Tag: Butthole Surfers

Teresa Taylor, drummer for Butthole Surfers who appeared in film "Slacker," dies at 60

Teresa Taylor, drummer for Butthole Surfers who appeared in film “Slacker,” dies at 60

Teresa Taylor, who, as Teresa Nervosa, helped power experimental psych-rock maniacs Butthole Surfers through the 1980s as one of the band’s two drummers, has died.

Butthole Surfers' first 5 albums and more getting digital, physical reissues by Matador Records

Butthole Surfers’ first 5 albums and more getting digital, physical reissues by Matador Records

Matador Records today announced that the tastemaking independent label will now oversee the early catalog of the Butthole Surfers.

This week's new releases: Ramones' 'Road to Ruin' box set, Felt, Butthole Surfers, The Cult

This week’s new releases: Ramones’ ‘Road to Ruin’ box set, Felt, Butthole Surfers, The Cult

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s titles include a deluxe-edition box set from the Ramones and reissues from Felt, the Butthole Surfers and The Cult.

Stream this goldmine of '80s/'90s live tapes from Sonic Youth, The Fall, Hüsker Dü, Pixies and more

Stream this goldmine of ’80s/’90s live tapes from Sonic Youth, The Fall, Hüsker Dü, Pixies and more

If you, like us, are a sucker for those hissy, you-are-there live tapes recorded from the back of dingy rock clubs, drop everything you’re doing and behold The McKenzie Tapes, a site that’s been sharing live recordings made in the ’80s and ’90s of bands that performed at the famed Maxwell’s club in Hoboken, N.J,

The Butthole Surfers working on first new album since 2001's 'Weird Revolution'

The Butthole Surfers working on first new album since 2001’s ‘Weird Revolution’

Experimental psych-rock legends Butthole Surfers will return to the studio to record their ninth album and first in 16 years — news that broke last week at, of all places, a meeting of the Austin, Texas, City Council’s music advisory commission, according to the Austin Chronicle.

Publisher launches Kickstarter to get Butthole Surfers bio 'Scatological Alchemy' into print

Publisher launches Kickstarter to get Butthole Surfers bio ‘Scatological Alchemy’ into print

A small British publishing house is turning to fans via a new Kickstarter campaign to raise the remaining funds needed to publish “Scatological Alchemy: A Gnostic Biography of the Butthole Surfers,” a new book by Ben Graham about the legendary Texas psychedelic rockers. The book is due out later this summer.

Butthole Surfers' 'Independent Worm Saloon' to receive 180-gram vinyl reissue

Butthole Surfers’ ‘Independent Worm Saloon’ to receive 180-gram vinyl reissue

The 1993 major-label debut from psychedelic experimental rockers Butthole Surfers — Independent Worm Saloon, produced by Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, and featuring the single “Who Was In My Room Last Night?” — will be reissued this fall on 180-gram vinyl by Plain Recordings.