new Howling Hex / Neil Hagerty brings the funk!

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?

Gee I wonder who at the Denver Brunch game company was responible for this game?

JUNKY BINGO
Win 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?

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/junky-bingo

xp i dont prefer it, but its great, i play them just about equally

Gee I wonder who at the Denver Brunch game company was responible for this game?

I'm assuming the "Denver Brunch game company" is a one-man operation

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 Of
All-Nite Fox
Nightclub
XI
1-2-3
Denver
Wilson
Earth Junk

?!

where is the best one, You Can't Beat Tomorrow?

Whoops - forgot YCBT. Slot it above 1-2-3

Ha ha!

nmh is the only person who retweets the dumb memes i retweet on twitter. his tweets often make no sense to me. he seemed pretty upset about the recent rtx thing. i went hot and heavy on xi for a while - should give some of these other records a listen.

I agree with that ranking pretty much.
Nightclub Version of the Eternal took about a decade to sink in. I kind of wrote it off as a perverse exercise in audience punishment, but at some point, the cd ended up in my car and I played it a few times and it clicked. Good album, subtle in it's own unique way.

A while back on one of his websites, he teased a couple new bands - The Vicksburg Occupation, City in the Country - and an "all new line-up" of Dan'l Boone. I can't find anything official online now (Neil is a prolific deleter of content), but there are traces if you're willing to go back through the Zonk! backlog.

Zonk! is Neil's youtube / podcast thing.

I’ve never even heard of Zonk! But I stopped tracking his online activities a while back...

(Totally forgot about Dan’l Boone; will have to revisit that one. I liked the album he did with Toth.)

Best Show related comedy thing headlined by whatever The Howling Hex is now

Surprise! This is tomorrow night at Baby’s All Right.
Comedy + @TheHowlingHex
Come by if you’d like 👌🏼 pic.twitter.com/geBpUQVuoe

— Pat Byrne (@1800PATBYRNE) December 29, 2019

Wish I could be there!

Eager to hunt down footage. Wonder what he played. New Hex imminent?

^Yes, turns out it is!:

https://www.fatpossum.com/5140-2/

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/howling-hex-knuckleball-express-947428/

(gotta say, I don't love the new song)

Ok, I guess it’s kind of a jam...

Still, it’s in sort of a “funny“ style, esp. in light of this section from the RS interview:

”Rock and roll is what’s missing in bands these days that take a generic approach to playing that’s almost machine-like,” he adds. “We don’t need that anymore because machines can actually do it. I don’t see what the difference is between a precise human drummer playing to a click track and EDM. There’s some weak dad-rock stuff being distributed now by people my age, so I’m just trying to up the ante. I get on stage and say all the words I believe in my daily life. Not every dad can do that.”

reading between the lines: Malkmus, Callahan & recently Oldham are now fathers.

Well, so is Neil... and I doubt he’s dissing those guys!

I like the new track, dunno if it "ups the ante" (lol) but it rocks well enough