Previously unseen footage of the legendary Captain Beefheart performing in Paris has been posted online. The footage, which was shot at the famed Bataclan nightclub on April 15, 1972, on the European ...

Available now via Zappa Records/UMe, Bongo Fury (50th Anniversary Edition) shines a spotlight on Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s creative partnership that peaked in 1975 with their joint album, ...

The Bongo Fury spotlight is shared throughout, with much of the album driven by Zappa and the Mothers. George Duke and ...

A Live Concert Celebration of Captain Beefheart's Safe as Milk with a special second set of deep cuts and classic tracks from his later records.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In their lifetimes, Frank Zappaand Captain Beefheartwere unlike any other in their eccentric approaches to rock and roll. These ...

This weekend in Berkeley, “Hardly Strictly Personal–A Celebration of Post Beefheart Art,” brings together dozens of artists from the experimental community to play music influenced by the ...

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 ...

A collection of televised performances by the prolific musician, including appearances on Saturday Night Live and Late Night With David Letterman. The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without ...

Recently, one of our favorite YouTubers, BobSeger1981, posted two short audio clips, radio station bumper IDs recorded for Lansing’s WKAR for Dick Rosemont’s “Audio Aftermath” show on April 17, 1974 ...

Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica is finally available to stream in 24-bit hi-res from the folks at Qobuz. Frank would be proud. You can read more about the iconic album’s legacy, and how such an ...

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 ...