kid congo & the pink monkey birds - haunted head

KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS are back with a brand new lp on IN THE RED RECORDS entitled HAUNTED HEAD......YES!!!!!!!   and as always the former cramps/gun club/bad seeds guitarist/voodoo extraordinaire will never lead us astray.......!!!!!!

HAUNTED HEAD is an even murkier / darker ride through the hazy surf / rockabilly inspired, swampy garage punk that we've come to expect from KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS...(and if you thought GORILLA ROSE and DRACULA BOOTS were killer, just wait til you get yer dirty hands on this new one)....

the new album is full of greasy guitar riffs, soul soaked creeper anthems, lysergic rave ups, beatnik bad trip rants and all sorts of late night rock n roll juju....just like we need....HAUNTED HEAD is a whole another world you'll fall into and never escape from.......and that's quite all right with me.......  

totally fucking recommended.  kid congo & co proves once again that they are the kings of sleazy rock n roll and nobody comes close to approximating their eery and debauched garage rock sound......that is for sure!!!!!!

SO LISTEN TO THE TITLE TRACK OF THE NEW LP AND GET HOOKED!!!!!!!



AND JUMP OVER TO REVOLVER TO STREAM MORE OF HAUNTED HEAD
WHERE YOU CAN ALSO CONVENIENTLY BUY THE LP TOO....!!!!!!

kid congo & the pink monkey birds - conjure man 7 inch

KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS are back with a killer new single, CONJURE MAN on IN THE RED......

following the excellent DRACULA BOOTS and GORILLA ROSE lps, this hot-off-the-presses 7 inch continues in that same swampy dark garage vein we all know and love from KID CONGO.....

and if these two songs are any indication of his upcoming album, HAUNTED HEAD, KID CONGO is gonna shoot to the top of my year end list for sure.......

recommended for everyone who needs a shot of garage rock in their life...... and especially for those into the REIGNING SOUND, 68 COMEBACK, JOHN SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, THE FLESHTONES and COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS......as well KID CONGO's previous bands -- the CRAMPS, GUN CLUB and NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS......yep that resume ought to catch yer attention.......

kid congo plays rock n roll like it was meant to be played -- sweaty, loud, raw, sexy and rambunctious..... and of course drunk and raring to go all night long.....  this is not some copy of a copy of a copy garage rock revival junk........ KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS ARE THE REAL DEAL.......

SO DO YRSELF A FAVOR AND 
LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE BELOW....

A SIDE - CONJURE MAN


B SIDE - LOOSE YOUR MIND (SEEDS COVER)


and watch KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS LIVE BELOW -

scion a/v club GARAGE/PUNK SEVEN INCH SERIES

scion may or may not be encroaching on our beloved garage rock scene, but free music from our favorite bands is never a terrible thing.  


so i guess we owe a thanks to scion for this singles series.......

as far a i can tell this is every release 
in the scion a/v club garage/punk 7 inch collection......
              (they have also released a few other rock, metal and hiphop singles, but that's less interesting....)



so click here to grab the first ELEVEN singles in the series......
     (all grouped as one easy to download .zip file)


black lips / pierced arrows
cola freaks / digital leather

king tuff / hex dispensers

human eye / sex beet

jack oblivian / mannequin men

oblivians / andre ethier

reigning sound / last year's men

dirtbombs / davila 666

the strange boys / natural child

kid congo & the pink monkey birds / 
            hunx & his punx

nobunny / jacuzzi boys

and  here to grab THE SPITS two 7 inches

(grouped as another .zip
    so the spits fans can just grab these two releases.....)
      
the spits "haunted fang castle" ep 
(which is quite weird)  & the spits / dan melchior split

and   
click here to grab the 
CHEAP TIME / BAD SPORTS
7 INCH......

some of these singles are no longer available 
for download at scion....... 


      
so this might be the only place to grab these 7 inches.....

kid congo on tour! with the jim jones revue

kid congo and the pink monkey birds are playing a few select dates this september to promote the new lp, gorilla rose, out earlier in year on IN THE RED records........


kid congo is not to be missed live, i promise, i mean he learned his chops playing with the gun club and the cramps, so he knows how to entertain....unlike some indie bands that bore you to death live....                             i wont mention names.......


along with his backing band the pink monkey birds, kid congo is bringing the JIM JONES REVUE along for the ride.....which if you don't know them, play some soulful rockin' garage... the kind which you could just slip on to a nuggets mix and no one would be any the wiser........  click here to check out their 2010 lp, burning your house down....  


and be sure to not to miss any of the dates below if yr anywhere close to these cities.....kid congo and jim jones revue will kill it every night......    


and if yr in chicago, i'll see you at schubas......




9/10/2011, Brooklyn, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg
9/11/2011, Allston, MA, Brighton Music Hall
9/12/2011, Montreal, QC, Casa del Popolo
9/13/2011, Toronto, ON, Horseshoe Tavern
9/14/2011, Chicago, IL, Schuba’s Tavern
9/16/2011, Philadelphia, PA, The Blockley
9/17/2011, Washington, DC, Black Cat
9/18/2011, Hoboken, NJ, Maxwell’s




and here's the latest video from the gorilla rose lp, for the song catsuit fruit.....  


KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS: catsuit fruit from SKOTE on Vimeo.

kid congo and the pink monkey birds- gorilla rose

Gun Club co-founder. Gunslinger for The Cramps. Six-string stylist for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. 


The legendary Kid Congo Powers named his new album Gorilla Rose after the artist / performer. 


As a teenage boy, Powers met Gorilla Rose in the emerging LA punk scene of the '70s through seminal weirdo band The Screamers. He recalls, "Gorilla was a close and constant presence and influence on The Screamers and me as a young pup. He was to The Screamers like Bobby Neuwirth was to Dylan-a jester of sorts, sparking many of their great lyric ideas. I still think Gorilla Rose is the most fabulous nom de plume in history. His unsung specter was in my mind a lot last year so I decided to title the album Gorilla Rose to honor his name and bring him into rock 'n' roll's ongoing conversation."




the gorilla rose lp is much like kid congo's more famous musical endeavors.  his albums with the pink monkey birds are, to try and pinpoint it more clearly, are 80s post punk influenced garage with a good dose of swampy good ol' rock n roll.....  


you just need to listen to kid congo to know what i mean.  subtle and catchy at the same time, it's like you've heard these songs a million times and yet never quite heard anything like them before.  


not very often does the garage scene offer up an album by someone with this much cred and talent..... fuck all of us young kids and the bands we are all in and like.  kid congo has been showing us how to rock for quite some time, and you should listen up.......


click here to grab the "GORILLA ROSE" lp.... (then go buy it may 17th from in the red records)

kid congo and his new greasy vinyl releases.

from a press release that i found floating around the internet....

"The legendary Kid Congo Powers, co-founder of the Gun Club, guitarist for The Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, will be releasing his new album with his group Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds this spring. Titled Gorilla Rose, the album follows in the footsteps of the band's 2009 Dracula Boots with more ram-charged boogaloo, sleazy psychedelia and Chicano garage rock. In the Red Records is gearing up for the new album by releasing a series of oddball limited edition vinyl-only records by the band. The first of these releases dropped in the form of the "Five Greasy Pieces" subscription series. This is a very limited edition (250 of each) series of five different singles each containing two brand new tracks. Starting in January In The Red will be issuing one of these a month. The fifth and final single in the series will come with a handsome box in which all five will be housed. The only way to obtain these singles is to buy a subscription on the In The Red website. In March In The Red will be issuing a live LP by the band titled Live At The Prom which will be another vinyl-only limited edition release available exclusively online."

so go the in the red records webstore here and buy up some kid congo. and maybe some dirtbombs, parting gifts and tyvek while yr at it.

garage punk classics - the cramps.

we lost some of my fav musicians this last year...and i'm not talking about teddy pendergrass.

i hadn't started this blog last year when lux interior from the cramps died, but i still miss him very much.......

the cramps are too fun to listen to get all teary eyed about him though.

thanks lux interior, poison ivy and kid congo (and the various other cramps) for making my evening.... just what i needed as i'm getting ready to go out for the night......

click below to grab some of my favorite CRAMPS lps.....which also happen to be some of my favorite albums of all time.......


psychedelic jungle // gravest hits

songs the lord taught us 

date with elvis 

and listen below......