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HISTORICAL FACTS: Mothers - The Untold Story

"A mix of surreal, supercilious satire and puerile lewdness." Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and The Mothers' Bongo Fury, revisited and expanded

A six-disc, 57-track edition of the legendary 1975 collaboration, featuring live recordings and outtakes

Another day, yet another Frank Zappa reissue - and this one's glorious

Another day, yet another Frank Zappa reissue - and this one's glorious

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention's landmark album One Size Fits All, reissued with extra bells, whistles, kitchen sink, etc

“A lost gem featuring the best of the best being put through their paces by the ever-controlling bandleader”: Frank Zappa’s unaired TV special Cheaper Than Cheep

“A lost gem featuring the best of the best being put through their paces by the ever-controlling bandleader”: Frank Zappa’s unaired TV special Cheaper Than Cheep

A nearly forgotten 1974 afternoon show, with an audience of 100 and a short-lived Mothers line-up, rises from the avant-prog titan’s basement

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“I believe Tommy had lots of songs which were exactly what the band needed. And his style was more akin to Ritchie’s than mine”: Clem Clempson on the return of Colosseum, jamming with Jack Bruce, and that time he auditioned for Deep Purple

Clempson looks back on an epic career that has seen him replace Peter Frampton in Humble Pie, nearly replace Ritchie Blackmore, and tells us he's having more fun than ever with Colosseum

“He said he reflected the craziness around him – he’d see other people go nuts and write about that”: Frank Zappa’s talent for using popular music to sell unpopular music, by people who helped him

Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew, Mike Keneally and Don Preston discuss dealing with the filthy freak’s genius up close – and what you’re missing if you haven’t investigated his catalogue

"It was like a joy filled my eyes – and ears": Why I love The Mothers Of Invention's Freak Out!, by Steve Vai

Steve Vai recalls how buying this “abstract and experimental” double album inspired him to actually join Frank Zappa’s band

“Among fair fists at the greatest ‘hits’ are extensive improvisations that repeatedly just don’t work”: Frank Zappa’s Live At The Whisky A Go Go, 1968

Seems like there’s a reason this live recording remained unreleased in his lifetime

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Nora Cortinas Of Argentina's 'Mothers' Rights Group Dies At 94

Nora Cortinas Of Argentina's 'Mothers' Rights Group Dies At 94

Nora Cortinas, one of the so-called "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" rights group fighting for answers on the fate of people disappeared under Argentina's military dictatorship, has died aged 94, fellow activists announced Thursday.

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“The band thought I was dead. My neck was bent like it was broken”: the time Frank Zappa was severely injured after being pushed offstage by a fan

“The band thought I was dead. My neck was bent like it was broken”: the time Frank Zappa was severely injured after being pushed offstage by a fan

Frank Zappa survived being assaulted onstage by a fan in London in 1971 – but he was left with lifelong pain

“He was incapable of saying anything fond about anyone or anything. Affection didn’t exist in his life, only weird sex”: how Frank Zappa survived the 70s

“He was incapable of saying anything fond about anyone or anything. Affection didn’t exist in his life, only weird sex”: how Frank Zappa survived the 70s

Throughout the 1970s, he hated the hippies, loved jazz as much as rock and played dumb with incredible technical prowess, making his music thrillingly unique

Mapping unmarked graves: Why the Mohawk Mothers are fighting McGill University

Mapping unmarked graves: Why the Mohawk Mothers are fighting McGill University

A Québec superior court recently ruled that excavation can continue on certain parts of the site of Montréal’s former Royal Victoria Hospital. The ruling comes after a group of Indigenous women known as the Mohawk Mothers called for an emergency court hearing to halt excavations at the site.

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"He screwed up bad…" In the 70s, members of Little Feat grabbed our writer by the throat for asking about Lowell George. After his death, they were able to look back honestly

"He screwed up bad…" In the 70s, members of Little Feat grabbed our writer by the throat for asking about Lowell George. After his death, they were able to look back honestly

Little Feat look back on "the Orson Welles of rock", Lowell George

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