{"id":5793,"date":"2019-05-31T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2019-05-30T17:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T17:25:49","slug":"redd-kross-beyond-the-door-pre-release-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5793","title":{"rendered":"Redd Kross\u00a0&#8211; Beyond the Door pre release details"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"yiv1025137862size-16\">On August 23, Merge Records will release the much-anticipated\u00a0<strong>Redd Kross\u00a0<\/strong>LP\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-mykety-jtzijduii-t\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong><em>Beyond the Door<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em>Today, <em>Beyond the Door<\/em>\u00a0can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-mykety-jtzijduii-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pre-ordered now<\/a>\u00a0on CD, digitally, and on limited-edition opaque purple Peak Vinyl in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-mykety-jtzijduii-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Merge store<\/a>.<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJlA6te8PlA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"yiv1025137862size-16\">Redd Kross have also announced a massive US\u00a0tour with the Melvins which kicks off on September 3rd in San Diego and includes shows in major markets including Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and more.<\/h1>\n<p><em>Beyond the Door<\/em>\u00a0is an album inspired by the band\u2019s \u201ctotal commitment to having the best f*cking time we can have while we\u2019re all still here\u201d (what they like to call \u201cThe Party\u201d). It\u2019s a rock and roll record and a celebration of everything brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald love, from cultures both high and low. Musically, it\u2019s guitars, bass, and drums topped with a generous portion of sweet vocal melodies often delivered with an ambiguous edge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Beyond the Door<\/em>\u00a0marks Redd Kross\u2019 most collaborative record to date. Steven describes this evolution: \u201cJeff is still very much the driving force behind the compositions, but with more help from me than ever. Jeff and I haven\u2019t shared this much of the writing and singing since\u00a0<em>Born Innocent<\/em>\u00a0in 1981.\u201d Guitarist Jason Shapiro and drummer Dale Crover (Melvins, OFF!) are longtime members of the Redd Kross live band, but this album marks the pair\u2019s recorded debut with the group. Mixed in Los Angeles by Steven McDonald,\u00a0<em>Beyond the Door<\/em>\u00a0includes notable guest appearances from Anna Waronker (That Dog), Ger\u00e9 Fennelly, Buzz Osborne (Melvins), and Josh Klinghoffer.<a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/redd-kross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5794\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/redd-kross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/redd-kross.jpg 900w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/redd-kross-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/redd-kross-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/redd-kross-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/redd-kross-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the surface, the album title is a playful reference to an Italian horror film the McDonald brothers watched as children, a loose rip-off of both\u00a0<em>The Exorcist<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em>\u00a0that stars Juliet Mills of \u201970s television program\u00a0<em>Nanny and the Professor.<\/em>\u00a0But like all things Redd Kross, it would be a sad injustice to stop digging there. No one knows what lies\u00a0<em>Beyond the Door<\/em>\u2026 but we\u2019re all in front of it.<\/p>\n<p>Inspirations as varied as K-pop, glitter gangs, embarrassed tweens, long-term relationships, a mysterious character named Fant\u00e1stico Roberto, and much more all contributed to\u00a0<em>Beyond the Door,\u00a0<\/em>an album that lures the listener into Redd Kross\u2019 secret club full of riddles and inside jokes, with the ultimate reward of the perfect pop moment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 23, Merge Records will release the much-anticipated\u00a0Redd Kross\u00a0LP\u00a0Beyond the Door.\u00a0Today, Beyond the Door\u00a0can be\u00a0pre-ordered now\u00a0on CD, digitally, and on limited-edition opaque purple Peak Vinyl in the\u00a0Merge store. Redd Kross have also announced a massive US\u00a0tour with the Melvins which kicks off on September 3rd in San Diego and includes shows in major markets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2213,1300,2215,2212,2214],"class_list":["post-5793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beyond-the-door","tag-merge-records","tag-off","tag-redd-kross","tag-the-melvins","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5797,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/5797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}