alternative tentacles records

Tsunami Bomb are back! NorCal’s stellar pop-punk-with-teeth outfit are back with their first new record in 15 years, The Spine That Binds, tomorrow on Alternative Tentacles. Today we’re premiering the video for “Naysayers,” directed/compiled by photojournalist Daniel Dreifuss and filmed at various points on the band’s tour in Western America. “‘Naysayers’ is about how life’s […]

Dead Ending Dead Ending EP One imagines that Dead Ending must be sort of a geek-out project for Rise Against bassist Joe Principe, Alkaline Trio drummer Derek Grant and the Bomb guitarist Jeff Dean. Veterans in their own right already, the trio team up here with Vic Bondi, who fronted seminal Chicago predecessors Articles Of […]

Git Some Exhaustion = Feracity EP The first thing Git Some would probably appreciate us clearing up is the fact that they’ve been around for 10 years. Even though guitarist Chuck E. French and bassist Neil Keener feature in both this band and the late, great (sometimes reunited) Planes Mistaken For Stars, it’s obvious they […]

Unsane Wreck Unsane have made a career out of making ugly music, and they maintain this tradition with Wreck, their first full-length in five years and a true return to form. The bloodlust displayed on opener “Rat” and “Ghost” recalls 1995’s Scattered, Smothered & Covered (arguably the strongest and most visceral record of the band’s […]

Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine Enhanced Methods Of Questioning EP   It’s not impossible to age gracefully within the confines of punk rock. Ian MacKaye’s done it; so has Henry Rollins. Jello Biafra hasn’t. And it’s too bad, because of the three, he’s probably made the greatest sacrifices for his art and […]