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After years of recording a new episode every single week, the Punknews Podcast has reached episode #600!!! To celebrate this milestone, the one and only JELLO BIAFRA stopped by the podcast! John, Hallie, and Em talked to the punk legend about his current band Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School...
Jimi Hendrix “a pretty fair guitarist.” Some might quibble, but Biafra’s work fronting San Francisco’s Dead Kennedys politicized American punk rock. He possesses a keen, vicious satirical eye: Debut single “California Über Alles,” alone, envisioned a “zen fascist” U.S. presidency under former California Gov. Jerry Brown. His “suede/denim secret police” rounded up ordinary American citizens and shipped them to reeducation camps, where they’d “mellow out, or you will pay.” Mind you, the rise of Reagan two years later proved to Biafra that the conservatives were bigge...