What We're Listening to This Week

Christeene, the Bad Lovers, and Churchwood in this week's worthwhile listens

"...ago, it was easy to pin the band as Captain Beefheart acolytes. Six albums in, however, and there's nothing..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Music Column by Genevieve Wood

Black Midi Opened for Themselves as Orange Tree Boys Then Laid Subversive Musical Siege Upon Levitation

UK prog/jazz/post-punk iconoclasts entertainingly break the mold

"...the weird worlds of iconoclasts like Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart, the London band almost casually breaks any mold..."

Oct. 30, 2021 Music Post by Michael Toland

The Sparks Brothers

Edgar Wright reveals the wonderful, mysterious Mael brothers

"...along. They were (and are) as effortlessly weird as Captain Beefheart, but with a pop sensibility that would make..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Poison 13, Meat Purveyors, and Churchwood Guitarist Bill Anderson Loads Out of Town

If not for Austin, “I don’t know if I would have been a musician at all”

"...In 2008, inspired by Captain Beefheart’s flipped-out blues, he and Doerr came together once..."

March 29, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Banned Leader: The Contradiction of Frank Zappa in Zappa

Alex Winter sees the combative side of a cultural maverick

"...anyone else had worked with just Tina Turner, or Captain Beefheart, or Alice Cooper, or drumming legend Aynsley Dunbar,..."

Jan. 6, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Zappa

Two hours with the original Mother of Invention isn't enough

"...alongside early compatriot Don Van Vliet, soon to become Captain Beefheart. Signed to Columbia Records by producer Tom Wilson..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Sound Unseen Review: Zappa

or "The Impossibility of a Primer About an Obtuse Genius"

"...alongside early compatriot Don Van Vliet, soon to become Captain Beefheart. Signed to Columbia Records by producer Tom Wilson..."

Nov. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Crack Pipes

"...broad stylistic sweep. As Colgan says, "Yes, I love Captain Beefheart, but I also love Louis Armstrong." Songwriting became..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Ex-Melvins Confederate Mark Deutrom Achieves Artistic Equilibrium

Longtime local learns The Value of Decay

"...in 1986 on Alchemy Records, co-founded by Deutrom with Captain Beefheart sideman Victor "The Mascara Snake" Hayden...."

June 22, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Quirk rock, turntable antics, local pop, and more to keep you busy

"...of the Baltimore-born guitarist and Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart. If you missed it, hearing six-string scion Dweezil..."

May 10, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Page Two: God Is Alive, Magic Afoot, and Music Everywhere

Egmont Street was where we discovered Risk, Quaaludes, phone phreaking – and some of the greatest albums ever made

"...San Quentin. Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. The Band. The Beatles' Abbey..."

June 23, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Secret Culturalist Dave Thomas

Pere Ubu/Rocket From the Tombs frontman tag teams ATX

"...to flatter myself, I’d say it’s the same way Captain Beefheart was influential. He was just so different, and..."

May 18, 2017 Music Post by Michael Toland

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...his stage persona taps the finer points of the Captain Beefheart/Tom Waits canon. The quintet's third album, 3: Trickgnosis,..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Out of the basement and under the tree!

"...Captain Beefheart & the Magic BandSun Zoom Spark: 1970 to..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Music Review by Luke Winkie

Song Premiere: Churchwood’s “Triptych”

Seventh son island soul drone

"...on the path of Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Captain Beefheart, but veers sideways into country, punk, and, in..."

Sept. 2, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Wheezing Spools: Cassettes in Electronic Music – Part II

A half-dozen tape bombardments that hardly toe the line

"...Frak might be considered the electro-acid equivalent of Captain Beefheart – soldered to a hall of mirrors under..."

July 23, 2014 Music Post by Conor Walker

Reservoir Dogs

Churchwood's Beefheart blues

"...He moves around the bins to Captain Beefheart and pulls out Mirror Man, recorded in 1967,..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Churchwood

"...comparison. Nevertheless, every time you throw this long-player on, Captain Beefheart smiles down on Austin...."

May 24, 2013 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

RTB2

"...to mesh Sixties R&B and heartland folk rock with Captain Beefheart-like twists, skewing left when you expect them to..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Music Review by Michael Toland

Lawless

Abundantly violent yet decidedly listless, there’s very little kick to this moonshining picture from director John Hillcoat and musician/screenwriter Nick Cave.

"...modern compositions by the likes of the Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, Townes Van Zandt, and Link Wray, backed by..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Saturday blurbs rally!

"...11pm, the Hideout This avant guitarist has played with Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley, and currently fronts NYC art-rockers..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature

Freak Out!: My Life With Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa's secretary made excellent use of her notepad

"...a variety of eccentrics and rock stars: Tiny Tim, Captain Beefheart, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, and members of Pink..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Tropical Hot Dog Panel

SXSW panels

"...It's accepted that the late Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, was a visionary in both the music and..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

sxswm: Gary Lucas' Bite

The guitar scholar scores in church, and talks Beefheart today

"...It was meditation. The acclaimed guitarist has worked with Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, and Lou Reed. He's an academic,..."

March 16, 2011 SXSW Post by Audra Schroeder

SXSW Tuesday Interview

"...10pm, Central Presbyterian Church Most notably as Captain Beefheart's Magic Band guitarist on latter-day LPs Ice Cream..."

March 11, 2011 Music Feature

Sturgeon's Revelation

On topic with South by Southwest Music panels

March 4, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sturgeon's Revelation

Beating the music business odds at SXSW

"...up like constellations. Known as poet and musical prankster Captain Beefheart, Van Vliet is the subject of this panel..."

March 4, 2011 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Page Two: Coming Down Fast

Barreling toward SXSW 2011

"...for that day at the Central Presbyterian Church, where Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, interviewed in our Music section..."

March 4, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: A Column Where First We Ramble

Then we let others blow our horn. And with SXSW 2011 only weeks away, there's lots of horn blowing still to come.

"...Dec. 17, as last year wound toward its end, Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) died. I was never a..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: Life as We Don't Know It

Our planet casts a shadow

"...The man who said "You!" was strangely familiar. Oh. Captain Beefheart...."

Jan. 14, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

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