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 ...

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 ...

Bongo Fury, the 1975 partly live album recorded by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, will celebrate a belated 50th anniversary in March with a new five-CD, one-Blu-ray box set. The upcoming ...

The film begins with his mother tenderly carrying a cardboard cut-out of a black-and-white photograph of him by his friend Anton. She walked slowly across a patch of the American desert near where Don ...

In Mike Barnes’ biography of Don Van Vliet, the man more famously known as Captain Beefheart, he quotes Vliet on his own birth: “I was born with my eyes open—I didn’t WANT to be born—I can remember ...