American rock band Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds have announced a 2024 Australian tour. It’ll start in Melbourne on Thursday, 18th April with shows to follow in Castlemaine, Adelaide, Perth, ...

There is a lot going on in the world of former Cramps, Gun Club and Bad Seed member Kid Congo Powers, including two albums and a book. “My biggest influence is beatnik poetry,” says Powers. “Bob comes ...

On Tuesday (Feb. 24), punk and rock icon Kid Congo joined Loudwire Nights to dive into his latest projects and what's on the horizon. Listen to the full conversation in the player near the end of this ...

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds have announced new album That Delicious Vice which will be out April 19 via In the Red. It’s their first album in eight years, and the first with a new trio lineup of ...

The release of 1984’s The Las Vegas Story saw the Gun Club step away from the ramshackle DIY ethic of their first two albums. The album saw the return to the lineup of guitarist Kid Congo Powers after ...

Celebrating the fact that the That Delicious Vice album has gone into its second pressing, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds have announced their first shows of 2025 this September, with a run of ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Back in the ‘60s Brian Tristan grew up in La Puente, California, a largely Hispanic suburb of Los Angeles. In the mid-’70s he loved glam rock and the budding punk rock scene in Hollywood. In 1979, ...

Veteran punk-rockabilly guitarist Kid Congo Powers, who, upon finally sitting down to pen memoirs tracing his career from his first teenage band to the current Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, ...