Spotlight: Jello Biafra!
Tentacles Spotlight:
Jello Biafra
While he should need no introduction, Jello Biafra is a musician, spoken word artist, and the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. After he left the Dead Kennedys, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles that he co-founded in 1979. He is featured in numerous musicial collaborations and currently performs in Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine.
LATEST RELEASES
The first full album since 2014 by Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School Of Medicine. This is very strong stuff. Hear the inimitable Mr. B skewer the place we’ve put ourselves in, like no one else would – or could – as he and The Guantanamo School of Medicine capture the full power of the live shows on disc as never before.
The first-ever vinyl release of two long-awaited tracks, previously available only in digital format. This highly anticipated split 7″ features Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School of Medicine and The November 3, with two explosive songs: “Blunder Blubber” and “IFAR.”
Alternative Tentacles partnered with Crispin Glover Records to present “Punch” a new split 7” from Patrik Fitzgerald and Motorpsycho featuring Jello Biafra, both performing Fitzgerald’s classic song, “Punch”! Now available in a brand new limited SOYLENT GREENLAND edition vinyl!
NOW BACK IN STOCK
Full-length #2 for JBGSM, Covered in gruesome detail are political corruption, corporate McMedia, and our never-ending foreign-policy disasters in ways even Jello’s spoken word albums never did! Above all, this rocks! No pop-punk here. Just Jello and crew taking punk fire in a wide variety of directions few ever try!
The sweat-soaked live album from the night Bill Davis (DASH RIP ROCK) and Fred Le Blanc (COWBOY MOUTH) dared JELLO BIAFRA to join them during Jazzfest and sing all classic New Orleans soul, rhythm and blues, and (at Jello’s request) garage songs! You can almost feel the grease and voodoo dripping from the walls!
JBGSM roar back with these ferocious tracks! Showcasing the depth and breadth of Jello’s musical chops and lyrical triumphs on these five originals and his reworking of the Deviants classic “Metamophosis Exploration.” Mixing space-punk overtones and spy-music-on-meth chaos of Dead Kennedys while adding a healthy dose of Detroit style proto-punk.
The debut of the group that was started in the wake of Jello’s 50th birthday celebration! The album explores how the forced Iraqnophobia and Homeland Insecurity continues to feed lawlessness at the top vs. a runaway police state and class war toward the bottom. Biafra solidifies his uncompromising vision and updates it for the new century, with the first band of his own since Dead Kennedys!
Back on vinyl after almost 20 years!!! Last Scream of The Missing Neighbors is the album-length result of Jello Biafra’s collaboration with long-time associates D.O.A. for the super soundtrack of the 1990 dystopian comedy film, Terminal City Ricochet! Trouser Press Magazine praised the album, saying that “…Last Scream proudly re-hoists the DK flag in all but name.” Now you can experience it for yourself with the original vinyl master!
The mutant alleged-country collaboration 7″ between two greats: Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon! “Will The Fetus Be Aborted?” is as relevant today, as it was when it was first released and let’s be honest… that’s fucking depressing. Luckily we can sing-a-long to the classic original and alarmingly faithful rendition of lost and twisted country classics!
AVAILABLE NOW
JELLO BIAFRA “BECOME THE MEDIA” TEE
JELLO BIAFRA RENEGADE ROUNDTABLE TEE
JELLO BIAFRA BY LARRY SCHORR TEE
JELLO BIAFRA & GSM “OFFICIAL SEAL” TEE
What’s New At Alternative Tentacles:
June 2025
Tsunami Bomb’s Dominic Davi talks about what’s been happening lately at Alternative Tentacles Records!