S9E489 - Redd Kross 'Teen Babes From Monsanto' with Matt Devine
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PocketCasts This week's guest, Los Angeles musician Matt Devine (Ventilator, Permanent Green Light, Medicine, Possum Dixon), brings us Hawthorne California's Redd Kross and their wildly raucous 1984 mostly-covers EP 'Teen Babes From Monsanto'
"A little drums, a little atmosphere, and it wails like this!"
Songs discussed in this episode: Blow You A Kiss In The Wind - Redd Kross (Live on KEXP 2012); Earthquake Song - Ventilator; Burn Out - Redd Kross; Doctor Wu - Steely Dan; The Tailor's Lament, Lansdowne - Ventilator; Lick It Up, Deuce - KISS; Bitch - Rolling Stones; Deuce - Redd Kross; Citadel - Rolling Stones; Citadel - Redd Kross; 2,000 Man - KISS; Heaven Only Knows - The Shangri-Las; Great Big Kiss - New York Dolls; Heaven Only Knows, Ann - Redd Kross; Ann - The Stooges; Savior Machine - Redd Kross; Pinball Wizard - The Brady Kids; I'm Gonna Blow You A Kiss In The Wind - Elizabeth Montgomery; Blow You A Kiss In The Wind - Redd Kross; Linda Blair - Redd Kross; Clean Cut American Kid - Ill Repute; Linda Blair '84, Born Innocent - Redd Kross; Happy New Year - Ventilator
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Avocational musician, dad, husband, and Wheaten-Lhasa Apso whisperer. Matt Devine has made music with the Los Angeles bands Ventilator, Permanent Green Light, Medicine, Possum Dixon, and GospelbeacH. Bar/None Records reissued Ventilator’s debut album, Reseda Spleen, in October 2026. Originally released in 1996, the album was self-recorded by Matt on a Tascam 388 eight-track set up in the second bedroom of his North Hollywood apartment. Tape Op founder Larry Crane, in a 1998 review, deemed the record “power pop of the highest order.”