{"id":15172,"date":"2012-08-30T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15172"},"modified":"2012-08-30T16:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:19:22","slug":"critical-upgrade-redd-kross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/critical-upgrade-redd-kross\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Upgrade: Redd Kross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a negative feeling about <strong>Redd Kross<\/strong>\u2014just one of the many California hardcore bands.  Sorta the way I feel about <strong>The Circle Jerks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is this:  I never really listened to Redd Kross.  Maybe it was their name.  Or I saw a badly art-directed poster.  Chock it up to being a close-minded dick.<\/p>\n<p>Well anyways&#8230;I heard a cut from their new album yesterday in the car (on WKDU). \u00a0And damn, it was pretty darn good.  Super poppy, fun and rockin&#8217;\u2014sort of the smart\/simple hooky pop\/rock I love from <strong>Sloan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And this after like a 7-year hiatus!!!  These guys are old!!!<\/p>\n<p>So Redd Kross, I&#8217;d like to officially apologize for grouping you into a group without really knowing who you were.  My bad.<\/p>\n<p>The whole album is really neat btw.  Thanks itunes for your instant gratification.  I will be buying more of their earlier stuff now.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6teoeHq6pig?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a negative feeling about Redd Kross\u2014just one of the many California hardcore bands. Sorta the way I feel about The Circle Jerks. The problem is this: I never really listened to Redd Kross. Maybe it was their name. Or I saw a badly art-directed poster. Chock it up to being a close-minded <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/critical-upgrade-redd-kross\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[61,31,219,712],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}