A new Frank Zappa box has arrived just in time for Halloween. Halloween '73, a four-disc set recorded on Oct. 31 that year, includes two complete shows Zappa and his band performed in Chicago. The box ...

Frank Zappa's annual Halloween show from 1981 is being collected in a new six-disc box set due to arrive on Oct. 2. Halloween 81 includes 78 previously unreleased tracks, as well as a Count Frankula ...

The post Frank Zappa’s Over-Nite Sensation Receiving 50th Anniversary Box Set Reissue appeared first on Consequence. It’s been nearly 50 years since Frank Zappa’s celebrated album, Over-Nite Sensation ...

The music of “Weird Al” Yankovic wouldn’t exist without Frank Zappa, who cranked out avant-garde comedy tunes in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s before his death at age 52 in 1993. His former bandmates carry ...

First published in the Erie Daily Times on Nov. 13, 1974. When Frank Zappa strode onto the stage Tuesday night at Gannon Auditorium and promptly began blowing his nose to the accompanying music, it ...

This review was first published on May 9, 1974, in the Erie Daily Times. Edinboro State's McComb Fieldhouse was invaded last night by musical mayhem in the form of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of ...

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 ...

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped. With his eccentric, experimental music, the rock iconoclast believed that, for all of his influential innovation, he was seen as a “threat” in the ...

The original nine tracks expanded to 58 – and while there’s some repetition and flawed live production, the energy is ...