View basket “Big Red Letter Day” has been added to your basket. Red Cross Redd Kross SKU: MRG734LP Barcode: 0673855073415 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records Released Date: 26th June 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info LP is black vinyl cut 45RPM in single jacket & printed inner sleeve + download. 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 & 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. Artist Redd Kross Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings SIDE A Cover Band Annette’s Got the Hits I Hate My School Clorox Girls S&M Party Standing in Front of Poseur SIDE B Rich Brat (demo) Cover Band (demo) Clorox Girls (demo) Standing in Front of Poseur (demo) Fun with Connie (live) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Redd Kross View Product Quick View Redd Kross Redd Kross Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | In The Red | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th June 2024 £42.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Redd Kross Redd Kross £42.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: In The Red SKU: ITR400 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th June 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Redd Kross Neurotica (reissue) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th June 2022 £31.00 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