The Linda Lindas Go Again to the Library For Ripping ‘NPR Tiny Desk (Residence)’ Live performance

The Linda Lindas went again to a sacred house to movie their model new NPR Tiny Desk (Residence) live performance: the library. Whereas loads of middle- and high-schoolers used to log numerous hours within the stacks doing analysis, for the teenager punk quartet, the Dewey Decimal system is extra than simply numbers: it is also used as a measurement of how far they’ve are available in only one head-spinning yr.

After changing into viral sensations with a efficiency at an L.A. public library in early 2021 that bought them signed to legendary punk label Epitaph Information, sisters Mila de la Garza (11) and Lucia de la Garza (15), their cousin Eloise Wong (14)and their household good friend Bela Salazar (17) returned to the comfortable confines of the L.A. Public for a present on the Los Angeles Central Library for the NPR gig.

The present begins with the pummeling pop-punk of “Rising Up,” the title monitor from the group’s just-released full-length debut, snarled by guitarist Lucia de la Garza as her bandmates rock out amid cabinets of books. “We’ll dance like no person’s there/ We’ll dance with none cares/ We’ll speak ’bout issues we share,” she sings in an ideal deadpan by braces because the band churns behind her.

And, as a result of they’re nonetheless youngsters, in honor of their Tiny Desk present, the LL’s folded up some colourful development paper to kind a tinier, tiny desk. “We’re super-excited, we’re so glad to be right here,” Lucia says at the start of the 14-minute blitz. “Simply [a] cool house, we’re taking part in within the library as soon as extra.”

Drummer Mila de la Garza takes over for the pogo-worthy pop gem “Speaking to Myself,” grabbing lead vocals on the bouncy tune, with bass participant Wong completely lacking the deliberate humorous stage banter organising her doomy lead vocal on the teenager lament concerning the perils of younger love, “Why.” Mila’s drum trainer, Bleached member Spencer Lere, joins the women for the effervescent, wistful Spanish-language tune “Cuántas Veces,” which exhibits off their versatility, with Salazar taking taking lead vocals on the music about being “bored with feeling this fashion.”

The set, after all, ends with the music that helped the group explode into stardom final yr, the biting blitzkrieg “Racist, Sexist Boy,” a few racist incident from early within the pandemic that Mila was their signature music. “Right here we go — let’s blow the roof off,” Lucia says with a smile. “I reside for hazard.” And, as marketed, they convey the hammer down on a boy who says “imply stuff” to them with Mila and Eloise buying and selling off lead vocals.

Along with dropping Rising Up final week, the band just lately dropped the spooky video for “Speaking to Myself.”

Watch the live performance under.