Butthole Surfers
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Books
I Am Reality: Butthole Surfers In Coffee Table Book Shocker
A lavish coffee table book about the Butthole Surfers may seem like a strange idea, but, finds Richard Fontenoy, Aaron Tanner's What Does Regret Mean succeeds in painting a vivid and persisting picture of what was at one point probably the most outrageous band the world had seen
Anniversary
The Day Of The Locust: Paul Leary Of The Butthole Surfers Interviewed
Butthole Surfers guitarist Paul Leary talks to Ben Graham about the making of the band's classic 1987 album, Locust Abortion Technician, and how its traumatic closing track was actually influenced by a Carly Simon Bond theme
Black Sky Thinking
Quietus Writers’ Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks
It's noise rock week on the Quietus. Here is a primer for those that don't know and a reminder for those that do with contributions from John Calvert, Kate Hennessy, John Doran, Sharon O'Connell, Daniel Dylan Wray, Matt Ridout, Noel Gardner, Kevin McCaighy, Rory Gibb, Dustin Krcatovich, Jeremy Allen, Sean Kitching, Joe Banks, JR Moores, Matt Evans, Kiran Acharya, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Tony F Wilson and Dale Sawa Berning
Anniversary
No Regrets – 25 Years Of Butthole Surfers’ Locust Abortion Technician
For 25 years David Stubbs has been having bad dreams and attempting to put endings on them like he comes out a winner but thanks to the Butthole Surfers' finest album, Locust Abortion Technician, he's been getting nowhere
Baker’s Dozen Appearances 5
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Organic Intelligence VII: Bill Brewster’s Balearic Sound Of Scandinavia
Get your sauna logs and loosely fitting tiny towels at the ready as we head to Scandinavia for this month’s Organic Intelligence subscriber exclusive, in which Bill Brewster guides you through the Balearic sounds of Scandinavia
Things I Have Learned
Steve Ignorant On Saving Lives With The Sea Palling Lifeboat
Steve Ignorant now lives in North Norfolk and volunteers as a crew member on the independent Sea Palling lifeboat. Here, he tells Luke Turner about his work on the choppy grey waters. Photo thanks to Damon Allen Davison
Remember Them…
A Different World: Holger Czukay Interviewed
Holger Czukay, co-founder of Can, student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and maker of great music, has died. In this interview, originally published on tQ in 2014 to mark 40 years since the release of Canaxis 5, he spoke to Bobby Barry about Stockhausen, John Lydon and learning to fly.
