Label
Alternative Tentacles
109 releases · 141 artists
- Date active
- 1981 – 2025
- Relevance
- Low, 3% of everyone it released is in the dub techno cluster
Info
Underground punk record label established in 1979 in San Francisco, California, USA with sublabel/office in London, UK. It was used by the Dead Kennedys for the self-produced single "California Über Alles". After realizing the potential for an independent label, they released records for other bands as well. Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray and vocalist Jello Biafra formed Alternative Tentacles, but Biafra became the owner in the mid-1980s. Alternative Tentacles no longer owns the rights to Dead Kennedys recordings after a 2000 lawsuit.
Labelcode: LC 8356
Labelcode: LC 8356
Alternative Tentacles (Label)
Artist
Relevance
Releases
Active
- Releases: 2 Relevance: very high Active: 1988
- Releases: 2 Relevance: very high Active: 1988
- Releases: 17 Relevance: high Active: 1988 – 2002
- Releases: 13 Relevance: high Active: 1988 – 1989
- Releases: 6 Relevance: high Active: 1981 – 1993
- Releases: 6 Relevance: high Active: 1992
- Releases: 3 Relevance: high Active: 2003 – 2005
- Releases: 2 Relevance: high Active: 1988
- Releases: 2 Relevance: high Active: 1994
- Releases: 1 Relevance: high Active: 1982
- Releases: 1 Relevance: high Active: 2004
- Releases: 43 Relevance: medium Active: 1982 – 2021
- Releases: 13 Relevance: medium Active: 1988 – 1989
- Releases: 13 Relevance: medium Active: 1988 – 1989
- Releases: 13 Relevance: medium Active: 1988 – 1989
- Releases: 13 Relevance: medium Active: 1988 – 1989
- Releases: 6 Relevance: medium Active: 2013 – 2025
- Releases: 4 Relevance: medium Active: 2023 – 2025
- Releases: 4 Relevance: medium Active: 1982 – 2004
- Releases: 3 Relevance: medium Active: 1982 – 1984
- Releases: 2 Relevance: medium Active: 1994
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 1989
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2006
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 1997
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2017
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2024
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2004
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 1986
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2003
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2001
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 1982
- Releases: 1 Relevance: medium Active: 2007
- Releases: 9 Relevance: low Active: 1982 – 1984
- Releases: 3 Relevance: low Active: 2015 – 2025
- Releases: 3 Relevance: low Active: 1988
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 1997
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 1997
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 1982
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2006
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1982