DS Show Review & Gallery: The Avengers, Kid Congo Powers, Frightwig (Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1/10/24)

San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall was built in 1907 after the Great Fire and Earthquake of 1906. After many uses and incarnations, it opened as a music venue in 1972 and has been open since. This January, it hosted some veterans of the California punk scene for a night of great music. Frightwig started in 1982 as an all-woman San Francisco punk band with a distinctly feminist message. They released two albums in the ’80s which proved to be an enormous influence on the Riot Girl movement. After breaking up in 1994, they reformed in 2014 and released a new record, We Need To Talk, on Label 51 Records. Kid Congo Powers has been making music since the ’70s including stints with Gun Club, The Cramps and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, before founding The Pink Monkey Bir...

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