Trout Mask Replica is one of the weirdest and wildest albums ever to be released. Landing on record store shelves on June 16, 1969, Captain Beefheart's masterpiece amazed, confused, irritated and ...

Lonesome, Onry and Mean likes us some Beans Barton and the Bi-Peds. Loves us some. No act in town comes close to the joyous pandemonium of one of the Bi-Peds’ performance-art sets at Dan Electro’s ...

The music world is a little less surreal this week. Don Van Vliet, better known to fans as Captain Beefheart, died from complications tied to multiple sclerosis in California on Friday. He was 69 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big – 28 tunes in one hour and 20 minutes – Trout Mask was originally released as a double album. The album features the Magic ...

But many more still knew him as Captain Beefheart (read theartsdesk's obituary), revered for the matchless innovations he and his Magic Band offered rock with Trout Mask Replica in 1969, and the ...

His masterpiece was Trout Mask Replica, the third album from Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, which was released in 1969. A work that defies easy categorisation, its 28 sprawling tracks retain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The XTC co-founder is armed with tools: an array of web links (a photo of John Lennon sitting in front of some Beefheart stickers) ...

As the new century picks up speed, Don Van Vliet -- a.k.a. Captain Beefheart -- seems like an artist ready for critical reassessment, as Mike Barnes' biography of him would suggest. One of the most ...

For every universally celebrated song, known to all and played to death by radio stations everywhere, there are countless hidden gems -- album cuts that, for reasons unclear, somehow missed their ...

A ‘lost’ album by cult experimental musician Captain Beefheart will be released on January 15, 2012. The album, ‘Bat Chain Puller’, dates from 1976 and was shelved after producer Frank Zappa – ...

The following piece, "Captain's Orders," is an excerpt from the Mitch Myers book, The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling. The rock critic sat in the dining room of his ...

Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, began experimenting with eccentric rock’n'roll sounds in the mid-1960s. His first two releases ...