new Howling Hex / Neil Hagerty brings the funk!

Dan'l Boone playing their first two shows today and tomorrow in Chicago, thinking about going to tomorrow's show even though I haven't heard the album yet

http://www.howlinghex.com/ has been good lately.

In a 'why would NEIL HAGERTY bother making a jpeg of THAT?" kinda way.

Like, what the hell is this?
http://www.howlinghex.com/post/99785237020

fao uk hex fans: https://twitter.com/TheHowlingHex/status/583338662626258945

some US dates too, though these are being billed as neil michael hagerty shows?

http://www.dragcity.com/tours#neil-michael-hagerty

the hagerty-toth band LP coming out on three lobed soon is KILLER.

oh yeah? what's it like? i am kinda phobic of RANGDA-wave wailing combo groups

man I really wish people wouldn't give that guy (toth) any props here, his posting history is stuffed full of reasons to ignore/ridicule him

toth posts here? ha, i did not know...
man i think i love RANGDA-wave wailing combo groups but this isn't really like that. it's pretty song-based actually. some oddball boogie, some weirdo sidetrips, new age mutterings. 18+ minute title track is super trippy.

Hagerty-Toth LP is wonderful. Bright weirdo jams; get some Television/Dead vibes. That guitar line on Sunset Dust is burnt into my mind. The interludes remind me of Joe Frank.

Streaming on the bandcamp and there are a few copies left in the Wooden Wand bigcartel.

the track included w the Pfork review is great! After the letdown of Earth Junk I haven't been paying much attention, but this seems like promising

so cute that the guy who started this thread is now collaborating with hagerty.

wait what

yeah this is a really fun record, would love it even if i had no idea who these dudes were

Roger Fidelity = James Jackson Toth, iirc

man I really wish people wouldn't give that guy (toth) any props here, his posting history is stuffed full of reasons to ignore/ridicule him

― sleeve, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 7:33 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh I had no idea

yeah neither did i... what was the deal? old times ILE bust ups?

i think he had some libertarian tendencies. don't remember specifics.

this is a weird thread altho he's not entirely wrong about Kerry, who was a terrible candidate and m/l loathsome:
Because why not: Roger Fidelity's own election day thread, one to the public

I vaguely remember people accusing him of being racist but when I search I only find people calling him racist but not what instigated those remarks.

I agreed with him on this one!
"Continuing coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith"

he was a weird poster. The Ann Coulter fandom is inexplicable. otoh there are plenty of jerks with tastes I don't share who made/make great music so who cares, basically

shudder to think what hagerty would be like on a message board tbh

haha yup

Anyone plan on catching Hagerty on tour? Starts up May 1 in LA with Follakzoid. There's a flyer for a May 10 date in Seattle at the Black Lodge, but it looks like it was pulled off the site, though that may be because it's a DIY space.

NMH is pretty great on Twitter.

haha, yeah he is pleasingly random on there.
go see him if you have the chance! as you'll see in this thread, i've loved his live show for the past few years (though i have no idea what his current show/material is).

wow! he is playing my town, I will totally go see NMH. this is the most I have ever seen him tour afaict.

also dang this sounds fun
i take back everything i said

Cancelled Seattle show. Some sort of beef with the promoter; saw Hagerty getting pretty livid with some folks. Super bummer.

:(

https://36.media.tumblr.com/a3d2216a23059dcc3806fefd6ec67939/tumblr_no7hecWMj51rkya77o1_540.jpg

Saw the show on Friday in Portland. It was pretty great. Seemed kind of like a mix of the polka stuff that he had been doing with the Hagerty-Toth Band stuff. Rambling spoken interludes. Tiny drum sound. His dizzying, hypnotic guitar work. Very happy I went. Haven't ever seen his solo live show before.

nice.
haven't watched yet but there's some video of them here: http://pressuredrop.tv/artists/the-howling-hex
so there's no bass player in this lineup?

No bass player...or at least not at the Portland show. It definitely lacked that propulsive "kick" but, as far as I can tell, Neil hasn't seemed too interested in that lately.

...there's some video of them here: http://pressuredrop.tv/artists/the-howling-hex

That video is a pretty apt description of what I saw on Friday. The "Game of Dice" song (featured in the video you linked to) was one of my favorites of the evening.

hmm maybe i should try to get word to hagerty that i am available to be the hex's new bass player

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8XNgCUMAAHM0A.jpg

New album?

yeah!
DENVER OUT ON APRIL 15TH, 2016!
Neil Michael Hagerty leads the Howling Hex back out into the sunshine with a new full length, their first since The Best of the Howling Hex back in 2013. This direction, explored in a pair of limited-edition singles released over the past two years, reaches a populist zenith on the new album, Denver, in which an entire community and geographic region are tapped for their energy, the celebratory pulses of which feed the new music of Neil Michael Hagerty and The Howling Hex!

The deeply principled, forward-facing manner of The Howling Hex is based in the now-ancient ways of rock and roll alchemy- the modding-up of ethnic idioms from regional traditional American sounds and the refitting of these rhythms with expressions of new youth, reckless within the contemporary lifestyle! Coupled with the beats, Neil's howling guitar sounds elevate the
music of Denver to an ecstatic communal expression, the likes of which will no doubt massage pleasure centers in the make-up of modern popular music listeners.

The music, when combined with the high-energy reflections of the city life and mountain scene that emanates from Denver, gives The Howling Hex their most powerful, accessible iteration, driven by the rhythm and accelerated by the gnarl of Neil's classic guitar playing. Travel to Denver with The Howling Hex on April 15th!

Neil Michael Hagerty and The Howling Hex are also headed to Europe in May for a gigantic tour! Catch them on the dates below and look out for more to come:

May 06 - in Ghent, Belgium at VOORUIT
May 07 - in Rotterdam, Netherlands at ROODKAPJE SUB
May 08 - in Brighton, UK at PRINCE ALBERT
May 09 -in Cambridge, UK at PORTLAND ARMS
May 10 in London, UK at MOTH CLUB
May 11 - in Leeds, UK at HEADROW
May 12 -in Glasgow, UK at BROADCAST
May 13 -in Preston, UK in CONTINENTAL
May 14 - in Brighton, UK at EXCHANGE
May 17 - in Hamburg, Germany in ASTRA STUBE
May 18 - in Copenhagen, Denmark in JAZZHOUSE
May 19 -in Oslo, Norway in REVOLVER
May 20 -in Gothenberg, Sweden at FOLK
May 30 - in Bologna, Italy at FREAKOUT CLUB
May 31 -in Rome, Italy at FANFULLA
June 01 -in Genova, Italy at TEATRO DALTROVE
June 03 - in Barcelona, Spain at PRIMAVERA SOUND
June 07 - in Geneva, Switzerland at CAVE12
June 08 - in Paris, France at INSTANTS CHAVIRÉS
June 11 -in Porta, Portugal at NOS PRIMAVERA SOUND

of course there's no denver date

LOL perfect

hahahaha

he hasn't played in Denver in almost two years, i think! even though he obviously LOVES it here.

300 DAYS OF SUNSHINE

anybody seen this current tour?

Proof of life
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-howling-hex-with-special-guests-tickets-84999181841?aff=efbneb

I checked out his website/Tumblr recently for first time in a while; looks like he's selling homemade board games.

They're like download/print on demand type things but yeah. In the NMH tradition they are conceptually oblique and probably impossible to play.

I wonder if it is true that he has recently recorded three albums that haven't been released (as he said in one of those weird RTX interviews this year). I would love to get new Hex music at some point!

Hey, I just discovered (on my local streaming service) a HHex track I wasn't aware of... on this 2013 album. It's good!

Any other heads out there prefer Denver: Approved for Indica Mix to the original alb?