Captain Beefheart
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Captain Beefheart's Oddball Masterpiece 'Trout Mask Replica' Finally Comes to Streaming
Ahmet Zappa explains why one of the weirdest albums of all time has taken so long to hit streaming, and expounds on the record's shambolic legacy
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Why Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica' Still Sounds Like Tomorrow
The iconic album remains one of the ultimate tests of how far you are willing to go to give yourself up to music
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20 Best Reissues of 2014
The Beatles in mono, Led Zep's alternate takes, history's greatest bootleg and more of the year's best boxes rereleases and excavations
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Hear Captain Beefheart's Rare, Ragged Blues Rocker 'Little Scratch'
The 1972 outtake will appear on the bonus disc for upcoming 'Sun Zoom Spark' box set
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Captain Beefheart Rarities to Round Out Early Seventies Box Set
The four-disc collection 'Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972' is due out in the fall
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Inside the Dude's Stoner Soundtrack
What is Lebowski's musical legacy? A Bob Dylan rarity, some Creedence and an angry Glenn Frey
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Questlove: New D'Angelo Album Will Be 'A Radical 180 Turn'
'He's discovered Bowie and Zeppelin, the Beatles, Pet Sounds, Captain Beefheart and Zappa,' says Roots drummer
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Lost and Found Sounds by Captain Beefheart, Can and a Mother of Invention
Don Van Vliet – the late singer-composer-provocateur known as Captain Beefheart – was recovering from the deepest nadir of his musical life, two mid-Seventies albums of straight-line rock and sugar-rhyme ballads, when he hit another: the 36-year exile of his comeback shot, Bat Chain Puller (Vaulternative). Recorded in the spring of 1976 with a new […]
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Captain Beefheart Memories: A Birthday Celebration
Anton Corbijn, Gary Lucas and Denny Walley remember Don Van Vliet
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Ten Essential Captain Beefheart Songs
Tracks that mixed free-jazz with the blues, and influenced everyone from PJ Harvey to the Black Keys
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