'Trout Mask Replica' is the most Beefheartian album that the singer himself, Don Van Vliet, ever made. - Credit: Ed Caraeff/Getty Images Released 50 years ago, on June 16th, 1969, Trout Mask Replica — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big – 28 tunes in one hour and 20 minutes – Trout Mask was originally released as a double album. The album features the Magic ...

“No Instruction Sheet": Trout Mask Replica's Unfathomable Origin Story If you were a teenager who liked freaky stuff, on a June day in 1969 you could bicycle down to your local record store and buy a ...

We here at Split Record Review hope the beginning of your semester is going well, but if it’s not, maybe listening to Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band will give you some energy to keep grinding, ...

Musician and artist Don Van Vliet, who performed a complex brand of experimental rock under the name Captain Beefheart, died Friday. He was 69. The Michael Werner Gallery in New York confirmed Van ...

From DJ and KCRW Music Librarian Eric J Lawrence: We learned today of the passing of rock icon and acclaimed painter Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart at the age of 69, due to complications from ...

The Dream Syndicate on Beefheart: Dennis Duck, drummer with Paisley Underground pioneers the Dream Syndicate, told us about his love for a Captain Beefheart classic. Dennis Duck: So…this begins with a ...

Captain Beefheart never achieved the status of household name. Most who have never heard of him very likely never heard his music. And many who did get a dose of the Captain and his Magic Band didn't ...

Dense as a rainforest, sometimes grating, and often hard to grasp, Captain Beefheart's best-known album, Trout Mask Replica, is the poster boy of late-Sixties avant-garde rock. And rightfully so. No ...