In the early Seventies, avant-garde blues master Captain Beefheart took a detour to record a couple of albums – The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot – dabbling in more mainstream styles. During this ...

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 ...

The music world is a little less surreal this week. Don Van Vliet, better known to fans as Captain Beefheart, died from complications tied to multiple sclerosis in California on Friday. He was 69 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like his high-school pal Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart is an acquired taste. This makes our list of Captain Beefheart Albums Ranked Worst to Best a tough one to navigate for traditional rock fans who ...