Linda Lindas: Last News

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announced that they would be performing their first live show in more than two decades back in February – their last taking place in September 2002 – to headline Mosswood Meltdown in Oakland, California on July 2.Vocalist Allison Wolfe and drummer Molly Neuman were joined by Rose Melberg (of Tiger Trap), Audrey Marrs and Marty Key. Original guitarist Erin Smith was unable to join due to “other commitments”, as they shared in a statement.Ahead of their Oakland show, the band also performed a warmup gig at Zebulon in LA on June 26.During their festival set, Bratmobile performed The Runaways‘ ‘Cherry Bomb’, for which they were joined by young rock band The Linda Lindas and the daughters of Neumann and keyboard player Mars, along with the children’s’ friends from rock camp.Watch clips of the set below.“It was funny because we did a warm up kind of unannounced warmups show in LA like last Wednesday, and they also came up for ‘Cherry Bomb,’ with the Linda Lindas,” Wolfe told Rolling Stone.“We gave one of the mics to the little girls, and they were really cute, but they were kind of too shy to sing.

There’s no show on Saturday for the planned “When We Were Young” music festival in Las Vegas.

Thania Garcia Car Seat Headrest and frontman Will Toledo have confirmed the band will no longer be touring in California this month, in addition to canceling their appearance at this weekend’s When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas, due to the current state of Toledo’s health. “After another month of struggling to regain my health, I am currently forced to face the fact that my body lacks the basic levels of functionality necessary to leave the house most days, let along embark on a tour,” he wrote in a statement shared via the band’s socials on Tuesday morning.Re: Our upcoming west coast dates pic.twitter.com/txXukUM3ga Toledo, 30, did not share any further detail on the extent of his illness, though the band has previously dropped out of two other shows in the last month with Toledo citing “continued health issues” as a result of a post-COVID condition. After canceling their Sept. 2 appearance at Out of Space in Illinois, Toledo detailed the condition as “histamine intolerance,” with symptoms and side effects including “heavy nausea, fatigue, dizziness and a ‘buzzing’ nervous system.”

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEarly 21 st century New York rockers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs — singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Jay Chase — have announced new music and tour dates in the summer and fall. The group, which recently signed with indie powerhouse Secretly Canadian, say they will have new music in the fall.The group will play a brace of dates in Europe and Australia in the summer before hitting North America, with dates at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and the Hollywood Bowl in October, where they will be joined by high school punk rockers the Linda Lindas on both dates and (in Los Angeles) by Japanese Breakfast.

Roy Trakin At perhaps one of the lowest points in the pandemic, in May 2021, a video appeared, like a rose growing out of a crack in the concrete, of a group of teenage and pre-teenage girls of Chinese, Mexican and Salvadorean descent, a veritable melting pot from Los Angeles taking the acrid anti-Asian racism in the air and transforming it into a marvelous punk alchemy and expiation, an about-face that turned victim into victor.That viral clip was “Racist, Sexist Boy,” a reaction to an experience 11-year-old drummer Mila de la Garza had with a classmate who was warned to stay away from her because she was Chinese. Along with Mila’s 15-year-old sister Lucia, who plays guitar alongside Bela Salazar, a lifelong friend who was the oldest at 17, and Eloise Wong, a cousin of the de la Garzas, 14, on lead vocals and bass, they formed the Linda Lindas, originally a new wave cover band.

Ethan Shanfeld Due to overwhelming demand, Las Vegas’ stacked When We Were Young festival has added a second date, on Sunday, Oct. 23.Now taking place Oct. 22 and 23, the second date will feature the same lineup as Day 1, the festival announced on Twitter.

Ethan Shanfeld The Warped Tour may have hung its hat back in 2019, but the spirit of the pop-punk and Emo-heavy festival is alive and well, as demonstrated by today’s announcement of Live Nation’s upcoming When We Were Young festival.The one-day event, taking place on Oct. 22 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, boasts headliners Paramore and My Chemical Romance, alongside dozens of other throwback emo-pop acts, including Bring Me the Horizon, A Day to Remember, Avril Lavigne, Bright Eyes and Jimmy Eat World.When We Were Young marks Paramore’s first performance in four years, as singer Hayley Williams announced a couple months ago that the band would return in 2022. Meanwhile, My Chemical Romance recently reunited after a six-year breakup, which lasted from 2013 until 2019.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLong-running footwear brand Dr. Martens has announced their 2021 “Dr.

and chart topping) kiss-off “Good 4 U.” Willow Smith, who for years was best known musically for telling us to whip our hair back and forth, has linked up with none other than millennial pop-punk paragons Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker for her new album.

Antonio Ferme editorThe Linda Lindas, the teen punk band whose performance of “Racist, Sexist Boy” at a Los Angeles public library went viral last month, made their television debut on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Thursday night.Based in Northeast Los Angeles, the Linda Lindas are a quartet made up of guitarist and vocalist Lucia de la Garza, 14, bassist and singer Eloise Wong, 13, drummer and singer Mila de la Garza, 10, and guitarist and singer Bela Salazar, 16. They describe themselves on social media as “Half Asian / Half Latinx.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Linda Lindas, the all-female rock band that lit up social media this week when a video of their recent performance at the Los Angeles Public Library went viral, have signed with Epitaph Records, a rep for the label confirmed to Variety.The band — Bela, Lucia, Eloise and Mila, who range in age from 16 to 10 and describe themselves on social media as “Half Asian / Half Latinx. Sisters, cousins and friends who play music together because it’s fun!!”  — started off in 2018 playing punk rock covers, and have long gotten support from older, punk-centric musicians.