12/15/10
What Would Jello Do? Part 6- Obama's Tax Deal & more!
See all of the What Would Jello Do episodes on our youtube channel!
Also, here's a classic Jello interview w/ Jools Holland @ L.A.'s infamous Oki Dog in 1979 or 1980:
12/9/10
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.
Want to buy the track now? Click here
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.
10/25/10
Not So Quiet On The Blanket
Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach was inspired to make this based on the 7 Seconds song on our Not So Quiet On The Western Front compilation.
In her own words:
The blanket was knit on the occasion of a project I was invited to do at Los Angeles Nomadic Division. For the blanket, I wanted to evoke the character of Madame Defarge in "Tale of Two Cities." Because a lot of my work involves knitting, and much of it is political, I have been asked about this character a lot, so for this project I thought I'd just go with it.
The border of the blanket is the lyrics to the song "Fuck Your Amerika" by 7 Seconds. I first heard that song when I was high school, and it's really stuck with me. Inside of that border is another rectangle of red and white and then inside of that is a gray stripe that says "Today we invoke the first amendment, tomorrow the second" which I saw quoted in the newspaper as being on a sign at a Tea Party Rally. So it's this idea that the American rights are being talked about by one constituency as an entitlement while the lyrics are much more questioning. In the center of the blanket are names of people that I and friends of mine can't stand. I put out a call asking for names and people wrote me back with everyone from Bush to ex-boyfriends. I wanted to make a blanket that was a collective effort, naming an "enemy" together and strengthening this idea by knitting it, as did Defarge.
It's intentional that the 7 Seconds lyrics is in the red, white, and blue part of the blanket while the so-called "real americans" get shafted into the gray area.
At the evening project (http://www.nomadicdivision.org/programs/nomadicnights/lautner/default.html)
people drew on a large piece of knitting graph paper, creating their ideas for a new blanket of enemies. This blanket was there as inspiration.
A friend of mine called this the "Blanket of Death" but that seems a bit too voodoo for me. I like to think of it more simply as a snapshot of the time I made it, who was in the news, who was on people's minds. It's important to me that there are personal enemies as well as political adversaries.
The most common name people wanted put on the blanket was Sarah Palin.
In her own words:
The blanket was knit on the occasion of a project I was invited to do at Los Angeles Nomadic Division. For the blanket, I wanted to evoke the character of Madame Defarge in "Tale of Two Cities." Because a lot of my work involves knitting, and much of it is political, I have been asked about this character a lot, so for this project I thought I'd just go with it.
The border of the blanket is the lyrics to the song "Fuck Your Amerika" by 7 Seconds. I first heard that song when I was high school, and it's really stuck with me. Inside of that border is another rectangle of red and white and then inside of that is a gray stripe that says "Today we invoke the first amendment, tomorrow the second" which I saw quoted in the newspaper as being on a sign at a Tea Party Rally. So it's this idea that the American rights are being talked about by one constituency as an entitlement while the lyrics are much more questioning. In the center of the blanket are names of people that I and friends of mine can't stand. I put out a call asking for names and people wrote me back with everyone from Bush to ex-boyfriends. I wanted to make a blanket that was a collective effort, naming an "enemy" together and strengthening this idea by knitting it, as did Defarge.
It's intentional that the 7 Seconds lyrics is in the red, white, and blue part of the blanket while the so-called "real americans" get shafted into the gray area.
At the evening project (http://www.nomadicdivision.org/programs/nomadicnights/lautner/default.html)
people drew on a large piece of knitting graph paper, creating their ideas for a new blanket of enemies. This blanket was there as inspiration.
A friend of mine called this the "Blanket of Death" but that seems a bit too voodoo for me. I like to think of it more simply as a snapshot of the time I made it, who was in the news, who was on people's minds. It's important to me that there are personal enemies as well as political adversaries.
The most common name people wanted put on the blanket was Sarah Palin.
9/23/10
Looong-awaited films FINALLY here!
Terminal City Ricochet (1990) & The Widower (1999) are 2 excellent indie Canadian flicks that feature, among many others, Jello Biafra & Joey "Shithead" Keithley from DOA!Both come with their respective soundtracks- we've had the Terminal City Ricochet soundtrack since 1989 (the Jello/DOA & Jello/Nomeansno tracks kickstarted Jello's records with each band: Last Scream Of The Missing Neighbors and The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy).
The Widower soundtrack has never been released and features DOA, Neko Case And Her Boyfriends, The Evaporators, and many more!These DVD+Soundtrack CD packages will be in stores October 12th, 2010, but until then you can get them exclusively from our on-line store!
7/26/10
Todd Sampson (MIA) R.I.P. 7/25/10
We are sad to bear the news that M.I.A. singer Todd Sampson passed away this weekend.This Las Vegas Weekly article by Spencer Patterson filed July 25th, 2010 provides some background but does not have a cause of death determined.
Friend and photographer of the band Jesse Nabers informs of us a memorial show being organized, we will post that information when it becomes available to us.
UPDATE FROM JELLO BIAFRA:
I am totally shocked. I was just getting to know Todd, as a great musician and performer, and above all as a friend. He was a real natural.
Here at Alternative Tentacles, we are devastated. Our hearts and wishes go out to his son Daz, his girlfriend, the MIA family, and all those who loved him.
Whatever you do, please don't give up. Todd never did. He will be truly missed.
7/14/10
The classic Bat is BACK!
Back in stock, it's the CLASSIC Bat logo shirt, now in black, white, & long-sleeve black. All are on American Apparel (except the 5XL one).P.S.- Sorry about all of those weird spam blog comments. Please ignore them!
5/27/10
Memorial Day Weekend BAT-STYLE!
This weekend features Cross Stitched Eyes swooping into Chaos In Tejas with Subhumans (U.K.) and Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine rockin' Fleet Week for NYC's anti-war UXO boat festival!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)