A long-lost Captain Beefheart album is to finally be released, on what would have been Don Van Vliet's 71st birthday. Bat Chain Puller was recorded in 1976 but shelved later that year, due to a ...

This past Saturday (December 17) was the one-year anniversary of the death of Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet), and to mark the occasion, it's been revealed that the bluesy, art rock Dadaist's ...

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 in 1976 and was ...

Kurt Loder, MTV Week In Rock news anchor and proud possessor of one of the best made-for-TV sneers in existence, has a book, “Bat Chain Puller — Rock ‘N’ Roll In The Age Of Celebrity” (St. Martin’s; ...

The widely bootlegged Captain Beefheart album, Bat Chain Puller, will finally get an official release in January. Mike Barnes, who wrote a biography on Beefheart, told the site The Wire "The tape is ...

The Zappa Family Trust has announced that it will release the original recording of the legendary Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller in its original format. The recordings took place in 1976 but ...