TEXAS MONTHLY: It’s the Summer of Butthole Surfers. Even They Aren’t Sure Why.
SOURCE By Dan Solomon July 21, 2026 Austin’s Butthole Surfers weren’t just iconic, they were iconoclastic. There were the unhinged live shows—not so much concerts as performance art, in which front man Gibby Haynes would strip to his underwear, or fire a shotgun, or set a cymbal on fire, or hide condoms filled with fake blood under his […]
Butthole Surfers
In 1998, when BUTTHOLE SURFERS followed up their 1996 mainstream breakthrough Electric Larryland with their next record entitled AFTER THE ASTRONAUT, the major label they were signed to at the time pulled it from their release schedule at the last minute. Their reasoning? They wanted a more “commercial” record. Had that label known Butthole Surfers’ oeuvre better, they probably shouldn’t […]