Captain Beefheart

When historians record his contributions to society, Will Sergeant is well aware that his role as a member of Echo & The Bunnymen will probably always be part of the headline. Read More

French authorities, still smarting from the riots of May 1968, forbid it and the festival, which was originally going to take place in or near Paris, was held just a few miles beyond the French border, in Amougies, Belgium. Read More

If there's one thing the Internet can't get enough of, it's a ratchet rumor. Read More

Don Van Vliet – the late singer-composer-provocateur known as Captain Beefheart – was recovering from the deepest nadir of his musical life, two mid-Seventies albums of straight-line rock and sugar-rhyme ballads, when he hit another: the 36-year exile of his comeback shot, Bat Chain Puller (Vaulternative). Read More

While Ken is out on his first "Life of Ray" celebration, his wife conducts the interview. Read More

Listening to The Shaggs is a litmus test for a certain type of music lover. Read More

He deejays in the Boiler Room. He lectures at Red Bull Music Academy (I was there). Read More

No, this is not the motto of Ripple Music, but the slogan that Frank Zappa used in 1968 to launch his record company Bizarre Records. Read More

Jess Rotter started her company Rotter and Friends in 2007 and has been making the coolest musician tee shirts ever since. Read More

The summer after my junior year of college was one of those dips in my life where I started feeling a reflexive boredom with music. Read More