Captain Beefheart’s 1969 masterpiece set an unmatched standard for avant-rock. ... At that point, his group the Magic Band were a mostly democratic collective, ...

Heart's Nancy Wilson went wild for her rock band's big "Crazy on You" moment in "Captain Marvel," noting that the pioneer rockers earned their place in the Marvel's superheroine spotlight.. The ...

Captain Beefheart Dies at 69. ... Captain Beefheart performs live on stage with The Magic Band at The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on April 08 1972. L-R Elliot Ingbar (Winged Eel Fingerling) guitar, ...

Gallery: Art by Captain Beefheart and other musicians. Van Vliet teamed up with Ry Cooder for Captain Beefheart’s first LP, Safe as Milk, but the disc attracted few fans outside of a small cult ...

In 1966, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band signed with A&M records and scored a regional hit with a cover of Willie Dixon's "Diddy Wah Diddy." Pretty soon, Van Vliet was writing original ...

Andy Partridge (Photo credit: Kevin Nixon) The Defended: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s 1968 album, Strictly Personal Overview: A contemporary Rolling Stone review proclaims that grooves ...

Felix Haug, half of the band Double that had a worldwide hit with the song "The Captain of Her Heart" in the 1980s, died Saturday of a heart attack, the Associated Press reported out of Zurich ...