Butthole Surfers

Kurt Vile, Marnie Stern More Confirmed to Play 4Knots Music Festival

The lineup for this year's 4Knots Music Festival--the Village Voice's free, all-day outdoor summer music extravaganza at the South Street Seaport (Pier 17) on June 29--is beginning to take shape. We've just booked a few big-name acts we're completely thrilled about.

Eight Artists Who, Like Roky Erickson, Have Struggled With Mental Illness

It seemed something like a miracle back in 2005 when psychedelic-rock pioneer Roky Erickson -- who plays Bell House in Brooklyn tonight -- took the stage at the Austin, Texas eatery Threadgill's, returning from decades of crippling mental illness and a hermit-like existence that had him pegged as Am ... More >>

Damien Jurado Will Take Your Breakfast Food Related Question Now

Earlier this year, Seattle's Damien Jurado issued his tenth full-length album, Maraqopa, continuing his evolution from spectral, introspective folk whisperer to bold, ambitious, genre-splicing troubadour. It's his second album -- following 2010's Saint Bartlett -- helmed by fellow musician/bard Rich ... More >>

Live: The Summerland Tour Lets A Decades-Old Sun Shine In At Roseland

Summerland Tour: Everclear, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Lit, Marcy Playground Roseland Ballroom Wednesday, July 18 Better than: Watching Empire Records on basic cable. We make the "remember the '90s" joke around these parts a fair amount, but this week the alt-rock strain of that decade has been stu ... More >>

Jonathan Toubin, Comeback Kid

Getting back to the business of making people dance

Download: K-Holes' Self-Loathing, Super-Distorted "Rats"

As we reported about this time last year, K-Holes are "a sleazy, late-night group grope... all stumbling tom-toms, orgiastic screams and porn-stache saxophone wail"—and this sleazy dry-hump only ripens with age. Moving from garage staple HoZac up to Sub Pop-affiliated poptimists Hardly Art for ... More >>

Black Dice Slice and Dice Pop on Mr. Impossible

Riff & roll

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jon Spencer, And More To Play At Jonathan Toubin Benefit Concert This Friday

​As you have presumably by now heard, New York Night Train host and DJ Jonathan Toubin was injured last week when a car crashed into his Portland hotel room. On Friday, Brooklyn Bowl will host a benefit concert for Toubin with performanes by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jon Spencer's Heavy Trash, Tunde Ad ... More >>

Download: K-Holes' Lumbering, Lurching "Native Tongues"

​A demented mish-mash of local nogoodniks (members come from Bezoar, Georgiana Starlington and YIMBY alumni Golden Triangle), K-Holes is a sleazy, late-night group grope--touchstones include the most lascivious points of Birthday Party, Lubricated Goat, early Butthole Surfers or the recently r ... More >>

Q&A: Ted Leo, Dan Deacon And Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner On Our Band Could Be Your Life, Bus Tours And Cherished Cassettes

Ted Leo; Dan Deacon; Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak.​Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life is one of the definite accounts of the 1980's independent rock scene and the rise of alternative culture. But unlike many cultural historians, Azerrad has little use for nostalgia. When the Voice talked ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #11: How Many Members Of Butthole Surfers Can You Name?

Woe betide anyone who actually bought this record​For weeks, scared rock journos could avoid participating in this important "Are You Smarter Than a Rock Critic?" pop-quiz shame exercise by blocking our AIM name or not picking up their cell phones. But this week is SXSW! The yearly blowout whe ... More >>

Mark Flood, Judith Linhares, and Others Who Don't Need Your Darn Network

The badass and the 30-year hallucination

The Golden Age of NYC Public-Access TV at MOMI

Week in Review: Where For Art Thou, Masta Killa?

Ariel Pink says hi. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we found out exactly how many professional music critics can actually name all nine members of the Wu-Tang Clan (the results may surprise and depress you!), we also found ourselves accusing Kanye West of maybe ripping off a Dr. Dog video ... More >>

Live: The Butthole Surfers Ring In The New Year With Balloons, Strobes, Violence, And Possible Digital-Genital Contact At MHOW

​Butthole Surfers Music Hall of Williamsburg Friday, December 31, 2010 Better Than: Sharing a flask of warm champagne and a handful of stale gorp at the Phish show. Upon getting jostled and stage-squished for about the seventh time, my friend turns to me and says, "After midnight, everyone ... More >>

Ariel Pink, Titus Andronicus, the Butthole Surfers, Drive-By Truckers, and More Headline Your New York City New Year's Eve

​New Year's Eve is next Friday, which means you probably already missed out on Patti Smith tickets. Wait much longer and there won't be much left to choose from. So, in the interests of being servicey, and in honor of the news that 2010's Most Important Singles Artist, Ariel Pink, will be in a ... More >>

New Year's Eve: Live Music

Sounds for the masses

Your New Year's Eve Survival Guide

The Comedy Stylings Of Gibby Haynes: "The Plastic Was Black, So Haynes Described It As His 'Negro Baby Doll Leg'"

​So the gleeful journalism-destroyers over at the sports blog Deadspin have declared this Deadspin Music Week, and included a delightful tale of irascible Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes' inspired performance last month during a comedy show at the Bell House. Invited as a surprise guest ... More >>

Alex Chilton Tribute Roundup: The Rockers, The Critics, The Congressmen

With apologies to our own Rob Trucks, you ain't gettin' more surreal in terms of Alex Chilton tributes today than the above brief speech from Steve Cohen -- make that Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee. He quotes from "The Letter" and everything. Very sweet, very bizarre. But of course he's not ... More >>

A Week in the Life of Dinosaur Jr.'s Tour Manager

​Those unclear on what tour managers are for exactly might consider reading Interpol/Moldy Peaches/Yo La Tengo road wrangler David Scheid's testimonial to the New York Times about what he does all day, which basically consists of flying various places on planes. One particularly brutal itinera ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download Woman's "When the Wheel's Red"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Woman. Photo by Carsten Fleck​Brooklyn feedback abusers Woman have a sound as bleak as the day is long--the muddy pigfuck lurch of their friends and YIMBY alumni Pop. 1280 mixed with the baroque cham ... More >>

Dark Meat+Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt (CMJ)

Best of NYC: Brooklyn Rocks!

We shouldn't have to tell you this, but we'll try

CRAZY LOVE

The eccentric Daniel Johnston returns

Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Pop Songs

Alternative link here. ​The answer to the third of the three questions in yesterday's teaser quiz was The Newbeats, whose song "Bread and Butter" easily made it onto either the 10 Best or Runners-Up lists, but which one? Listen to this Youtube clip and see if can figure out in which position ... More >>

Ed Schrader

Long Lost Fortress of Solitude Mix CDs Found, Replicated

The Millions posts listenable soundtracks (via Pandora radio) to three books: Legs McNeil'sPlease Kill Me (MC5, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Ramones, Sex Pistols), Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life (Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Husker Du, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfer ... More >>

Touch & Go's Downsizing: Revisiting the Great Butthole Surfers Debacle

Today's announcement that Chicago's Touch & Go Records is radically, traumatically downsizing has major implications for indie labels in general: Owner Corey Rusk's official statement, as reported in the Chicago Tribune, lists the labels for whom it will no longer be able to provide manufacturing ... More >>

Gibby, Gibby, Hey! -- Pix from Asmak Taama

My review this week is of a new Egyptian seafood spot in Bay Ridge, Asmak Taama, which brings the tally to three such places in the immediate vicinity. The best appetizer was an engaging dish of fried eggplant poached in tomato sauce with hot green chiles: Here are Butthole Surfers front ... More >>

In Praise of Chunklet

Hailing the most affectionately insulting 'zine in music history

Back to School With the Butthole Surfers

They're collaborating with teenagers now. Terrible idea. Wonderful idea.

Hugs and Kisses 49.5: Tenniscoats' Totemo Aimasho

Horoscope

A Momentary Lapse of Wi-Fi

Folk-transfixed Brooklynites try actual rural living

The Death and Possible Rebirth of Alt-Rock Radio

Cosmic Surfin'

Nonsensical Japanese noise legends get sunbaked, go up in incense smoke at the beach

Mapquest

Three-woman desert session mines metal's shifting sands

Eat This

Hungry art-rapper from England serves himself up like the totally different animal he is

Music

Outside Lines

Chicago no wavers melt down indigo and violet crayons

Uncontrollable Urges

Orajel of the Species

Dookie from Dubuque

The Anti-Bling Kings

Getting Their Hands Dirty

Michael Azerrad Chronicles Indie Rock His Way

This Is Your Rock on Drugs

This Ain't No Disco

Rephlex Records Knocks Techno Off Its High Horse

Lifting Up the Sun