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Alternative Tentacles emerged in June of 1979 as the label name on Dead Kennedys' self-produced debut single California Uber Alles. The name lived on as a European label promoting singles from then-unknown North American bands like D.O.A., Bad Brains, Black Flag, Flipper, TSOL, Voice Farm and the
Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation. As attention in the US underground grew Alternative Tentacles went domestic with releases from Dead Kennedys, frontman (and label head) Jello Biafra, Butthole Surfers, D.O.A., 7 Seconds, NoMeansNo and others. The label later saw releases from street singer Wesley Willis, incarcerated journalist Mumia Abu Jamal and punk band Fleshies. In 2002 Alternative Tentacles moved from San Francisco to Emeryville California and has thrived as a label and mailorder company offering counterculture music and literature.
Artists with releases on this label:
Dead Kennedys, No WTO Combo, Lard, Los Olividados, The Phantom Limbs, Leftover Crack, Jello Biafra With The Melvins, The Sermon, The Yuppie Pricks, PilotScottTracy, Dash Rip Rock, Blowfly, Nob Dylan and the Nobsoletes, False Prophets, Nausea, F-Minus, Akimbo, Report Suspicious Activity, The Knights of the New Crusade, 16 Horsepower, Pansy Division, The Crucifucks, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Jello Biafra with Nomeansno Recent ReviewsRecent NewsAlternative Tentacles joins Muxtape, posts new MP3s, old ones The famous Bay area label, Alternative Tentacles, has officially joined Muxtape. Muxtape, for those of you who don't know, is a website (probably some form of Internets spelling of the word "Mixtape") that allows users to simply stream twelve tracks at a time. The label had this to say: Alternative Tentacles has succumbed to another viral meme, this time it's the ragin' case of the MUXTAPE! We can't vouch for the legality of this little guy, but it lets us put up twelve hot, streaming mp3s…Leftover Crack Leftover Crack have announced a tour set to kick off in late April. The jaunt will include dates in the United States with stops in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and…Alternative Tentacles announces Amebix re-issue Alternative Tentacles have announced a re-issue of Amebix's early material for the Spiderleg Records imprint. The re-issue will include No Sanctuary, Who's the Enemy, and Winter. Titled No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings, the album has been remastered by Jello Biafra and George Horn at Fantasy Studios and will be available as either a digipak CD or LP with bonus 7…Mike Conley of MIA (-2008) Mike Conley, former vocalist of Orange County punk band MIA was found dead yesterday in Chicago. According to the news report, Mike was found unresponsive at 5:40 a.m. by a person staying in the hotel in the 2300 block of North…Jello Biafra rips into the RIAA; draws comparisons to mafia, extortion Jello Biafra recently spoke to Norway's Aftenposten and unleashed some serious hate against music industry trade lobby, RIAA. He does express some concern about the problem of file sharing with regards to newer bands however: I have two different opinions on file-sharing” says Biafra, drawing a metaphorical line in the sand - with good (small labels) on one side, and bad (big labels) on the other. You may take from the big labels, because the only thing they do…Alternative Tentacles announces new Slim Cessna's Auto Club album, tour Alternative Tentacles has announced that Denver, CO's…Akimbo: "Dive (Nirvana Cover)," "Dangerousness" Seattle, WA's Akimbo have posted new videos of live performances on their MySpace page. The videos feature a Nirvana cover filmed in France and "Dangerousness" filmed in Wisconsin. The videos come with the news that the band will be lying low for the first part of the year, playing local shows and taking some time to…Alternative Tentacles signs Triclops! The long-running Bay area label Alternative Tentacles has signed Triclops! with a release date of March 25th for their debut full length album, Out of Africa. The group features members of Bottles and Skulls, Fleshies, Victims Family, and Lower Forty-Eight. The album was scheduled to be released on Gold Standard labs before that labeled closed its doors last fall You can find two songs from the upcoming album on…Help Akimbo figure out "Navigating the Bronze" Alternative Tentacles is throwing a contest in celebration of Akimbo's new full length Navigating the Bronze. Here's the scoop: "Dude, I totally navigated the bronze last night!" What does that sentence mean to you? This elusive phrase has not been explicitly defined by Akimbo, the band who created this mysterious album title. Many theories have been informally offered, none to our satisfaction. However, we want to make "Navigating the…Leftover Crack denied entry into Canada Leftover Crack who were set to play a number of Canadian dates this week were turned away by Canadian immigration authorities. Frontman Stza Crack addressed the incident on the band's website saying Most of us tried almost as hard as we could to play for you folks up there and after a 20 hour round trip in a van I am writing this to say a big Fuck You to the Canadian Immigration Assholes. I hate them almost .0000000000001% as much as the U.S. Boder Patrol aka La Migra, but as far as I know, I cannot compare the Canadians to the Scum that slimes… |
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