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Their discography includes critically acclaimed albums such as \"Phaseshifter\" and \"Researching the Blues,\" which showcase their ability to create timeless music that resonates with listeners across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"red-cross-reissue","title":"Red Cross (Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe special 40th anniversary edition of the Red Cross EP, which includes the band’s six-song eponymous debut and adds five contemporaneous extra tracks, is the most comprehensive document to date of the extraordinary birth of Redd Kross. In a single 12-month period, Jeff and Steven McDonald, two adolescent brothers from Hawthorne, CA, went from posing with cheap guitars and singing into hairbrushes in front of their bedroom mirror to recording in world-class studios and performing live at punk shows\/riots that are still being pondered and written about for their pioneering cultural relevance within the Southern California punk landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRedd Kross incubated alongside such SoCal luminaries as Black Flag, Descendents, and the Minutemen, and this new 11-song collection which includes a live track recorded in 1979 at “The Church,” the infamous Black Flag birthplace in Hermosa Beach, CA puts in proper perspective the McDonald brothers’ contribution, at the ridiculously precocious ages of 12 and 16, to that area’s punk scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe demo session was recorded at Media Art in Hermosa Beach, the same studio where Black Flag made their Nervous Breakdown EP. Engineered by Spot and produced by power pop godfather Joe Nolte of the Last, these four tracks mark the first time the band had ever stepped foot in a recording studio. Notably, the demo session was paid for with 12-year-old bassist Steven’s paper route money. A couple of months later, in October 1979, the band recorded the “Posh Boy” sessions at the Shelter, a studio in Hollywood owned by Shelter Records, which was home to rock vet Leon Russell and relative newcomers at the time Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Engineered by guitarist Jim Mankey (Sparks, Concrete Blonde), this session produced the proto power pop punk classics \u003ci\u003eAnnette’s Got the Hits\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Hate My School\u003c\/i\u003e, both of which would appear on their 1980 self-titled debut EP on Posh Boy Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe entire birth story of Redd Kross is being celebrated on this 40th anniversary edition of Red Cross (known to many as “the Posh Boy EP”), and these tracks sound as fresh and vital to our ears now as they did when they were originally released four decades ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merge Records","offers":[{"title":"Black 12\"","offer_id":50447175778635,"sku":"1092950","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50447175647563,"sku":"1092949","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6255f66d-b1dc-44c9-a435-02734522d429_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727072923"},{"product_id":"third-eye-solid-purple-vinyl","title":"Third Eye (Solid Purple Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe American alternative rock band Redd Kross reached their peak in the early 1980s by releasing clever punk rock song. 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But that didn’t stop their group from becoming one of the most remarkable, enduring and unique outfits punk-rock ever belched up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2024, then, marks \u003cem\u003eRedd Kross\u003c\/em\u003e’s forty-fifth birthday - an important anniversary for any group whose heart pulses at 45RPM - and the brothers celebrate the event with a veritable multimedia extravaganza. There’s a memoir, \u003cem\u003eNow You’re One Of Us\u003c\/em\u003e, author Dan Epstein telling the group’s story in the McDonalds’ unmistakable (and occasionally contrary) voices. A brilliant rockumentary, \u003cem\u003eBorn Innocent\u003c\/em\u003e, directed by Andrew Reich, will premiere later in the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost exciting of all, this new album - an eponymous double-album, no less, packed with eighteen of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet. 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This reissue will be available worldwide on a single CD or colour vinyl 2LP. Both formats include the original album, remastered by JJ Golden (Pearl Jam, Thee Oh Sees), as well as 12 previously unreleased demos from the era (rediscovered recently in the archives of the band's original A\u0026amp;R guy, Geoffrey Weiss).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe double vinyl edition of the album on translucent turquoise, the demos on translucent orange arrives in a slick gatefold jacket. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeurotica\u003c\/i\u003e could be viewed as a This Is Your Life-esque document of what brothers Jeff \u0026amp; Steve McDonald had been working toward creatively since starting Redd Kross in their Hawthorne, CA living room circa 1978. The songs quake with punk rock fury. And how could they possibly have shaken off the untamed energy of their early Red Cross years which laid a foundation for Southern California hardcore punk and DIY culture alongside bands like Black Flag, Circle Jerks and Descendants? But fury is only part of their formula. To find the other parts, travel back to the ‘70s, when the McDonald boys lived for nothing but Saturday morning cartoons, sugary cereal, bubblegum pop singles, Beach Boys LPs, Partridge Family TV specials and the arena rock guitars of KISS and Cheap Trick. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhereas most self-respecting punk rockers would have sneered at ‘60s\/‘70s radio and pop culture schmaltz (even if they secretly liked it), that was all a tremendous part of the Redd Kross DNA. And the McDonalds wore those influences on their dayglo sleeves. They decontextualized the macho, sometimes saccharine, sound of classic rock, celebrating its bombast without falling into its pretentious pitfalls. They played what sounded good to them. If along the way they could convince you that those David Cassidy AM radio singles were actually great and subversive in their own way, that was just an added bonus. Their technicolor punk rock was first explored on Teen Babes From Monsanto in 1984. But \u003ci\u003eNeurotica\u003c\/i\u003e is where the Redd Kross sound gelled into something miraculous. The McDonalds enlisted a grand crew: guitarist Robert Hecker, keyboardist Paul Roessler (Screamers, Nervous Gender) and Roy McDonald on drums (The Muffs). In the producer’s chair was Tom Erdelyi aka Tommy Ramone, one of the originators of punk rock melody. 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Unsurprising that something of this caliber would hatch from the minds of two brothers who changed the face of punk rock before they were old enough to drive a car and the face of alternative rock before they were old enough to rent one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merge Records","offers":[{"title":"Orange | LP | x2","offer_id":50455236215115,"sku":"1155009","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50455241326923,"sku":"1155010","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/565ca6f4-ba90-4d0f-8b86-1a250f1b9064_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727189633"},{"product_id":"researching-the-blues","title":"Researching the Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eResearching the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e features 10 songs clocking in at just under 32 minutes. With songs written by Jeff and produced and mixed by Steven, the album is by far the band’s favourite record. 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