Checking In: Worm Suicide Blacks Out

Punks put out a 23-years-in-the-making LP in a pandemic

"...“Blacking Out may be the best distillation of Worm Suicide’s yuks-galore hatecore,” opined Chronicle punk Tim Stegall. Singer..."

July 15, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

How a Joke on Facebook Became a Punk Album With 17 Covers of the Same Song

Austin punks offer takes on Worm Suicide song "Babies Ruin Bands"

"...Wiseass Records issued the 2017 debut of Austin wiseguys Worm Suicide, Too Hung to Fall in Love. They now..."

April 5, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Don't Call It Street Punk

A new breed of punk rules Red River

"...were founded in 2009, Riverside Riot in 2013, and Worm Suicide began in Victoria, Texas, 20 years ago...."

Feb. 5, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Street Punks on Parade

"...Worm Suicide..."

Feb. 4, 2016 Photo Gallery

Knives Out

Cunning if slight murder mystery revives the whodunit

"...morning, his throat cut in an apparent act of suicide following a dysfunctional gathering of offspring celebrating his 85th..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Make Music To Make Love To by New Druids Worm Suicide "Ain't Dead Yet"YouTube..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...us to "live with what's delivered."  – Kevin Curtin Worm Suicide: Blacking Out..."

June 5, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Worm Suicide

"...Beaded Cockrings. Welcome to the blatantly offensive universe of Worm Suicide, winners of this year's Austin Music Award in..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Arts, Comedy, Theatre, Movies, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Jackie and Foxy Brown?! Yes please!

"...sideshow performances by Janie Slash, and live music from Worm Suicide and Stitched Up.   – Richard Whittaker Fat..."

June 7, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Los Cogelones, PickleStock, Lady Dan, and more recommended Austin shows

"...Marla Strange (7), Beaver (8), the 13th Victim (9), Worm Suicide (10), TrumpCard (11), the Wee-Beasties (12mid), Stuck on..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Courtney Barnett, Kid Cudi, Butch Hancock, Marisa Nadler, Robert Earl Keen, and more

"...An all-day rock showcase featuring acts such as Worm Suicide, One Shot Down, and the Nematoads. – Derek Udensi..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Column by Alejandra Ramirez

Checking in With Area Musicians Yielded 80,000 Words of Pandemic Realness

Stay TF home

"...Pablo Flores (Worm Suicide)..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...he secured Weber's involvement, then recruited contemporary ATX combos Worm Suicide (a blistering "Teenage Fuckup"), Stillhouse Howlers (backporch banjo..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Here Are Your 2018/19 Austin Music Award Winners

Best band, musician, song, radio station, and more Top 10s chosen by you

"...2) Worm Suicide..."

March 1, 2019 Music Feature

Live Music Recommendations for the Weekend

JMBLYA, a conjunto fest, and more weekend sounds to keep you busy

"...concentrates on Sunday, including 2018 Austin Music Award winners Worm Suicide and their wise-guy brutecore, the redneck Motörhead/punk shenanigans..."

May 4, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Top 10 Austin Albums of 2017

Consensus on the best local platters

"...5) Worm Suicide, Too Hung to Fall in Love (Wiseass)..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

2016-17 Austin Music Awards

"...Best Punk winner Worm Suicide..."

March 13, 2017 Photo Gallery

The New Breed!

A DIY Dozen

"...Worm Suicide: The (literal) jokers of the pack, with a..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Prophet for Our Times

For 10 years, Lisa Crystal Carver has been writing about sex and doing sex-drenched performance pieces under the name Suckdog. But her lifestyle is born of a profound quest for an uncompromised life, a search for truth and adventure that makes her a prophet for our time.

"...theme of the 1991 tour was, in Coz's words, "suicide and three-way sexual obsessions that never work out right."..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

The Reckoning

Plagues and witchcraft in this new period horror

"...the bloody British classics of Witchfinder General aka Conqueror Worm, and The Blood on Satan's Claw), The Reckoning puts..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Unbelievable Summers at the Paramount

The most unforgettable moments from this year’s classics of cinema

"...nearly 15 minutes before the iconic back-and-forth between the worm and Sarah (not me, the other one played by..."

May 18, 2018 Screens Feature by Chronicle staff

Miss Witherspoon

This satire on reincarnation amuses but has trouble transcending its own gags

"...try to do better in the next. As a worm or a king. But what if you hated life..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Borrisokane

deEP end 2

"...let a seemingly innocuous title like "Do the Squirmy Worm" fool you. Despite bouncy keyboard lines and skittering Afro-pop..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Off the Record

Shit happens: Hosing off and cleaning up after the glorious mess that was the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival

"...other motley crew, Austin's Butthole Surfers, for 1993's Independent Worm Saloon, the Zeppelin bassist laughed: "The only thing I..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Out of the Mouths of Children

The return of the Butthole Surfers – don't call it a reunion!

"...it. The whole thing just seemed like a slow suicide."..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...Over the course of a half-decade, the Chronicle will, worm-like, absorb most of the building with other offices occupied..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Great Expectations

Assessing Austin's Class of '96

"...have indicated. Their first album for Capitol, 1993's Independent Worm Saloon, had sold in the low six-figure range and..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Recviews

"...of "Predators" or the amazing 78rpm war-on-dick-slaves of "Wiggly Worm." In spite of an incredible propensity for pulling off..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Music Review