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Lost BUTTHOLE SURFERS Album After The Astronaut Finally Set For Release After Nearly 30 Years
Nearly three decades after it was abruptly shelved by their label, the lost Butthole Surfers album After The Astronaut is finally getting an official release.
On June 26, 2026, the long-mythologized record will arrive via Sunset Blvd. Records, giving fans their first chance to hear the band’s intended follow-up to 1996’s Electric Larryland – the album that produced the alternative radio smash “Pepper”.
Originally completed in 1998, After The Astronaut was pulled from the release schedule at the last minute by Capitol Records, which reportedly pushed the band to deliver something more “commercial.” But anyone familiar with the group’s famously unpredictable catalog knows that was never part of the plan.
“We were pretty stoked to make another album after the success of our previous album and its single ‘Pepper,'” guitarist Paul Leary recalled. “Capitol Records was stoked to get that next record until our relationship soured.”
Following legal wrangling, the band was released from the label’s roster and their contract was sold. “Hollywood Records bought the album but wanted to make changes to it which was an uncomfortable experience for us,” Leary said. The reworked material eventually surfaced years later as the 2001 album Weird Revolution.
“Now we have the right to release the original recording the way we intended it to be with its original title, After The Astronaut.”
Rather than chasing the alternative rock trends dominating late-’90s radio, the band leaned even deeper into their experimental instincts. Reacting to the grunge and alt-rock sounds filling the airwaves at the time, the trio – Gibby Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey – veered into electronics, industrial rhythms, and psychedelic textures.
“After the Astronaut was a fun project,” Coffey said. “We were using all the digital toys at our disposal at the time, and it felt much like the creation of Locust Abortion Technician. We were playing with new toys, creating things that amused us with the crayons we had, and we weren’t worried about radio airplay.”
After The Astronaut features Haynes on vocals and synths, Leary on guitar, bass, and keyboards, and Coffey on drum machines. The album was produced and mixed by Leary, engineered by Stuart Sullivan at Arlyn Recording Studio, and mastered by Howie Weinberg.
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Most probable first-round upsets in the men’s 2026 NCAA tournament
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Keith Lipscomb
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Cinderella hasn’t shown her face much of late.
Only five double-digit seeds won in the first round of the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament, and two were 10-seeds, which don’t qualify as Giant Killers for the purposes of this column. The Elite Eight was tied for the chalkiest of all time — all top-three seeds or better — and the Final Four was just the second ever to feature four 1-seeds.
But we know that part of what makes March Madness so fun is the upsets and trying to identify them before they happen.
To find this year’s potential candidates, we consulted ESPN’s BPI projections to find the matchups with the highest upset probabilities. Just keep in mind that probability does not mean predictability when filling out your brackets. And the probability of there being multiple upsets this March is low. NCAA tournament betting lines are larger than ever, and our Giant Killer model doesn’t give any team seeded 11th or worse even a 40% chance of winning in the first round. It gives only one No. 12 seed — the perennial upset pick so many like to identify — even a 20% chance to bust brackets.
By comparison, last year there were four matchups with an upset chance of greater than 40%, and eight above 25%. Still, if you’re looking for ways to differentiate your bracket and win a pool, let’s run through upset options to consider.
Note: Because two No. 6 vs. No. 11 games are still to be determined by the outcomes of First Four games on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Giant Killers model takes all possible matchups into consideration.
Upset chance: 39%
6:50 p.m. ET on Thursday
North Carolina’s ceiling is significantly lower with star freshman Caleb Wilson (broken thumb) out for the season. Predictably, the Tar Heels’ efficiency numbers dropped off in the eight games Wilson missed, especially on the offensive glass and in 2-point field goal percentage on offense and defense. That opens the door for a VCU team that has won 16 of its past 17 games entering the tournament. The Rams have a balanced, versatile and aggressive attack. All eight of VCU’s regular rotation players have hit at least 18 3s this season, and the Rams get to the free throw line at the 15th-highest rate in the country.
Upset chance: 37%
Potential matchup: 7:25 p.m. ET on Thursday
NC State enters the tournament having lost seven of its past nine games. But just two years ago, the Wolfpack made a run to the Final Four as an 11-seed. That team also stumbled to the finish line in regular-season ACC play before winning five games in five days to win the ACC tournament and earn a spot in the Big Dance. Although this year’s group is much better offensively than the 2024 edition and can keep up with the Cougars on the scoreboard, the Wolfpack’s defense will have to show some teeth in order to pull off the upset. NC State has allowed 87 points and nearly 11 3-pointers per game over its past nine outings. BYU is not as potent without Richie Saunders (ACL), but the duo of AJ Dybantsa and Robert Wright III is quite formidable. Provided they beat Texas in Tuesday night’s First Four matchup, the Wolfpack will need to play to their strengths of valuing the ball (ninth-best turnover rate in the nation) and shooting the 3 (10th best at 39%) to win this one.
Upset chance: 37%
Potential matchup: 4:25 p.m. ET on Friday
The Longhorns, like the Wolfpack, are limping into the Big Dance, having lost five of their past six. Scoring isn’t a problem for Texas, but defense is. It will be important for 7-footer Matas Vokietaitis to stay on the court. He has been in foul trouble often this season but can be a difference-maker in this matchup as Texas looks to keep pace with a thinner but still potent BYU attack. Texas will have to beat NC State first, though.
Upset chance: 25%
Potential matchup: 4:25 p.m. ET on Friday
The Giant Killers model likes SMU to take care of Miami (Ohio) in the First Four on Wednesday, but it isn’t as keen on the Mustangs building on that against the Vols. Their upset hopes might hinge on how B.J. Edwards — the team’s best defender — looks in his return from the ankle injury that caused him to miss SMU’s past five games (the Mustangs went 1-4 in those games). Tennessee is the nation’s best offensive rebounding team but is susceptible to turnovers. The Mustangs will have to win the turnover battle and cash them in.
Upset chance: 24%
1:50 p.m. ET on Thursday
High Point is the only 12-seed with at least a 20% chance to win, according to the model, and this could be one of the highest-scoring games of the first round. The Panthers are all about turnover differential. They are in the top five nationally in turnover rate at both ends of the court and score 21 points per game off miscues. However, no one is better at avoiding live-ball turnovers than Wisconsin, and the Badgers shoot it well, too. Wisconsin guards John Blackwell and Nick Boyd have combined for 50 points per game over their past four outings, so slowing that duo will be critical for High Point.
Upset chance: 19%
1:30 p.m. ET on Thursday
Although the upset chance appears low here, the uncertainty surrounding the health of Louisville freshman guard Mikel Brown Jr. (back) could play a big part in whether the Bulls will play the role of Giant Killer. USF is 19-3 since late December, with those three defeats coming by a combined five points. Both teams want to push the pace but have distinct approaches. No bones about it, Louisville wants to shoot the 3 — the Cards make 11.5 per game, accounting for 41% of their scoring. And although the Bulls do have a pair of snipers with 100-plus 3s (Wes Enis and Joseph Pinion), they lead the country in second-chance points thanks to Izaiyah Nelson. There’s a reason this game has the highest total on the board in the first round.
Upset chance: 19%
3:15 p.m. ET on Thursday
This 5 vs. 12 matchup has some similarities to High Point-Wisconsin. McNeese thrives off takeaways (22.3 points per game off turnovers, tops in the nation), but Vandy takes good care of the ball. Which strength will win out? The backcourt duo of Tyler Tanner and Duke Miles might be tough for the McNeese ball pressure to crack, but don’t count out the Cowboys, who were one of two 12-seeds to win in last year’s Dance.
Upset chance: 18%
12:40 p.m. ET on Friday
Tech’s national championship hopes took a big hit when All-American JT Toppin suffered a season-ending ACL injury a month ago. The Red Raiders enter with three straight losses, but they are still as dangerous as any team from beyond the arc and are led by the dynamic Christian Anderson (18.9 PPG, 7.6 APG). Texas Tech relies heavily on the 3-ball (43% of its points come from deep) and so does Akron (39% from 3), which has won 10 in a row and 19 of 20 entering the tourney. The Zips are the shortest team in this year’s field, so it will be important for them to be efficient offensively and guard the line at the other end, which has been an issue for them this season.
Upset chance: 15%
7:10 p.m. ET on Friday
If UNI is going to pull off the upset, it will have to control the tempo, make perimeter shots and limit the Johnnies to one shot per possession. St. John’s is among the nation’s leaders in second-chance points, thanks especially to Zuby Ejiofor and Dillon Mitchell. Unfortunately for the Panthers, their ability to run opponents off the 3-point line won’t be so helpful against a Red Storm team that prefers to do damage in the paint. Northern Iowa turned the corner this season after getting 6-6, 235-pound Tristan Smith back from injury in February, and the Panthers will need his presence if they are to pull a stunner.
Where’s Miami (Ohio), you might ask?
The model gave the RedHawks only a 10% chance of upsetting Tennessee, should they beat SMU to advance to the first round. After being sent to Dayton despite losing only one game all season, Travis Steele’s squad will certainly have plenty of motivation to prove itself.
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There was a shooting Tuesday at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in a small town at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains in Georgia, and the gunman was shot and killed, police said.One person was airlifted to a hospital after Jasper police responded to the scene around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city said in a statement on its Facebook page. Outside the VA clinic, the officers confronted the gunman, who was shot and killed, authorities said.The gunman who was killed is from the Jasper area, Jasper Police Chief Matt Dawkins told reporters at the scene. But details about him were not immediately released.“We don’t know what led up to it,” Dawkins said.Officers had responded to a report of shots fired at the clinic, the chief said. The suspect was shot outside the clinic, he said.“Everybody in there, as far as I know, nobody else is injured, the people inside, just one victim,” Dawkins said.He did not share additional details, but said the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be investigating along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.When asked about the suspect’s background, a Pickens County sheriff’s spokesman said he did not know whether he had a military background.Calls to the Pickens County VA clinic were routed to various recordings on Tuesday afternoon and no one answered the phone.The outpatient clinic in Jasper offers services that include primary care and specialty health services, including laboratory, telehealth and mental health care, according to its website.Jasper, a town of about 5,000 people, is roughly 60 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Signs on a highway through the town call it Georgia’s “First Mountain City” as the Blue Ridge Mountains come into view as motorists from Atlanta head north.Photos from the local newspaper, the Pickens Progress, showed more than a half-dozen law enforcement officers responding to the scene, wearing tactical vests near a strip mall in the town.The clinic opened in the summer of 2020, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said in a news release announcing its grand opening.“The new Pickens County VA Clinic will increase access and ensure that our Veterans continue to receive the high-quality health care that they have earned and deserve closer to their home,” officials said in the release.
JASPER, Ga. —
There was a shooting Tuesday at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in a small town at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains in Georgia, and the gunman was shot and killed, police said.
One person was airlifted to a hospital after Jasper police responded to the scene around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city said in a statement on its Facebook page. Outside the VA clinic, the officers confronted the gunman, who was shot and killed, authorities said.
The gunman who was killed is from the Jasper area, Jasper Police Chief Matt Dawkins told reporters at the scene. But details about him were not immediately released.
“We don’t know what led up to it,” Dawkins said.
Officers had responded to a report of shots fired at the clinic, the chief said. The suspect was shot outside the clinic, he said.
“Everybody in there, as far as I know, nobody else is injured, the people inside, just one victim,” Dawkins said.
He did not share additional details, but said the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be investigating along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
When asked about the suspect’s background, a Pickens County sheriff’s spokesman said he did not know whether he had a military background.
Calls to the Pickens County VA clinic were routed to various recordings on Tuesday afternoon and no one answered the phone.
The outpatient clinic in Jasper offers services that include primary care and specialty health services, including laboratory, telehealth and mental health care, according to its website.
Jasper, a town of about 5,000 people, is roughly 60 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Signs on a highway through the town call it Georgia’s “First Mountain City” as the Blue Ridge Mountains come into view as motorists from Atlanta head north.
Photos from the local newspaper, the Pickens Progress, showed more than a half-dozen law enforcement officers responding to the scene, wearing tactical vests near a strip mall in the town.
The clinic opened in the summer of 2020, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said in a news release announcing its grand opening.
“The new Pickens County VA Clinic will increase access and ensure that our Veterans continue to receive the high-quality health care that they have earned and deserve closer to their home,” officials said in the release.
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Top Trump counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Iran, saying it “posed no imminent threat to our nation”
President Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, announced his immediate resignation Tuesday, citing the decision to begin a war against Iran when “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.”
Kent, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate last year, posted his resignation letter on X Tuesday morning, saying he “cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
He is the highest-ranking Trump administration official to announce his resignation over the Iran war.
The White House took issue with Kent’s assertion that “Iran posed no imminent threat.” Mr. Trump was also asked about Kent’s resignation during a meeting with the Irish prime minister Tuesday.
“I read his statement,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “I always thought he was a nice guy. But I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.”
“When I read his statement, I realized that it’s a good thing that he’s out, because he said Iran was not a threat,” Mr. Trump continued. “Iran was a threat — every country realized what a threat Iran was.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement posted on X that there were “many false claims” in Kent’s letter to the president, and she took issue with his assertion that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S.
“This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over,” she said. “As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first.”
Kent said that before last June, which is when the U.S. and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, the president “understood that wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.” Kent knows the cost of war personally — his wife, Shannon, was killed by suicide bomber in Syria in 2019, leaving behind two boys.
He went on to accuse Israeli officials and some in the media of orchestrating a deception that led Mr. Trump into the war:
Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactics the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost the nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.
“You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos,” he told the president. “You hold the cards.”
Without mentioning Kent, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence who oversees the National Counterterrorism Center, said in a statement that the president “is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat.” She did not voice her views on the war or say the intelligence led her to any particular conclusions.
“Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief,” she wrote on X. “As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country.”
“After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion,” she said.
As director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Kent led U.S. counterterrorism and counternarcotics efforts and was the president’s principal counterterrorism adviser.
A retired Green Beret veteran, Kent was confirmed in July 2025, after Mr. Trump nominated him to the post in February 2025.