Redd Kross Rock the Faithful With Career-Spanning Set and Hilarious Brotherly Banter: Concert Review

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music One of the most common things you’ll ever hear musicians of A Certain Age say onstage is some variation of “We never dreamed we’d still be playing and talking about these songs” 20 or 35 or 55 years later.

For the vastly underrated veteran alt-rock icons Redd Kross — who managed to be players and a pivotal influence on the punk, indie and even metal scenes of the ’80s and ’90s — that existential conundrum is compounded by the fact that their music, image and raison d’etre was retro from the jump: an elaborately ironic take on the early 1970s music and culture they grew up on, making an art of the then-novel concept that you can revere and respect something and mock it mercilessly at the same time.

Kiss, the Beatles, the Partridge Family, garish early ‘70s fashion all got thrown into the same blender and spit out in a fun, funny and deceptively clever way that helped set the cultural tone for Gen X.

And yet, when Redd Kross’ “moment” arrived in the early ‘90s, when they got a major-label deal and their influencees started becoming superstars, they just couldn’t bring themselves to take it seriously.