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Dead Kennedys

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    The Nuns' Jennifer Miro: An Appreciation By Jack Boulware

    By JACK BOULWARE [Editor's note: Jack Boulware is the co-author, with Silke Tudor, of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day.] If we're talking the birth of Bay Area punk, there are as many points of vi ... More >>

  • Music

    August 3, 2011

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    By JACK BOULWARE [Editor's note: Jack Boulware is the co-author, with Silke Tudor, of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day.] If we're talking the birth of Bay Area punk, there are as many points of vi ... More >>

  • Music

    July 27, 2011

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    By JACK BOULWARE [Editor's note: Jack Boulware is the co-author, with Silke Tudor, of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day.] If we're talking the birth of Bay Area punk, there are as many points of vi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Dead Kennedys: Not Drunk Enough to Promote Heineken

    via Flickr​Of all the ways to promote beer, a song called "Too Drunk to Fuck" seems like a pretty dumb way to do it. Earlier this month, complaints forced Heineken to drop a beer ad on Spotify that featured a lounge-ish cover of the Dead Kennedys' classic punk song by Nouvelle Vague, the UK ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Jello Biafra vs. "Shitty Indie-Pop Bands," Round 2

    Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine​Back in May, we wrote about a new, kind of insane song by former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, "Dot Com Monte Carlo." The darkly amusing (but still crazy) lyrics call for drive-by shootings targeting yuppies and rail against "shitty indi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in the Castro

    The jukebox at the Last Call.​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Watch Photographer Glen Friedman and Artist Shepard Fairey Discuss Punk and Hip-Hop in San Francisco

    Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys in a photo by Glen Friedman​We were pretty stoked about pioneering punk, hip-hop, and skate photographer Glen E. Friedman's current show at San Francisco's 941 Geary -- and we weren't the only ones. Burning Flags Press and director Colin M. Day interviewed Friedma ... More >>

  • Music

    November 3, 2010

    "Fuck You All": Glen Friedman's punk and hip-hop photos are meant to inspire

    Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys in a photo by Glen Friedman​We were pretty stoked about pioneering punk, hip-hop, and skate photographer Glen E. Friedman's current show at San Francisco's 941 Geary -- and we weren't the only ones. Burning Flags Press and director Colin M. Day interviewed Friedma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    In Print: Fuck You All, and the Persistent Fireball That Is Marnie Stern

    Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys in a photo by Glen Friedman​Punk and hip-hop photographer Glen Friedman: Glen Friedman grew up on the front lines of the West Coast punk rock, skateboarding, and rap scenes. Photographs he shot in the 1970s and '80s are considered to be the definitive portrai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Summer Reading: 10 Key Bay Area Music Books

    ​A summer reading list should be about more than Steven King and Jackie Collins. The Bay Area's growing canon of local music history books takes many twists and turns beyond straight-up non-fiction narratives, including even poetry and cookbooks. Not only is this collection of titles a wide-rangin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Vinyl's Hidden Messages Unmasked

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2010

    Misfit Medleys

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Music

    November 4, 2009

    Alternative Tentacles' 30th anniversary

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Music

    October 7, 2009

    New Bay Area punk oral history unearths dead babies, stinky roadies, and strong community networks

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Music

    May 13, 2009

    Green Day's 21st-century political opera

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    Klaus Flouride Splits From the Dead Kennedys

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Music

    June 11, 2008

    Punk rock is officially old: Jello turns 50

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 12, 2007

    Holiday in Baghdad

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2007

    So Not Dead

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 22, 2007

    Squeezing Beasts

    Photo by Qsysue for Public Collectors​Public Collectors is working on a really cool project that spotlights a small detail of what's being lost amongst so many invisible MP3s. The site is making a list of the messages bands have "pressed into the matrix of their vinyl" over the years. Apparently t ... More >>

  • Music

    June 6, 2007

    Golden Garden

    Punk impresario Dirk Dirksen remembered in two-night stand

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2007

    Why is Jello Biafra San Francisco's Sacred Cow?

    Punk impresario Dirk Dirksen remembered in two-night stand

  • Music

    December 6, 2006

    Dirk Dirksen — Godfather of S.F. Punk Scene

    1937-2006

  • Music

    November 8, 2006

    Hank IV

    Third Person Shooter (Hook or Crook)

  • Music

    June 28, 2006

    Code of Honor

    Complete Studio Recordings 1982-1984

  • Music

    June 7, 2006

    It's a big fucking deal all over again

    Complete Studio Recordings 1982-1984

  • Music

    October 26, 2005

    Jello Biafra With the Melvins

    Sieg Howdy!

  • News

    June 22, 2005

    The Minuteman's 15 Minutes of Fame (Minute 14.5)

    At the Arizona border, Infiltrator checks in with Americans who help the government look for illegal aliens

  • Calendar

    November 24, 2004

    With Avengeance

    Teens and Geritol punkers alike will swarm to the Avengers' all-ages show

  • Music

    October 27, 2004

    Hear This

    Mark Mallman packs two days worth of energy into an hour's worth of rock; Alternative Tentacles turns 25 in style

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2004

    Showoff

    Collectors bare unknown troves

  • Calendar

    August 18, 2004

    Unfaithful

    Cheating spouses, meaty film

  • Music

    December 10, 2003

    Kings of the Stone Age

    A quarter-century ago, the Weirdos jump-started West Coast punk. Now they're back.

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2003

    Squeezebox Celebration

    Give the accordion a hand

  • Music

    October 30, 2002

    Back from -- and with -- the dead

    Kimo's and the Dead Kennedys return

  • Music

    July 24, 2002

    Hear This

    Kimo's and the Dead Kennedys return

  • Music

    January 2, 2002

    Sound Advice

    Monstrous rock, sourdough shapeliness, post-apocalyptic calligraphy, and "soul travel"

  • Music

    June 27, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    Silke Tudor sings the praises of punk rock karaoke, swoons over the Faint, and revels in girlhood

  • Music

    January 17, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    "Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

  • Music

    May 31, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Flipper's a Cover Band Now, OK?

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Punks at War

    Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

  • Music

    October 7, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

  • Calendar

    August 26, 1998

    Pre-Zines and Yearbooks

    Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

  • Calendar

    August 12, 1998

    Doo Doo Doo, Da Da Da Da

    Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

  • Music

    December 31, 1997

    Words + Guitar (+ Beats + Skronk)

    What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

  • Music

    October 8, 1997

    Riff Raff

    What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

  • Calendar

    April 2, 1997

    Slap Shots

    What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

  • Music

    November 27, 1996

    Hear This

    What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

  • Music

    February 21, 1996

    Samples

    What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

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