A few years ago, Frank’s fans received quite a treat: a chance to hear Zappa’s storied 1977 Halloween-show performances at the Palladium in NYC—and also the option to acquire the Costume Box Set... more
A few years ago, Frank’s fans received quite a treat: a chance to hear Zappa’s storied 1977 Halloween-show performances at the Palladium in NYC—and also the option to acquire the Costume Box Set... more
The Zappa Family Trust first put this out in 2011: a mono recording of Zappa’s two Carnegie Hall shows on October 11, 1971. Now, that quadruple-live-album—released in 2011 to celebrate the 40th... more
Zappa explored the possibilities of 16-track recording for the first time with this 1969 LP, his second solo release and first since he parted with the Mothers of Invention. Captain Beefheart guests... more
Limited six CD set. The Hot Rats Sessions box set celebrates the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest albums in the history of recorded music. The original 1969 Frank Zappa album was the first... more
Single CD highlights disc. Live archive release. Halloween 73! Two shows recorded at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago 10/31/73 featuring a classic Zappa band line-up along with liner notes by Ruth... more
Four CD set. Halloween 73! Two complete shows recorded at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago 10/31/73 featuring a classic Zappa band line-up along with liner notes by Ruth Underwood & Ralph Humphrey,... more
Frank Zappas Orchestral Favorites Wins Definitive 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Zappa Records/UMe will release a 40th anniversary vinyl edition of Orchestral Favorites, with the original album... more
Frank Zappas Orchestral Favorites Wins Definitive 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Zappa Records/UMe will release a 40th anniversary 3CD deluxe edition of Frank Zappas Orchestral Favorites on 30... more
Recorded at the Palladium in ’76 and reaching #57 upon its release in ’78, this double-live LP has been a favorite of Zappa fans ever since. Those fans are about to experience quite a windfall if... more
Recorded at the Palladium in ’76 and reaching #57 upon its release in ’78, this double-live LP has been a favorite of Zappa fans ever since. Those fans are about to experience quite a windfall if... more
This 1970 LP introduced a formidable new Mothers of Invention including George Duke, Aynsley Dunbar, Ian Underwood and ex-Turtles Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (a.k.a. Flo & Eddie). Rock takes turns... more
Doo-wop throwbacks, experimental classical pieces, stray sea shanties, oddball themes…this could have been nothing but another prime-period creation of Zappa and his Mothers of Invention. Unavailable... more
In December 1973, Zappa and his Mothers and their collective virtuosity thrilled crowds at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip with five shows in three nights. This new 7-CD set presents those five shows in... more
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, live at the Rockpile, Toronto, February 23rd, 1969. The Rockpile was Toronto's hippest club, and 4,000 of the city's hippest heads flocked there on February... more
By 1977, Zappa’s Halloween shows in NYC were already the stuff of legend—but he took things to scary new heights that year, playing six shows at the Palladium from October 28–31. Four of those shows... more
Zappa’s second Mothers of Invention LP lurches in freewheeling fashion from twisted rock ’n’ roll to jazz and classical excursions to trippy tape-manipulation experiments. The Zappa Family Trust has... more
Performances from Zappa’s infamous run of shows at the Roxy in Hollywood in ’73 were digitally mixed by Frank with Bob Stone at Zappa’s home studio in ’87. This first comp of those mixes includes... more
Mainly composed of four-track rehearsal tapes, this release finds Frank experimenting with old songs and new ones with a band featuring Novi Novog (viola, keyboards), Robert "Frog" Camarena (vocals)... more
Reissue. Released in 2006, Imaginary Diseases compiles for the first time all live recordings from a very rare and undocumented Zappa band line-up. In 1972, after taking a 20-piece 'electric... more
Gail Zappa highlighted Frank’s battles over censorship with this release. You’ll hear Zappa’s complete addresses to the Senate Committee Hearings in ’85 and the Maryland State Legislature in ’86 plus... more
The fourth album in the "Joe’s Corsage" rarities series contains live 1975 performances from Williamsburg, Virginia. You’ll hear Norma Jean Bell on alto sax and vocals (she was only in Zappa’s... more
The first album on Vaulternative Records (the label created by the Zappa Family Trust focusing on finds made in the Zappa vault), this 2002 release is a nearly complete concert from Zappa’s second... more
First issued in conjunction with a 2010 birthday event at the Roundhouse in London, these recordings (which served as the basis for the "Sheik Yerbouti" album) present Zappa at the Hammersmith Odeon... more
One of the last projects completed by Frank before his death, this was the completion of a trilogy begun with "Lumpy Gravy" and "We’re Only in It for the Money." Realized mostly on the Synclavier and... more
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