fao uk hex fans: https://twitter.com/TheHowlingHex/status/583338662626258945
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah? what's it like? i am kinda phobic of RANGDA-wave wailing combo groups
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
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, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
so cute that the guy who started this thread is now collaborating with hagerty.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
wait what
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is a really fun record, would love it even if i had no idea who these dudes were
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
Roger Fidelity = James Jackson Toth, iirc
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
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― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
huh I had no idea
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
yeah neither did i... what was the deal? old times ILE bust ups?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
i think he had some libertarian tendencies. don't remember specifics.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
shudder to think what hagerty would be like on a message board tbh
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
haha yup
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
NMH is pretty great on Twitter.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
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).
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
wow! he is playing my town, I will totally go see NMH. this is the most I have ever seen him tour afaict.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
also dang this sounds funi take back everything i said
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Cancelled Seattle show. Some sort of beef with the promoter; saw Hagerty getting pretty livid with some folks. Super bummer.
:(
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, 11 May 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
nice. haven't watched yet but there's some video of them here: http://pressuredrop.tv/artists/the-howling-hexso there's no bass player in this lineup?
― tylerw, Monday, 11 May 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
...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.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
hmm maybe i should try to get word to hagerty that i am available to be the hex's new bass player
― tylerw, Monday, 11 May 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8XNgCUMAAHM0A.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
New album?
― Wimmels, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
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 themusic 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 VOORUITMay 07 - in Rotterdam, Netherlands at ROODKAPJE SUB May 08 - in Brighton, UK at PRINCE ALBERTMay 09 -in Cambridge, UK at PORTLAND ARMSMay 10 in London, UK at MOTH CLUB May 11 - in Leeds, UK at HEADROWMay 12 -in Glasgow, UK at BROADCASTMay 13 -in Preston, UK in CONTINENTALMay 14 - in Brighton, UK at EXCHANGEMay 17 - in Hamburg, Germany in ASTRA STUBEMay 18 - in Copenhagen, Denmark in JAZZHOUSE May 19 -in Oslo, Norway in REVOLVERMay 20 -in Gothenberg, Sweden at FOLK May 30 - in Bologna, Italy at FREAKOUT CLUB May 31 -in Rome, Italy at FANFULLAJune 01 -in Genova, Italy at TEATRO DALTROVEJune 03 - in Barcelona, Spain at PRIMAVERA SOUNDJune 07 - in Geneva, Switzerland at CAVE12June 08 - in Paris, France at INSTANTS CHAVIRÉS June 11 -in Porta, Portugal at NOS PRIMAVERA SOUND
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
of course there's no denver date
LOL perfect
― Wimmels, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
hahahaha
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 February 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
he hasn't played in Denver in almost two years, i think! even though he obviously LOVES it here.
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
300 DAYS OF SUNSHINE
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
anybody seen this current tour?
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Proof of lifehttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-howling-hex-with-special-guests-tickets-84999181841?aff=efbneb
― Mike Dixn, Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
I checked out his website/Tumblr recently for first time in a while; looks like he's selling homemade board games.
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Thursday, 19 December 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
They're like download/print on demand type things but yeah. In the NMH tradition they are conceptually oblique and probably impossible to play.
― Mike Dixn, Thursday, 19 December 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
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!
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Hey, I just discovered (on my local streaming service) a HHex track I wasn't aware of... on this 2013 album. It's good!
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
Any other heads out there prefer Denver: Approved for Indica Mix to the original alb?
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Gee I wonder who at the Denver Brunch game company was responible for this game?
JUNKY BINGOWin big to be the first to lose it all and win!NOW EVERYONE CAN PLAY BECAUSE EVERYONE CAN PLAY BINGO! You must battle to be the master of the bingo parlor while dodging drug lair dangers & murderous lies in your everyday life. Careful with that pizza money, choose wisely how it is spent. Who will be the perfect zero in J-U-N-K-Y BINGO?
NOW EVERYONE CAN PLAY BECAUSE EVERYONE CAN PLAY BINGO! You must battle to be the master of the bingo parlor while dodging drug lair dangers & murderous lies in your everyday life. Careful with that pizza money, choose wisely how it is spent. Who will be the perfect zero in J-U-N-K-Y BINGO?
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/junky-bingo
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
xp i dont prefer it, but its great, i play them just about equally
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 19 December 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
I'm assuming the "Denver Brunch game company" is a one-man operation
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 19 December 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
B/c I'm bored, here's a quick & dirty ranking of the main Drag City albums (not counting the three released under the NMH name; and with 1-2-3 subbing in for the three Ltd. LPs):
Best OfAll-Nite FoxNightclubXI1-2-3DenverWilsonEarth Junk
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Thursday, 19 December 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link