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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Tonight! Tonight in Music: Neal Morgan, Slabtown Bender

Posted by Ned Lannamann on Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:35 PM


NEAL MORGAN, WHITE HINTERLAND, MARISA ANDERSON, PWRHAUS, SEAN PECKNOLD
(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Read our article on Neal Morgan.


SLABTOWN BENDER: KID CONGO POWERS AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS, DON'T, PROBLEMS, CYCLOPS, BLOOD BEACH, & MORE

(Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th) Brian Tristan, AKA Kid Congo Powers, came up in the LA punk scene during the late '70s and '80s. Though he started small, running a fan club for the Ramones and a zine for the Screamers, he ended up playing in seminal bands like the Gun Club, the Cramps, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Now with his own band the Pink Monkey Birds, Kid Congo Powers blends his West Coast punk roots with doses of grooving '60s Chicano rock and garage psychedelia to superb effect. Both 2009's Dracula Boots and last year's Gorilla Rose show that the Kid has aged gracefully, still capable of kicking out the kind of jams that should have plenty of feet moving at the grand finale of this year's Slabtown Bender. MIKE RAMOS

 

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