new Howling Hex / Neil Hagerty brings the funk!

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

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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