Magazine indexes
Chronological (texts in English only):
- 1953
- October 3 Saturday Evening Post : Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- 1956
- September Man's Life : Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Arrows : Lumpy Gravy
- 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
- LA Star : Frank Zappa & Paul Eberle Rapping In Los Angeles '69
- 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
- The Image : Editorial
- January 17
Record Mirror
- 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
- DownBeat : The Aesthetics Of Freakery
- KMET: Interview with Martin Perlich
- 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
- DownBeat : The Many Sides of Buell Neidlinger
-
ZigZag
- The Mothers: Just Another Band From L.A.
- Just A Few More Bands From L.A.
- 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 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
- 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 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:
- Popular Music & Society : Frank Zappa and the Enterprise of Serious Contemporary Music
- SunRise : The Poodle Chews It
- 1975
- January 2 Rolling Stone : Roxy & Elsewhere (review)
- January 2 Zoo World : What's A Mother To Do?
- 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
- 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 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'
- 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
- Popular Music and Society : Frank Zappa and the Enterprise of Serious Contemporary Music
- SunRise : Zappa & The Mothers : One Size Fits All
- SunRise : Zappa & Beefheart : Bongo Fury
- ZigZag : The Earliest Days Of The Mothers – Just Another Band From L.A.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Feature
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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/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 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
- The History Of Rock : The Great Musicians: Frank Zappa
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Pulse : Maverick
- 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
Goldmine
- 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)
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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!"
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 11 The Washington Post : Growing up Zappa
- August Sound & Vision : Atmos Truckin' (Dweezil Zappa)
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?