Seattle Subsonic

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine @ Neumos

December 15th, 2009

Jello Biafra, punk icon made legendary with the Dead Kennedys, is coming to town on the 29th heading up the “Guantanamo School of Medicine”

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The blatant political foundation to this quintet is nothing new to Jello – beginning with  Dead Kennedys first single “California Uber Alles” and culminating in his runner-up nomination for the Green Party behind Ralph Nader. And now, GSM is no slouch when it comes getting Biafro’s message of government corruptness out to the people. “The album explores how our forced Iraqnophobia and Homeland Insecurity continues to feed lawlessness at the top (“The Terror Of Tiny Town”) vs. a runaway police state and class war towards the bottom (“Three Stirkes”, “Electronic Plantation”). “Clean As A Thistle” becomes more timely every day as “Family Values” blowhards get caught in sinful trysts, while album closer “I Won’t Give Up” offers an age of Obama anthem on how change comes from agitation from below, not glamor and soundbites from the top.”
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The sound retains the punk attitude of the Kennedys but with an extra dose of sonic guitar noise and drummed up a notch with the metal-like percussions of Jon Weiss on the skins.

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JELLO BIAFRA and the Guantanamo School of Medicine ::

Doors at 8 pm ::
$17 adv :: 21+