Alternative Tentacles and Great American Music Hall Present"BIAFRA FIVE – O"Come “celebrate” 50 years of Jello plaguing the earth (and the 30th Anniversary of Dead Kennedys)::June 16thJello Biafra with the MelvinsJello Biafra without the Melvins (new music, new band!)Drunk InjunsLos OlvidadosThe Melvins play “Mangled Demos”::June 17thJello Biafra with the MelvinsJello Biafra without the
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http://alternativetentacles.muxtape.com/ MUXTAPE PLAYLISTThe Eat - Communist RadioJello Biafra - Brown Lipstick Voodoo RitualTriclops! - Iraqi CuratorSlim Cessna's Auto Club - All About The Bullfrog In 3 VersesAkimbo - Huge MusclesBlöödhag - Michael SwanwickBlowfly - Destructo RockLudicra - VeilsGreg Palast - New OrleansZolar X - Hyper Space DriveAmebix - SanctuaryThe (International) Noise Cons.
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Favored East Bay freaks Triclops! (they do count the exclamation point as part of hte name) turn your stomach with this creepily edited amalgam of live show footage and educational films of parasitic larvae. This track from their debut album "Out of Africa" (which follows EPs on GSL and Sickroom) has members of Fleshies, Victims Family, Bottles and Skulls, and Lower 48 powering through their tr...
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Mentally Ill perform at the after party for the premiere of the Chicago punk documentary "You Weren't There"press release below:Regressive Films Presents "You Weren't There-A History Of Chicago Punk 1977-1984"WORLD PREMIERE November 24,2007 at the Portage Theater. "You Weren't There- A History Of Chicago Punk 1977-1984" is a documentary that looks back on the impact that the Punk movement had o...
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Band reunions stir up all kinds of emotions. On the one hand, especially if you're a youngun, you want to see a band that you never got to see in their heyday. In reality, it's more sad than sexy to see a chubbier, thinner-haired version of the band, who has to catch their breath with between-song banters that sound more like Dad trying to be hip. "Zolar X":http://www.alternativetentacles.co...
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Below is a video for the song "Gassy Jack" by "The Evaporators":http://www.alternativetentacles.com/bandinfo.php?band=evaporators. Surely by now, you've heard of the Canadian radio/TV personality and underground legend "Nardwuar the Human Serviette":http://nardwuar.com/, the tenacious man-child journalist with a penchant for off-kilter celebrity interviews. The Evaporators is Nardwuar's musi...
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This is a live photo of Akimbo at 12 Galaxies in San Francisco on Sept 14th.They just got done with a short West Coast jaunt in support of their latest (and fifth) album "Navigating the Bronze" (which you can purchase on our website. With new guitar ace Aaron Walters on board, the rock triumverate is complete, putting the cherry atop the solid pyramid started by Jon Wiesnewski and Nat Damm. Th...
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"Criminally underrated" is such an overused phrase in the douchebag rock critic's limited bag of tricks. But when it comes to "Fleshies":http://www.alternativetentacles.com/bandinfo.php?band=fleshies, we feel it necessary to resort to that tired phrase or some facsimile thereof. They criss-crossed North America numerous times and even jetted to Europe on a few tours, but the world at large is...
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Author Madeleine L'Engle passed away last week at the age of 88. According to the "New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?em&ex=1189569600&en=52224855097f3bc6&ei=5087%0A obituary, _A Wrinkle in Time_ was rejected by publishers 26 times, but has sold over 8 million copies and is in its 69th printing. Most of us probably read some of the 8 million copies in ex...
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When Alternative Tentacles first announced the release of "Fuck World Trade":http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=799 (2004) by "Leftover Crack":http://www.alternativetentacles.com/bandinfo.php?band=leftovercrack some record stores objected to the cover art and refused to carry it. Check out the image below: it's a photo collage featuring the WTC as the second plane was abo...
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