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Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the incendiary, hell-bent debut from the Los Angeles punk band who used blues and rockabilly to paint a depraved portrait of a young artist in their purest state.
AltPress sat down with Kid Congo Powers (the Cramps, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds) to go over his life and career as a definitive punk guitarist.
"I felt a little threatened," Sam Crow, frontperson of superlative Orlando garage-punks Spoon Dogs and half of new Orlando band Body Shop, recalls of the first time he saw his future partner and musical collaborator, Kit Dee, on stage fronting Red Rodeo. "Our first show together, Spoon Dogs played first. Red Rodeo followed, and I'm like, 'OK, this person is really good, stage presence is really good.' Second song, third song, I'm like, 'OK, any minute now you can be done playing, please be done playing.' If they do too many more songs our set is not gonna matter."
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A co-founding member of the band Mumps (with the late Lance Loud of PBS' An American Family fame), Hoffman has been associated with a spectacular line-up of influential musical acts including Klaus Nomi, Lydia Lunch, Kid Congo Powers, Ann Magnuson, El Vez, Prince Poppycock and countless others. The previously mentioned Mumps are getting the special reissue treatment with Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, You've Got Mumps (Omnivore), a single disc 23-track compilation including nine bonus tracks, two of which are previously unissued. Kristian was kind enough to answer a...