Sunday: Join Our Conversation with Kid Congo Powers + Chris Campion!
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Kid Congo Powers (center) and the Pink Monkey Birds/Photo by Luz Gallardo
Sunday Sunday Sunday!
I hope you’ll consider joining us live this Sunday at noon PT (via this Zoom link) for Kid Congo Powers (of Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds and a former member of The Cramps, Gun Club and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and his Some New Kind of Kick co-writer Chris Campion from Wolf + Salmon, a boutique publisher of the lost and arcane.
This is a badass book on so many levels and I can’t wait for us to get into it. Avid reader Flea wrote the most flawless testimonial for it on the book jacket:
Do you have any fucking guts? Kid Congo’s got ‘em all. Who else comes out of the closet when they’re fifteen years old in 1974, embraces Glam, then Punk, when you would still get your ass beat for it, forms one of the most important rock bands in history before he ever played a note, then lays down the timeless tracks from the depths of his heart that last forever? I’m blown away by the courage organically flowing through him. The book is dripping with all the sadness and beauty in the world. Smell it, taste it, see it. Its pages are stained with my Angeleno tears; it demolished me. A crucial document. Thank you, Kid; you rule.
Watch: Will Hermes on his book Lou Reed: The King of New York
We’re slowly but surely catching up with posting events to our Music Book Club Archive at 48 Hills. It was a pleasure to welcome Will Hermes to discuss Lou Reed: The King of New York, a masterful work that took a decade on and off to research, and we now have the video for you to watch. I am much happier than the thumbnail makes me look.
LOLZ
I heard yesterday from someone new at the major publishing company that offered me the lolwtf $1,000 book deal for my Bay Area Rap idea that I turned down and that spurred me to start Music Book Club and publish myself. They were checking in to discuss my cover art that I wanted for the Bay Area Rap book. So this is either the weirdest, most random mistake, or they've decided to do a Bay Area Rap book anyway and then it's just a really unfortunate mistake to contact me (I think it’s the former, but haven’t gotten confirmation yet).
In any case, I've been getting a lot of quality writing done on MY book that I will release through Music Book Club, and this just makes it more interesting. There's no way they can steal the heart of what I'm doing. Having you as a support group while I develop this idea is an incredible gift, thank you. I want to start sharing excerpts of the work in progress with you soon.
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• Music Book Club’s upcoming events calendar
• 1 Album A Day Art by Music Book Club co-producer Carly Eiseman
• Tamara Palmer’s new Respond2Bass music newsletter
• TP’s California Eating x Charles Chocolates Dream Custom Chocolate Bar Contest (ends 8/4)
• TP’s Creative Jobs newsletter (free listings and pitch guides!)