Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s 1969 psych-rock freakout Trout Mask Replica is considered one of the greatest albums ever recorded. However, it’s also polarising, with its blend of jazz, blues, ...

Drawn together: Gary Lucas and Nona Hendryx channel Captain Beefheart on their new album. In 1965, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band released their first single on A&M records. The song was a ...

Big – 28 tunes in one hour and 20 minutes – Trout Mask was originally released as a double album. The album features the Magic Band's most legendary line-up: Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), Zoot ...

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, ...

Welcome to Band Jury, a SPIN series in which artists defend black sheep albums they feel deserve another listen. These are projects that, for whatever reason (middling sales, negative reviews, a ...