REDD KROSS – Redd Kross – CD [AUG 23]

CD – Iconic punk band celebrates forty-five years with new album. Recorded, produced, and drums by Josh Klinghoffer (ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Janes Addiction).

In 1979, two school-kids all hopped-up on punk-rock started their own group in their hometown of Hawthorne, Los Angeles (birthplace of the Beach Boys) and soon found themselves opening shows for notorious scene pioneers Black Flag. Jeff McDonald was fifteen, his brother Steven McDonald only eleven. But that didnt stop their group from becoming one of the most remarkable, enduring and unique outfits punk-rock ever belched up.

2024, then, marks Redd Krosss forty-fifth birthday an important anniversary for any group whose heart pulses at 45RPMand the brothers are celebrating the event with a veritable multimedia extravaganza. Theres a memoir, Now Youre One Of Us, due in November, author Dan Epstein telling the groups story in the McDonalds unmistakable (and occasionally contrary) voices. A brilliant rockumentary, Born Innocent, directed by Andrew Reich, will premiere later in the year. Most exciting of all, this new albuman eponymous double-album, no less, packed with eighteen of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet. These years of joyful service to rocknroll have seen Redd Kross evolve into a killer pop-rock concern, dealing in dayglo power-chords, choruses as tall as skyscrapers and a lyric sheet thick with acid couplets and arch pop cultural references their loyal following will gobble up like quaaludes.

Tracklist:

1. Candy Coloured Catastrophe
2. Stunt Queen
3. The Main Attraction
4. Cancion Enojada
5. Good Times Propaganda Band
6. Whats In It For You?
7. Ill Take Your Word For It
8. Terrible Band
9. Stuff
10. Back Of The Cave
11. Too Good To Be True
12. Way Too Happy
13. Simple Magic
14. The Witches Stand
15. Lay Down And Die
16. The Shamans Disappearing Robe
17. Emanuelle Insane
18. Born Innocent