Lollipop Magazine

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine to release new album “White People and the Damage Done” – News

April 1, 2013

On April 2, Alternative Tentacles will release White People and the Damage Done, the new album from Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine.

Unsane – Wreck – Review

April 15, 2012

Unsane have brought their uncompromising noise rock to ultra-cool record labels: Matador, Amphetamine Reptile, Ipecac, and now Alternative Tentacles.

Unsane release Wreck on Alternative Tentacles – News

April 3, 2012

Legendary NYC rock powerhouse Unsane has completed work on its long awaited new album, titled Wreck recorded by Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label.

Buzzoven – Welcome to Violence – Review

April 4, 2005

This might be a “worst of” collection, so it’s ok that it’s dated and kinda sucks. Part bad Ministry, part bad Butthole Surfers.

Dash Rip Rock – Recyclone – Review

March 16, 2005

A best-of collection of a 20-year vet of Southern party rock/rockabilly. Get this CD, sell the portion of yer collection this replaces on eBay, and buy a keg.

The Causey Way – With Loving and Open Arms – Review

April 1, 2000

“No folks, we’re not really a cult, but that’s the gimmick we’re hoping to use to get our goofy, amped-up new wave/age schtick some notice.”

Not so Quiet on the Western Front – Review

September 1, 1999

San Francisco Bay area ’80-’82. 47 bands. That’s 8 times more bands than Boston, Not LA, another “scene scope at the time, but now historical curiosity” deal.

Creeps on Candy – Wonder of Giardia – Review

September 1, 1999

Dead and Gone with a different grump singin’ thru a distorted haze of cut-up Jesus Lizard sound-alike structure, so that’s the nutshell.

Logical Nonsense – Soul Pollution – Review

November 1, 1998

Originally released in 1995 on New York’s Tee Pee, the sampling so evident on Expand the Hive is hidden beneath Soul Pollution’s more straightforward onslaught.

NoMeansNo – Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie – Review

November 1, 1998

Medium to up-tempo songs, the slowest “The World Wasn’t Built In A Day” doesn’t have the same gloom-and-doom as “Real Love,” “Wrong,” or “My Politics.”