Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart’s 1975 ‘Bongo Fury’ collaborative album gets a 50th anniversary reissue. It's set for a ...

Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart's album "Bongo Fury" celebrates its 50th anniversary with a lavish box set, featuring unreleased tracks and live recordings from Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters ...

Announced on Jan. 27, Zappa Records (in partnership with UMe) will release a special Super Deluxe edition boxed set of Bongo ...

Noted singer PJ Harvey recently recited a poem written by the late avant-garde rock musician Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet, about her cat, reports Stereogum. Titled “Man Can’t Anticipate Cat,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although I didn’t recognise anyone I heard that some Beatles and Stones were in the audience. When the show started it was quite ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one’s ever accused Captain Beefheart of being easy to swallow. From 1967’s Safe As Milk to 1982’s Ice Cream For Crow, the late avant-rock icon’s catalog draws on everything from the discordant ...

Don Van Vliet – the iconic experimental musician known as Captain Beefheart – died today due to complications from multiple sclerosis at a hospital in Northern California, according to reports. He was ...

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 ...