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 ...

“If you want to be a different fish, you’ve got to jump out of the school”—Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet, better known by his stage name “Captain Beefheart,” died on December 17, 2010 from medical ...

Complications related to multiple sclerosis claimed the life of the musician and visual artist, who was an influence on Tom Waits, the White Stripes and 'Simpsons' creator Matt Groening. By Mitch ...

During his career, Don Van Vliet amassed a list of idiosyncrasies—chief among them anointing himself Captain Beefheart. Beginning with a musical imagination that was strange even for the 1960s, ...

Don Van Vliet, a maverick musician who emerged from the Southern California desert with the name Captain Beefheart and a singular and influential form of avant-garde rock in the 1960s, died Friday. He ...

Musician and artist Don Van Vliet, better known as experimental rock pioneer Captain Beefheart, has died. Musician and artist Don Van Vliet, better known as experimental rock pioneer Captain Beefheart ...

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 ...

PJ Harvey paid tribute to one of her biggest influences, Captain Beefheart, by reading some of his poetry at a London art gallery a couple of weeks ago. The singer posted a video from the event to her ...

Don Van Vliet, who became a rock legend as Captain Beefheart, died today (12/17) from complications from multiple sclerosis in California. His passing was announced by the New York-based Michael ...

Don Van Vliet, better known as pioneering blues and rock musician Captain Beefheart, has died in California from complications of multiple sclerosis at age 69, a representative for the artist said on ...

Noted singer PJ Harvey recently recited a poem written by the late avant-garde rock musician Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet, about her cat, reports Stereogum. Titled “Man Can’t Anticipate Cat,” ...