Love Slim Cessna, Dash Rip Rock, AND Rock Band?

Then you're in luck! Slim Cessna's Auto Club "Americadio" is now available to play on Rock Band! Here's the preview video.

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Also out now, Dash Rip Rock "Johnny Ace 2010"- you can buy it here to practice, just in for their January-March 2011 tour with Cowboy Mouth!

Check out this awesome preview video!

After this dose of Alternative Tentacles twang comes some classic AT riffage from Ludicra "Veils" and... wait for it... AMEBIX!

To sate your curiosity, here is the preview video for Ludicra.

SXSW, dicks, and hipsters

Gary Floyd and the Dicks are in the news! Here's a live review by Christopher Weingarten, and a news piece on MSNBC by Robert Wellington. There's also a preview here from Austin Decider.


Other AT bands are at SXSW as well, including Dash Rip Rock, The Evaporators, and Star Fucking Hipsters (which features members of Leftover Crack).


Star Fucking Hipsters
March 19, Opal Divine's Freehouse 700 W 6th St. 12 midnight set

Evaporators
March 21, Habana Calle 6. 1:00 am set

Welcome to the Alternative Tentacles Blog!

Hey all- This blog is run by the folks at Alternative Tentacles Records, and will cover AT news, weird things, favorite bits, and a little bit more. Plus things t.b.a. Can't get much broader than that, huh?

I'll kick off with a couple of my favorite things that aren't on Alternative Tentacles in the AT Store:

The new Dash Rip Rock cd "Country Girlfriend" released by the band, is a late addition to my favorite records of 2008. A whole lotta twang mixed in with their bar band rock, "Country Girlfriend" isn't as dark & weird as their 2007 AT cd "Hee Haw Hell." It still has the solid songs & clever lyrics that you'd expect from the band, no worries!

Another current fave is Los Fastidios- the long-running Italian anti-fascist oi band. We have a few of their cds, including the greatest hits "16 Anos" and the one to the left, "Siempre Contra." I found them through a youtube video of their tune "Antifa Hooligans" which is all about beating up nazis at soccer games. It makes me want to shave my head, put on a Fred Perry, and learn to like watching soccer... almost. Anyways, these Italian skinheads are vegetarians, queer-friendly, and have their hearts in the right place.

Crap, since I'm here, I'd like to include all of the releases we have from the German label Mad Butcher & its ska sublabel, Black Butcher. There's live Angelic Upstarts, plus full-lengths & eps from The Commandantes (German commie oi), Italian oi veterans Klasse Kriminale, Bolzplatz, Arpioni (Italian ska), Heros & Zeros (Dutch leftist oi), and everyone's favorite UK anarcho-punk poet Attila The Stockbroker.

Like everything in our section of non-AT records & cds, there are limited numbers available since we traded with Mad Butcher a couple years back for these titles.

- Jesse Luscious