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Hear The Linda Lindas Rock Up The Go-Go’s ‘Tonite’
Teenage Los Angeles rock band The Linda Lindas have paid tribute to one of their biggest influences by releasing their own studio version of The Go-Go’s’ “Tonite.” They frequently cover the song, drawn from The Go-Go’s’ iconic 1981 debut album Beauty and the Beat, in concert. “The Linda Lindas started out as a cover band, and we’ve played more songs by The Go-Go’s than anyone else,” the band says. “And even after we started to write our own songs, we never stopped playing ‘Tonite.’ We love the idea of us going out and owning our town, and ‘Tonite’ is as fun to play as it is empowering — especially the part where we all sing together. ‘We rule the streets tonite until the morning light’ and so should our fans. Because the cover is such a hit at shows, we decided to record a studio version t...
Watch The Linda Lindas’ Raucous New Collab With Bikini Kill, Raincoats Members
Los Angeles punk band The Linda Lindas released a new music video in collaboration with Erica Dawn Lyle and Kathi Wilcox of Bikini Kill and Vice Cooler of The Raincoats. “Lost In Thought” features the Linda Lindas moshing, skating, and dancing their way around a suburban backyard. Lyle and Wilcox can be seen jamming out on guitar and bass as Cooler pounds a drumset. [embedded content][embedded content] This song is part of the Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler album titled Land Trust, only available on Bandcamp. Cooler also directed and edited the music video. The Linda Lindas went viral for their performance of “Racist, Sexist Boy” recorded at the L.A. Public Library. In April, they released their debut album Growing Up via Epitaph. In 2019, the teenage quartet opened for Bikini Kill and ea...
The Linda Lindas Hit the L.A. Public Library (Again) for Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The Linda Lindas are hitting the books. The teenage punk band has returned to the L.A. public library, the place they first got noticed a year ago, for their Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. The performance features the band taking turns singing, jamming out amidst the shelves with a setlist of five of their songs from their debut album released last week. [embedded content][embedded content] The Linda Lindas became viral sensations with their performance of “Racist, Sexist Boy,” at the L.A. Public Library in early 2021. This is the performance that got the band signed to punk label Epitaph Records–and a whirlwind of a year for the young musicians followed. The band began with the title track to their debut, Growing Up where their youthful energy and clear talent converged to create an explo...
The Linda Lindas Hit the L.A. Public Library (Again) for Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The Linda Lindas are hitting the books. The teenage punk band has returned to the L.A. public library, the place they first got noticed a year ago, for their Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. The performance features the band taking turns singing, jamming out amidst the shelves with a setlist of five of their songs from their debut album released last week. [embedded content][embedded content] The Linda Lindas became viral sensations with their performance of “Racist, Sexist Boy,” at the L.A. Public Library in early 2021. This is the performance that got the band signed to punk label Epitaph Records–and a whirlwind of a year for the young musicians followed. The band began with the title track to their debut, Growing Up where their youthful energy and clear talent converged to create an explo...
Artist x Artist: Kathleen Hanna x The Linda Lindas
Every so often a band comes around that captures your heart, but not your mind. In the case of Los Angeles-based teenage sensation The Linda Lindas, it’s both. Last year, the quartet went viral for the right reasons. Their song, “Racist, Sexist Boy” was a big hit with the music world and librarians as well. One of those famous fans, Bikini Kill/Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, has been a supporter of the band for a long time. In fact, The Linda Lindas opened for Bikini Kill in 2019. So, with the group’s debut album, Growing Up, out on Epitaph on April 8, we thought it would be a good idea to get the band and Hanna together for a chat. The result? The two parties went deep. In their conversation, they exchanged questions about their origins, how they discovered each other and described w...
The Linda Lindas Share Single and Twilight-Zone-Inspired Video
The Linda Lindas‘ debut album Growing Up‘s release is coming in a month and the Los Angeles-based band shared their latest single, “Talking to Myself,” on Wednesday. The accompanying Ryan Baxley-directed video for “Talking to Myself” is shot in black and white, a playful tribute to the classic Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll.” [embedded content][embedded content] “The song is about the spiral you go into when you’re lonely,” Lucia de la Garza said in a statement. “You start to question yourself and all the decisions you’ve made. I’m always looking back on conversations and going “Oh, I should have said this, I should have said that”. But it’s also about needing other people, not just for reassurance, but because we’ve all learned from the pandemic that you need other people to talk to i...
The Linda Lindas Announce Debut Album Growing Up, Share Title Track
The Linda Lindas won over our hearts last year with their viral performance of “Racist, Sexist Boy,” and now they’re gifting us with a full collection of coming of age, punk rock classics. The quartet’s debut album is aptly titled Growing Up, and its cover art appropriately pays homage to the girls’ love for cats — featuring illustrated versions of each member rocking out as a feline-human hybrid. Speaking of cats, the band also shared a video for the album’s title track that stars their animal companions. The clip was directed by Humberto Leon, co-founder of fashion brand Opening Ceremony and owner of Los Angeles restaurant CHIFA, and was shot on an iPhone 13 Pro Max. “Directing my first video for The Linda Lindas was a dream come true because I love the message and voice the girls h...
The Linda Lindas Announce Debut Album Growing Up, Share Title Track
The Linda Lindas won over our hearts last year with their viral performance of “Racist, Sexist Boy,” and now they’re gifting us with a full collection of coming of age, punk rock classics. The quartet’s debut album is aptly titled Growing Up, and its cover art appropriately pays homage to the girls’ love for cats — featuring illustrated versions of each member rocking out as a feline-human hybrid. Speaking of cats, the band also shared a video for the album’s title track that stars their animal companions. The clip was directed by Humberto Leon, co-founder of fashion brand Opening Ceremony and owner of Los Angeles restaurant CHIFA, and was shot on an iPhone 13 Pro Max. “Directing my first video for The Linda Lindas was a dream come true because I love the message and voice the girls h...
Hear The Linda Lindas’ New Song About A Cat Named ‘Nino’
The Linda Lindas just debuted their newest single, in honor of vocalist and guitarist Bela Salazar’s cat, “Nino.” [embedded content][embedded content] Off the punk quartet’s forthcoming 2022 record, “Nino” follows their other recent releases of “Racist, Sexist Boy” and “Oh!” “Nino” is out today via Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz’s own indie, LA-based Epitaph Records. Its lyric video was illustrated and animated by Rob Fidel, and it’s storyboard by Salazar. “The killer of mice and cats” (Nino) was also written by Salazar, and produced, engineered, and mixed by Carlos de la Garza. This isn’t the first time the band has paid tribute to one of their own furry felines. Salazar wrote a song for the group’s 2020 self-titled EP, “Monica,” about her siamese cat. And another cat happens to be...
The Linda Lindas Play ‘Racist, Sexist Boy,’ Talk Band Name Origins on Kimmel
Remember those young punk rockers we all saw jamming out to their single “Racist, Sexist Boy” in the L.A. Public Library a couple weeks ago? Well, now they’ve been on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The Linda Lindas — Mila (10), Eloise (13), Lucia (14) and Bela (16) — made their national television debut on June 3 to perform their recent viral hit and detail the origins of their band name. Eloise, the group’s singer-bassist, explained that “there’s a Japanese indie film called Linda, Linda, Linda, and in it there are high school girls who cover the song ‘Linda Linda’ by The Blue Hearts, so we’re kind of named after both of those.” “However, none of us are named Linda,” added guitarist Lucia. Kimmel asked about the backstory of “Racist, Sexist Boy,” which landed The Linda Lindas a de...
Tom Morello, Thurston Moore and Others Show Support for Punk Rock’s New Viral Darlings, The Linda Lindas
Yesterday, you probably saw a video of some teenage girls rocking out in a library, singing their instant hit single “Racist, Sexist Boy” about… well… a racist, sexist boy. Said video of the Linda Lindas got tweeted, shared, posted, and distributed in every other possible way on the internet by everyone from comedians to journalists to musicians to the L.A. Public Library (which hosted the performance for the AAPI Heritage Month edition of “TEENtastic Tuesdays”), and it’s getting some support from noteworthy rockers like Tom Morello and Thurston Moore. Morello tweeted out the library’s Instagram post with the caption “Song of the day!” while Moore put it up on his Instagram, saying “Racist, Sexist Boy by the Linda Lindas. Song of 2021 so far…by far! Total inspiration is ageless.” It’s...
