The Butthole Surfers will celebrate their twentieth anniversary with the release of Weird Revolution, their twelfth studio album and first since 1996's Electriclarryland, on August 28th.

After parting ways with Capitol Records, the band -- singer Gibby Haynes, guitarist Paul Leary and drummer King Coffey -- was picked up by Hollywood/Surfdog Records. However, the Surfers' Hollywood debut hit a stumbling block, when the family of Malcolm X objected to their use of portions of his 1963 speech, "The Black Revolution," in the title track. After some modification, "The Weird Revolution" made the cut.

Five of the tracks from the album were co-produced by Leary and Rob Cavallo, with Leary manning the boards alone for the remainder of the album. "The Shame of Life," the album's first single -- which Haynes co-wrote witth Kid Rock -- will hit radio this month.

The track listing for Weird Revolution:

The Weird Revolution
The Shame of Life
Dracula From Houston
Venus
Shit Like That
Mexico
Intelligent Guy
Get Down
Jet Fighter
The Last Astronaut
Yentel
They Came In

JEAN GISMERVIK
(July 6, 2001)