Last night's show was pretty incredible at Emo's East. I grabbed Kid Congo Powers for a short interview after his set, because that's what kind of party it was! LAR: First question, my friend Sue wants to know: why are you gay and so good-looking? KCP: Aren't all gay men? Why am I so good looking? Women react to me that way because I was raised by all women. And I respect women and I love them to pieces and they get the vibe from me. [...]
Behold! It's floppy, it's flexi, it's free to anyone who wants to wander in to our Gories / Spits / Oh Sees / Kid Congo / Cheap Time / Total Slacker show tonight at Emo's in Austin and it's got two-minutes-and-then-some of thee mighty Reigning Sound playing live at Alex's Bar in your very own Long Beach, California! Can't make it? Don't worry—we will be mailing these to all subscribers and seeding them around select L.A. locations for free, and you can get them from In The Red Records , too! Wanna [...]
luke mcgarry The Gories were something between 'primal' and 'feral' and 'savage' and all the other words that make an Animal Control officer strap on the special gloves, and they didn't need anything besides Back From the Grave comps, guitars and Thunderbird wine to chop out a couple dozen songs that sound like they came out of the backwoods solely to hunt for prey. Their recording career includes both Alex Chilton and a Quonset hut and guitarists Dan Kroha (later of Demolition Doll Rods) and Mick Collins (later of Dirtbombs) even backed [...]
Non è certo possibile dimenticarsi la musica scritta da Angelo Badalamenti per il Twin Peaks di David Lynch , la voce di una giovanissima Julee Cruise accarezzava le note di Falling . Meno noti sono gli album completi della cantante Americana, i primi dei quali prodotti dallo stesso Lynch ( Floating into the night e il bellissimo The Voice of love ). Amata da musicisti sperimentali come Kahn , per il quale la Cruise ha collaborato in un paio di album, la Cruise sarà al Caracol di Pisa il [...]
photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Dan Coxon : The new album sounds like the perfect soundtrack to a barroom brawl, preferably filmed by Quentin Tarantino. Do you have to work hard at getting that kind of intensity on the record, or does it simply come naturally? Jim Jones: Most music doesn't mean anything until you invest some intensity into it - so that is a given. But the real trick is to try and get [...]
A selection of tracks to help get you over your mid-day hurdle; no matter what the hurdle may be, no matter where you are.
KID CONGO POWERS AND THE PINK MONKEYBIRDS, CAT FANCY, DON'T, GHOST MOM ( East End , 203 SE Grand) Kid Congo Powers has been a preeminent fixture in underground rock music for the last 30-plus years. From his early days as a member of the Gun Club and the Cramps, Powers went on to become a Bad Seed during Nick Cave's darkest and most damning era in the late '80s. Since then, Powers has found his own footing as leader of the swampy, vamping garage ensemble Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds. The band's fantastic 2009 [...]
There's a new digital 7" out now from former Bad Seeds, Cramp, and Gun Club member Kid Congo Powers and backed by Hunx & His Punx. The set sees Powers contribute "Floor Length Hair", while Hunx gives us "Dream On (Little Dreamer)". Grab the digital 7" here. Kid Congo Powers' Myspace Hunx & His Punx's Myspace
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Before the term "indie rock" entered the cultural lexicon—and subsequently came to include so many different types of music that it had to be broken down into countless sub-genres—it actually served as an adequate descriptor for a very specific sound. In the early '90s, you wouldn't have had to string together a series of seemingly random words (like, say, "lo-fi/post-garage slacker-rock") to describe a band like Pavement . No, "indie rock" would do just fine. Today—more than 10 years after rising tensions within the band led to its slow, painful [...]
I've had a draft of a post dedicated to the Swans sitting in the queue for probably a year now. What I was planning to do was create a selection of posts just dedicated to things deemed in my mind "classics" and the late career live album Swans Are Dead is something that falls into that category. Perfect transition, as the news has hit that Michael Gira, frontman to both Angels of Light and Swans is reforming the latter with a mixture of old members and new for a tour this year. As well, [...]
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Nick Cave's seventh studio album, Henry's Dream (1992), is the last of the current set of reissues. This sound of this album heads back toward the dark intensity of Tender Prey without giving up the acoustic sounds of The Good Son . "Henry's Dream," explains Nick Cave, "was one of the first records that I came to with an absolute sound in my head as to how this record should be. What I wanted to make with Henry's Dream was a very violent acoustic record, basically using storytelling and [...]
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Nick Cave's sixth album, The Good Son (1990), completed his transition into the mainstream. Cave forgoes the dark intensity of Tender Prey on this disc and the (almost) Southern gospel songs on this disc are powered by Cave's vocals accompanied by keyboards and strings. As Cave had discovered a new-found sobriety and had also found love with Brazilian stylist Viviane Carneiro, most of the songs on The Good Son are mid-tempo, piano-driven explorations of love and sorrow. To set the stage for these recordings, Nick remained [...]
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Nick Cave's fifth album, Tender Prey (1988), was his great leap forward. This was the first disc where Cave made a complete break from his raw, experimental Birthday Party roots and this disc establishes him as a (surprisingly) accessible epic storyteller / songwriter. The band's sound benefits from the additions of Kid Congo Powers (guitar), who was juggling a second trip through the Gun Club at the time, and keyboard/organist Roland Wolf. Tender Prey kicks off with the seven+ minute death-row story, "Mercy Seat", which has become one of Cave's signature [...]
Garage rockers The Stalkers are playing a special show next Saturday, March 27th, for Kid Congo Powers ' birthday bash. Former Cramps/Gun Club guitarist, Kid Congo is turning 51 and he will be playing a set this night with his latest band, The Pink Monkey Birds. The show is at Secret Project Robot (210 Kent Avenue @ Metropolitan in Williamsburg) and cover is $10. On the bill with Kid Congo and The Stalkers are K-Holes , Tommy Volume (x-Star Spangles) and DJ Jonathan Toubin. The Stalkers have a new single, [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News It's easy at SXSW to lose sight of the fact that indie rock didn't originate with hip bands from Brooklyn. Those groups are part of a bigger story, in which Kid Congo Powers has had a big role: he played with the Gun Club , the Cramps , Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and, Thursday, he played with his latest band, the Pink Monkey Birds, at Prague. "We're gonna be your friends for [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive Even if you haven't heard 'Dracula Boots,' the 2009 album by Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, there's still a very good chance that you've heard Kid Congo Powers' music before. Powers, the former guitarist with the Cramps , the Gun Club and Nick Cave 's Bad Seeds, is releasing five 7-inch singles in a subscription series called 'Ten Greasy Pieces' and is currently finishing his memoir. Kid Congo talked to Spinner about the voodoo in his rhythm and dancing [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , UK Most artists are lucky to play with - at a stretch - just one decent band yet Kid Congo Powers has had more good fortune than most having contributed his idiosyncratic guitar sound to psychobilly pioneers the Cramps , the influential blues-punk outfit the Gun Club and also Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds . An impressive track record by any standard, the guitarist has paid tribute to his former mentors. Playing the [...]
Kid Congo Powers was a Cramp and a Bad Seed (and a founding member of the Gun Club ) before striking off on his own with a flock of Pink Monkey Birds. He speaks now just minutes after finishing recording a new album in a high school gymnasium in Kansas. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
Former Cramps, Gun Club and Bad Seeds guitarist brought his haunted traipse and reverb to the Star Bar Sat. night
Former Cramps, Nick Cave and Gun Club guitarist still has a healthy respect for life
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