Scratch Acid was an Austin, Texas noise rock group formed in 1982… The band was named by music journalist Will Lerner as “the American equivalent of the Birthday Party.” After developing a reputation ...

And the first U.S. Scratch Acid show has slipped out of the gate. The band will play the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on November 1st. David Wm. Sims (also of The Jesus Lizard) previously announced ...

How much of a role did drinking play in the Jesus Lizard universe? We could drink an awful lot. David, Duane and Mac were pretty good at not drinking too much before we played because they really want ...

DAVID YOW is sitting in a bar in Austin, Texas, working on his first beer. He's supposed to be with his bandmates, of the recently reconvened '80s noise weirdos Scratch Acid, who are rehearsing. "I ...

Scratch Acid’s most direct descendant was the Jesus Lizard, formed in Chicago by Yow and Sims with guitarist Duane Denison and drummer Mac McNeilly. The Jesus Lizard parlayed their springboard from ...

Before he was the contortionist front man of Jesus Lizard, David Yow was honing his wild-man skills with noise-rock pioneers Scratch Acid, who helped develop the driving, angular Touch and Go sound.

If it weren't for the unlikely figure of Jeff Mangum, you probably wouldn't be freaking the fuck out over this latest Scratch Acid reunion. The major British festival All Tomorrow's Parties tapped ...

In 2006, Scratch Acid reconvened to play the 25th anniversary party of the band's former record label, Touch & Go Records. And in '08 and '09, Yow and the members of the Jesus Lizard did a number of ...

Tension. No truly great act ever thrived without it. Saturday at Emo’s East, the tension onstage in Scratch Acid translated into 80 minutes of Austin post-punk history revisited. Given that the band ...

As part of last month's Pitchfork 15 coverage, No Age guitarist Randy Randall spoke about the eye-opening experience that was his first Jesus Lizard show. He was so moved he tried to take frontman ...