Bukkake Moms

Though they have openly mocked my chiding of their tireless propensity for sexual humor, Bukkake Moms are simply one of the most obviously impressive rock bands in North Texas. Though that designation might bother them, they have a necessary and yet deceiving recklessness that shadows the fact that their music is actually often complex, nuanced, and (gulp), mature. All the blue humor in the world won’t ever cover up the fact that they’re this good. I’m waiting for the breakthrough major label debut. Their live banter is as sharp as their plucky little rhythms and riffs, but be warned: I tried heckling them and they give as well as they receive. - D Magazine - Christopher Mosley

Where to begin with the sounds of Denton, TX’s, Bukkake Moms…oddly enough no one in the band is a mom, so I’m not sure if the band name is a verb or a noun; either way it looks great on flyers. Jarring, unhinged and diabolical would be a great place to start. The music is forever shifting in tempo and structure, from blast beats to no-wavey disco beats to an utter cacophony bukkaked with saxophone squeals, disjointed guitars, noise, piano, narrated with ridiculous lyrics about grandpa getting high on trash and having sex toys extracted from your eye sockets. I promise you all of this works and it works well. “The Chronic” is smart and refreshing, like Bitch Teeth, (which Bukkake Mom’s has members of) all the key elements of noise rock are alive in well. There are many influences that come to mind when listening to “The Chronic” and Bukkake Mom has crafted these styles into their own brand of complete insanity, taking noise rock to another level.
I saw Bukkake Moms live before I heard this full length and it was awesome. Though it sounded like things were on the verge of complete derailment at all times, the band was tight and knew exactly what they were doing. The energy and mayhem transferred well into the recording. Keep your eyes peeled if they are playing your town! - Avalanche of Guts

Rick Eye, one of the newest members of Bukkake Moms, remembers the first time he played with the band he joined in 2013. Fans tend to throw all sort of crazy things to performers while they're on stage. That night Eye got to experience objects getting thrown at him, but it wasn't quite what he had in mind.

"While we were playing our song 'Scrotum Caught in a Propeller' for 30 minutes straight, this guy threw his whiskey glass at me and then he threw his Grammy at my face." Eye jokes about publicly shaming that person in this interview but he decided he wants to keep the name off the record. The only clue we can give you is that his attacker is the violin player from the band Seryn. "He was just drunk, there were people cheering us on and some people wanted us to get us off. We played for another 15 minutes," Eye says.

This Friday Bukkake Moms release their seventh album, The Chronic, and they kick off their first tour, "Coolers Full of Weed," during which they'll mainly play shows on the East Coast. Eye says, "[it's] all that East Coast liberal bullshit, like Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and hopefully Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Boston, Rhode Island." They hope to play on the West Coast in the future but, Rick says, "I don't know anybody out there. We know like maybe one band. We know more people on the East Coast cities."

Band members Reece McLean, Rick Eye, Beth Dodds, Kenny Failes and Andrew Stolfa are pretty excited about the show this Friday. McLean said Bukkake Moms originally started as his solo project, before people gradually joined over the years. McLean says, "Kenny pretty much made me do Bukkake Moms, then he just kind of joined." McLean says he stole the band's name off the Internet. He said, "Somebody suggested it as a band name and I just took it. That's the [simple] story of it."

The album name was inspired by Dr. Dre. Eye says, "We love Dr. Dre. I think we were all high one night and we were like, wouldn't it be great if the album was called The Chronic? We all had a good laugh about it and then we named the album The Chronic."

Eye says the Red Hot Chili Peppers' album One Hot Minute influenced the music in the new album. "We all grew up with [with that album]" he says. The Chronic covers more spectrums and it's twice as long compared to previous albums. We recorded it in a big fancy studio, Eagle Audio with Britt Robisheaux."

A while ago they met Lee Escobedo, the co-founder and editor in chief of THRWD Magazine and brainstormed the idea of putting a show together. Eye says, "I met Lee, and he's just a swell guy. He just messaged us, and asked when we would play, and he would come to our shows and eventually we befriended him."

Band member Beth Dodds jokingly says the Oliver Francis Gallery, the venue where they will perform, is a "no-rules kind of place, people get shot. That was a joke. You can leave it on the record."

"We're looking forward to everything except Baltimore," Dodds says. "The streets, they all smell like crab." The guys are traveling and staying in a van that they're sharing with the band Load-in. They plan to eat at Denny's every other night since it's hard to get food delivered to a moving van. "We're hoping to be able to stay at some of our homies' house [out on the East Coast] if our homies are really our homies and house us," Eye says.

We wonder what sort of crazy things the guys have planned for us this Friday. Dobbs says he once played a show naked, one Fourth of July a few years ago. "I was wearing a thong and the design was American-inspired with stars, not the stripes, just the stars. But it was too small and my dingle berries were hanging out so I just took it off."

Below is their video Burger Time Machine named after the best restaurant in Denton, according to the guys.

BUKKAKE MOMS perform with Drug Mountain, Load-in and Thor Johnson at 8 p.m. at Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas. $5 - Dallas Observer

Good news out of Denton: One of my favorite local acts, Bukkake Moms recently announced an August east cost tour via their Facebook page. Their upcoming album, jokingly named The Chronic, (Ed Note: Sigh.) should also be finished relatively soon it seems.

I wish the venues on this tour all the best, as whoever was excited to book a band with a name like this either knows what’s up, or gives no damns. Both could apply to Bukkake Moms as well—one of the rawest, strategically repetitive, and willfully grating bands we’ve seen around North Texas in some time. - D Magazine - Lee Escobedo

Hell yea, here we are. Bukkake Moms are at a place in their tenure where they are going on tour, starting things off with their tour kick-off party and album release for “The Chronic”, happening tonight, at OFG.XXX! THRWD Magazine is proud to be the official sponsor for this event, showcasing one of Dallas most creative and interesting bands, no doubt. THRWD sat down with lead singer and guitarist, Reece McLean for a interview on the band’s beginnings, existence, and tour plans and album concepts in anticipation for tonight’s show. Make sure you arrive early. This is gonna be a doozy.

1. Bukkake Moms. Really? Love it. Ugh. Why this name though?
I started this project more than four-years ago while I was still in high school. The name Bukkake Moms comes from a post on a semi-popular internet forum, but that post is long gone and who knows who actually came up with it! As for why, I’m not really sure. We’re stuck with it by this point.

2. When did this start? Original mementos? Goals for the band?
I started the band as a solo project in early 2010. Kenny and I went to the same high school and he helped record some of the earliest Bukkake Moms stuff. We both moved to Denton in the fall of 2010 and he joined the band for our first show which was at our dorm, Bruce Hall at UNT. Pretty soon after that Beth Dodds and Andrew got in contact with us through our incredibly dead Myspace page and we somehow became a real band. Rick joined in 2013. Beth and I saw these two great Bitch Teeth shows and we just asked him to join the band. I guess in the early days we were trying to be as grotesque as possible but now I’d say we’re just doing the things that we want to.

3. What void does Bukkake moms fill that other bands in safe might be to afraid to breech?
Probably the whole ‘skronky’ noise rock/no wave kind of thing. There’s not a whole lot of bands in the DFW area that do that. I like things that sound like they’re falling apart. More bands/artists need to do that.

4. You guys are pushing your live sets and aesthetics to more performative measures. Yay or nay?
To a degree, yes. In 2011 we played a lot of shows with intentionally awkward and strange banter and a pretty short set. Now it’s just really silly banter and there’s always an amp making some kind of noise between songs. We’ve gone from being a pretty quiet band to a probably way too loud band. Also people have being paying attention to us on social media way more so we’ve been hamming it up and fucking with people.

5. What’s your background with other bands. Atomic Tanlines was the dopest. That band seemed to be the instigator of what’s happening now.
There’s a lot of stuff that we have been/are involved in. Problem Dogg, Trouble Catt, Couchweed, all that fun stuff. Ever since Bukkake Moms changed from a solo project to a real band, I started a new solo thing called Gay Cum Daddies. Atomic Tanlines was a band that Beth and I joined because Alli Lowe had just lost a drummer and guitarist/bassist. Tanlines had already been going at it for almost a year when we joined. But in the end, our lineup of the band never even recorded anything. I had a lot of fun in that band and we played some great shows, but it wasn’t something that Beth and I fully had our hearts in. We didn’t know how we would be able to write for that band. We’re not very punk.

6. How did you guys meet? You have great chemistry together and seem to genuinely love/hate each other.
Kenny and I went to high school together and we had been in a band together before. Beth and Andrew asked to join the band after Beth and I met through a mutual friend. Beth and Andrew have known each other since they were little and they have so many recording projects from throughout their years of friendship that I can’t even try to keep up with it all. It was a really good four-piece dynamic. And then after Beth and I saw/fell in love with Bitch Teeth, Rick joined. Rick really rejuvenated the band when he joined in 2013 and he’s been absolutely essential to us taking off like we have. We’re all great friends either from before the band or because of the band.

7. Where is the tour taking you? What parties, places do you hope to crash while on the road?
We’re going to a lot of places on the East Coast. Really excited to be playing with Weasel Walter and Bob Crusoe in New York! Playing some house shows with some buds of ours in Kansas City, Boston, and Austin. It’s gonna be fantastic, but also we have no money to really do anything but try to survive and play shows. We’re gonna play with some great bands it looks like and that’s good enough for me.

8. How is Denton evolving? Some of the most interesting bands are coming out Of the little d. What’s pushing this experimentation?
A couple of weeks after I moved to Denton, the Majestic Dwelling of Doom, this really awesome house venue, shut down for good. I think that kind of sums up my feelings about how I originally felt about Denton’s music scene when I moved here: I just missed out on a bunch of shit and now there’s nothing. I definitely don’t think that way anymore though. I originally wanted to move to Denton from hearing about bands like Drug Mountain and bands that would come through Denton on tour like No Babies. And then there’s our good friends Eat Avery’s Bones who have been around for almost 10 years at this point. Shit just happens in Denton I guess. You go to UNT naively expecting to see a bunch of cool shit and when you don’t, you make your own cool shit. That was the thought process I had anyway.

9. What are the goals post-”Chronic”? Additional boundaries you want to push?
We’ve already written three new songs for the next album and we have a bunch of ideas floating around too. I think we always have room to improve our songwriting and honestly we’ve already improved since writing and recording “The Chronic.” I’m already ready to move on from “The Chronic” and I can’t wait to make something even better. We’re planning on touring the West Coast next year if everything with this tour goes well.

10. The contemporary art scene and contemporary hip-hop scene in Dallas are both flourishing and receiving national attention. What is your favorite Dallas-based hip-hop artist, collective, or group?
I’ll admit that I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to DFW’s hip hop scene. I’ve seen a lot of names and I’ve heard a lot of great things is all I can really say! - THRWD

Then there's Denton's Bukkake Moms, whose latest batch of tunes is most certainly worth your time. The off-kilter rhythms and frequently shocking subject matter of the band's latest EP was dedicated and named after Civil Recording producer Michael Briggs, who produced the effort. - Central Track

It’s getting pretty late as this year’s Oaktopia starts grinding to a close. I’m at Hailey’s, a venue second only to Rubber Gloves in its reputation for hardcore metal, rock and punk. I’m here to see Bukkake Moms, an act with such a bizarre name I leapt at the chance to cover them.
I pictured something along the lines of Gwar or Slipknot, with elaborate costumes and stage gimmicks. The guys that come on stage to set up are about as far from that fantasy as possible. They’re just average guys in t shirts and jeans. But when they get started…a Jekyll/Hyde kind of transformation takes place. In an orgy of enthusiastic noise Bukkake Moms and their audience transform into something else entirely.
Bukkake Moms is a group characterized by an avant-garde, purely experimental approach to metal that makes them one of the most unique groups at Oaktopia. Their songs don’t meet any traditional sense of progression or rhythm. Bukkake Moms are less traditional band and more of a kind of performance art piece. Bukkake Moms are an experience in and of themselves, their faces contorting with enthusiastic fervor as they shred away what little remains of your ear drums after a weekend full of music.
The best thing about Bukkake Moms is their showmanship. As Bukkake Moms prepared to start, Hailey’s undoubtedly abused circuit board blew a fuse and the whole place went dark. The lights came back rather quickly but the sound was a different story. Rather than standing around awaiting the return of the miracle of alternating current; Bukkake Moms all picked up an acoustic instrument of their choice. These choices ranged from the obvious, such as a guitar, to the less expected, including a banjo and a single snare drum. The band set out to perform an elaborate, acoustic parody of Nirvana, earning a laugh from the whole venue as they brutally butchered Kurt Kobain.
I’ll be straight with you, Bukkake Moms is not your Dad’s dark rock or your Mom’s Metal. This is some of the most outlandish stuff you can listen to, but also the most memorable. The members of Bukkake Moms realize that one of the biggest parts of a show is the actual performance. The music and the performance blend seamlessly together, making Bukkake Moms one of the most successful and distinctive acts in a festival already known for its wide variety of talent. - Sofakingnews