Butthole Surfers
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How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun
By Paul Brannigan published
Eye-popping and wildly entertaining oral history of Perry Farrell's groundbreaking travelling circus (and freak show)

Why Butthole Surfers felt they needed a shotgun onstage at Lollapalooza '91
By Paul Brannigan published
There's never a dull moment when Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes is around

When Butthole Surfers met one quarter of Led Zeppelin
By Paul Brannigan published
“I was expecting someone with mutton-chop sideburns and bellbottoms.” Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary on Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones

"We made a living off being stupid. I don't know if there's a legacy to be taken from that": there will never, ever be another band like the Butthole Surfers. And maybe that's for the best
By Everett True published
The myths, madness, magic and mayhem of Butthole Surfers, the world's most dangerous, lucky-to-be-alive art-rock weirdos

"I don’t want to be sending a bandmate home in a body bag": why unhinged Texan noise-rock legends Butthole Surfers won't be reuniting, despite "six-figure offers" for live shows
By Paul Brannigan published
Relax everyone, Texan art-noise terrorists Butthole Surfers are going to stay on hiatus

The early work of the Butthole Surfers: grotesque, distended, acid-fried, phlegm-powered, hallucinatory and brilliant
By Fraser Lewry published
The first three albums from Texan weirdos the Butthole Surfers have been remastered so that a whole new generation of fans be both disgusted and delighted

"You may feel as though you've fallen down a rabbit hole the size of Texas": The Butthole Surfers' fabulously freaky early albums are being reissued
By Paul Brannigan published
If you've ever craved a fix of truly alternative rock, Gibby Haynes' noise-rock experimentalists had you covered from day one

"Stark naked like the day he was born, beaten, bruised, bloody and tripping, this icon of modern music ran like Jesse Owens through the complex": The night Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes gatecrashed a Nick Cave show on acid
By Paul Brannigan published
When Butthole Surfers played their first show in Holland, their frontman got a little over-excited

Bob Dylan's Scottish mansion on the market for £3million
By Stef Lach published
Bob Dylan is selling his Scottish home for £3m – while the Butthole Surfers' Texas ranch is also up for grabs

10 songs by 'one hit wonders' that are actually way better than their most famous hit
By Stephen Hill published
The likes of L7 and Temple Of The Dog only enjoyed mainstream attention briefly. However, these follow-up singles prove their stints in the limelight should have been longer.
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