BUTTHOLE SURFERS Return For Release Of Lost Album ‘AFTER THE ASTRONAUT And Share Groovin’ Taster ‘JETFIGHTER’
Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
18 March 2026
San Antonio‘s heavyweight rockers BUTTHOLE SURFERS
made a lot of out-of-the-way riff racket between 1981 and
2017 with 8 LPs.
In 1998, they had canned a new album, titled After The Astronaut,
but their label at the time, Capitol Records didn’t like it and cancelled it.
The band changed labels and fabricated another LP, named Weird Revolution
with songs from the dumped After The Astronaut, but the critics sabered it.
Now, after all these years, the Surfers got back to work to rejuvenate the album
the way they want it, and it’ll hit the streets on June 24. Pre-order info here.
King Coffey (drummer) says in a press released
that the original vision for the LP was different:
“After the Astronaut was a fun project. We were using all the digital toys at our disposal at the time, and it felt much like the creation of Locust Abortion (1987). We were playing with new toys, creating things that amused us with the crayons we had, and we weren’t worried about radio airplay. It felt like we were going back to our experimental roots while still navigating the major label ecosystem.”
Along with the news comes a first taster,
a jangly-shaky groover called JET FIGHTER .
Fly high.
Here. Now.
Back then.
