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

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 ...

Experimental rock icons Bill Orcutt, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller joined forces last year for a power trio record as ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...