Dead Kennedys
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Audio interviews
Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra and Klaus Flouride (1981)
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, October 1981
Messrs. Biafra and Flouride discuss the differences between punk and new wave; talk about fellow Californians Flipper, D.O.A. and Black Flag; decry Nazi punks; talk about friend and ally Christian Lunch, as well as about Hüsker Dü and the Residents; mock the Plasmatics and Adam & the Ants... and declare their mission to civilize America.
File format: mp3; file size: 20.5mb, interview length: 21' 18" sound quality: *****
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Sham 69, Dead Kennedys: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 12 January 1980
SOME PEOPLE join a band to get out of the crowd. Jello Biafra, I'm convinced, joined the Dead Kennedys to guarantee a space in the ...
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables; UK Subs: Crash Course
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 27 September 1980
SPOT THE DIFFERENCEStudy these two pictures carefully. At first sight they may seem identical, but there are at least twelve small but significant differences between ...
The Dead Kennedys: Anarchy American Style
Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 27 September 1980
On the eve of the Dead Kennedys British tour MARK COOPER talks to Jello Biafra who says: "Our live shows are basically ways of torturing ...
Dead Kennedys: A Talent To Annoy
Profile and Interview by Deanne Pearson, Smash Hits, 11 December 1980
"I JUST couldn't believe it. I just kinda stood there with a blank stare on my face, thinking oh God — it really happened!" ...
Dead Kennedys: Punk Rot Is Here To Stay
Interview by Deanne Pearson, The Face, January 1981
THIS IS THE hardcore faction. Spiked hair, leather jackets, the backs emblazoned with the logos of Crass, UK Subs, Adam & The Ants. Hordes of ...
Dead Kennedys: The Channel, Boston MA
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 13 April 1981
Exhilarating, disturbing... ...
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (IRS SP70014)
Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, June 1981
CHANCES ARE you have an opinion about the Dead Kennedys even if you've never heard their music. Provocation is the name of the game; a ...
Dead Kennedys: Let Them Eat Jello Beings
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 5 December 1981
Garry Bushell exhumes a living Dead Kennedy ...
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 4 December 1982
IT'S AMUSING TO SEE just how much Oi/punk inevitably rides the rails of the trad rock curve on its way to hell and bucks. This ...
Circle Jerks: Wonderful (Combat Core)/Dead Kennedys: Frankenchrist (Alternative Tentacles)
Review by Byron Coley, Spin, February 1986
THE Circle Jerks and Dead Kennedys are two of a handfulla bands surviving in name and form from the first three waves of California-style pre-hardcore ...
The Dead Kennedys: Goodnight, Democracy
Report by Chuck Eddy, Spin, September 1986
Sure, the Dead Kennedys are offensive, but obscene? It must be Jello, because jam don't shock like that. ...
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 23 June 1990
HARDCORE, FAST-shit guitar or cranked-up pub rock has glued some fairly diverse personalities onto the cranium over the years, from the cretinous dullard through to ...
Essential Guide To "Explicit" Albums
Guide by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1994
Back in 1985, one seemingly harmless song led a woman to take unprecedented action against the American recording industry. Thanks to her moral crusade, albums ...
How I named "the Dead Kennedys"
Memoir by Mark Bliesener, Westword, 21 July 2011
IN MAY OF 1976, I quit my job in L.A. playing drums with ? and the Mysterians, and "retired" to Berthoud. The scheme was to ...
Highway to Hell: My Life on the Road with the Dead Kennedys
Memoir by Amy Linden, Cuepoint, 3 February 2015
IN 1981, I MOVED back to New York City after spending four years in San Francisco. I was 22, and a childhood friend and I ...
see also Jello Biafra
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