On March 17, 2026, the band announced that After the Astronaut would finally be released on June 26 by Sunset Boulevard Records. The album’s announcement came with the release of the single “Jet Fighter”.
In December 2025, the song “Human Cannonball” from Locust Abortion Technician was featured in Chapter 7 of the fifth season of Stranger Things .
On September 23, 2025, Haynes, Leary, Coffey and Pinkus reunited at Los Angeles’ Egyptian Theatre to perform a brief set as Butthole Surfers for the first time since October 2017, following the West Coast premiere of the documentary film The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt .
In May 2025, the band released the live album Live at the Leatherfly on Sunset Blvd Records.
In March 2019, the band released a visual history coffee table book, Butthole Surfers: What Does Regret Mean? , with author Aaron Tanner .
In an interview with The Quietus in March 2017, Leary talked about the group possibly making a new album, their first in 16 years: “We’ve all been busy with our own separate things, and I’ve done a lot of producing in the past few years, and I’ve got to the…
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As of 2016, the group are on hiatus, with Leary saying: “I just don’t want to play live anymore. It’s not fun, I don’t like touring. That hour on stage is a whole lot of fun, but the other 23 hours off stage just fucking suck.”
They performed at the Day for Night music festival in Houston, Texas, which ran December 17–18, 2016.
The line-up of Haynes, Leary, Pinkus, and Coffey did a 12-show tour of mostly western U.S. states and one appearance in Canada from August 26, 2011, to September 11, 2011.
The band reunited with Jeff Pinkus and Teresa Nervosa for a tour of the East Coast and Europe in Summer 2008 with the Paul Green School of Rock All Stars. It was the first time the reunited line up played together since 1989. The group performed at the All Tomorrow’s…
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