After playing guitar, lap steel and vocals with the legendary Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, appearing on the ground breaking album "Trout Mask Replica" (under the pseudonym Antennae Jimmy ...

London, UK: Don Van Vliet, (1941-2010) better known to his legions of fans as Captain Beefheart was one of the most enigmatic figures in rock music. Unashamedly an artist, rather than a pop star, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Guitarist Gary Lucas has worked with everyone from Jeff Buckley to Nick Cave to Leonard Bernstein throughout his music career. But there's one artist who stands out above all others: Don Van Vliet, ...

Meet Andy Sachs. A million girls would kill to have her job. She's not one of them. For two sisters from a family of witches, falling in love is the trickiest spell of all.

We here at Split Record Review hope the beginning of your semester is going well, but if it’s not, maybe listening to Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band will give you some energy to keep grinding, ...

One of Ahmet Zappa’s favorite memories of Captain Beefheart is the time he called the Zappa household to relate a particularly memorable dream. “The fucking greatest [call] that ever happened to me ...

Don Van Vliet, whose avant-garde rock-and-roll recordings and performances under the name Captain Beefheart in the 1960s and 1970s made him a cult favorite and a powerful influence on later ...

The magic is gone. An American original, the musician and painter Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, has died. He was 69. Melding swampy blues, herky jerky rhythms and an absurdist ...

Welcome to Band Jury, a SPIN series in which artists defend black sheep albums they feel deserve another listen. These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a ...