist : Perfectly Frank
- June
Sound & Vision : Zappa (film)
- July
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa/The Mothers Of Invention: Hi-res reissues (review)
- July
Illinois Entertainer : Frank Zappa: Zappa 88, The Last U.S. Show
- Summer
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa: Zappa 88, The Last U.S. Show
- October
Hi-Fi World : Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic
- December
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa 200 Motels (50th Anniversary Edition)
- December
DownBeat : Holiday Hits: Frank Zappa 200 Motels
- Holiday
Guitar Player : The 50 Greatest Solos All Time
-
Australian Guitar : Perfectly Frank
- January 20
- 2022
- January 17
In Touch Weekly : Lady Gaga's Rock 'n' Roll Palace
- January
Mojo : Zappa Crashes At 200 Motels
- January
Uncut : Frank Zappa: 200 Motels
- February
Illinois Entertainer : 200 Motels. 50th Anniversary Edition
- February
Mojo : Frank Zappa 200 Motels
- February
Rock And Blues International : The Mothers 1971
- February
The Wire : Frank Zappa. 200 Motels. 50th Anniversary Edition (review)
- March
The Wire : Frank & Co: Conversations With Frank Zappa 1977-1993. Co de Kloet (review)
- April
Classic Rock : Frank & Co: Conversations With Frank Zappa
- April
Guitar Player : Changing Gear: 25 Guitar Innovators
- April
Mojo : Frank & Co: Conversations With Frank Zappa 1977-1993
- May
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa & The Mothers: The Mothers 1971
- May
The Wire : Frank Zappa & The Mothers: The Mothers 1971 (review)
- May
Uncut : Frank Zappa: The Mothers 1971
- July
Classic Rock
- Cynthia Plaster Caster
- Frank Zappa: Zappa/Erie
- September
Uncut : Frank Zappa: Zappa/Erie
- September
The Wire : Frank Zappa: Zappa/Erie (review)
- September
Rhythms : Frank Zappa In Australia
- November
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa: Zagreb '75
-
Australian Guitar : Ten Essential Gibson SG Albums
- January 17
- 2023
- January
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa: Waka/Wazoo
- February
Mojo : Frank Zappa: Zappa '80, Mudd Club/Munich
- April
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa: Waka/Wazoo
- April
Illinois Entertainer : Waka/Wazoo box set
- July
Illinois Entertainer : Frank Zappa: Zappa '80, Mudd Club/Munich
- August
Mojo : Shake your tail (Funky Nothingness)
- August
Uncut : Frank Zappa: Funky Nothingness
- August
The Wire : Frank Zappa: Funky Nothingness
- September
Record Collector News : Zappa: Funky Nothingness
- November
Shindig!
- LA Freak Scene
- Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary
- January
- 2024
- February
Sound & Vision : Frank Zappa: Over-Nite Sensation
- March
Illinois Entertainer : Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary
- April
Percussive Notes : The Mallets of Invention: A listening guide to Frank Zappa’s percussionists
- August 10
The Daily Telegraph : A name for ages
- August 11
The Washington Post : Growing up Zappa
- August
Mojo : Whisky A Go Go, 1968
- August
Sound & Vision : Atmos Truckin' (Dweezil Zappa)
- September
Mojo : Moon Unit Zappa: Earth To Moon
- October
Classic Rock : Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (') 50th Anniversary Edition
- November
Record Collector : Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (') 50th Anniversary Edition
- November
Vintage Guitar : Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (') 50th Anniversary
- February
The magazines were chosen in view of answers to these questions:
(1) Does Frank Zappa feature on the cover?
(2) Does an issue of the magazine include a CD featuring Frank Zappa?
(3) Is this magazine listed in
Urban Gwerder bibliography(appendix
in the Alain Dister book)?
(4) Does it contain a continuing part of some article/interview?
(5) Does the inclusion of this magazine help to broaden the view
of Frank Zappa presentation in the music press?