RTX is now Black Bananas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk3tn45ww9c

feeling this.

there is also this Stones cover with Kurt Vile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXrrumfoijU&feature=related

not that interesting, imo

not crazy about the new name but always happy to hear that herrema's got something new coming out. love her production, or whoever produces her stuff, it's like total maximalist rock insanity.

feeling this.

me too. like some modern rnb shit lol

not *that* modern though, to me it sounds like Jonzun Crew's "Welcome to the Future" reimagined as a rock record or something

oh my god

total maximalist rock insanity.

otm, i'm p invested in the howling hex but am generally just glad that JH is making crazy records in a weird room somewhere once in a while

RTX is now Black Bananas.

have never been that enthusiastic about rtx stuff but this track is great

I am just discovering RTX and am loving them! particularly singles, live, unreleased...how does ILM feel about Pussy Galore? I just watched the clip of them on the Uncle Floyd show which is unreal

fwiw Singles Live Unreleased is "proper" Royal Trux with Jennifer and Neil, RTX was the (intentionally?) confusing name for Jennifer Herrema's post-Royal Trux band (and Black Bananas is the same people as RTX I think, they just changed the name)

otm, i'm p invested in the howling hex but am generally just glad that JH is making crazy records in a weird room somewhere once in a while

― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nothing i've heard by howling hex does anything for me, seems like hagerty has no interest in writing songs anymore and just wants to noodle.

that's crazy. i mean it's true of at least one hex record but there are ~song~ songs through all of the records; 'breakaway', 'faithful sister', a great cover of the old trad 'de colores', slinky workouts on all-night fox, basically all of XI, 'you can't beat tomorrow' on the same record, know that on NMH, &c&c&c. you should try to find a couple of these if poss.

i thought i'd be able to illustrate this w/youtubes but there's hardly anything there; this isn't exactly proving my point but yknow i still like to listen to it as a wriggly hex jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1OH9S2u17I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOjqTTRK5o

don't remember which ones i've heard, honestly - dude puts out a ton of music

you should check out the one that looks like this, lots of great songs

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515sZjY7HbL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

would rock this patch
http://www.dragcity.com/system/stories/primary_images/471/large.jpg?1324508257

Neil Michael Hagerty
aka Royal Trux

you should check out the one that looks like this, lots of great songs

^^^this record is amazing

You Can't Beat Tomorrow is chock-a-block with quality tunes

yah the one w/ triangles cover is a stone classic, plays that good old rock n roll is great too

FYI, nmh's s/t album (before howling hex, after royal trux) is dope. tuneful too

how does ILM feel about Pussy Galore?

I don't know about ILM, but Dial M for Motherfucker is just an amazing album and truth be told, I prefer it to most of the RTX stuff I've heard.

everybody loves Pussy Galore!

was very surprised by the reunion thing. not as surprised by Neil not being involved.

everybody loves Pussy Galore!

― locally sourced stabbage (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:18 PM (3 minutes ago)

OTM

fwiw Singles Live Unreleased is "proper" Royal Trux with Jennifer and Neil, RTX was the (intentionally?) confusing name for Jennifer Herrema's post-Royal Trux band (and Black Bananas is the same people as RTX I think, they just changed the name)
― dmr, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:15 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Thanks, dmr...I was wondering about that! Probably gonna be a while before I check out RTX. I just dl'd Twin Infinitives, very psyched to check it out

Dial M for Motherfucker is just an amazing album and truth be told, I prefer it to most of the RTX stuff I've heard the best RTX song on the best day of its life.

This thread has gotten a little crazy.

Trux / Hex > RTX >>>>> Pussy Galore

Listening to this again, it sounds like three Chrome songs and one Cinderella song all playing at the same time. I'm OK with that.

your crocodiles are confused

not very into pussy galore here either. kind of a novelty band???

Um, no. Dial M is better than anything that followed. I might think for a minute about Cats & Dogs vs. Dial M, but after the minute passed I know what I'd decide...

Extra amazing that, given their rep for being unable to play at all, the reunion sounds pretty much exactly like the original tracks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmLdcgFnGg

No Hag, no interest from me. Sorry. (and I'm glad he didn't lower himself to this).

given their rep for being unable to play at all

this never made any sense to me, those parts are really hard! and in strange tunings!

this never made any sense to me, those parts are really hard! and in strange tunings!

most people who talk about whether a band can play or not (or whether people can sing or not) know next to nothing about playing or singing ime

I think the "Pussy Galore can't play" canard comes from stuff like "Cunt Tease", "Kill Yourself", the Exile cassette and their early shows. Total fucked-up ineptitude was a fashionable pose at the time.

There's a kind of stupid youtube parody of Pussy Galore that I'm not going to bother linking, but the one funny part is Julia C. in the studio with headphones on, very carefully recording her, "Fuck you!" part.

stupid review: http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/6899

but i didn't realize this was coming out soon enough to be reviewed! pumped!

comes out next week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BvpRSbjhplg

stupid review

wow, amazingly so

i like mosurock's still single column on dusted, but sometimes it just seems like he's listened to *too much* of this stuff. like he's jaded about things that really aren't worth being jaded about.

anyhoo this album is extremely entertaining.
also, seeing howling hex tomorrow! excited. last time i saw any royal truxsters was uhhh 1997!

young people don't like funkadelic? what?

i love the idea of doug mosurock delicately placing the black bananas CD into his home hi-fi setup replete with "really good studio speakers" and wrinkling his nose

I had personal reasons for hating him prior to this, but that's just really shitty writing

sad excuse for a review, there.

so long as you're interested in weird punk, rock and noise-related obscurities, mosurock's column and tumblr are valuable as a consumer guide: notes on what's out there by someone who's taste is fairly obvious and thus easy to calibrate for, whether or not you agree with him on the details. never read him for the writing quality or even the analysis.

i do agree with him that transmanicocosnsopvn sucked tbh

although it had the best album cover

totally disagree, I love the first side

plus "speed to roam" + "pulling out now" on the second

True and yet completely false.

kinda otm except this album's really good, which makes it a massive outlier in that field

yeah I kind of feel like the album has a viscous surrealism going for it, which reminds me of nothing so much as the new Le1f mixtape*

*(despite the two albums being like oil & water to my ears)

In contest for worst live show I've ever seen.

they were so bad in nc a few weeks back. worst show i've seen in a really long time. this album is fucking great.

I probably wouldn't expect this to be anything but an incoherent mess live.

they were so bad in nc a few weeks back. worst show i've seen in a really long time. this album is fucking great

at the Pinhook? I almost got out to that one but my sleep schedule was fucked up from travel so I didn't. last time I saw RTX, at 506, they were great! what happened?

They sucked in Atlanta, too. I'm willing to cut JH so much slack, but that show was tough to endure. Abusively, pointlessly loud. No live drums, much to my surprise, just hesher dudes on electronics not groovin' at all.

Really like the record though, great psychedelic production.

yeah, at the pinhook. i didn't mind the drum machine, but they waited forever to play (went on after midnight when magik markers finished up well before 11), it was definitely "abusively, pointlessly loud," which killed any of the vibe of the record and replaced it with undifferentiated volume, and they were just totally uninterested in playing. i mean, it was "interesting" in a negative drive-kinda sense, but not, y'know, actually something that i wanted to be around.

man, Earthquake/Overpass/Nightwalker is SLAYING me tonight!!!

new track http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15236-hey-rockin/

blowin my wig off

makes me miss the Trux

any word on the new album

So this is the cover of the Physical Emotions 7" out on Drag City on 4/22/14:

http://madmackerel.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/black-bananas.jpg?w=698

They're going Dam-Funk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GTuYxZQbqrQ

and I'm pretty into it?

yeah pretty cool

Yessss

this rules!

Yessir!!!

wow it even has a drop of sorts

would that this video attract as much attention as sky ferreira's! where is the outrage?

Liars remix: http://www.stereogum.com/1684380/black-bananas-physical-emotions-liars-remix-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

Not as good as Black Bananas' remix of Liars: http://www.stereogum.com/1666011/liars-mess-on-a-mission-black-bananas-freezer-jam-remix/mp3s/

i feel fairly confident that black bananas fans would enjoy the music stylings of defunct glasgow band Stinky Munchkins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ank0snDu99I

i haven't listened to ^^ or any remixes or anything but i still can't believe how good physical emotions is

Album is streaming now: http://pitchfork.com/advance/473-electric-brick-wall/

I love Herrema's insane blown-out production style. It's the epitome of doing stuff that's "wrong" but end up sounding amazing.

I love this. Maybe the best thing she's done since "Transmaniacon."

Loving this so far, especially "Eve's Child" and "Give It to Me"

Rad Times Xpress IV is one of my favorite albums of the decade; I'd be super stoked if this was like that but better

Ahhhhh this is nice.

"Ride the Chump" is such a fuckin jam.

Pitchfork review checklist:

"drugs"
"squalid druggy transcendence"
"carton-a-day"
"fucked up" (1)
"heroin chic"
"coke addled"
"stoner grooves"
"cough syrup"
"debauched"
"seedy"
"fucked up" (2)

Hey next let's write a Steve Malkmus review talking about what a slacker he is. That irreverent slacker!

My main issue of the review was that only 2/5ths of the paragraphs were about the new album.

A whopping six sentences.

yeah this is symptomatic of a much larger trend in rock writing in general where discussion of the actual music contained in a release is mostly incidental to the overall narrative of the artist's career (which I really v rarely care about, but that's what media consumption is increasingly oriented around, the story of the "artist")

I dunno why I said rock writing there, just music crit in general. maybe it was always this way and I'm just more aware of it now, I dunno.

Also, weird how Hagerty continues to make brilliant records to almost no notice whatsoever (new 10", cassette just released) while JH gets all the love. I get that her stuff is more, err, populist (obviously, I use that term very loosely), and I dig it and everything, but Hagerty's stuff just gets better all the time, and it seems like his fanbase shrinks in proportion to his awesomeness.

possibly not helping his case by releasing his new music on 10" and cassette tbf

the RTX stuff is getting a push via publicists, etc it seems like. hagerty meanwhile doesn't even mention that he has records out during shows. he's never had a merch table or anything.

yeah it doesn't have anything to do with the music and everything to do with which one of them wants attention more

circa maybe the mid-00s it seemed like Hagerty was getting more crit respect out of the two but yeah probably not the case now

xp yeah I didn't know he had new stuff

tbf Hagerty's also strayed pretty far from the easily-summarizable narrative noted in the pfork review - the r'n'r debauchery arc - and Herrema's stuck with it. Hag's been making pseudo mexican polka records w no drums, makes no references to drugs/partying, clearly dgaf about "rock" in any real way etc.

This is all true.

Can't stop listening to this record. So fucking good!

http://blogg.svt.se/psl/files/IMG_2522-462x800.jpg

Listening to this Fat Pat song for the first time based off Jennifer's endorsement...can totally hear its influence on Electric Brick Wall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOU0yV2dj8U

I feel like RTX/Black Bananas fans need to hear Sheer Mag, if they haven't already: https://sheermag.bandcamp.com/

I missed that before but hell yeah Jennifer's a fan of Rodion G.A.!