Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts LOVE&JETT and to have a

LOVE&JETT and to have a hand in supporting Guitar Wolf's noisy and canonical rise to their rightful place in underground music's highest hall of fame

pressed at Third Man Pressing

Redd Kross are one of those rare bands who would be equally at home in a dark punk club and on stage at the Enormodome

Like all RK albums before and since

remembered as one of the central figures of the 1960's yé-yé pop movement

Bear Cat The Exploding Hearts LOVE&JETT and to have aOriginally released in 1953, "Bear Cat" by Rufus Thomas is as certifiable a primitive R'n'B smoker that's ever existed. Complete with the inimitable Joe Hill Louis on guitar, the future "Funky Chicken" Thomas gives his male perspective answer record to Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog." In the process, the legal powers behind "Hound Dog" writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller won a lawsuit claiming "Bear Cat" infringed on the duo's copyright. Ever since