What is "cool"? Well, around here at Turned Out A Punk we think the very embodiment of the word cool is Kid Congo Powers & this podcast just got a hell of a lot cooler, because he’s on the show this week! Join Damian as he sits down with the former Cramp, Gun Cluber, Bad Seed & Screamers propagandist to talk about how LA glam kids took over the world. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!

Also Touched On:

Helping invent punk


The Dogs and the Motels


The Glam kids meet the rock kids meet the record collector kids


Seeing Patti Smith and Ramones


Zolar X: hilariously dedicated


The faded glam of LA as an influence
Learning from Rodney


Th Quick: “Our Sparks”


Backdoor Man Magazine was the Bible


The birth of Zine culture


Doing the first Ramones zine


The odd crowd the Ramones attracted 


16 and standing beside Dee Dee


Thrift shopping with Blondie


The Nerves, The Pop and the Zippers


“Glad I was there for that”: life with The Screamers


Pat Suzuki and Argento


“You have to see this band the Cramps!”


Took the bus from LA


Going to New York and seeing the Contortions


Befriending Brian Gregory and Nick Knox


The Mumps come to LA


The Student Teachers


The Blessed


“Those people were sick!” No Wave people were no fucking joke


“Yeah I noticed” The shift from punk to hardcore


Opening for the Circle Jerks with the Creeping Ritual


“They Hated Us!”


Here come the angry kids


Going to see the Slits play in the UK


Record shopping in Paris in ’77


Working at Bomp


& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!

BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS