Penelope Houston exploded onto the San Francisco scene with the Avengers, a loud, powerful band that was widely considered among the best of the city's '70s punk scene. The Avengers played regularly at the Mabuhay Gardens and opened for the Sex Pistols at Winterland before band members went their separate ways. Houston reinvented herself as a singer-songwriter, and while her projects since have been largely acoustic, she never lost the intensity of her artistic vision or her desire to confront the contradictions of... More >>>