Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band was an American rock band led by singer-songwriter Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart. The band’s music was highly experimental and drew on a wide ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's 1969 psych-rock freakout Trout Mask Replica is considered one of the greatest albums ever ...

Drawn together: Gary Lucas and Nona Hendryx channel Captain Beefheart on their new album. In 1965, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band released their first single on A&M records. The song was a ...

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 ...

Don Van Vliet, who recorded under the name Captain Beefheart, died on Friday, at the age of 69. I'm sure a lot of people who heard the news were only vaguely aware of him as an influential, ...

Each week we pay homage to a select “Original Creator”—an iconic artist from days gone by whose work influences and informs today’s creators. These are artists who were innovative and revolutionary in ...

In 1970, Warner Bros. Records had an unusual philosophy: they'd sign artists and, instead of wanting a hit single immediately, they'd develop them... No Hits, No Problem: Captain Beefheart's Major ...

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s 1969 psych-rock freakout Trout Mask Replica is considered one of the greatest albums ever recorded. However, it’s also polarising, with its blend of jazz, blues, ...