Butthole Surfers, 400 Blows and Bodytronix - Emo's East Grand Opening [Show Preview]

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Butthole Surfers, 400 Blows and Bodytronix
Sunday, September 11
Emo's East (2015 East Riverside Dr.)
$22-25, 8pm, all ages
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For three decades, Butthole Surfers have sustained their mastery of musical mayhem, perversion and debauchery. As “alternative rock” was opening its perpetually sleepy eyes in the early 1980’s, Alternative Tentacles turned its more prescient gaze towards Butthole Surfers. Surely even the label’s creator, Jello Biafra, could not have envisaged the brilliantly twisted sickness the band’s classic line-up - Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus and King Coffey - would hurl upon a deserving world. As they proved last fall at Scoot Inn, the Surfers still preside over raucous bacchanal celebrations that can get appropriately out of hand. Sadly, rock concerts have for the most part been tamed. But, the Butthole Surfers remain unbridled and belong on any live music fan’s list of must-experience bands. The reunited, classic 1980’s Butthole Surfers lineup has been rolling across the west all summer long, and will be blowing it all out back home in Central Texas at the highly anticipated Grand Opening of Emo's East.

It takes an eye-popping and uncommonly skilled band to open for Butthole Surfers, and 400 Blows promises to deliver. Their new release, Sickness and Health, is a musically devastating, critically confrontational and highly addictive album. They’ve toured with At the Drive-In, and were selected by The Mars Volta to play the venerable All Tomorrow’s Parties Nightmare Before Christmas when they curated the festival in 2005. More recently, guitarist Scott Martin has become a full-fledged member of Big Business, adding a wonderful new dimension to an already phenomenal band. Judging from Sickness and Health, 400 Blows are more than ready to headline their own tour; you’ll have a chance to see them do just that at Mohawk in October, so it’s high-time to get familiar with these guys.

Local synth/electronic ensemble Bodytronix will open the evening. They may well set the room abuzz with a chilled warp-wave that induces acid-house flashbacks before the inaugural headliners and their most worthy tour mates welcome Emo’s East into the ranks of world-class rock’n roll.

Butthole Surfers: [official]
400 Blows: [official]
Bodytronix: [myspace]