new Howling Hex / Neil Hagerty brings the funk!

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

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.