Career
In 1981, he left Gang of Four to form Shriekback. He later founded World Domination Recordings and two of its bands, The Elastic Purejoy and Low People’s Suicide (with Rick Boston). He appeared on several LPs and EPs with each of these bands, though his ambitious plan to release a work of 20 volumes produced only three releases, The Harvest and the Elastic Purejoy"s The Clutter of People’s and Talk Radio.
After leaving Shriekback in 1988, Allen founded King Swamp with other former bandmates.
Subsequently, he was director of Consumer Digital Audio Services at Intel in Portland, Oregon. Then he went on to be the president of the entertainment division of the Overland Agency, an advertising firm based in Portland.
In 2014, he joined Beats Music as Director, Artist & Music Industry Advocacy. After Apple Incorporated. acquired Beats, he stayed on in Apple Music Artist Relations.