Are you saying that white people are inherently evil? Are you saying that many of our current problems come from people in charge, who tend to be white? Something else? The title of the new album is White People and the Damage Done. In order to get some of the details behind the new album, Punknews staffer John Gentile recently rang up Biafra where they talked about the album's title, contemplated depression, and argued whether Elton John was good or not. White People and the Damage Done is the bands hardest, most rockingest, most fact-jam-packed release to date. ![]() Now, he's just released the third album by his band, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. ![]() Later, he would go onto record many different projects with artists including DOA, The Melvins, Mojo Nixon, and Ministry. The vocalist and co-founding member of incalculably influential The Dead Kennedys, Biafra introduced radical, specific politics into American punk. In this age of TMZ and Perez Hilton, there is not enough space to waste on talk of who-is-banging-who. He thinks Jimmy Carter's administration is partly responsible for 9-11 and he'll tell you just that. If he thinks you need to know about Middle Eastern politics, then he's not going to mask his opinion behind an ambiguous metaphor. ![]() Jello Biafra has no problem with being blunt. Contributed by johngentile, Posted by Kira Wisniewski Interviews 9 years ago
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