new Howling Hex / Neil Hagerty brings the funk!

dude i dont like it :(

im bummed to feel that way, but it just expands on the last drag city record in the exact wrong way, i think. im still onboard 4 lyfe but this is not a favorite.

rechecked You Can't Beat Tomorrow on a recent roadtrip, that one is still awesome

I like that new track okay, but am skeptical of a whole nother percussion-less album

rechecked You Can't Beat Tomorrow on a recent roadtrip, that one is still awesome

i love this, i think i maybe mentioned going back to it while we were in the sandbox but it's so strong, i found myself liking a bunch of different stuff instead of the jams i usually gravitated towards. s.c. coward. it's so loose & it has such a great room sound.

dude i dont like it :(

aw man i was wondering if you'd heard it! i just; it's just so well done i think, like i am half-listening to the song & half caught up in & sustained by the constant guitar backbeat-jerk; like i do see some links to stuff on earth junk that i liked well enough without wanting more of (the sorta velvets' murder mystery-esque songs like the one called something like arsenic and poison, which is great but sorta heavy), but it's so well put together, like his singing is always cut up into these different spacy registers and places, and there's some nice synthy detail going on under some parts of the songs. obviously if you are not feeling it you are not feeling it, but i've felt good about it everytime it's been on, while i've been cooking or w/e.

is it specifically the 'no percussion = i want out' thing about it that deters you shakes? bc it's very rhythmic with or without

still digging this new album -- so weird sounding, but still catchy as hell. lots of neat interlocking parts. getting a beefheart vibe occasionally. anyhoo, thinking about seeing him live next week -- anyone know what the show is like? is it a solo thing?

I saw him on the XI tour and they were amazing, played stuff from all over the catalog, trading instruments, just a great vibe. have no idea what his touring act is like at the moment tho.

have always been on my list & i've never been in the right place; i would totally go. the last thing i heard about was a new york show, they were a three-piece & played for hours.

yeah I saw a really long set too

ha, well, last night was *not* a long set -- probably only 45 minutes. and early too! he started at 930pm, which is not the norm for the venue. but fine with an old dad like me. music was awesome -- he had a very straightlaced, 50-something looking rhythm section who just oompahed away endlessly behind him as he tore out wild, fuzzy solos. only one song from the latest record, i think. apparently he lives in denver for the time being, so i think i'm gonna see him a lot in the next year. yay! maybe i can be in his band! i could definitely do what the bass player was doing last night.

oh man that sounds so great. there was an auction of paintings and stuff on the hex site last year, I think prior to him leaving NM. hope you & NMH sync rhythms!

lol after the show i said to him "great show!" and he visibly recoiled. i'm in!

also http://www.howlinghex.com/diary/1477/smokestack-lightning

xp ha ha. idk man, he seems to absorb his environs, so maybe you just have to loudly do your thing in the proximity & he will gravitate towards your sludge rock/high-pitched-voice country songs/whatever project

maybe!
also, just looked -- the next show in Denver he's playing with Michael Gira!!!

MG solo? sounds good

think i'm going to go see the Howling Hex again tonight in Denver! Who's with me!
Sadly I missed the Gira show last month. Apparently Gira got reallllllllly mad at a chatty audience.

THURSDAY! Howling Hex June residency kicks off in Denver! Will go to at least two of them!

somewhat comically un-revealing interview w/ hagerty
http://www.heyreverb.com/2012/06/06/howling-hex-interview/

lol @ dissing albums but not record companies

rad interview

haha! i actually kinda know the guy who did it. he's a good guy, i'm sure, you know, circumstances.

i was totally sincere! though i think the build up maybe makes the interview into something of a deadpan punchline.

i'm psyched you're catching this show anyway. these are still the group i wanna catch somehow sometime, i don't really know how. report back.

yeah will do. totally psyched he's in Denver for the foreseeable future.

currently uploading a terrible video i took at last night's show! well, the sound is OK, but the venue was incredibly dark. will post! great show!

what was the format? how many folks in the band?

same band as a few months ago, just a bassist/drummer.

man. I was actually toying with the idea of coming out there in a couple of weeks to catch the Hag on Thursday and then Wilco on Fri/Sat at Red Rocks. probably not gonna happen tho

DO IT. I'm definitely going to at least one more of these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1PQ_U4gh88
behold my superior videographer skills. the sound is OK anyway.

thanks tyler! i actually skipped through mid-solo because fuzz & youtube don't totally fit, but it sounds great. the set-up suits NMH pretty well, i think. i'd love to have seen the theater-fire lineup, but there's something neat about the minimal, repetitive thing they have going.

totally going back tonight! woooo.

wooo. this rocked! pretty much the same deal as before, tho he actually played some shorter, punchier numbers. highlight is the epic march he closed out both shows with. forgot to take the camera.

only just remembered to check in w/this. sounds good. what'd you mean march? can't figure out if you mean an arkestral troop outta the venue or a shuffly norteno number.

guy's blog is both amusing & coherent right now. weird rountable w/commenters going on about romance.

new album in feb. called "the best of the howling hex" but is indeed new material -- seems to be the stuff he was playing this year in Denver. sounds amazing.

hope it's better than wilson semis FWIW

awesome awesome awesome
& great title. it was kinda longer, dirgier jams, right?

aww. i don't have my copy of WS with me so i can't spin it, but i have affection for it.

i really like wilson semis, but i think this one is better. last track is 24 minutes! so yeah longer, dirgier.

i really loved earth junk, but WS kind of was just a blah retread imo

this is p cool, incidentally:
http://www.howlinghex.com/diary/1625/rehearsals-are-ongoing

whoa, tyler you have charmed NMH & gained access to his stack of tapes. i think i speak on behalf of everyone outside of your state when i ask if you can quietly post this to your blog.

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.

xp haha, no, drag city just sent me the promo...

oh whoa & there's this too:

Navajo Rag: long form psychedelic mixing by Neil Hagerty and the Howling Hex,
with mixing by Harpoon Forever & artwork by RAFTAR. 44 minutes
listen to the first couple minutes at soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/osrtapes/the-howling-hex-navajo-rag

ha, okay. keep working toward that anyway. you're into it? i thought it was interesting the thing neil said about not really caring about records so just sending stuff to DC & letting them decide what to do with it.

first jam on the record for those not sitting around in smoking jackets supping cognac & talking pedals with NMH every week:

http://www.rockdelux.com/noticias/p/the-howling-hex.html

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