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 ...

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 ...

This band formed in the early '80s, rising out of the speed and energy of the hard-core scene. Tiring of that genre's aesthetic strictures, the band looked to older psychedelic rock and overseas ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Five Australians walk into a bar. Roughly 30 people come in to see them, two of whom are members of Scratch Acid. One member of Scratch Acid tells a punk scene photographer to go to Richardson to get ...

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 ...

In the end, it’s nearly always about the money. Just ask David Yow, singer for Austin’s legendary ’80s noise rockers Scratch Acid. “We got back together to play this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties ...

Given that the voice on the other end of the phone belongs to David Yow— the legendary frontman of both the late, great Jesus Lizard and the recently (and temporarily) re-formed Scratch Acid, who’s ...