Even for a band known for quirky indie rock, Camper Van Beethoven's determination to "Take the Skinheads Bowling" made for an offbeat song, the band jovially inserting lyrics about forgetting ...

But Camper Van Beethoven’s songs today are less broadly humorous than in the days when the band recorded “Take the Skinheads Bowling” and such other gems as “ZZ Top Goes to Egypt” and ...

Not so with Camper Van Beethoven, the '80s indie-folkie-worldie anti-punk combo that embodied the slacker aesthetic before anyone had heard of Pavement.

With Lowery as frontman, the bands churned out two '80s and '90s earworms, Camper Van Beethoven's " Take the Skinheads Bowling " and the twangy Cracker rocker " Low." ...

Songs like “Take the Skinheads Bowling” and “Pictures of Matchstick Men” were critically acclaimed chart toppers.

Custard have shared a cover of Camper Van Beethoven’s 1985 one-hit wonder ‘Take the Skinheads Bowling’, as the latest single from their forthcoming album ‘Respect All Lifeforms’. The ...

On Thursday, Camper Van Beethoven performed at the House of Blues in Hollywood as part of the Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF). On the same bill that night was Soul Asylum and Everclear.

They played classics like “Take The Skinheads Bowling,” “Pictures of Matchstick Men,” “Low,” “Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now),” and plenty of others.

At that point, with Camper bassist Victor Krummenacher filling in on bass for Cracker, other Camper Van Beethoven members began joining Cracker on stage, playing both Camper songs and expanded ...

Speakeasy recently caught up with David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven, who spilled about the new record, the Emily White firestorm, the future of the music business and underpants gnomes.

During one of their recent winter shows at the Middle East, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven frontman David Lowery accurately sized up his audience: “We’re still a college band. Only now our ...

SXSW 2013: Camper Van BeethovenI loved hearing the band perform some of its classics — especially “Take the Skinheads Bowling,” which remains one of the most fun tunes ever laid to wax. Yet ...