David Yow

Girls Against Boys Extras: Leftover Quotes from GVSB's Scott McCloud

For last week's print edition of the Voice, I wrote about the return of NYC's Girls Against Boys--at one time perhaps the "It"-iest of all the '90s alt-rock underground It-bands--who are back after more than a decade of self-imposed exile. GVSB will release their excellent new Ghost List EP on Sept ... More >>

Girls Against Boys Version 2.0

A '90s underground It-Band makes peace

What's the Difference Between Tomahawk and Taylor Swift? Our Chat With Legendary Guitarist Duane Denison

Nearly six years after their last album, 2007's Anonymous, Tomahawk return this week with fourth offering Oddfellows: more phantasmagoric rock to weird you out and rev you up all at once. Tomahawk's cast of music luminaries--singer Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), guitarist Duane Denison (Th ... More >>

Download "Little Monster," Skeleton Key's First New Music In Seven Years

New York's clang-on-an-anything all-stars Skeleton Key have finally returned with their first new music in seven years. They spent the '90s as unlikely major-label signees and released the sawblade-bashing industrial quirk-pop masterpiece Obtanium in 2004. Their new independent hustle surrounding th ... More >>

Q&A: Velvet Condom's Nicolas Isner On Berlin, Inspirational Movies, And "Dead Mannequin Pop"

Urban decay. Bathroom graffiti. Steam hissing violently from manholes. Designer fetish gear; black-lit dungeons and black vinyl pants; Saturday Night Live outré mascot Stefon. The music of Berlin duo Velvet Condom—a fastidiously gesticulating grind of snapping synthesizer presets, gloomy guit ... More >>

Q & A: Scratch Acid's David Yow On Reunions, Nirvana And Book, The Jesus Lizard Coffee Table Book

Niles J. FullerScratch Acid in 1984. ​David Yow—the beer-swilling, crowd-surfing, lunging, occasionally dick-waving, shirtless, human sweat-mop frontman of post-punk iconoclasts the Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid—is quite the congenial dude, despite the juicy belches meted out in my ... More >>

Q&A: Ted Lee And Steve D'Agostino Of ZEBU! On Naked Shows, Germany, And The Brilliance Of Nick Nolte

​The ZEBU! song "Your Band Is Nothing"—from Hookers In Sweatpants (Feeding Tube, 2006)—is pretty hard to argue with. Guitar-slinger Steve D'Agostino pinches off mammoth riffs that somehow conflate hair metal, Molly Hatchet, bubblegum bliss, and peevish Peavy blare while scrappy sin ... More >>

Celebration

Tonight! The Jesus Lizard, Neko Case, And Kinky Friedman

Those of you not cool enough to attend the last upstate New York All Tomorrow's Parties jam or that Vice Halloween party clusterfuck have thus probably been denied the violent, visceral, vitriolic pleasures of the Jesus Lizard reunion, and this is no way to be, going through life without David Yow ... More >>

The Jesus Lizard

So You Go to That Vice 15th Anniversary/Halloween Party with Jesus Lizard and Bad Brains. . .

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneDavid Yow, Halloween saviour Jesus Lizard Bad Brains Empty warehouse, North 10th Street Saturday, October 31 So you go to the much-ballyhooed Vice Halloween Party, the 15th anniversary bash in Williamsburg that the lifestyle brand reportedly dropped $250,000 to throw. Y ... More >>

Restraining the Lizard

A (slightly) kinder, gentler, less naked David Yow resurfaces

Hugs and Kisses, The Outbursts of Everett True: Old Time Relijun

Live: LCD Soundsystem is Really That Good

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Get in the Ring

Someone should've kicked dance-punk DJ-producer-bandleader James Murphy's ass by now. No one can.

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