Jello Biafra Raves

Dead Kennedys icon recounts punk history tonight then DJ's

"...standard “Kill the Poor” at Fun Fun Fun Fest, Jello Biafra puts on two very different performances today in..."

Nov. 12, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Fun Fun Fun Fest Interview: Jello Biafra

Dead Kennedys mouthpiece and his (out)spoken word

"...Punk’s politically-driven clown prince Jello Biafra will always be frozen in most minds as..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Fun Fun Fun Live Shot: Jello Biafra & Guantanamo School of Medicine

Dead Kennedys frontman: still seething

"...Blue skies and agreeable temperatures did little to temper Jello Biafra’s vitriol Friday afternoon. His voluminous fount of hardcore..."

Nov. 8, 2014 Music Post by Greg Beets

Jello Biafra@La Zona Rosa

Live Shot

"...Jello Biafra@La Zona RosaJanuary 12 During the intermission of Jello..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Music Review by Greg Beets

Jello Biafra

"...Jello BiafraBecome the Media -- Spoken Word Album #6..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014 Friday Interviews

"...Jello Biafra Fri., 2:55pm, Black stage Sat., 3pm, Yellow stage..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Playback: Fun Fun Fun Fest's New Look

New location and grass, same Fun Fun Fun

"...little-noted fact in punk rock history that in 1976 Jello Biafra was a roadie for the Ravers, a seminal..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

If I Had My Way

Guitar hero Evan Johns lives!

"...of critically acclaimed albums, Rollin' Through the Night on Jello Biafra's San Francisco indie Alternative Tentacles, and Evan Johns..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Saturday Night at the Bookstore

The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters

"...side of the wall, Dead Kennedys mouthpiece/Alternative Tentacles founder Jello Biafra sits unbothered on the long row bench. They're..."

May 12, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Judas Priest Pounds Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014

Some heads are gonna roll

"...Glassjaw, Gorilla Biscuits, Hot Water Music, Iceage, Iron Reagan, Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Judas Priest,..."

May 19, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen

Revisionist history from the man that penned (in his own blood) originally

"...Wiederhorn injecting other perspectives, cross-examining his stepfather Ed Jourgensen, Jello Biafra, and Gibby Haynes. No self-pity for his self-destruction,..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Band Called Death

A black proto-punk band from Detroit that wouldn't compromise on its name is unearthed in this music doc 35 years after recording their original demo tracks.

"...testimonials from the likes of Alice Cooper, Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, and Elijah Wood – the story of Death..."

June 28, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Teeth

Austin-shot horror pic about a girl who discovers that her naughty bits are bitey.

"...Hensley – who could also double as a young Jello Biafra in I Was a Teenage Dead Kennedy –..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is You

Waterloo Records marks 20 years as Austin's premiere record retail outlet.

"...of the store," recounts the Dead Kennedy's original vocalist Jello Biafra, who spent that excursion in the store combing..."

April 5, 2002 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

RESearch Reviewed

"...Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Billy Childish Interviews by V. Vale..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Platters

"...their hometown boy). This is the stuff that got Jello Biafra interested in the H-Bombs, and it hasn't lost..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Music Review

Dead Kennedys

"...did this more effectively than the Dead Kennedys. Vocalist Jello Biafra's lyrics combined the revolutionary venom of Crass with..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Review by Greg Beets

Record Reviews

"...exactly what you think it would sound like if Jello Biafra started singing for Ministry -- an ugly, grease-splattered..."

July 25, 1997 Music Review

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...and squeezed out any number of disgusted leather jackets. Jello Biafra arrived onstage hobbled by a velcro support cast..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

Gary Floyd, Scene-Defining Singer of Austin Punks the Dicks, Has Died

WATCH: An exclusive look at Arts+Labor’s in-progress Dicks doc

"...a 2000 Chronicle feature on the singer, punk forebears Jello Biafra and King Coffey recalled the exact moments they..."

May 3, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Housecore Horror Preview: Voivod

Nuclear winter’s never far from the Canadian thrashers

"...ML: Dead Kennedys. Actually, Jello re-released our very first demo a couple of years..."

Oct. 23, 2014 Music Post by Adam Ganderson

Portlandia: Behind the Scenes With the Creators

SXSW panel reveals that everything on the show really exists

"...will be no exception. One skit in particular cameos Jello Biafra of the Seventies/Eighties punk band the Dead Kennedys...."

March 12, 2014 Arts Post by Ashley Moreno

Playback

SXSW news and carryings-on

"...record status. After the group's demise, Ray and singer Jello Biafra ended up entangled in lawsuits. "He's a very..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Friday

"...the follow-up to Absurd in October. – Greg Beets JELLO BIAFRA8pm-2am, Jackalope Miraculously, having watched irony die and more..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

SXSW News

"...Everyone Loves Jello!..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...On Saturday I went to see Jello Biafra at La Zona Rosa. He talked about media..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Column

Crosstalk: Music Returns to Cosmic Coffee, the Golden Horn Replaces Burger Tex, and More Culture News

And we say goodbye to a former Chronicle art director

"...shots of outsiders like Joe Strummer, Jonathan Richman, and Jello Biafra when they came to town – in an..."

April 26, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

Review: Call Me Animal: A Tribute to the MC5

Austin contingent delivers highlights on Joecephus’ 2 LP set

"...Guitar Doors, welcomes Alice Cooper, J Mascis, Cherie Currie, Jello Biafra, Kim Thayil, Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt, and even..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Vio-Lence Erupts at Matinee

Reunited Bay Area pioneers induce only grinning thrash

"...shiny and smooth as his dome, with flickers of Jello Biafra. In a buttoned-down black vest emblazoned with patches..."

May 15, 2022 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Mojo Nixon Documentary Diagnoses America's Unfettered Id

Matt Eskey brings The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon to SXSW

"...just one nut after another," laughed Nixon. "‘Oh, there's Jello [Biafra]! There's Kinky Friedman! There's Todd Snider! There's Steve..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

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