Blonde Redhead Biography

Moving from Sonic Youth-like art punk to eclectic pop over the course of their decades-long career Blonde Redhead remained one of indie rock's most creative acts. The band formed in 1993 after Japanese art students Kazu Makino and Maki Takahashi randomly met Italian twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace at an Italian restaurant in New York. (The name was taken from a song by the '80s no wave band DNA.) With Makino and Amedeo on guitars and vocals Simone on drums and Takahashi on bass the band's chaotic artistic rock caught the attention of Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley who produced and released the band's debut album Blonde Redhead on his Smells Like Records label. Shortly after the album's release Takahashi left the band. The remaining members continued as a trio releasing a second album La Mia Vita Violenta on Shelley's label in 1995.
For their 1997 release Fake Can Be Just as Good recorded for Touch & Go the trio was joined by guest bass player Vern Rumsey from Unwound. By 1998 the band eliminated bass and scaled back to guitars drums and vocals for In an Expression of the Inexpressible. Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons and the Melodie Citronique EP followed two years later. The band's first for 4AD Misery Is a Butterfly was released in spring 2004. For 2007's 23 the group opted for a mix of dream pop and delicate electronic textures. Three years later Blonde Redhead delivered Penny Sparkle a more stripped-down even more electronic-leaning set of songs the band recorded in New York and Stockholm with Alan Moulder Van Rivers and the Subliminal Kid. In 2014 Blonde Redhead returned with Barragán featuring production from Drew Brown (Beck Stephen Malkmus Radiohead).

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