LargeHeartedBoy — The Chicago Tribune and Guardian reviewed the new Haruki Murakami novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. SPIN talked cats with Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow. The longlist for the 2014 National Translation Award has been named. ... more info

Stereogum — Throughout the ’90s, David Yow, frontman of the Jesus Lizard, was more famous for twisting his balls up into weird shapes onstage than for anything adorable and/or educational. He was not someone you would want to leave around your kids. And, well,... more info

Stereogum — Mike Patton has so many projects that it can be hard to keep track of them all, but one of the best has always been Tomahawk, a sort-of supergroup that includes Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison, bassist Trevor Dunn, and Battles’ drummer demigod... more info

Chicago Tribune — Coffee-table book pays loving tribute to the mayhem of Chicago's Jesus Lizard'The Jesus Lizard Book" is a beautiful document of a band that wasn't afraid to be abrasive, chaotic, brutal and, sometimes, ugly. A sharply designed coffee-table book for a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Anwar Sadat, the Louisville band not the Egyptian president, are a heavy, discordant post-punk trio with short, angry songs that never forget the "punk" in "post-punk." Think Big Black/The Jesus Lizard meets Wire, and you might get..... more info

Chicago Tribune — David Yow set himself on fire. That was my first glimpse of the Jesus Lizard, in 1989. Duane Denison, David Wm. Sims and Mac McNeilly played as if they were punishing their instruments. And Yow literally lit up the stage for a few seconds. They made ... more info

Stereogum — OFF! is a band of grizzled, aging punk veterans who now pay the rent by bashing out early-’80s-style trashcan hardcore. And their new video for the single “Hypnotized” features two fellow members of their old-punk tribe: The Jesus Lizard’s Da... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — By Doug Moore The Jesus Lizard at Irving Plaza, 2009 (more by Lori Bally) Storied American noise rock unit The Jesus Lizard originally broke up in 1999, but reunited for a bit between 2008 and 2010, during which they played... more info

Consequence of Sound — Plus, an accompanying Jesus Lizard book and a solo album. more info

Impose Magazine — Bambara, Dream Violence (Elemental Weapon) The members of this Athens, GA trio are students of the Nick Cave catalog, as well as Swans and the mighty Jesus Lizard, according to their own proclamation, but their version of doing a noise rock 'thing'... more info