Alternative Tentacles
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Nov 2, 2026
Hunter MartinezGUEST
justin eckley yeah
DavidHOST
well shout out justin eckley it is it is a fantastic uh fantastic album cover and um i think that like just briefly going back to talking about like sequencing tracks and all that sort of stuff um just sort of the the thought and care that's put into those sort of decisions uh really appreciate it's pretty awesome Now, a moment ago, you mentioned Dead Kennedys, which, of course, Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles record label.
DavidHOST
And this next band that you picked also was eventually at points on Alternative Tentacles.
DavidHOST
Yeah.
DavidHOST
yeah and this is so the band is no means no which uh shout out canada thank you for that but what i what i wanted to say is no means no forever for me um was a band that i tried a few times their name was always out there uh growing up you know listening to punk in canada no means no was always out there and i could just never really get into them until getting ready for this episode.
Jesse LusciousHOST
And so I got into the Misfits much more than I was before.
Jesse LusciousHOST
And then later on, I found this cover of London Dungeon It's by a band out of the Midwest of the USA called the Woodbox Gang, who I worked with when I ran Alternative Tentacles Records.
Jesse LusciousHOST
I think we repressed one of the records called Drunk as Dragons, if I remember correctly.
Jesse LusciousHOST
And we were going to do more with them, but then there was just legal stuff with the main guy.
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Jesse LusciousHOST
absolutely great stuff from, I believe, Woodbox Gang were from Illinois.
Jesse LusciousHOST
And it looks like they may be actually active again, though I'm not 100% sure.
Jesse LusciousHOST
But I did work with them briefly when I was at Alternative Tentacles Records around 2008.
Jesse LusciousHOST
And that's when the Woodbox Gang sent me a CD-R of a bunch of tracks of... covers that they did for a halloween show including a cover that you just heard london dungeon anyway let's keep going here on at the top of the show i did promise that we would play some intentionally funny songs and well here's one done by a comedian the comedian's name is kenny gray he's from los angeles california and he's put out a collection of his songs that he's put out on the internet on Bandcamp, and he's named it Internet Songs.
JerryHOST
I spoke with Nicole before she left for Japan and Australia.
JerryHOST
I told her to bring as much merch as they could carry, as Alternative Tentacles has pretty much zero distribution.
JerryHOST
into Australia now.
JerryHOST
Mostly due to tariffs and increased postal costs.
Sabrina WorthingtonGUEST
I haven't yet, but it could happen.
Sabrina WorthingtonGUEST
But so far I'm like all the labels that I know and my friends labels, you know, like Pirate's Press or Alternative Tentacles, you know, people, most of the bands they put out are male fronted, which I think they're putting out great music, but it's not necessarily what I want to create a space that is really going to be there for the femme fronted bands because when applicators started and we were sending our record around, you know, the, the letters I would get back were so funny and I can, I could find them and pull them up for you.
Sabrina WorthingtonGUEST
But I mean, I can specifically say, um, A popular pop punk label from the Bay Area.
Sabrina WorthingtonGUEST
A guy not known for not being very nice.
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Sabrina WorthingtonGUEST
And I was like, oh, you should meet my friend Freya.
Sabrina WorthingtonGUEST
She is this amazing woman.
Sabrina WorthingtonGUEST
And she works at Alternative Tentacles at the time.
Sabrina WorthingtonGUEST
And Freya was the GM.
RyanHOST
But one that I am a massive, almost lifelong fan of is on number 68 here.
RyanHOST
Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Alternative Tentacles, 1980.
RyanHOST
Yes, in the top 100.
RyanHOST
No debate.
RyanHOST
That's how I had to order out of the back of zines or whatever, sending cash in an envelope and just praying and hoping.
RyanHOST
And then when you get home, that package from Alternative Tentacles is like sitting on your doorstep and it was worth the wait.
RyanHOST
Just love that.
RyanHOST
The 1.5 reference that he made as well.
Dylan HensleyHOST
It's just such an odd reference to make that it's like, surely you would be accurate if that's what you're reaching for.
Justin HensleyHOST
If you're pulling through Alternative Tentacles' Alice Donut band, yeah.
Justin HensleyHOST
But also, Evernight sounds like Sonic Youth? What are you talking about? That song sounds like a Sam Haynes song.
Justin HensleyHOST
It sounds like Unholy Impassions.
Scott HudsonHOST
This was done by Vic Bondi and His Issues.
Scott HudsonHOST
Uh, it's a five-track EP on Alternative Tentacles, and, uh, Vic Bondi is primarily known in the 19- early, in the early 1980s as the frontman of the Chicago hardcore band Articles of Faith.
Scott HudsonHOST
Uh, over the decades he's also fronted or played in projects such, such as Jones Very, Alloy, Report Suspicious Activity with J. Robbins, Dead Ending, Tom Morello's Weathermen project, and the surf punk band Red Shift.
Scott HudsonHOST
Uh, this new project was named by Bondi's buddy, a, uh, Jalobiofra, who also owns, uh, Alternative Tentacles, the label that put the EP out.
Scott HudsonHOST
And I chose it to open the show because I, I think a lot of you know, a few weeks ago, it's hard to admit this, a few weeks ago, I did turn 64.
Scott HudsonHOST
Yeah.
Tom SternGUEST
One thing that was fun was, I was like, Jello Biafra disappointingly wouldn't give us an interview.
Tom SternGUEST
Uh, there, there might've been some bad blood when they split ways from when the band left Alternative Tentacles.
Tom SternGUEST
So he wouldn't talk to us, but we represented him with a puppet that I was like, "Let's just make it out of Jello," since he's [laughs] Jello Biafra.
Tom SternGUEST
And that turned into a really cool visual, because when we jiggled this, this Jello face, it was super psychedelic.
Skip HellerGUEST
He is wonderful.
Skip HellerGUEST
He also did, um, we have a single coming out on Alternative Tentacles, which is Shellabearer's record label, of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! And he did the cover for that.
Skip HellerGUEST
In fact, that, that single is our salute to Russ Meyer, because the other side of it, we did a song from, uh, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Kyler BinghamHOST
Oh, cool.
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Skip HellerGUEST
but she's wearing a gas mask.
Skip HellerGUEST
Um, that, th- Chris Lockett did that.
Skip HellerGUEST
And John Yates, uh, who did a lot of the Alternative Tentacles and Dead Kennedy stuff, he worked on that cover.
Skip HellerGUEST
So we've just been...
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