'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 — ...

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 ...

Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica is finally available to stream in 24-bit hi-res from the folks at Qobuz. Frank would be proud. You can read more about the iconic album’s legacy, and how such an ...

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, ...

One of Ahmet Zappa’s favorite memories of Captain Beefheart is the time he called the Zappa household to relate a particularly memorable dream. “The fucking greatest [call] that ever happened to me ...