The Jesus Lizard Book [Hardcover]

Featured as a This Week's Reading/What We're Loving pick atThe Paris Review

Named the Best Music-Related Book of 2014 byJoel Gausten

If you're a Jesus Lizard fan or a David Yow devotee, you're sure all over this. But even if you've never heard of the band, the book stands as one of the best ways to experience being in a tight, cohesive band. You get everything except the sweat, spilled beer, and blood. It's a fun ride, and the closest thing possible to getting in the van with these guys.
--Mother Jones

The Jesus Lizard Bookis a beautiful document of a band that wasn't afraid to be abrasive, chaotic, brutal, and sometimes, ugly.
--The Chicago Tribune/Printers Row

These guys deserve to pat themselves on the back...If the spectacular photography inThe Jesus Lizard Bookis to be believed, their shows resembled nothing more than that scene inIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doomwhere some poor dude has his still-beating heart removed in an elaborate ritual.
--The Paris Review

As a reader, you don’t need to hear the songs to appreciate the story--andBookdelivers the band right to your coffee table loud and clear.
--BoingBoing.net

The gorgeously crafted, 176-page hardcoverBook...dives deep and candidly into the Jesus Lizard's first decade and touches a bit on that 2009 coda, too. Through many thousands of words, hundreds of photos, and collected ephemera, it celebrates the sweat, menace, humor, musicianship, lasting power, and genitals of one of the best bands ever coughed up by the rock underground.
--The Village Voice

Bookis a valuable document that brings us back to the era when artists were conditioned to practice the art of self-defense.
--Pitchfork

A series of essays and photos that illuminates the Jesus Lizard--humorous, jolting, sometimeslcN