Jello Biafra

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GiollaUidir 1. Surf's Up at Mollusk (Friday)Prepare for future beach bumdum by spending Friday night at Mollusk, the surf shop that offers more than just hoodies and boards. It's run by artistically inclined folks--hence art openings and film screenings that go beyond your typical wave happy retaile ... More >>

Punk rock is officially old: Jello turns 50

GiollaUidir 1. Surf's Up at Mollusk (Friday)Prepare for future beach bumdum by spending Friday night at Mollusk, the surf shop that offers more than just hoodies and boards. It's run by artistically inclined folks--hence art openings and film screenings that go beyond your typical wave happy retaile ... More >>

Art House

GiollaUidir 1. Surf's Up at Mollusk (Friday)Prepare for future beach bumdum by spending Friday night at Mollusk, the surf shop that offers more than just hoodies and boards. It's run by artistically inclined folks--hence art openings and film screenings that go beyond your typical wave happy retaile ... More >>

Stage Fright

GiollaUidir 1. Surf's Up at Mollusk (Friday)Prepare for future beach bumdum by spending Friday night at Mollusk, the surf shop that offers more than just hoodies and boards. It's run by artistically inclined folks--hence art openings and film screenings that go beyond your typical wave happy retaile ... More >>

Garage punks wryly needle religion; jazz stars skewer Orwellian politics

GiollaUidir 1. Surf's Up at Mollusk (Friday)Prepare for future beach bumdum by spending Friday night at Mollusk, the surf shop that offers more than just hoodies and boards. It's run by artistically inclined folks--hence art openings and film screenings that go beyond your typical wave happy retaile ... More >>

Jello Biafra With the Melvins

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After Hours Clubs, John Vanderslice, Missing Apples at the Fillmore, and Jello Biafra

Punks at War

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

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

Pre-Zines and Yearbooks

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

Riff Raff

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

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

Riff Raff

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

Slap Shots

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

Riff Raff

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

Riff Raff

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

Night Crawler

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

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

Green Day's 21st-century political opera

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

Last Night: US Air Guitar Championships at The Independent

Anna McCarthyBeardo Weirdo shreds an air solo.The US Air Guitar ChampionshipsSat, June 27, 2009The IndependentBetter Than: The Real Guitar Awards.They came, they air shredded, they conquered. In the world of air guitar, high kicks, spandex, and bodily fluids floweth like water -- and everyone knows ... More >>

Vote Your Conscience, NYC

Anna McCarthyBeardo Weirdo shreds an air solo.The US Air Guitar ChampionshipsSat, June 27, 2009The IndependentBetter Than: The Real Guitar Awards.They came, they air shredded, they conquered. In the world of air guitar, high kicks, spandex, and bodily fluids floweth like water -- and everyone knows ... More >>

Something Like a Phenomenon

Anna McCarthyBeardo Weirdo shreds an air solo.The US Air Guitar ChampionshipsSat, June 27, 2009The IndependentBetter Than: The Real Guitar Awards.They came, they air shredded, they conquered. In the world of air guitar, high kicks, spandex, and bodily fluids floweth like water -- and everyone knows ... More >>

Last Night: Soul Clap at the Elbo Room

This dude really, really wanted to win. He air humped another dude on the dance floor. ​Soul ClapElbo RoomMonday, July 27, 2009Better than: Grease, Grease 2, Grease LightningIf you still believe people in San Francisco don't dance, you're going to the wrong shows. You can complain all you want abo ... More >>

Alternative Tentacles' 30th anniversary

This dude really, really wanted to win. He air humped another dude on the dance floor. ​Soul ClapElbo RoomMonday, July 27, 2009Better than: Grease, Grease 2, Grease LightningIf you still believe people in San Francisco don't dance, you're going to the wrong shows. You can complain all you want abo ... More >>

Photo: Jello Biafra, Please Learn to Use the Internet

​And you think it took a while to get Kanye West on Twitter? From what our sources at Alternative Tentacles (the record label started by ex-Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra) tell us, their tech-phobic boss isn't even hip to e-mail -- Biafra has to be faxed documents. What's a fax? I'm not reall ... More >>

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

​And you think it took a while to get Kanye West on Twitter? From what our sources at Alternative Tentacles (the record label started by ex-Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra) tell us, their tech-phobic boss isn't even hip to e-mail -- Biafra has to be faxed documents. What's a fax? I'm not reall ... More >>

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 >>

"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​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 >>

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 >>

In Case You Were Wondering, Jello Biafra Hates S.F.'s High-Tech Geeks and "Shitty Indie-Pop Bands"

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine​Jello Biafra, the former high-pitched voice of the Dead Kennedys, isn't known for holding his tongue. Whether he's helming a punk rock band, running his Alternative Tentacles label, or even just speaking onstage, the guy always has something - ... More >>

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

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine​Jello Biafra, the former high-pitched voice of the Dead Kennedys, isn't known for holding his tongue. Whether he's helming a punk rock band, running his Alternative Tentacles label, or even just speaking onstage, the guy always has something - ... More >>

Here's What Would Happen if You Remade Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day" in S.F. Today

Angry Birds on the iPad. Does this look familiar?​ We can say with near-total confidence that Jello Biafra will hate the people in this video. You tech-employed, indie-pop loving Twitter users might just love it, though. This none-too-subtle advertisement for a new wireless speaker is a music ... More >>

Turns Out Jello Biafra Looks Absolutely Terrifying as a Porn Star Manager

Jello Biafra, or the devil?​ The Vancouver interview phenomenon known as Nardwuar recently released a new interview with S.F. punk prognosticator/originator Jello Biafra, and boy is it terrifying. Not for any of the usual reasons -- Jello behaves with considerable restraint here compared to pa ... More >>

Tomorrow: Pizza, Moshing, and Brewery Tour

Tamara PalmerInside PizzaHacker's 1000-degree "Franken-Weber" oven.​Speakeasy Brewery Punk Rock Pizza Party Where: Speakeasy Ales and Lagers, 1195 Evans (at Keith), 642-3371 When: Fri., June 24, 4-10 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: If Jello Biafra played your 13th birthday party, and you were ... More >>

R.I.P. Dave Devereaux, Owner of the Mission's Force of Habit Records, 1970-2011

"Brainhdead" Dave Devereaux, 1970-2011​"Braindead" Dave Devereaux, owner of Force of Habit Records in the Mission, a small but passionately run shop specializing in rare punk rock, vinyl, and collectible toys, passed away this month of an unknown cause. He was 41. Devereaux passed away on Jul ... More >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

Jello Biafra's 'Ultimate Third Rail': Why the Outspoken SF Punk Rocker Abandoned Plans to Play in Israel

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine​ Last summer, SF punk rocker, notorious political rabble-rouser, and former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra was booked to perform in Israel, along with his band, the Guantanamo School of Medicine, in support of their new Enhanced Methods o ... More >>

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

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine​ Last summer, SF punk rocker, notorious political rabble-rouser, and former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra was booked to perform in Israel, along with his band, the Guantanamo School of Medicine, in support of their new Enhanced Methods o ... More >>