The Linda Lindas Return to L.A. Public Library for NPR ‘Diminutive Desk (Dwelling) Concert’
The final time teen punk band the Linda Lindas picked up their devices on the Los Angeles Public Library, a performance of their single “Racist Sexist Boy” situation the web ablaze. Now, the quartet is back amongst the never-ending aisles of books, this time for their debut NPR Diminutive Desk (Dwelling) Concert.
The performance is led by the standard Linda Lindas lineup: Mila de la Garza, 11, on drums and vocals; Lucia de la Garza, 15, on guitar and vocals; Eloise Wong, 14, on vocals and bass; and Bela Salazar, 17, on vocals and guitar.
The band additionally bought some help from a newly recruited percussionist, Mila’s drum trainer Spencer Lere, who joined for the Bela-led “Cuántas Veces.” Lucia jokes: “We build apart an advertisement within the library a pair of days within the past.”
The Linda Lindas rocked their scheme by a slate of songs from their newly released debut album Rising Up, including the file’s ever-hopeful title be conscious, the lucid “Talking to Myself,” and the perilous “Why.”
Bringing the concert stout circle, the four-portion wrapped with a performance of “Racist, Sexist Boy” that used to be even extra cohesive and fiery than the one who landed them on the viral radar nearly a stout one year within the past. “Here we run — let’s blow the roof off, that’s what I direct,” Lucia acknowledged as she introduced the closing tune. “I are residing for hazard.”
“I ponder you may perhaps well perchance well presumably essentially sigh our voices are assorted, per chance because we’re all older. And I ponder our taking part in is greater from practicing and writing so mighty,” Bela suggested Rolling Stone in an interview earlier than Rising Up. “It’s essentially frosty to hear our growth.”
