Celebrating the fact that the That Delicious Vice album has gone into its second pressing, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds are playing their first shows of 2025 next month, with a run of dates in the Midwest and Canada beginning September 9th.
The band also recently shared the video for “Silver For My Sister.” The song, taken from the album, was inspired by the sentence “A wish to crawl,” which was jotted on a post-it note when Kid was laid up in bed, unable to walk unassisted for five months, after a bicycle accident left him with a shattered tibia plateau. At the same time, he was also mourning the death of a long-time friend, Julie Long Gallegos, who was the jeweller with “red lipstick hair.” She was an advocate for wolf preservation and loved all wolf symbolism, so the song took shape as a tribute of sorts as it veered into storybook-land. Video directors Max Flick and Ambar Navarro capture the mood perfectly, with gorgeous, surreal settings and fantastic stop motion animation.
Punk icon Alice Bag also appears in the video as the jeweller. Her and Kid’s paths first crossed in 1977, during the early days of the Hollywood punk movement. Their friendship, rooted in a shared passion for raw, boundary-pushing music, led to a new creative partnership and dynamic musical duo, Juanita & Juan, that transcends genres and defies labels, although the two refer to their sound as “Loud Lounge.” Their debut album, Jungle Cruise, was released in April on In The Red Records, and they have been playing select dates on the West Coast, and will open for Redd Kross at the Levitt Pavilion in Los Angeles on August 30th.
Juanita & Juan:
08/30 – Los Angeles, CA, Levitt Pavilion w/ Redd Kross
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds Tour Dates:
09/09 – Kansas City, MO Record Bar
09/10 – Omaha, NE Reverb Lounge
09/11 – Green Bay, WI UFO Museum Shop & Records
09/12 – Minneapolis, MN Palmer’s Bar
09/13 – Milwaukee, WI X-Ray Arcade
09/14 – Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen
09/16 – Detroit, MI Lager House
09/17 – London, ON Palasad Social Bowl
09/18 – Toronto, ON Monarch Tavern
09/19 – Hamilton, ON The Bright Room
09/20 – Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
09/21 – Cincinnati, OH MOTR Pub