Questlove has been given the job of molding Blue Ivy Carter’s musical taste. He revealed that he will be making a nursery friendly iPod especially for Blue, a promise he made in a magazine article several months ago. He said: “He’s (Jay) absolutely elate

Using Captain Beefheart's criterion, the classic rockers who performed on the Grammy Awards telecast this week (2/5) definitely "ain't too old!" According to a poll by the Grammy folks, more than half of the people who watched the awards were there becau

When Don Van Vliet died in December 2010 of complications from multiple sclerosis, he left behind one of the most fascinating bodies of work in American pop music. Recording as Captain Beefheart, he twisted and reshaped American blues into the strangest

WABX TV Studio 'Detroit Tube Works' January 15, 1971 1. When Big Joan Sets Up (0:00) 2. Hair Pie Bass Solo (6:23) 3. Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (6:42) 4. Flash Gordon's Ape Marimba Solo (8:48) 5. Bellerin Plain (9:11) 6. Instrumental for Foot and Fingers (13:00) M

Josh Tillman has been writing, recording and releasing albums for a decade now. Like Captain Beefheart and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy before him, it was announced last month that future Tillman output would be released under the guise of Father John Misty. A

The Persuasions When: 7:30 Thursday, Feb. 9 Where: Anthology, 1337 India Street, downtown Tickets: $10-$44 Phone: (619) 595-0300 Online: anthologysd.com Former Mission Bay High School student Frank Zappa was an astute judge of musical potential, as his m

MONTREAL - You think it’s a piece of cake to do an interview with the Jimmyriggers? How easy do you imagine it might be to extract a band history from its two songwriters when stories about their Captain Beefheart-themed barbecue (Tropical Hot Dog Night,

Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley Buckwheat" Dural Jr.along with his band, Buckwheat Zydecois the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform at The New Hope Winery in New Hope on Thursday, March 1, 2

On Monday Original Captain Beefheart Bat Chain Puller Album Coming From Zappa Family Trust was a top story. Here is the recap: MSO sent over word that The Zappa Family Trust is making the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller available in

When Jade Dellinger was an undergrad at USF in the 1980s, no one told him that he shouldnt write to famous artists and expect replies. So its only in retrospect that Dellinger is surprised that he regularly received them. Among those who wrote back was J

“Love it is an apple core, before the fruit was beautiful, now it is a circle, life and death a circle, the circle is a cadence,” Jonathan Wilson maintains on the languid hippie anthem “Gentle Spirit”. You dig? He digs us. He tells us so. Wilson, his hai

01/30/2012. MSO sent over word that The Zappa Family Trust is making the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller available in its original format for the first time ever. Recording for the album began in 1976 and was completed but was never

RELEASE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW; SHIPPING PLANNED FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13 The Zappa Family Trust is for the first time ever making the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller available in its original format. Recording for the album began

RELEASE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW; SHIPPING PLANNED FOR WEEK OF FEBRUARY 13 The Zappa Family Trust is for the first time ever making the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller available in its original format. Recording for the album began

Jonathan Ward’s music room in his second-floor walk-up is a tight, comfortable space with three walls full of records and itsy speakers hung high on the walls in acoustically precise intervals. The 39-year-old writer, archivist, collector and, perhaps mo

It’s not that the enigmatic frontman of the Flaming Lips doesn’t have anything interesting to say, but rather the opposite. Ideas come quickly, like an enthusiastic machine gun. There are many reasons why so many people love the Flaming Lips—their unhing

The abrupt curtailment of their career by Jim Morrison's death at the age of 27 both bestowed a certain dark cachet upon The Doors, and also prevented them from embarking upon the long, slow decline into which most of their peers subsequently sank. Ignor

So Michel Choquette’s The Someday Funnies now joins Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Part 2, Brian Wilson’s Smile, Harvey Kurtzman’s From Arrgh to Zap, and a complete version of Metropolis on the list of Things That Have Come Out Before

'Ihave to be careful,” whispers Noel Fielding conspiratorially, when we meet in a Shoreditch café on a cold December morning to talk about his latest, much-anticipated television venture. “Because, a bit like a child, I have no problem with going anywher