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 ...

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 ...

(Right to Left) David Yow, David Wm. Sims, Brett Bradford, and Rey Washam enjoying an exchange with Buxf Parrott (crowd, front left) at the Lost Well on Saturday. For the first time in ten years, all ...

Better than: The “Rowdy” Roddy Piper fight scene in John Carpenter's They Live. Last night, Scratch Acid's frontman, David Yow, took the stage at the Fillmore and immediately informed the crowd that ...