Dead Kennedys News

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Susan Graham will be Dido with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Purcell's Dido and Aenas, photo credit Dario Acosta.

New These Arms Are Snakes Deer Lodge Easter Les Savy Fav Pluto 3/5 Japandroids Heart Sweats New Bear Vs.

LANCASTER comedy/ acoustic duo The Cosmic Fingers are hosting a special acoustic event tonight, Friday, at The Park Hotel to celebrate the release of their new album May Contain Adult Humour.

Two weeks ago, it was Marky Ramone who visited with Richard Hunter on Hunter's afternoon radio show on KMNY-1360 AM .

Mojo & Skid , Bo-Day-Shus!!! and Otis . Those are the Mojo albums I would download from Amazon if I had to pick just three.

Jello Biafra postures and poses at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe. See more shots in our slideshow of the concert.

Ghouls, demon lovers, zombies, the devil just some of the characters found in the horrifically fun songs of The Creepshow .

Alternative Tentacles is set to celebrate three decades of being all alternative and other stuff.

Last night Litquake teamed up wiith Porchlight Storytelling to launch the new book Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor .

Mojo Nixon has joined the growing list of artists giving away music . Last week when he released his new album, "Whiskey Rebellion," on Amazon MP3 he began a three week promotion offering both the new album and most of his back catalog for free.

Historian and humorist Sarah Vowell will read at the Booksmith on Thursday, in an event for the Litquake festival.

The History of Bay Area Punk Punk rock may be most commonly associated with cities like London and New York, but the Bay Area has been a hotbed of punk ferment since the very beginning.

Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor appear at a couple of events this week with notable folks from their book.

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine are scheduled to perform on Monday, October 26, at the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe.

'Gimme Something Better' Steve Heilig, Special to The Chronicle Gimme Something Better The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day By Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor There's a punk... 'The Year of the Flood,' by Margaret Atwood Joan Frank, Special to The Chronicle The Year of the ...

Norwood Fischer by Jake Krolick Are you ready for the ferocious punk/ metal lines of bass guitarist Norwood Fisher of Fishbone ? For the snarling blasts of thrash metal and virtuoso guitar leads provided by Rocky George of Suicidal Tendencies ? Pounding tribal drum/ metal rhythms from D.H. Peligro of the Dead Kennedys ? The jaw-dropping stage ...

Two song into AFI's eighth studio album, and I can already hear the critics: "It's nothing like their old stuff." Well, boys and girls, it's called growth.

Gimme Something Better has it all: dead dogs, statutory rape, skinhead fights, the origins of the term "emo," promoters accidentally taking acid in jail, M-80s, soup lines, people falling through skylights, people getting torched with flamethrowers, teenagers on meth squatting in empty beer vats, exhumed bodies, laundromats, Ford Pintos, murderers ...

Jello Biafra, former frontman of the Dead Kennedys, has been busy in the twenty-odd years since leaving his iconic group.