Alternative Tentacles

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Started by Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys in 1979, Alternative Tentacles is one of the longest-running independent record labels.
June 1979: Dead Kennedys release their first single “California Über Alles”.
Spring 1981: Alternative Tentacles re-launches with the Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation, designed to introduce North American bands such as D.O.A., Black Flag, Flipper, Bad Brains, Half Japanese, and Voice Farm, among many others, to Europe and the world at large.
1987: Biafra releases first spoken word album No More Cocoons.

1988: Alternative Tentacles sprouts another generation of bands led by NoMeansNo, Alice Donut, The Beatnigs (with Michael Franti now of Spearhead), Tragic Mulatto, Victims Family, and Hungarian space-shamans Vagtazo Halottkemek (aka Galloping Coroners or VHK).
1994: Biafra releases a fourth spoken word album on Alternative Tentacles, Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police.
1996-97: In May 1997, Alternative Tentacles releases Lard’s second full-length album, Pure Chewing Satisfaction. Yet another crop of AT artists—including Dead And Gone, Logical Nonsense, Buzzkill, Man Is the Bastard, Facepuller, and The Fixtures—marks a return to the extreme and esoteric sides of . The side of the equation is bolstered by the addition of Thrall (ex-God Bullies), Ultra Bide, Pachinko, Zen Guerrilla, and the uniquely -influenced Czech group, Life After Life (ex-Plastic People of the Universe).
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