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 ...

When Frank Zappa, shall we say, “punctuated” the '70s with his Apostrophe (‘) album, it was, amazingly, already his eighteenth studio or live release over a span not quite as long as a decade. Any way ...

The post Dweezil Zappa Announces 2024 Tour Dates Honoring Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere and Apostrophe appeared first on Consequence. Kicking off on August 1st in Phoenix, the dates — dubbed the “Rox ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ZAPPA FAMILY TRUST presents more freshly remastered music with the 40 th Anniversary Edition of Frank Zappa’s Apostrophe(’) on audiophile quality 180-gram vinyl. Cut ...

Dweezil Zappa is headed to Phoenix to launch a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of two career-defining albums that took his legendary father’s music to a wider mainstream audience than acts as ...

When it comes to CD and vinyl box sets, when is too much simply too much? In a word, never. How else to explain this year’s release of such massive sets as Bob Dylan and The Band’s “The 1974 Live ...

He works in mysterious ways.

When it comes to musical iconoclasts, the late Frank Zappa left behind quite the creative legacy despite only living to the age of 52 before succumbing to prostate cancer in 1993. Three-plus decades ...

Alex Winter does not claim to be a fanatic when it comes to the music of Frank Zappa. So why did the Bill & Ted franchise star-turned-director decide to detail the life and career of the music icon in ...

Punctuation isn’t something I spend much time thinking about, even though I make a living, in part, by writing and checking over what other people write. It’s not to say I don’t understand punctuation ...