Penelope Houston's seventh studio album On Market Street was incubated for seven years and recorded in seven months at the San Francisco Bay Area's prestigious Fantasy Studios. The award-winning singer/songwriter who cut her teeth in the legendary punk band The Avengers has turned to tales of revenge and forgiveness, of love both sanctified and illicit.
Penelope Houston (born December 17, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter best known as the singer for the San Francisco-based punk rock band the Avengers. She was raised in Seattle. In the mid-1970s she attended Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington. In 1977, Houston moved to San Francisco, attended the San Francisco Art Institute, and shortly after became the lead singer and songwriter for the Avengers. Her first full-length album was Birdboys which came out in 1987. Her most recent album is 2012's On Market Street. Shortly after the release of Pale Green Girl, Houston and original guitarist Greg Ingraham recreated the Avengers, adding bassist Joel Reader (formerly of The Mr. T Experience, and The Plus Ones) and drummer Luis Illades (of Pansy Division, formerly also of The Plus Ones) to round out the lineup.
Original punk chanteuse Penelope Houston must be of hardy stock: still touring with a revised version of her groundbreaking band Avengers some 30 years after their heyday, she also makes records of her own, having released roughly a dozen since 1988. Singer/songwriter aficionados may be reticent to trust the onetime punk queen to deliver the goods. To them, we say phhhht!.
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4 May at 17:47 ·. Penelope Houston. Raising some money for Glide. Because On Market Street is no place to live. For the last 30 years, Houston has been one of the Bay Area's most vital musical artists. The new album, instantly grabbing, makes a more indelible impression with each subsequent listening.
On Market Street is an interesting counterpoint to Houston's output with the Avengers. This isn't punk rock, but these "grown-up" songs still surge with a youthful charge. In light of the reissue of her work with punk outfit the Avengers, to hear the soulful folk-rock of On Market Street is to wonder if this is the same Penelope Houston. This is an album Houston has been building up to for seven years and yet, despite its languid, lush textures, it feels fresh
