From The Gun Club, to The Cramps, to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kid Congo has been on the inside of some of the coolest bands on the earth. Nowadays, leading Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, he seems focused on producing music which condenses all of the things you’ve liked best about the rest of his career all in one place; atmospheric and pointed nightmare garage tunes that evoke equal parts spaghetti western soundtracks, Hazel Adkins-ish rockabilly jams, and mid-sixties horror films. Sound too good to be true? Thankfully, it’s not. [...]
The tidal wave that is SXSW is about to crash upon Austin. I look forward to it every Spring, but this year I’m especially excited since Side One Track One is partnering up with Pop Press International to host DC vs Austin . You’ll be there, right? A few weeks back I featured half of the bands that make of the DC side of the lineup. Below I introduce you to the other three incredible bands representing the nation’s capital. [...]
picked up this grand piece of art (s)punk, spoken word, sound collage wonk via ubu . jane bond & the undercover men: stuff we're not supposed to know dennis cooper: alternative dennis jeffrey lee pierce: tribute to miles davis john doe: jean harlow kid congo: australian tour journal [...]
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Tonight's show at Echoplex is simultaneously the best show of 1980/81 and also 2010/11 so far: the Middle Class, Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, Grant Hart (of Husker Du!) and the Urinals! We asked people to send us YouTubes of appropriately ripping vintage punk and did they ever ... especially with the Screamers videos! (Never thought there would be a day when the Screamers are the majority option.) So here are the winners! If you didn't win, you can get tix here or just go. Or more correctly: GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! FIRST [...]
L.A. RECORD is presenting another night of awesome bands this very Friday and making it possible for you to win tickets by coming up with yet another clever contest! WHO WANTS TO WIN TICKETS??? Just email rsvp@larecord.com with the subject line OUT OF VOGUE with a YouTube link to your favorite rippingest vintage punk song! The most awesomest rippingest song wins! THE MIDDLE CLASS The Middle Class is Mike Atta, Jeff Atta, Matt Simon and Mike Patton (no, not that Mike [...]
Over the course of his illustrious 30-plus-year career, Brian Tristan-who does business as Kid Congo Powers-has played with punk legends the Cramps, punk-blues luminaries the Gun Club, and, most famously, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on two of their classic albums, Tender Prey and the Good Son . For the better part of the past decade, though, he's been making sweet, sweet noise with the Pink Monkey Birds . Not unlike a punk-infused version of the Spiders from Mars, from whom they derive their name, the Pink Monkey [...]
Full of havoc and hilarity, local rock and roll act Chain and the Gang want people to know from the name of their new album that Music is Not for Everyone . "It's unfair," frontman Ian Svenonious said with sincere sympathy. "People are bullied into thinking, um, hold on a second..." (As a writer himself, Ian includes "ums" in interviews, so in his honor, and in true stenographer form, I will as well) Ian looks past his distraction, chuckles at my notes on his ums, and continues. "People are bullied into thinking [...]
Gather round kiddies and let the old man tell you about a fella named Kid Congo Powers . One mean guitar player this Kid, not like one of those shredder types, but mean like he'd bite your nose clean off just for asking if he had the time. Way back in the day, Kid co-founded a little outfit called The Gun Club with a wildman name Jeffrey Lee Pierce. After that band went south, he did time with scum-a-billy masters The Cramps , not to mention Nick Cave. Not a bad resume, [...]
Scion AV has put up a free download of a rad split 73 from garage rockers Hunx and His Punx and Kid Congo Powers and The Pink Monkey Birds . Preview the Hunx song below and go download the 73 from the Scion AV site . Hunx and his Punx - Dream On (Little Dreamer)
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Kid Congo Powers has a unique way of describing 'Ten Greasy Pieces,' the collection of mail-order singles he and his latest band, the Pink Monkey Birds, are set to release later this year. "You buy a prescription," Congo said Friday night at New York's Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg. He might have said "subscription," as the group's label, In the Red, will issue the five 7" records one at a time, but his choice of words was quite apt. Congo's [...]
Due to our being deep in the trenches to technological disorder, this much past due SXSW roundup comes, by modern standards, years past it’s prime. But we here at All Our Noise still believe it is well worth your time to check out delectable tidbits from a handful of great performers. This is by no means a full overview of every important thing we saw, touched, and tasted in Austin, but rather a quick crosscut through the spectrum of sound. The complex spices of SXSW, make for the perfect sweet and savory experience, but here are a few sprinkles of note: [...]
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 [...]
On October 17th, Scion, aka the car company, will celebrate one of music's most rocking genres, aka garage rock, with the first ever Scion Garage Fest . The 43 confirmed acts, which will play four of Portland's finest venue, includes Roky Erickson, Black Lips, Jay Reatard, The Almighty Defenders, King Khan and BBQ Show, The Dutchess and the Duke, Gino Washington, and Japanese Motors among others. Oh, and did we mention the whole shindig is free? Just hit up scion.com to RSVP and get all the other necessary info.
It's not raining?! First time in forty days! Know what that means... time to celebrate with some FREE MUSIC! Come one, come all and feast below on a selection of MP3s that have come our way in the past week. Some are EAR FARM favorites, some might be more your bag than ours, all are free for you to enjoy... just click the band name for the band's site and the song name for the MP3. EAR FARM: giving you more of what you want. MP3s [...]
Kid Congo's track "Hitchhiking" from their latest release "Dracula Boots" on In the Red Records. Download: Kid Congo - Hitchhiking Share This:
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