Tag Archives: Frank Zappa

Hans Annellsson Recreates Zappa’s Unreleased Ballet

March 16, 2026

Frank Zappa‘s lore has its fare share of almost apocryphal artifacts, and one of those is “Sinister Footwear”: in the composer’s own words, it’s “a ballet about a guy who designs the ugliest shoe in the world and then all … Continue reading →

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Zappa’s “One Size” Gets Outsized For Half-Centennial Box Set

July 25, 2025

Back in the ’90s, it was financially difficult to follow Frank Zappa CD reissues that Ryko seemed to be churning out on a monthly basis, and recently history has been repeating in this regard, although with lesser frequency. Only in … Continue reading →

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Long-Abandoned Zappa Concert Ready For Audiovisual Release

February 3, 2025

It was a bit more than fifty years ago, on the evening of June 18th, 1974 that Frank Zappa decided to produce a TV special without getting ready for such a thing. He and THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION simply had … Continue reading →

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Zappa and THE MOTHERS’ All-Nighter To See The Light Of Day

April 22, 2024

In recent times following Frank Zappa‘s oeuvre has become both an exciting and expensive enterprise with his archival releases arriving rather frequently and appearing quite alluring. Yet while most of those focused, until now, on the great late artist’s solo … Continue reading →

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Napoleon Murphy Brock Brings Zappa Spirit To The Fore

February 12, 2024

Trying to grasp all the different strands that the alumni of Frank Zappa’s multiple ensembles embraced across their labyrinthine discographies seems nigh on impossible, but some of these players’ career resulted in not so many platters as one could assume. … Continue reading →

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