Royal Trux : Classic or Dud ?

That PR blurb sure makes me miss Drag City’s writing!

(It’s also “funny” how only Jennifer is quoted, lol)

to be clear i like jennifer's songs but there had been theorizing above that she is the one driving the new royal trux but nmh being less active, and this press release/new song seem to point that way

I don't have a problem with that tbh

Haven’t listened to the new track yet; but I wouldn’t be surprised if Neil had less involvement in this LP than he did in, like, the first Weird War album.

If that is the case, I only have a problem with it inasmuch as it's being labeled a Royal Trux album. Like I'd be cool if they each guested on the other's albums but don't tease.

The new song kinda sounds like Trux-pastiche (like the other two). And the "coke mirror" aesthetic... I dunno.

Big Trux fan here. Got my pre-order goin. Y'all are right about Jen runnin the show.
I get the vibe Neil has custody of Live Trux and Jennifer has the studio end of it.
Jen was getting blasted drunk thru the last tour.
Really hope there's some Neil songwriting intelligence on the new LP

As tour cancellation announcements go, you could do worse than Royal Trux: "Jennifer is incredibly grateful that she will not be spending any time in jail, and in her own words, states: "Shit could definitely be worse." Rock'n'roll.

— Kevin Williams (@TribuneKevin) January 15, 2019

What happened??

Maybe I'm bad at googling today, but I can't find anything about a tour cancellation or what happened.

this was posted on the Facebook Event page for the Philly show

"Due to some unresolved issues arising from a past arrest, Royal Trux will be rescheduling their North American Tour. Jennifer is incredibly grateful that she will not be spending any time in jail, and in her own words, states: "Shit could definitely be worse.”

She regrets that her inconvenience may affect the fans' and ticket buyers but is looking forward to the shows being rescheduled for later this Spring.

New dates will be announced shortly, tickets purchased in advance will be honored for the new dates."

Royal Trux postpone tour due to issues from a past arrest https://t.co/xiDwcO1qXq pic.twitter.com/5q9GTUaV40

— ALARM Magazine (@ALARMmag) January 15, 2019

xps

Thanks.

haha, this overall messiness and confusion in Truxland is very appropriate I guess.

It really is, I wish I was more excited about the new album, tbh. Nothing has really jumped out at me yet, it all def seems more fitting for Black Bananas or whatever.

I’m just here giving it all the side-eye... 👀

In our current era of well organized, smoothly run heritage rock revivals I appreciate this confusing bit of chaos if I am bummed about the date getting moved.

ha this is actually convenient for me bc i had a conflict for the chicago show

don't even try to tell me what that announcement was-- i haven't had anything to do w/ it since june last year apart from some screaming yelling emails & txts

— Neil Hagerty (@TheHowlingHex) January 15, 2019

looool, this bodes well for the tour.

are they cleaned up? hag seems to have it together, idk as much about jen

Hag's been clean for years afaik

tbh a RTX w out controversy and shenanigans and arguments would not be a true RTX reunion

I dunno, my p.o.v. is that this was probably not meant to work out

yeah i thought the original royal trux breakup was because hagerty got clean and herrema didn't and he got sick of dealing with it, but that might be an oversimplification

Exactly - and it makes me wonder about some of the circumstances surrounding the reunion (and other things that aren't really my business).

somebody needs money, duh

Well, yes - guess there was a sort of risk/benefit analysis involved.

i know it's real because i have done 3 records in 18 months for 3 different entities w/ 3 different groups & all either did not come out &/or were redone and i got paid in $$, identity theft & calumny-- such is the life of a natural heel, it's everything i'd hoped it could be

— Neil Hagerty (@TheHowlingHex) January 17, 2019

hmmmmmmmmmmm

love the use of the word calumny as opposed to libel or slander

one of his many tweets that reads like it's responding to something specific but it's unclear what (he knows what's real?)

Suxx if true. Maybe should've hung w/Drag City.

(Unless DC is one of those "entities"... I don't know whether Neil & the Hex actually left DC, or just RTX.)

I feel bad for Fat Possum as they're probably going to feel the repercussions of all this.

investors jumping from windows

I've been thinking for a while I hope Neil didn't burn his bridges at Drag City. I don't think it'd be very easy to convince a label to put out Howling Hex records right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKblFXTh6s&feature=youtu.be

new video, with no neil (though not much jennifer either tbf)

love it

new MOJO has an awesome Trux feature with lots of infighting during and after the interview

Another new song... feelin' it even less than the others, TBH.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NONE3HlzhkM

It all feels like such a weak facsimile of the late-'90s Trux concept.

(plus, y'know, they're not very good songs)

everyone probably loved Accelerator because 'Liar' has the greatest riff ever.

"Mouth Breather" sounds like the "Dancing Days" riff, transmitted into 1990 Chicago via a scuzz-rock fax machine (this is not a value judgment, btw)

I've been seeing promos of "White Stuff" all over social media for the past three weeks but I finally listened to the full song just now, and it don't sound bad to me at all

I'm down with "Every Day Swan" too

and mark this for following this dumb b.s. but they put out a record that i hadn't heard and still haven't heard and then lied and said I had approved it

— Neil Hagerty (@TheHowlingHex) February 22, 2019

he was tweeting other stuff that seemed related to the new album this morning

"basically a debtors' prison situation" yeesh