Hi there. I'm Scratch - also known as MX Skroch, and for a time, Xavier Thomas Skroch. One of the few things I've genuinely enjoyed for decades is creating music. I've been doing that since 1986. Success has been elusive, but I never really bothered to chase it. For me, the real satisfaction has always been in the process: writing, performing, recording, producing, improvising. Those pursuits have led to great memories and lasting friendships.
As of 2026, I've been involved in more than 125 releases, all of which you'll be able to hear here once I finish putting this site together. Thanks for stopping by.
Children öv the Fleece - NonLinear Phenomenon
Sheep Fiends - Yesterfuture
MX Skroch - Monday on the Train Tracks (EP)
Forgotten Anthems Club - Stolen Bow-Wow (single)
Scratchrock Volume 19 - 2018-2020
Sheep Fiends - The Hazy Years
Forgotten Anthems Club - The Change Believers (EP)
Forgotten Anthems Club – Glow in the Water (single)
Sheep Fiends - GAME
Sheep Fiends - Fingers of Doom
Sheep Fiends - BWARE
Sheep Fiends - Frequency Override
Sheep Fiends - Farm Jam XI
Sheep Fiends - Viaduct
Sheep Fiends - Head in the Clouds
Sheep Fiends - The Good Old Days Were Against the Law
Sheep Fiends - Into Getting Out of It
Sheep Fiends - Lost Dream
Sheep Fiends - Chipawackamongamonga
Sheep Fiends - Regent Orange
Scratchrock Volume 18 - 2015-2018
Sheep Fiends - Farm Jam IX
Sheep Fiends - International Beaver Coffee Cake Day
Sheep Fiends - Those Bastards!
Sheep Fiends - Quadrofiendia
Sheep Fiends - Captain Glam and the Space Force
Sheep Fiends - Keep your Kool
Sheep Fiends - Farm Jam 8 is Ba
Sheep Fiends - Blowing Away
Scratchrock Volume 17 - 2012-2014
Sheep Fiends - Xenodocial
Sheep Fiends - Farm Jam 6: (Cicada Rising)
Sheep Fiends - Farm Out, Man!
Sheep Fiends - Y?
Sheep Fiends - Varm Jam
Scratchrock Volume 16 - 2010-2011
Various Artists - Letters to April
Sheep Fiends - Ziggarnaut Paradox
Sheep Fiends - Gathering the Ghosts
Sheep Fiends - Farm Jam III
MX Skroch & Redneck Exorcist - Live 1995
Sheep Fiends - Slow Down the Future
Sheep Fiends - Farm Jam II
Sheep Fiends - The Seventeenths
Rooster Davis Trio - The Rooster Davis Trio
Sheep Fiends - Farm Jam
Sheep Fiends - Numerolostrology
Sheep Fiends - Looking Back
Sheep Fiends - American Sweetheart
Scratchrock Vol. 15 - 2005-2009
Sheep Fiends - Fission Overlord
Raging Bellybuttons - Basement Hymns (1987-1990)
Sheep Fiends - Do It All Again
Sheep Fiends - Leftovers, Vol. 4
MX Skroch - Ugly Music for Pretty Girls
The Hidden - Chicago's Thickest Band in the World
The Hidden - Covered with Blood and Touring
40 Gallons - The McLennon, Peterson, Skroch, and Webb Collection
MX Skroch - Loophole
Sheep Fiends - 7 on 15
Sheep Fiends - Bring It On
MX Skroch - InSkroMental
Sheep Fiends - Leftovers, Vol. 3
Sheep Fiends - Leftovers, Vol. 2
Sheep Fiends - Live From the Void
Sheep Fiends - Unacceptable Urges
The Hidden - Brave New Failure
Sheep Fiends - Right or Wrong
Sheep Fiends - The Poker Night String Band
Sheep Fiends - Live from the Rumpus Room! - 10/16/2005
Sheep Fiends - I Love America
Sheep Fiends - Join In Now
Sheep Fiends - I'm So Confused
Scratchrock Volume 14 - 2001-2004
Sheep Fiends - Leftovers, Vol. I
Daniel A. Foss - Counter Aesthetic (feat. the Sheep Fiends)
The Dentists (DDS) - Duets
Sheep Fiends - Timestrands
Sheep Fiends - We Got the Buddhist
Sheep Fiends - A Cosmic Unity
Sheep Fiends - Magick Cabbage
Sheep Fiends - Rock
Sheep Fiends - Electronic
Sheep Fiends - Take Me Down
Sheep Fiends - People Are Nice
Sheep Fiends - Rock Tonic
Sheep Fiends - Future Primitive
Sheep Fiends - Rust Never Sheeps
Sheep Fiends - Murder the Classics!
Sheep Fiends - Churn of the Century
The Dentists (DDS) - The First Six Weeks of School
Scratchrock Volume 13 - 1999-2000
MX Skroch - From the Vault: Field Recordings 1991-1994
Sheep Fiends - Cast
Sheep Fiends - Labor Day 2000
Sheep Fiends - June 2000
Scratchrock - An Abridged Testimonial - 1986-1999
Sheep Fiends - The 3 Fiends
Sheep Fiends - April Thunder
Sheep Fiends - The Superbowl of Rock
Joerock
MX Skroch - From the Vault: The Three-peat Tapes
Sheep Fiends - November 14, 1999
Sheep Fiends - October 17, 1999
Sheep Fiends - ERA 060799-081599
Sheep Fiends - 051899
Scratchrock Volume 12 - 1998-1999
Suneel Bloody Suneel
Scratchrock Volume 11 - 1996-1997
Sheep Fiends - POW! Live at the Morseland - 03/23/1999
Sheep Fiends - ERA - 111598 - 040699
Scratchrock Volume 10 - 1995-1996
Scratchrock Volume 09 - 1994-1995
Scratchrock Volume 08 - 1993-1994
The Hidden - Stop. I'm bleeding.
Scratchrock Volume 07 - 1992-1993
The Hidden - Bone of Contention (cassette)
Scratchrock Volume 06 - 1991-1992
Scratchrock Volume 05 - 1990
Scratchrock Volume 04 - 1989-1990
Scratchrock Volume 03 - 1989
Scratchrock Volume 02 - 1988-1989
Scratchrock Volume 01 - 1986-1987