In 2018, the band Hookworms faced allegations of abuse against their singer, reported by a third party, which led to the dissolution of the group.

In 2013 Hookworms signed with the Domino imprint Weird World; they also joined the Too Pure roster with their single "Radio Tokyo."

Fans of Hookworms included Bobby Gillespie, Charlotte Church,[10][11] and Julian Cope,[12] who described their 2011 EP as "an epic 26 minutes of sub-Zabriskie Point ambient road-movie heat haze-on-the-road sonic wipeout of the post-Loop variety."

On 30 October 2018, Alanna McCardle—formerly a member of Welsh group Joanna Gruesome and a former partner of Hookworms singer Matthew Johnson—took to Twitter to post a series of tweets on behalf of another unnamed woman, referred to only as 'L', who had also been in a relationship with Johnson.

[15] In the aftermath of the widely covered[16] allegations made against the singer on Twitter which resulted in the band's breakup—Johnson appeared to remove himself entirely from social media.