Name: Red Cross (Reissue)
Brand: Redd Kross

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Bonus disc: No

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MRG734CD

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-06-26

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0673855073422

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MRG734LP

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Black

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0673855073415

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Redd Kross

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Merge Records

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan, it started as a platform to release music from their band Superchunk and their friends' creations. Over the years, Merge Records has grown to include talented artists from all over the world, with some of their records even reaching the top of the Billboard music charts.
With its headquarters nestled in Durham, North Carolina, Merge Records has become a renowned name in the music industry. The label was established by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan back in 1989 with a vision to share their own musical endeavors as well as support fellow musicians within their circle.
What began as a humble endeavor quickly flourished into something much greater. Today, Merge Records boasts an impressive roster of artists spanning various genres and backgrounds. From indie rock to experimental pop, *Superchunk* paved the way for other talented musicians to join forces under this esteemed label's umbrella.

Redd Kross is an American alternative rock band hailing from Hawthorne, California. With a rich musical history spanning several decades, they have become synonymous with the vibrant and diverse music scene of Southern California.
Influenced by a wide range of artists including *The Posies*, *The Weirdos*, and *The Zeros*, Redd Kross has crafted their own unique sound that blends elements of punk, power pop, and garage rock. Their energetic performances and catchy melodies have garnered them a dedicated fan base around the world.
Known for their high-energy live shows and infectious hooks, Redd Kross continues to captivate audiences with their raw talent and undeniable charisma. 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.

The 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.

Redd 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.

The 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 Annette’s Got the Hits and I Hate My School, both of which would appear on their 1980 self-titled debut EP on Posh Boy Records.

The 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.