A new Captain Beefheart box set will focus on three records the avant-garde blues singer put out after warping minds with his landmark 1969 LP Trout Mask Replica. The upcoming four-disc set, Sun Zoom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Trout Mask Replica' is the most Beefheartian album that the singer himself, Don Van Vliet, ever made. - Credit: Ed Caraeff/Getty ...

Trout Mask Replica is one of the weirdest and wildest albums ever to be released. Landing on record store shelves on June 16, 1969, Captain Beefheart's masterpiece amazed, confused, irritated and ...

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 ...

In their lifetimes, Frank Zappaand Captain Beefheartwere unlike any other in their eccentric approaches to rock and roll. These two parallel geniuses—high school friends!—worked together sparingly in ...

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's 1969 classic "Trout Mask Replica" is getting reissued in a new deluxe package by Third Man Records. By Rob Arcand Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s 1969 ...

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 ...