In April 1974, Captain Beefheart released his eighth studio album, Unconditionally Guaranteed. It was not a happy time, and he would later describe the record – and its follow-up, Bluejeans & ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...