Jello Biafra Plans Spoken Word Album

Jun 20, 2006

Jello Biafra will be back to tormenting both sides of the aisle with a new spoken-word record out sometime this year.

The onetime Dead Kennedys front man will return to his spoken-word career sometime later this year, with In the Grip of Official Treason, which will cover such topics as “The Fall of Rome Under Bush,” “Iraqnophobia” and the full version of his collaboration with Ministry, “Ass Clowns in Toyland,” which surfaced on Ministry’s Rio Grande Blood

He’s asked fans to contribute cover art for the album, which has not been graced with a street date yet. In a post on his Alternative Tentacles label’s web site, he’s asked for ideas to be submitted by fans, though he doesn’t want “designs too reliant on Bush, Saddam, Condosleezza, etc., that will date the whole thing,” because apparently a spoken-word rant against Bush and the Iraq war couldn’t otherwise possibly be dated.

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