Topic: Captain Beefheart

In praise of creative critical tension

Das Racist challenged Sasha Frere Jones's assertion that hip-hop is dead by writing a sequence of sonnets. Photograph: Roger Kisby/Getty Images...

Gonjasufi - 'MU.ZZ.LE'

NME Reviews Next Album Review Previous Track Review January 20, 2012. Gonjasufi - 'MU. ZZ.LE' . Psychedelia of the 'inky gloom' variety. More...
Now that those New Year's hangovers (and subsequent existential chills and sniffles) are starting to heal, it's time to turn 2012 from a potential...

Ry Cooder takes big band on road to S.F.

0 View Larger Image . Ry Cooder's career has spanned five decades with the only stylistic constant being exploration and change. . . He came to...
By Dave Bidini. . The '80s were my time and, for a while, they were great. In the beginning, nerds and neurotics were in ascension and science kids...

Avant-garde rocker 'Captain Beefheart' dead at 69

Don Van Vliet, an avant-garde rocker who performed under the name "Captain Beefheart" and whose artistic influence dwarfed his popular appeal, has died at the age of 69.Van Vliet died early Friday in northern California following a long battle with multiple ...
Don Van Vliet, artist and rock musician who recorded as Captain Beefheart, is dead at 69Musician and artist Don Van Vliet, who performed a complex brand of experimental rock under the name Captain Beefheart, has died. He was 69.The Michael Werner ...

Captain Beefheart

Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.Widely hailed as Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, the album contains 28 tracks of frenzied blues. Mojo listed it as the 28th Greatest Album Ever Made and critic Alan Cross ranked it #2 on ...
The interesting thing about it is although I may have been very disappointed with them as people I still continued to be just as much a fan of their Two examples are Captain Beefheart and Marc of Tyrannosaurus Rex and T Rex ...

I once met Captain Beefheart

I had been a big fan of the weird songs and image of Captain Beefheart since I first heard him on the late great John Peel's Top Gear show on BBC R1. "One of my favourite rock bands, the Edgar Broughton ...