UCR attempts to make sense of this knotty catalog in the list of Frank Zappa Albums Ranked below. Records include those made as a solo artist, with the Mothers, as the leader of classical and jazz ...

Frank Zappa’s early departure from a series of performances by the Ensemble Modern of his The Yellow Shark at the Frankfurt festival last year again set off rumours that his health was in a ...

With Zappa as band leader, the group signed to Verve Records and released their debut album Freak Out! in 1966. The Mothers were famous in California’s underground music scene before a wider ...

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 a maneuver they didn’t discover until after she died, Gail altered the family trust that she and Frank had signed in 1990. Instead of splitting the estate evenly four ways, she gave 30 ...

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

The latter is unsatisfying, gathering Zappa’s most popular tunes but underlining the fact that a real introductory anthology is sorely missing. As our list suggests, however, Freak Out! is as good a ...

So it shouldn’t be surprising that Zappa once said he preferred The Rolling Stones’ 1967 album Between the Buttons to The Beatles’ magnum opus, Sgt. Pepper, from later that year.

Dweezil Zappa reveals how he's reimagining two classic Frank Zappa albums - "Apostrophe" and "Roxy & Elsewhere" on his 2024 Rox-Postrophy tour.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention released "One Size Fits All." It was the last studio album by the classic ...

Frank Zappa’s legendary three-hour performance at the famed Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood on July 23, 1968, will be released for the first time on June 21 via Zappa Records/UMe as the 3CD/5LP ...

Frank refers to the album Lumpy Gravy as “the suppressed record” which is used as a political football. Capitol signed him to produce an LP with an orchestra, without the Mothers.