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  Encyclopedia: Dead Kennedys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lead singer Jello Biafra was also responsible for releasing many other punk and alternative bands on his Alternative Tentacles record label.
Prior to the release of their debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards in front of music industry big-wigs to give the event some "new wave credibility" in the words of the organizers.
It was discovered in the late 1990s that there were issues with the payments each band member had received from their record label Alternative Tentacles.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dead-Kennedys   (3813 words)

  
 Issue 11: Showdown at the DK Corral by Josh Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alternative Tentacles is one of the longest standing US based, punk rock labels in existence.
If Alternative Tentacles is able to survive this fiasco, Jello Biafra no longer wants his name or his label associated with the Dead Kennedys or what East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride, and D.H. Peligro are trying to do.
If you believe in Alternative Tentacles or what they stand for and want to help support their cause, or if you just want to find more information about the lawsuit, you can do so by going to the Alternative Tentacles Web site: www.alternativetentacles.com.
www.tabletnewspaper.com /old%20tablet/vol2iss_11/showdown.htm   (724 words)

  
 Jello Biafra Petition.com - KEEP THE DEAD KENNEDYS MUSIC ON ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES RECORDS
In the brief time since the Dead Kennedys left Alternative Tentacles Record's label, the music has been re-issued, the original tracks have been digitally re-mastered, the packaging has been changed with the cover and insert artwork altered without artist consent, and the songwriting credits have been edited.
On October 1, 1998 the Dead Kennedys (Decay Records) notified Jello Biafra and Alternative Tentacles Records that the Dead Kennedys would be terminating their business relationship with Alternative Tentacles Records, and that the Dead Kennedys would be changing record labels.
Alternative Tentacles Records is an excellent example of a DIY record label, started by the Dead Kennedys in 1978 to put out their first self-produced single, California Uber Alles.
www.jellobiafrapetition.com   (800 words)

  
 Alternative Tentacles -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alternative Tentacles is a (Click link for more info and facts about record label) record label based in (Click link for more info and facts about San Francisco, California) San Francisco, California.
It was founded in (A port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge) San Francisco in June 1979 by (Click link for more info and facts about Jello Biafra) Jello Biafra.
In addition to musical acts, Alternative Tentacles also publishes (Click link for more info and facts about left-wing) left-wing (A word that is spoken aloud) spoken word albums, many by (Click link for more info and facts about Jello Biafra) Jello Biafra himself.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Alternative_Tentacles.htm   (495 words)

  
 Jello Biafra for President
Meanwhile Alternative Tentacles is sprouting another generation of bands led by Nomeansno, Alice Donut, The Beatnigs (pre-Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and Spearhead), Tragic Mulatto, Victims Family and Hungarian space-shamans Vagtazo Halottkemek (aka Galloping Coroners or VHK).
Alternative Tentacles is banned from being advertised or reviewed in self-professed punk "bible" Maximum Rock n' Roll for not "being punk".
A still-newer crop of Alternative Tentacles artists marks a return to the extreme and esoteric sides of punk with Dead and Gone, Logical Nonsense, Buzzkill, Man is the Bastard, Facepuller, and the Fixtures.
www.angelfire.com /punk/jello2000/bio.html   (3529 words)

  
 Alternative Tentacles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biafra maintains that he did not deny them any money, and in addition, says he is no longer receiving royalties on the Manifesto releases.
In addition to musical acts, Alternative Tentacles also publishes left-wing spoken word albums, many by Jello Biafra himself.
This page was last modified 01:37, 6 September 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternative_Tentacles   (232 words)

  
 Mumia Abu-Jamal/Man Is the Bastard
Abu-Jamal doesn't discuss his actions the night Officer Daniel Faulkner was killed, but he does speak clearly and coherently on prison, police brutality (such as an incident where Philadelphia Police demolished the house of a Mount Airy woman in the name of the drug war) and African-American life.
The album includes brief testimonials from Allen Ginsburg and Alternative Tentacles founder Jello Biafra, two of the many celebrities who have defended Abu-Jamal.
Alternative Tentacles should have scrapped the music on this CD.
www.citypaper.net /articles/030598/DQ1.shtml   (238 words)

  
 Support Jello Biafra to Keep Alternative Tentacle Petition
In the brief time since the Dead Kennedys' music catalog left Alternative Tentacles label, the music has been re-issued, the original tracks have been digitally re-mastered, the packaging has been changed with the cover and insert artwork altered without artist consent, and the song writing credit have been edited.
On October 1, 1998 the Dead Kennedys/Decay Music notified Jello Biafra and Alternative Tentacles Records that the Dead Kennedys would be terminating their business relationship with Alternative Tentacles, and that the Dead Kennedys would be changing record labels.
Alternative Tentacles is a great example of a DIY record label started by the Dead Kennedys in 1978 to put out their first self produced single CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES.
www.thepetitionsite.com /takeaction/293180476?sign%5Bpartner_userID%5D=377864256&sign%5BmemberID%5D=377864256&sign%5BpartnerID%5D=1   (1173 words)

  
 Alternative Tentacles Records @ * flaming torch * (punk, emo, ska band directory)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Alternative Tentacles Records was established in June of 1979 and is most likely the longest lasting (and still active) underground record labels around.
The label has continued to remain vital in its lengthy history by refusing to adhere to a formula for an easily identifiable 'Alternative Tentacles Sound.' Rather, the label has released many political spoken word releases; as well as releasing: Brazilian hardcore, bent pop, faux-country, and assorted rock & roll.
Alternative Tentacles Records employs four people in Emeryville, California.
www.flaming-torch.co.uk /cgi-bin/label.cgi?label_id=27&browse_letter=ALL&start_from=1   (478 words)

  
 Dead Kennedys News - FAQ
In 1997, an employee at Alternative Tentacles Records discovered that Dead Kennedys had been underpaid $76,000 in royalties over a 10-year period.
Biafra will only vote for Alternative Tentacles, and therefore only himself, to release the catalogue and profit from it.
Alternative Tentacles was originally founded by Dead Kennedys and put into operation by East Bay Ray to work for the band and other artists.
www.deadkennedysnews.com /faq.htm   (1410 words)

  
 Alternative Tentacles Bands Support RAWA - The Daily Californian
With that in mind, the Bay Area's own Alternative Tentacles punk record label, with the help of the kind punk rockers over at Berkeley's 924 Gilman Street, decided to put the genre's social aggression to palpable use, and they're hoping they can get some of the local kids involved.
Gilman's collaboration with San Francisco's Alternative Tentacles label shows a commitment to an exceptional event.
Alternative Tentacles is well known for impacting underground culture with its support of vocal bands and events.
www.dailycal.org /article.php?id=8372   (554 words)

  
 S.F. Examiner
Their record company was named with that industry in mind, set up to be an alternative to the tentacles of the major labels, according to court papers.
Biafra, who lost a race for San Francisco mayor and is a current Green Party presidential candidate, followed with a lawsuit accusing the band of retaliating after he vetoed the use of "Holiday in Cambodia" in a commercial for Dockers pants.
Alternative Tentacles has continued to manufacture Dead Kennedys records, even though the cash flow stopped 20 months ago.
www.phillaw.com /html/s_f__examiner.html   (846 words)

  
 Alternative Tentacles
Obwohl von den meisten Leuten als einfaches Punklabel angesehen wird ist Alternative Tentacles besonders seinen Einfluss auf die Undergroundkultur bekannt.
Das letzte weithin bekannt gewordene Projekt Jello Biafra auf Alternative Tentacles war THE NO WTO COMBO die mit ihrem Live Album Live from the Battle of Seattle die Gemüter der Globalisierungsgegner und WTO -Gegner anheizte.
Alternative Tentacles Records beschäftigt 4 Menschen Emeryville Kalifornien.
www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Alternative_Tentacles.html   (261 words)

  
 Skate Scene Media - Skate Rock Cd's out on Alternative Tentacles
Jello Biafra who fronted the real Dead Kennedys owns the Alternative Tentacles record label and they just put out 3 great Skate Rock CD's.
Alternative Tentacles put together a good collection of bands to get the Skate Rock series going.
This is not the only 3 bands that they are releasing, the news we recently got is that JFA will have all of their stuff out in 2003 on Alternative Tentacles to add to the Skate Rock series..........
www.teamgoon.com /skate_rock/review.htm   (458 words)

  
 Alternative Tentacles - netlexikon
Das Underground-Label Alternative Tentacles Records wurde im Juni 1979 gegründet und ist bis heute eine der ältesten noch aktiven Plattenfirmen dieser Art.
Obwohl es von den meisten Leuten als einfaches Punklabel angesehen wird, ist Alternative Tentacles besonders für seinen Einfluss auf die Undergroundkultur bekannt.
Das letzte weithin bekannt gewordene Projekt von Jello Biafra auf Alternative Tentacles war THE NO WTO COMBO die mit ihrem Live Album Live from the Battle of Seattle die Gemüter der Globalisierungsgegner und WTO-Gegner anheizte.
www.lexikon-definition.de /Alternative-Tentacles.html   (276 words)

  
 Punknews.org | About Alternative Tentacles Records
Alternative Tentacles emerged in June of 1979 as the label name on Dead Kennedys' self-produced debut single California Uber Alles.
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.
Alternative Tentacles shared some details regarding the second collaboration between Jello Biafra and the Melvins.
www.punknews.org /label.php?topic=38   (911 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Jello Biafra: biography, discography, reviews, links
L'EP The Power Of Lard (Alternative Tentacles, 1988) e` uno dei capolavori del punk "industriale": il "rap" esplosivo della title-track, con le sue terrificanti progressioni e una magistrale recitazione espressionista di Biafra, e la grottesca danse macabre di Hell Fudge, conun ritornello demenziale e un "call-and-response" da demoni ubriachi, coniano un gergo thrash-industriale altamente emotivo.
Su Tumor Circus (Alternative Tentacles, 1991) le cadenze marziali e il recitato esagitato di Biafra si fondono a meraviglia con il rumore strumentale dei comprimari.
Sieg Howdy (Alternative Tentacles, 2005), the second collaboration between Biafra and the Melvins, opens disappointingly with a clownish cover of Alice Cooper's Halo Of Flies, but then detonates The Lighter Side Of Global Terrorism, Osborne's best imitation yet of the classic Dead Kennedys sound, with spectacular guitar solos and the trademark demented vocals.
www.scaruffi.com /vol5/biafra.html   (1687 words)

  
 Rc1 -- Jello Biafra introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unlike most punk musicians, he was one of the first to go up against the music industry itself, forming Alternative Tentacles Records over 20 years ago.
His radical insights inform a dozen music albums and six spoken-word albums on the Alternative Tentacles label, which is currently under legal attack.
This is also the contact address for the Alternative Tentacles Legal Defense Fund; contributions are needed to help ensure the independent punk label's survival.
www.researchpubs.com /books/rc1JBintr.shtml   (258 words)

  
 Alternative Tentacles lose court case
The band, their label (San Francisco-based Alternative Tentacles) and its owner, Jello Biafra (Eric R. Boucher), had been sued more than a year ago by the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) over its unauthorized use of the photo, which showed officer Whalen pretending to lie dead next to his cruiser.
FOP press officer Dale Wilcox told ATN the photo was used in a poster to raise public awareness of a 1986 contract dispute between the city and the FOP and bore the legend, "You wouldn't sacrifice your life for a million bucks.
The Fraternal Order of Police took the default of Alternative Tentacles Records and Jello Biafra even though their attorneys knowingly failed to properly serve the required notice of their intention to take the default.
www.mrl.nott.ac.uk /~dxl/reviews/tentacles.html   (798 words)

  
 Dead Kennedys News - home page
Alternative Tentacles Records Appellate Brief - Text of a California Court of Appeals document
Dead Kennedys were underpaid royalties by Alternative Tentacles Records.
It was proven to be true that "Alternative Tentacles Records engaged in fraudulent conduct" and that Jello Biafra "breached his contractual and fiduciary obligations to plaintiff [Dead Kennedys]." It was also shown "by clear and convincing evidence" that Biafra and Alternative Tentacles were "guilty of malice, oppression and fraud" in committing these acts.
www.deadkennedysnews.com   (317 words)

  
 Tentacles Alternativo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tentacles alternativo es una etiqueta de registro basada en Emeryville, California.
El pleito ha sido un soplo a Tentacles alternativo, aunque las ventas sus otros artistas y los autores están guardando ir de la etiqueta.
Además de actos musicales, Tentacles alternativo también publica álbumes hablados izquierdistas de la palabra.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/te/Tentacles%20Alternativo.htm   (244 words)

  
 Morphizm.com -- Dead Kennedys Reissues
Couple that with the fact that the DK members who felt jilted by Jello and Alternative Tentacles are now banding together and touring while failing to tell promoters that Biafra is not on board until the eleventh hour, if at all, and you have yourself a full-blooded, corporate ego clash.
Visit the ex-home of the DK catalogue, Alternative Tentacles (and pick up some shit while you're there!)...
The discs look and sound more or less exactly the same as Alternative Tentacles' efforts, which is middling to say the best, something that may say more about the Dead Kennedys' studio skills than anything.
www.morphizm.com /recommends/dkreview.html   (791 words)

  
 Alternative Tentacles - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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The brainchild of notorious Dead Kennedys rabble-rouser Jello Biafra, Alternative Tentacles is a musical platform for infidels, revolutionaries, wingnuts, activists, mad poets, and aural terrorists -- in short, for everything that Biafra has always stood for.
The San Francisco-based label emerged when the Dead Kennedys did -- it was the name on the band's self-produced debut single, "California Uber Alles" -- but Biafra has controlled it since the group's acrimonious split.
www.epitonic.com /labels/alternativetentacles.html   (577 words)

  
 A punk rock record label's silver jubilee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But having survived 25 years of backstabbing, lawsuits and irrational trends in pop music, it's hard to fault ex-Dead Kennedys front man Jello Biafra for asking people to take a minute to recognize that his independently owned and operated label, Alternative Tentacles, is still blasting forward.
Since the Dead Kennedys broke up in 1986, Biafra has used Alternative Tentacles primarily as a vehicle to begin a second career as a spoken-word artist.
Alternative Tentacles 25th Anniversary Party with Jello Biafra and the Melvins, the Bellrays, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Fleshies, Comets on Fire.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/30/DDGER9I30L1.DTL   (649 words)

  
 WRONG ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES - CDandLP.com
Alternative Tentacles - Virus 17 USA - 1992
Alternative Tentacles - Virus 44 USA - 1985
Alternative Tentacles - Virus 24 USA - 1982
www.cdandlp.com /search1-0-1/1/label/Wrong%20Alternative%20Tentacles.html   (263 words)

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