captain beefheart Archive
05 Aug 2014
Album Review: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band — Live From Harpo’s 1980
The late Captain Beefheart is one of those rare creatures. The casual music fan is unfamiliar with his name; a subset of those who know of him have actually heard […]
08 Jan 2014
Book Review: Lunar Notes
Lunar Notes is not a Great Book, nor do the requisite few hours spent with it reveal anything that suggests the author’s intention that it be so. What it is […]
14 Aug 2012
DVD Review: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – The Lost Broadcasts
My music-loving friends (a redundant phrase, that) and I occasionally indulge in an old joke: whenever the subject of certain musical acts come up, one of us will mention how […]
03 Feb 2012
DVD Review: From Straight to Bizarre
A new DVD from Sexy Intellectual – the outfit responsible for informative and incisive docu-DVDs on Brian Eno and many other influential figures in music – takes an in-depth look […]