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To mark its 45th anniversary, the duo has remained inexplicably unknown in France, despite its major influence on the American punk and grunge scene, releasing a colorful double album with still youthful energy.
When the youngest was 11, they opened for Black Flag. At 12, David Bowie attended their concerts. At 13, one of them was kidnapped by an admirer. At 15, they released one of the most influential records on the American punk scene. In the years that followed, Kim Gordon would describe them as “best band in the world”, Sofia Coppola will pose naked on the cover of one of their records and they will count among their fans personalities as radically different as John Waters and the members of Def Leppard. How come, then, that you don’t have any Redd Kross records, or have never even heard of him? How did a group that single-handedly shaped an entire part of American independent music of the 80s and 90s be left on the sidelines of history while those who were inspired by it (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Mel
