Redd Kross Kickstarter Trailer #2

Redd Kross are one of my favorite bands.  They're my favorite band currently recording or touring.  As a major music geek that's (as Bananarama once said), "really saying something." Jeff and Steve McDonald and director Andrew Reich are raising funds to create a Redd Kross documentary. I don't have a pot to piss in but do have a window to throw it from - if you like that sort of thing.  But should you have $10.00 or 100 or more bucks lying around to help make this happen* you should check out the Kickstarter page (here) for the goodies offered for contributors to the cause. There's everything from autographs to your very own backyard concert. The funding period is down to the wire.  Make it happen.  HIT IT!

 

In 1978, in the Southern California beach suburb of Hawthorne, the
same town that was home to The Beach Boys, two brothers Jeff and Steven
McDonald aged 15 and 11 respectively, started a band called The
Tourists. The first time The Tourists played in front of anyone was at
Black Flag's legendary rehearsal space, The Church in Hermosa Beach. The
older band gave The Tourists not only their seal of approval but a new
name - Red Cross. The spelling was later changed to Redd Kross after the high school-age brothers received a cease and desist order from the International Red Cross. Jeff's response was to change their name to "Redd Kross" in an homage to comedian Redd Foxx.

Born Innocent is directed by Andrew Reich an Emmy Award-winning television comedy writer/showrunner, best known as an Executive Producer on Friends. And the film's producer is Emmy Award winning Julian Cautherley. The documentary has already filmed interviews with Jeff and Steve and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Buzz Osbourne and Dale Crover (The Melvins) and original Red Cross member Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks). With the help of the Kickstarter campaign the filmmakers will interview many other musicians and artists influenced by the seminal Redd Kross.
 

Redd Kross has long been a cult band, a band's band, a secret code word among music fans

that signifies taste and cool. But unlike many cult bands, their music

is eminently accessible. If you like The Beatles or The Ramones or Cheap

Trick, basically if you're a rock and roll fan, you'll like Redd Kross. 

INTERVIEWS WILL INCLUDE

They already have hours of interviews filmed with Jeff and Steve McDonald.

We have also interviewed Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) Buzz Osbourne and

Dale Crover (The Melvins) and original Red Cross member Greg Hetson (Bad

Religion, Circle Jerks). With your support we hope to film additional

interviews with most if not all of the following fans of the band and

key figures in the Redd Kross story:

• Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Off!)
• Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go's)
• Rodney Bingenheimer (KROQ)
• Mike Watt (The Minutemen)
• Chuck Dukowski (Black Flag)
• Pat Smear (The Germs, Nirvana)
• Belinda Carlisle (The Go-Go's)
• Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)
• Jonathan Poneman (Sub Pop Records)
• Mark Arm (Mudhoney)
• Kim Thayil (Soundgarden)
• Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam)
• A.C. Newman (The New Pornographers)
• Anna Waronker (That Dog)
• Dave Markey (Director, Desperate Teenage Lovedolls and The Year That Punk Broke)
• Jordan Schwartz (We Got Power fanzine)
• John Doe (X)
• Milo Aukerman (The Descendents)
• Lee Burger (Burger Records)
• Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Merge Records)
• Raymond Pettibon (artist)
• Jack White (White Stripes)
• Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers)
• Steven Malkmus (Pavement)
• J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.)
• Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs)
• Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees)
• Jack Antonoff (fun.)
• Ron and Russell Mael (Sparks)

They will also film interviews with current or former Redd Kross
band members: Brian Reitzell, Robert Hecker, Gere Fennelly, Dez Cadena,
Janet Housden, Roy McDonald, Ron Reyes, Jack Irons, Jason Shapiro, and
Dale Crover.

                     

*Update 9/30/2019 The goal has been reached & the film will be made.

that dog. to Release New Album Old LP October 4th

that dog. to Release New Album Old LP October 4th


that dog. will release their first new album in over twenty years on October 4. The long awaited work titled Old LP will be released by UMe. It was recorded over the last three years in Los Angeles, and features eclectic and impressive guest appearances by Maya Rudolph (SNL, The Rentals), Randy Newman, Graham Coxon (Blur), Josh Klinghoffer (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go's), Tanya Haden (The Haden Sisters), violinist Kaitlin Wolfberg, Andrew Dost (fun.), and husband Steven McDonald (Redd Kross). 

The band had a brief reunion in 2011-2012 where they found creative energy from the exuberant reactions of their fans and the joy of playing with one another. They found themselves willing to work together again, but things had changed a lot from their experience as '90s rockers. Maxwell, a New York television executive would visit Los Angeles to collaborate. And L.A. resident Waronker is a kick ass mom and prolific composer who recently collaborated with Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think) on the score for the Aidy Bryant Hulu series Shrill. So considering travel, other projects and life in general, the creation of an entire album was a long process. Waronker explains, "By the end of 2012 we had four songs done." And "In 2013, we had a few more. We needed time to let it grow into what it would become. Sometimes it's hard to get there. Which is kind of the theme of the album."

You may pre-order Old LP here.

























that dog. are: guitarist/vocalist Anna Waronker, drummer Tony Maxwell, and bassist/vocalist Rachel Haden