new Howling Hex / Neil Hagerty brings the funk!

ha, i just posted that & was like don't antagonise 69 about hating on wilson semiconductors again, let it lie. it's cool. some of earth junk i still love, other parts of it just aren't super enjoyable listening for me, including some of the best stuff on there. it reminds me of murder mystery by the velvets a little, like that. all this makes me wanna listen to WS, though, so. btw 69 i am for real missin your radio show, i hope you are on air again sometime.

― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:58 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awww u can antagonise me anytime. and thanks for the nice words about the show -- too busy with work stuff this week to do it today, and there's definitely been a lag in putting the links up on the archive page. did you see the link to the show ian and i did the other week when i was in NY? it was really fun!

aw no! i didn't, i am missing stuff, i'll go check it out. you guys are a dream team. the last thing i heard was you co-presenting with my buddy BN, i had no idea you guys knew one another, it was so lovely. on another note, i bumped this thread in yr direction a while ago: THE PIANO CHOIR

will keep lookin out anyway.

this new hex jam is good. not a zillion miles away from the last record.

should be noted that the final track is about 10 minutes long (with an unlisted bonus track tagged on there).

how is this? it's kinda expensive at the store & i can't jump right in right now.

"traschan bahamas" song of the year so far imho

http://osr-tapes.com/
http://osr-tapes.com/images/hh.jpg
Navajo Rag: long form psychedelic mixing by Neil Hagerty and the Howling Hex, with mixing by Harpoon Forever & artwork by RAFTAR. 44 minutes
[free download]

tyler you rule. thanks

haha, you're welcome. it's basically like an extension of the weirdo remix thing at the end of the new album.

NMH followed me on twitter. i guess he's on team follow back.

what's his handle?

@thehowlinghex

Neil Hagerty ‏@TheHowlingHex 9 Jul
7 hot dogs, 8 buns...smdh

howling hex are opening for bill callahan in denver this fall, totally psyched. show of the year.

hey they're finally putting all night fox out on vinyl!

i already drowned him in a shallow stream but my younger self could have died happy hearing this

ps tylerw still mad at whatever you had for dinner that kept you from the hex show

i'm still mad too.
i'm going to make up for it -- they're playing next week. holiday party with the hex!

oh killer! forgiveness is in sight.
i still find it hard living in a universe without periodic-frequency hex records, some kind of scheduled howling hex party would probably make up for this. lemme know what it's like.

what did you think of the smog show btw? i felt less uniformly positive seeing him this time, maybe just compared to everybody else's matt-kinsey-shredding-effusiveness.

it was great, though not as good as the last time -- i think my expectations were too high this time around! no real complaints about it (aside from the early start time!), just not as revelatory as the apocalypse tour.

yeah. same i think. i feel like how elemental the last one was really fit with just like what the function of deep voiced bill callahan was. it's sorta harder to get that when it's interspersed with more like shredding & ornate instrumentation for me. but yeah. good times.

I hadn't heard any of this aside from the Jefferson Airplane number, but it's worth a listen. Sort of what I'd expect a NMH mix tape to sound like after following the Howling Hex the past few years.
http://kitrecords.com/guest-mix-neil-hagerty/

yeah that mix is pretty interesting!
show on saturday was great -- it is weird, i really do think they come across better live than on record, not sure why exactly. same general approach and rhythm section, but hagerty had switched up the guitar action a bit, heavy on the wah pedal now. wish it had been twice as long.

http://www.dragcity.com/products/fool-s-watch-b-w-lord-gloves

whoop
b-side soundin good

New "supergroup" Dan'l Boone

http://www.dragcity.com/news/2014-06-25-from-somewhere-comes-dan-l-boone

sounds innaresting.
there's this too (which I guess has the two tracks from the new 10-inch) - http://thehowlinghex.bandcamp.com/
it's a steal!

does anybody have a translation for the drag city press release

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