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Redd Kross, OFF! & Melvins Commemorate Teen Babes From Monsanto
Danny Baraz
January 9, 2017
Even though I’ve been averaging 3 or 4 shows a week, every week of every month since November of 2014, I still get jacked up on performances more often than not. I might not always be AS excited before I get to the venue from one night to the next but the Redd Kross anniversary party for Teen Babes From Monsanto along with a Steve “livin the dream” McDonald showcase with all his current active bands, including Melvins AND OFF! was impossible to not get wrapped up in. Unless you’re a kook. related content: OFF! Transform The Echo From Peaceful Indie Venue to House of Raw Aggression The truth is that Janky photographer, Jessica Moncrief hit me up to see if I could write about, so she could shoot, OFF! and Melvins at The Observatory. I didn’t find out until I was half way down to Santa Ana that Redd Kross was ALSO playing. I started to make the McDonald connection but still didn’t understand what was happening down there until I got inside the venue and the Melvins were already halfway through their set. The bummed out feeling at missing a major chunk of the Melvins didn’t last too long when I understood
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New Siouxsie Sioux Music Scores the Hannibal Series Finale
Brent Smith
August 31, 2015
As if it wasn’t cool enough that Eagles of Death Metal released new music for the first time in forever, Siouxsie Sioux has also stepped into a recording studio and has given us a new single for the first time in 8 years. Who can we thank? Hannibal music supervisor and collaborator Brian Reitzell (Red Kross). If you’re a fan of the show, you can also thank him for single-handedly nixing the director’s original idea of featuring pop music in the pilot, and crafting one of the most haunting scores in recent network TV history. If you haven’t caught the show, do watch it. It’s a gruesome delight. As EW reports, Siouxsie and Reitzell are set to put out some more tracks together in the near future. Here’s to it. Lyrics Oh, the skies, tumbling from your eyes So sublime, the chase to end all time Seasons call and fall, from grace and uniform Anatomical and metaphysical Oh, the dye, a blood red setting sun rushing through my veins burning up my skin, I will survive, live and thrive Win this deadly game Love crime Love crime I will survive, live and thrive I will survive, I will survive I
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