The Jesus Lizard

"A lot of people who meet us are disappointed that we're such moderately intelligent, well-balanced, happy guys," Jesus Lizard bassist David Wm. Sims told me in August 1994. "[Guitarist] Duane [Denison] and I spend a lot of time writing songs. [Singer] David [Yow] and [drummer] Mac [McNeilly] are married. Read More

"The Jesus Lizard is probably the only act at Pitchfork this year with the potential to be as grab-you-by-the-throat terrifying in front of an audience of 15,000 as they can be playing to a club crowd of 150." Read More

""I had not seen the Jesus Lizard since Lollapalooza 1995 - the last year I choose to think of as being remotely true to what that festival was about. As hard as it is to believe that was 14 years ago, it is even harder to understand how frontman David Yow & Co. have managed to bring back this band - essentially dormant since 1999 - with this much ferocity. Yow may be 14 years older and a bit worse for wear, but the man caterwauls with an intensity that most 20 year old pretty boys will never match. The Irving crowd - a good portion of whom, at this 16+ show, were not even born when this band began in 1987 - remained in a frenzy throughout the set, turning the Irving floor into a thrashing sea of bodies, flying beers and more than a few sets of broken eyeglasses. While Yow stage-dove, mic in hand, the band delivered their tightly wound hardcore like the experts they are. Covering a range of the band's catalog and with two encores, the 23-song set gave audience members a lot to scream about." Read More

There was a moment—one of those collective pant-shitting moments that only the truly great or deeply unstable ones can produce—in which the crowd at last night's Jesus Lizard show was transfixed by the possibility of David Yow whipping his cock out. Read More

To be honest, it was kind of nice to step away for a while. Read More

As Bob Dylan was playing his first of three shows up in Washington Heights , The Jesus Lizard was tearing things up for the second night in a row at Irving Plaza much farther downtown. Read More

The singer pulls down his pants and wraps his penis around the mic stand. Read More

The crowd is primed for a rare and probably venue-wrecking set from some of the greatest rock 'n' roll ass-kickers of the past 20 years, and you've got to warm it up. Read More

Those of you not cool enough to attend the last upstate New York All Tomorrow's Parties jam or that Vice Halloween party clusterfuck have thus probably been denied the violent, visceral, vitriolic pleasures of the Jesus Lizard reunion, and this is no way to be, going through life without David Yow ever having urinated on you. Read More

"This is gonna be really fucking good," warned David Yow just before the Jesus Lizard went Jurassic Park . Read More