Search results
Kid Congo Powers, born March 27, 1959 in La Puente, California, USA, Chicano renegade guitar stylist, is known for his work in The Gun Club (which he co-founded with singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce), The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Butcher Shop, Congo Norvell, Knoxville Girls and Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds.Additionally, Kid Congo Powers is a prolific songwriter and lyricist.
Kid Congo Powers, one of avant garage punk ’s secret weapons, was interviewed March 9 from his Tucson, Arizona, home that he shares with his husband. On the brink of releasing his amazing new EP ...
12 de ene. de 2023 · It’s excellent, if unintended, timing for Powers, whose new memoir, Some New Kind of Kick, is out now, taking readers on a ride through the U.S. and European punk and post-punk rock history of ...
8 de dic. de 2022 · Kid Congo Powers has had a busy 2022. He released a memoir, Some Kind of Kick, an “intimate coming of age tale, of a young, queer, Chicano kid, growing up in a suburb east of East LA, in the mid ...
17 de ago. de 2016 · Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds'La Araña'Deep in the heart of San Gabriel Valley there is a party brewing, and you’re invited. Not just any party, but a co...
The Guardian , Kid Congo Powers: ‘Sex was great. Love was dumb. Sleaze was paramount’ Kid Congo Powers in The Gaurdian . He Walked In video. Punk In Traslation Podcast. Episode 6: Proudly Queer, Latinx & Punk. Inter/re/view KCET by Melissa Hildago "Gente from La Puente: Brown, Queer, Underground Punk Icon Shines the Light on Those at the ...
The Gun Club were formed by Jeffrey Lee Pierce (guitar and vocals) with friend, chief of the Ramones fan club and fellow music enthusiast Brian Tristan, also known as Kid Congo Powers. Pierce was the former head of the Blondie fan club in Los Angeles and previously a member of the Red Lights, the E-Types, the Individuals , Phast Phreddie & Thee Precisions, and the Cyclones.
