The Linda Lindas: 2024

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It was a first for FUV Live to have artists who were younger than the Fordham University students who shoot video in our Bronx studios. The Linda Lindas are indeed impossibly young with their drummer, Mila de la Garza, being the youngest — about a week short of her fourteenth birthday when we recorded.

As she revealed in our conversation, she was just seven when she played her first gig along with her older sister, guitarist Lucia de la Garza, bassist Eloise Wong, and guitarist Bella Salazar who, at 19, is the only Linda to have already graduated from high school. All four sing, all four write, and all four participated in the interview.

Making their maiden voyage to the Bronx is but one of many memories being made by The Linda Lindas this year. Our session happened 23 days after they opened up for The Rolling Stones at Sofi Stadium in The Linda Lindas' hometown of Los Angeles — and six hours before supporting Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, and Rancid at New York's Citi Field.

The Linda Lindas snagged those opportunities on the strength of their 2022 debut album, Growing Up, and their reputation as an irresistible live band earned on previous tours with the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Paramore.

In this session, hear one song “Fine” from Growing Up and the rest — “Too Many Things,” “All in My Head,” and “Resolution/Revolution”— from their new album, No Obligation, due October 11 on Epitaph Records.

[Recorded: 8/5/24. Engineered by Jim O'Hara with Erin Merriman; produced by Meghan Offtermatt. Videographers: Bella Lipayon, Olivia Iannaccone, Therese Burgo, Louisa Schramm, and Alena Godas.]