Love Is Red

Any band that’s so devoted to touring it braves the road in a disaster-baiting Honda Accord demands a certain degree of respect. Love Is Red crisscrosses the country with little more than four bald tires and enough pocket change to get to the next gig. That reckless approach to restless rock has resulted in some great music. Love Is Red’s debut, All That’s Ahead Points to Forever, crackles with the sort of strange, late-night giddiness that emerges only after sleeping on living-room floors in strange cities for weeks on end. But this Kerouacian existence has taken its toll in negative ways, too — the burgeoning act has already blown through more members than Jenna Jameson in a dick-sucking contest. Fortunately, this Alabama slammer has managed to keep its lineup intact long enough to keep its Midwestern buzz humming and to issue a new single on Recorse Records, home to KC metalcore outfit Saved By Grace.