Throughout their eight-year existence, AKIMBO has built layers upon layers to their fortress of rock, buttressed by a string of releases, culminating in their fifth album and Alternative Tentacles ...
After being out of print for years, early 2007 brings the re-release of AT touring machine AKIMBO 's debut release Harshing Your Mellow . Released in 2001 on start-up label Amalagate Records, this ...
Navigating The Bronze, the fi fth studio album from Seattle's AKIMBO, is their heaviest and most dynamic release to date. This battle axe of a record was sculpted at Head Bang and Kill Your Mama ...
Ten Glorious Animals is Alice Donut's triumphant return to Alternative Tentacles. Formed in 1986, the band spent a decade touring relentlessly throughout North America, Europe, and Japan, building a ...
In the wake of Crass, the UK birthed a large scene of anarchopunk bands such as Subhumans, Rudimentary Peni, Flux Of Pink Indians, and, perhaps the best known of all, Amebix. Their seminal Arise ...
Seminal Vancouver singer/actress/artist Ani Kyd releases her debut solo album with members of Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad. The first things that hit ha when you slap on Ani Kyd are: 1. She ...
ARTICLES OF FAITH , lead by Vic Bondi (JONES VARY, ALLOY) was one of the premier american hardcore bands of the early '80s. Combining trash, reggae, and noise, the group was notable for its political ...
Contains AOF material from 1983-1985: "Wait" (1983), "In This Life" (1985) plus three bonus tracks and one unreleased live track. CD contains 18 tracks, LP version contains a few less. ...
The classic lineup of early-'80s Chicago punk pioneers Articles of Faith have recorded together and are playing two live shows for the first time in 25 years! This five-track EP is blazing fast and ...
Alternative Tentacles Records is proud to present the fourth full-length explosion from soul-garage mainstays THE BELLRAYS. The whole punk and soul craze started here. From the moment they burst onto ...
With Iraq gone to hell in a hand basket, Rome falling at home, and the so-called opposition Democrats searching for a message as they throw another election, it's high time for BIAFRA and his merry ...
What do you get when Jello Biafra & 3 of the Zen Guerillas attack 2 songs for a Reverend Horton Heat compilation? You get this aural ass-kicking of a 7-inch! The A-side is their scathing take on the ...
Like WW I had its WW II and the Gulf War had its Iraqi Freedom, you can't expect an event of epic proportions to end without proper follow-through: hence, Alternative Tentacles presents the second ...
Repressed for the first time in many many years this classic LP now comes with digital download code. Putting two legends of truly countercultural spirit together simply had to produce something of ...
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine are at it again! Hot on the heels of their debut full-length The Audacity of Hype, the group-featuring Ralph Spight (Victims Family, Freak Accident, ...
Election fever is here and even more of a circus than usual, so who better to jump in and stir up trouble than Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine? Their new EP SHOCK-U-PY! is the ...
Includes digital download coupon with bonus track! Election fever is here and even more of a circus than usual, so who better to jump in and stir up trouble than Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo ...
In the twenty or so years since his brainchild, The Dead Kennedys, officially disbanded, Jello Biafra has made a career of spoken word gigs interspersed with musical collaborations with some of the ...
Former Dead Kennedys vocalist delivers his first concept album since Frankenchrist, Eye-catching Winston Smith cover art, Touring on three continents throughout 2013. "Wrecking Ball" was one thing. ...
Former Dead Kennedys vocalist delivers his first concept album since Frankenchrist, Eye-catching Winston Smith cover art, Touring on three continents throughout 2013. "Wrecking Ball" was one thing. ...
Originally released in 1991 by Lookout! Records, the Shit Split reached many a punk rocker, inspiring a legion of kids to fuck shit up! And now, after being unavailable for 18 months, this classic is ...
Alternative Tentacles tosses our well-worn thinking cap into the no-holds-barred, no-child-left-behind ring of Edu-core with Hell Bent for Letters, the latest outing by Seattle_s BLÖÖDHAG. Formed in ...
BLOWFLY, the original dirty rapper and masked superhero/porno freak, returns to Alternative Tentacles with the most perverted way to dry hump the cash cow of punk: Blowfl y's Punk Rock Party! Kicking ...
70s XXX rap/comedy legend Blowfly's first album of all new material since 1988 with guest appearences by Afroman and Slug. Way back in the 70s, before the birds and the bees were a glimmer in the ...
Burning Image! The legendary goth-punk band is back, after a triumphant show in Oakland they've released this brand new record! This is fueled by the gloom and doom of life during wartime and global ...
Classic first EP from 1983, back in print and limted to 500 copies each on Gold vinyl! "Brown Reason To Live" is their very first release from way back in 1983. Here it is on vintage thick wax- as it ...
Eighth album of ska-infused punk rock from veteran UK band. Members of Subhumans / Culture Shock. Vinyl includes free digital download. Dick Lucas's frantic vocal delivery combined with the catchy ...
Eighth album of ska-infused punk rock from veteran UK band. Members of Subhumans / Culture Shock. Vinyl includes free digital download. Dick Lucas's frantic vocal delivery combined with the catchy ...
Two and a half years after the genre-defi ning (and over 20,000 selling) Fuck World Trade on Alternative Tentacles, LEFTOVER CRACK returns to the fold, this time teaming up with UK ska-punk legends ...
Rightly compared to Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, and Killing Joke, Cross Stitched Eyes breathe new life into the anarcho-crust genre! CSE packs 14 short, compact songs together for their Alternative ...
Second full-length from international anarcho-punk collective. Vinyl includes digital download coupon. Decomposition, the second full-length by US / UK / German collective Cross Stitched Eyes, ...
Second full-length from international anarcho-punk collective. Vinyl includes digital download coupon. Decomposition, the second full-length by US / UK / German collective Cross Stitched Eyes, ...
For over 20 years, Louisiana Music Hall of Famer Bill "Diamond" Davis has made his band Dash Rip Rock Louisiana's edgiest cultural export. Recorded at the infamous Studio in the Country, Black Liquor ...
Call of the Wild is a Southern party record-a tribute to all the insane theme bands that played the Deep South bar circuit back in the '70s. It mixes Stax-era dirty soul and rootsy garage punk with ...
Considering today's Red State/Blue State dialectic, you'd think Alternative Tentacles, with our "San Francisco values", and a Southern-fried party band from Baton Rouge (which translates to "RED ...
After 20 years of legendary live shows and twelve albums that have been hailed as country punk classics, DASH RIP ROCK is still kickin' ass as the undisputed kings of Southern Party Rock! The band ...
Dead Ending is back with their second release and it's simply brutal. The first laid the foundation, but this EP better reflects the band firing on all cylinders, with all members now contributing ...
'80s-hardcore-inspired band featuring members of beloved Chicago bands Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Articles of Faith and The Bomb. First 500 copies on gold vinyl, all subsequent presses on black ...
First-ever complete reissue of legendary Texas punk band's highly sought-after debut album. For an added bonus, the CD version includes The Dicks' legendary debut 7" "Hate the Police". The songs ...
First-ever complete reissue of legendary Texas punk band's highly sought-after debut album. The songs "Hate the Police," "Kill From the Heart" and "Wheelchair Epidemic" have been covered by Mudhoney, ...
Phase Two of The Dicks began in San Francisco, 1983, when Gary Floyd relocated to a new city and reformed the groundbreaking band with a new lineup. Eschewing the traditional hardcore formula, Floyd ...
First press of the LP will include the Peace? 7". Phase Two of The Dicks began in San Francisco, 1983, when Gary Floyd relocated to a new city and reformed the groundbreaking band with a new lineup. ...
Formed in 1999, DISASTER STRIKES have crafted their own unique brand of punk and hardcore inspired by the likes of ECONOCHRIST, DRI, AUS ROTTEN, CRASS and early ANTHRAX while channeling the influence ...
The Alternative Tentacles "Reissues Of Necessity" is back! We've hooked another live one from the swirling depths of the most obscure, desirable, and just plain deranged. Like many early punk ...
With all the bands claiming to play hardcore these days, it's good to know some bands still understand the meaning of the term. F-MINUS has always played hardcore in the straightforward, no-bullshit ...
FISH KARMA is not a jam band, he's a person, representing the delicious dementia side of our label that gave you WESLEY WILLIS, BLOWFLY and the CRUCIFUCKS. Born, raised and infected in Tucson, AZ, ...
After three long years, we have a new album by FLESHIES, a loud band from beautiful Oakland, CA, who have released two loved-to-death-by-the-kids albums on Alternative Tentacles. After their second ...
Will appeal to fans of Akimbo, The Jesus Lizard, Drive Like Jehu, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Circus Lupus, Black Flag, etc. Formed in Chicago in 2003 by guitarist Chuck French and bassist Neil Keener ...
Fast, pissed-off, female-fronted hardcore from Buffalo/ Rochester/ Syracuse, NY. I OBJECT embody the D.I.Y. lifestyle, pressing several of their own releases and booking multiple U.S. and ...
One of the more obscure 1980s American hardcore acts, though one of West Virginia's best-known musical exports, Th' Inbred released two LPs between 1985 and 1988 and toured the US three times. A ...
One of the more obscure 1980s American hardcore acts, though one of West Virginia's best-known musical exports, Th' Inbred released two LPs between 1985 and 1988 and toured the US three times. A ...
One of the more obscure 1980s American hardcore acts, though one of West Virginia's best-known musical exports, Th' Inbred released two LPs between 1985 and 1988 and toured the US three times. A ...
French monarchs in powdered wigs and Alternative Tentacles aren't exactly a match like peanut butter and chocolate, but the label is tickled pink to present a double- LP version of road-warrior duo ...
Meet the most controversial garage band to storm the music scene in years! Combining a furious garage punk assault with an uncompromising and literal devotion to the Holy Bible, the KNIGHTS OF THE ...
Meet the most controversial garage band to storm the music scene in years! Combining a furious garage punk assault with an uncompromising and literal devotion to the Holy Bible, the KNIGHTS OF THE ...
Third album from Christian garage rock band. LP includes coupon for a free digital download. The Christian rock scene is replete with slick, careerist bands whose lyrics gingerly tread on the ...
Back on vinyl, "Time Will Fuse Its Worth" is the third release from Savannah, Georgia's mighty Kylesa. For the 2006 album, Kylesa expanded their line-up to include two drummers, taking a harder ...
Alternative Tentacles is proud to present the vinyl reissue of Kylesa's sophomore full-length. Newly remastered by the band, this metal classic helped forge the path for Kylesa's overthrow of the ...
Ska-punk collides head on with hoarse vocals and political hardcore as NYC squatters LEFTOVER CRACK join the Alternative Tentacles family. For their first full length album in 3 years LEFTOVER CRACK ...
Ska-punk collides head on with hoarse vocals and political hardcore as NYC squatters LEFTOVER CRACK join the Alternative Tentacles family. For their first full length album in 3 years LEFTOVER CRACK ...
What better way to "celebrate" another absurd election season than for AT to release its first black metal album! LUDICRA'S style is raw, primal, dissonant and ugly and sets itself apart by ...
LUDICRA takes the title of their second Alternative Tentacles release Fex Urbis, Lex Orbis-the Latin phrase meaning "dregs of the city, law of the earth"-from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. While the ...
At last the long-rumored tag-team assault on God, Justice and the American Way of Life is set to grind your minds and pummel your craniums. The project hatched when the MELVINS approached JELLO ...
At last the long-rumored tag-team assault on God, Justice and the American Way of Life is set to grind your minds and pummel your craniums. The project hatched when the MELVINS approached JELLO ...
Zale Dalen's 1990 film Terminal City Ricochet-one of the most askedabout Jello Biafra-related projects-is finally seeing the light of day! Never available on VHS and rarely shown outside of Canada, ...
The first installment in a multi-album set describing The Kinnery of Lupercalia, Petr & The Wulf is the correct telling of a story about which most have been woefully misinformed. This truth is ...
This anthology collects 30 tracks of rare, unreleased and live tracks, demos and covers from Nausea, one of the most influential NYC punk bands ever. NAUSEA is one of the most influential New York ...
Pansy Division's 1st album in 6 years has their patented mix of fun & serious Queercore songs. Melodic pop punk with tinges of rock are the burrito beneath the hot sauce of their spicy lyrics! ...
PANSY DIVISION, one of the first openly gay punk bands in history, commemorates their fifteenth year together with The Essential PANSY DIVISION! The boys have picked out thirty songs - from classics ...
2 amped-up pop-punk tunes from Our Heroes: Pansy Division! The A-side is a duet w/ Jello Biafra from the new "That's So Gay" CD, while the B-side is a Green Day cover that's exclusive to this sweet ...
When the Phantom Limbs disbanded in 2004, the Bay Area music scene lost a truly strange and mar-velous spectacle. Often drawing comparisons to The Screamers or Christian Death as well as Gilbert and ...
From the ashes of the CAUSEY WAY rise PILOT SCOTT TRACY, an airline-themed outfit fronted by Scott (formerly known as Causey) and Tracy Cox-Stanton, and featuring other former cult members. Still ...
Debut release from San Francisco fourpiece is destined to be a hard rock classic. Driving music from a band that includes members from Triclops!, Dead and Gone, Night After Night and Hightower. For ...
Debut release from San Francisco fourpiece is destined to be a hard rock classic. Driving music from a band that includes members from Triclops!, Dead and Gone, Night After Night and Hightower. For ...
"Man, the enemy of men!!! White caucasian cancer corroding life mercilessly." Th ese sweet words open RATOS DE POR¦O's new album, Homem Inimigo do Homem, their fi rst release since Onisciente ...
The sunset of the Bush Administration brings the empty election-year promise of change that placates some, but others-still tasting the bile over American atrocities from the last eight years and ...
G. W. Bush was re-elected and the war in Iraq still rages on-a mere status quo? Or, a tinderbox of popular rage waiting for someone to light the fuse? Vic Bondi of the seminal Chicago hardcore band ...
"THE SERMON deliver overamped R&B with a punk rock intensity," (Maximum Rock N Roll) offering devastating, frenetic songs of pure rock and roll fury. San Francisco's THE SERMON formed in late 2000 to ...
Seattle's premier Blackout Grind outfit annihilate new metalcore posers with their epic, precision crust riffs and manic vox, stomping out Seattle's grunge corpse for good. Formed in 2000 as a band ...
Twisted twangsters Slim Cessna's Auto Club roar back with some raw, heart-shattering tracks from 2000 and 2001. Led by the vocals of Cessna and Munly, the Auto Club bares even more of their troubled ...
Finally, after a three-year wait, Slim Cessna's Auto Club readies Cipher, their fourth full-length on Alternative Tentacles. Dubbed by Jello Biafra as the "country band that plays at the bar at the ...
Jesus Let Me Down, Slim Cessna's Auto Club's raucous live double album, was originally issued in 2005 as a fan-club-type release available almost exclusively at the band's concerts. However, after ...
The tired genre of alt-country has received, straight from the good Lord himself, its saving grace in the form of The Bloudy Tenent, Truth & Peace the first album in three years from those bastard ...
Engaging, riveting, sad and humorous; demanding the audience to participate both live and while listening to their albums-Slim Cessna's Auto Club has been tagged with every musical description ...
Alternative Tentacles debut from punk rock supergroup featuring current and former members of Leftover Crack, Choking Victim, and Degenerics, plus guest appearances from Subhumans, Culture Shock, and ...
Collects songs from two super rare singles and the self-titled EP, as well as two "lost songs" remixed especially for this release. Subhumans and DOA were the two pillars of the Vancouver, BC, Canada ...
Collects songs from two super rare singles and the self-titled EP, as well as two "lost songs" remixed especially for this release. Subhumans and DOA were the two pillars of the Vancouver, BC, Canada ...
In Canada_s glorious punk history, few embodied the greatness of the 1978-82 era like THE SUBHUMANS (not to be confused with the UK SUBHUMANS). This titan of Vancouver punk engaged with the ...
Legendary Canadian punk group Subhumans emerged from the 1978 font of creativity that produced DOA and The Pointed Sticks. They have been part of the Alternative Tentacles family since the infamous ...
Our sojourn into Avant-Americana continues with another strong entry from the Denver hive that gave us SLIM CESSNA_S AUTO CLUB, MUNLY, LILIUM, DEVOTCHKA, and of course 16 HORSEPOWER. This time, the ...
Adding flourishes to the formula established on their debut Out of Africa, Alternative Tentacles' flagship band Triclops! continues its assault on all pretenders to the punk / psych / prog throne. ...
Sci-fi bristles with cautionary tales of gene-splicing and its freakish consequences, but in an Alternative Tentacles tome, "freakish" is a desirable trait. Triclops!, a result of SF Bay Area ...
'70s rock must die, long live '70s rock! San Francisco's Turn Me On Dead Man channels the highs (pun intended) of '70s rockdom, while being firmly planted on this side of the new millennium. Their ...
Alternative Tentacles is proud to announce the release of Technicolour Mother, San Francisco's TURN ME ON DEAD MAN's anticipated follow-up to God Bless the Electric Freak (Virus 340). TMODM's ...
Long-awaited seventh album from NYC heavy music legends delivers bludgeoning rock with inescapable grooves. Debut release for Alternative Tentacles follows previous albums on Ipecac, Relapse, ...
Vinyl includes digital download coupon. Long-awaited seventh album from NYC heavy music legends delivers bludgeoning rock with inescapable grooves. Debut release for Alternative Tentacles follows ...
The Widower is a surreal black romantic comedy featuring familiar faces like Jello Biafra, Joey "Shithead" Keithley, Ani Kyd and Nardwuar the Human Serviette; this package includes an incredible ...
Early recording from legendary Canadian metal innovators, properly released for the first time ever. For fans of VENOM, MOTÖRHEAD, CELTIC FROST, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, SACRED REICH, AMEBIX. VOIVOD formed ...
Vinyl includes digital download coupon. Early recording from legendary Canadian metal innovators, properly released for the first time ever. Vinyl includes digital download coupon. For fans of VENOM, ...
With their own melodic (but still raging!) brand of punk, Philadelphia's Witch Hunt have joined the ranks of the Bat and offered up their 3rd & finest full-length yet! Their political yet personal ...
Not even Ronald Reagan's death could exterminate the tenacious 80s yuppie, who now seeks to exploit our precious punk heritage in the form of THE YUPPIE PRICKS from Austin, TX. Core members boast an ...
Meet the strangest known band from the pre-punk dayze of glam. A sound like no other and a story as out there as THE MONKS. We're talking commitment here - spacesuits, Spock ears, even antennae ...
When we at Alternative Tentacles see words like "reunion" or "recently reformed," we tend roll our eyes and pay no heed. So imagine our surprise when the reformed ZOLAR X wrote and performed some new ...
A long-lasting vision has finally become reality: Cargo Records present their very own record-player 33punkt3. Strictly limited to 333 pieces the player will be available in black and white. read more