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 ...

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) ...

It's easy to write off Mirror Man since the band ultimately discarded it. Drummer John "Drumbo" French expressed a similar view in a 2014 interview, calling the album "a rush job with poor production" ...

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 ...

The trout mask slips: Captain Beefheart’s commercial ambitions revealed... One of the best things you can do on the Internet is a YouTube search for “Beefheart” and “German TV”. Your results will ...

The music of Don Van Vliet, who was more infamously known as Captain Beefheart, will be remembered when original members of The Magic Band, 'Drumbo' John French and 'Rocket Morton', delve back into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virtually unique in terms of vision, and certainly unique in terms of sound, Captain Beefheart sprung from the same neo-psychedelic California scene that produced Frank Zappa. Unlike his high-school ...

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 ...