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Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds’ Swing From the Sean DeLear is a much-needed breath of fresh air and a celebration of life here on earth and beyond. Swing From the Sean DeLear Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds In the Red Records 20 February 2021 Kid Congo Powers has a resume that speaks for itself. After co-founding the Gun Club with Jeffrey Lee Pierce in 1979, he played with the Cramps and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Powers also established the psychedelic garage band Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds. In February, the Pink Monkey Birds released their latest record,

Radio Iowa You are here: Home House votes to ban stereotyping in diversity training Republicans in the Iowa House have voted to forbid introducing what the bill calls “divisive concepts” like gender or race-based stereotypes in diversity training for staff and students at most publicly-funded institutions in the state. The bill would bar public schools and universities as well as any state or local government agency from having diversity training that suggests the United States or the State of Iowa is “fundamentally racist.” “I believe that teaching or applying a certain characteris...

Kid Congo Powers has been called many things throughout his illustrious decades-long career. “Garage guitar god.” “Punk legend.” “Made mostly of magic.” “Latinx groover.” Even Vogue magazine calls him a “punk icon” with a “singular fashion sense.” The kid from La Puente who wanted to be a music journalist ended up becoming one of punk music’s most influential guitarists since joining Jeffrey Lee Pierce and The Gun Club in the late 1970s. He would tour for decades with The Gun Club and other internationally regarded post-punk bands like The Cramps and Nick Cave & the ...

Our Legislature has a mean streak. Cruel, even.

IPR file Former Speaker of the Iowa House Linda Upmeyer has been elected co-chair of the Republican Party of Iowa, while Jeff Kaufmann has been reelected as chair. The Republican Party of Iowa’s State Central Committee has voted unanimously to reelect Chairman Jeff Kaufmann and elect former Speaker of the Iowa House Linda Upmeyer as the party’s co-chair. The votes follow the Iowa GOP’s sweeping victories at the ballot box last November, bolstered by support for President Donald Trump, but they come at a time when the national party is increasingly divided over the future role of Trump,...