Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Trout Mask Replica' is the most Beefheartian album that the singer himself, Don Van Vliet, ever made. - Credit: Ed Caraeff/Getty ...

Captain Beefheart's second album is a definite product of its time, filled with backward sound effects, super-deep phasing and, like friend Frank Zappa's records from the '60s, skewering references to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More importantly, in the immediate wake of the album's release, the Captain was fired by his long-term backing musicians, The ...

Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, who has died aged 69 of complications from multiple sclerosis, was one of the most influential American musicians of the 1960s and 1970s. His status ...

Even with a handful of numbers pulled from the original Bat Chain Puller-- the 1976 album funded by manager Herb Cohen from Zappa's royalty checks without Zappa's knowledge, that remained unreleased ...

Don Van Vliet, better-known as Captain Beefheart, one of the most influential American musicians of the 1960s and 1970s and avant garde frontman of the Magic Band, has died in California, aged 69. A ...

On a vacation road trip about 6 years ago, I took along at least 24 CDs that I felt no one would actively dislike (this was before each family member had their own IPod). We were about three hours ...

Captain Beefheart’s 1969 masterpiece set an unmatched standard for avant-rock. This new reissue from Third Man puts it back in print on vinyl. To gain the control he needed to express his vision, ...

Complications related to multiple sclerosis claimed the life of the musician and visual artist, who was an influence on Tom Waits, the White Stripes and 'Simpsons' creator Matt Groening. By Mitch ...

For the 1½ decades that he spent as a recording artist, Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) was avant-rock's most iconoclastic figure. He fused surrealism with situationist thought, infuriating many ...

"Enigmatic" and "idiosyncratic" are the default adjectives often used to define performers who fail to engage with the mainstream, but they do describe the American singer and composer Captain ...

Musician and painter Captain Beefheart, the cavern-voiced singer, songwriter, harp player and saxophonist whose Magic Band became a key influence on rock avant gardists of all stripes, died Friday ...