A PUNK REUNION.(the Dead Kennedys reunite for a performance in Brooklyn, New York)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 10-JUN-02

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It has been twenty-three years since the Dead Kennedys released their first single, "California Uber Alles" (which envisioned President Jerry Brown flanked by "the suede-denim secret police"), and since their singer, Jello Biafra, ran for mayor of San Francisco (his platform called for all downtown executives to wear clown suits during business hours) and came in fourth. And it has been sixteen years since the band broke up, after playing what was supposed to be its final show, in Davis, California. "We all agreed not to carry it on, but the thing about punk rock is, it's against having a set of rules, and here we are," East Bay Ray, the band's guitarist, said. This was the other night at L'Amour, a club in Brooklyn, where the DKs, touring for the first...

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