Frank Zappa’s famed and fiery Halloween 1978 residency at New York’s Palladium will be the focus of an upcoming box set, the latest in a long series of live albums revolving around the guitarist’s favorite holiday. Halloween 78, out Oct. 24 via Zappa Records/UMe, will be released in a series …
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Frank Zappa’s 1975 prog-rock masterpiece One Size Fits All will receive a 50th-anniversary reissue this fall featuring a new remaster, unreleased session tracks, live recordings, and more. One Size Fits All: 50thAnniversary Edition, out Sept. 26 via Zappa Records/UMe, boasts the original LP — featuring Zappa classics like “Inca Roads,” …
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A long-in-the-vaults Frank Zappa television special, recorded in June 1974 but never aired, will finally be released next month as a concert film and live album. Cheaper Than Cheep captures Zappa and his Mothers of Invention on June 21, 1974, performing to a small crowd in their intimate Sunset Blvd. …
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Frank Zappa‘s son Dweezil is reminiscing about an interaction he had with Eddie Van Halen during his childhood. On Wednesday night, Dweezil spoke at a Discogs event at W Hollywood’s The Loft, where he talked about some of his favorite vinyl records, including Fair Warning by Van Halen, as he …
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The first hit album of Frank Zappa‘s career, Apostrophe (‘), will be expanded into a comprehensive box set for its 50th anniversary. Available in a variety of formats on Sept. 13, the reissue in its most extravagant form, a super deluxe edition, will feature a remastered edition of the original …
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In the summer of 1968, months after the releases of We’re Only in It for the Money and Lumpy Gravy and a few months ahead of the release of Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention found time for a five-hour concert on the …
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Frank Zappa’s landmark Over-Nite Sensation, and in November, Zappa Records/UMe will celebrate the LP with a deluxe reissue of the 1973 album complete with unreleased tracks, outtakes, two concerts from the era, and more from one of Rolling Stone’s 250 Greatest Guitarists of …
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The late Frank Zappa‘s “vaultmeister” has unearthed 23 previously unreleased and rare recordings that Zappa may have been considering for a sequel to his beloved jazz-rock masterpiece, 1969’s Hot Rats. The apocrypha, which totals three-and-a-half hours of music, will finally come out on June 30 via a three-disc set titled …
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A pair of unreleased Frank Zappa concerts from 1980 — highlighting shows from a tiny New York club and a packed German arena — will feature on the latest archival release excavated from the Zappa family vaults. Zappa ’80: Mudd Club/Munich, out March 3, boasts two complete shows from the …
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Universal Music Group has agreed to a deal with Frank Zappa’s family to acquire the legendary rocker-composer’s entire estate, including his prolific catalog, film archive, publishing rights and his enormous “Vault” of unreleased material. The agreement between Universal Music Publishing Group, Universal Music Enterprises — which has distributed Zappa’s posthumous …
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