ps tylerw still mad at whatever you had for dinner that kept you from the hex show
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
i'm still mad too. i'm going to make up for it -- they're playing next week. holiday party with the hex!
― tylerw, Friday, 6 December 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
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.
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 6 December 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Friday, 6 December 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
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/
― Mike Dixn, Sunday, 15 December 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Monday, 16 December 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/products/fool-s-watch-b-w-lord-gloves
whoopb-side soundin good
― schlump, Monday, 26 May 2014 06:33 (nine years ago) link
New "supergroup" Dan'l Boone
http://www.dragcity.com/news/2014-06-25-from-somewhere-comes-dan-l-boone
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
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!
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
does anybody have a translation for the drag city press release
― schlump, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
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
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 25 September 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.howlinghex.com/ has been good lately.
― Mike Dixn, Friday, 12 December 2014 08:39 (nine years ago) link
In a 'why would NEIL HAGERTY bother making a jpeg of THAT?" kinda way.
― Mike Dixn, Friday, 12 December 2014 08:40 (nine years ago) link
Like, what the hell is this? http://www.howlinghex.com/post/99785237020
― Mike Dixn, Friday, 12 December 2014 08:43 (nine years ago) link
fao uk hex fans: https://twitter.com/TheHowlingHex/status/583338662626258945
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah? what's it like? i am kinda phobic of RANGDA-wave wailing combo groups
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
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, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Sunday, 19 April 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
so cute that the guy who started this thread is now collaborating with hagerty.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
wait what
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is a really fun record, would love it even if i had no idea who these dudes were
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
Roger Fidelity = James Jackson Toth, iirc
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
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― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
huh I had no idea
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
yeah neither did i... what was the deal? old times ILE bust ups?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
i think he had some libertarian tendencies. don't remember specifics.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
shudder to think what hagerty would be like on a message board tbh
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
haha yup
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
NMH is pretty great on Twitter.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
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).
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
wow! he is playing my town, I will totally go see NMH. this is the most I have ever seen him tour afaict.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
also dang this sounds funi take back everything i said
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Cancelled Seattle show. Some sort of beef with the promoter; saw Hagerty getting pretty livid with some folks. Super bummer.
:(
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, 11 May 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
nice. haven't watched yet but there's some video of them here: http://pressuredrop.tv/artists/the-howling-hexso there's no bass player in this lineup?
― tylerw, Monday, 11 May 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
...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.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Monday, 11 May 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
hmm maybe i should try to get word to hagerty that i am available to be the hex's new bass player
― tylerw, Monday, 11 May 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8XNgCUMAAHM0A.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
New album?
― Wimmels, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
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 themusic 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 VOORUITMay 07 - in Rotterdam, Netherlands at ROODKAPJE SUB May 08 - in Brighton, UK at PRINCE ALBERTMay 09 -in Cambridge, UK at PORTLAND ARMSMay 10 in London, UK at MOTH CLUB May 11 - in Leeds, UK at HEADROWMay 12 -in Glasgow, UK at BROADCASTMay 13 -in Preston, UK in CONTINENTALMay 14 - in Brighton, UK at EXCHANGEMay 17 - in Hamburg, Germany in ASTRA STUBEMay 18 - in Copenhagen, Denmark in JAZZHOUSE May 19 -in Oslo, Norway in REVOLVERMay 20 -in Gothenberg, Sweden at FOLK May 30 - in Bologna, Italy at FREAKOUT CLUB May 31 -in Rome, Italy at FANFULLAJune 01 -in Genova, Italy at TEATRO DALTROVEJune 03 - in Barcelona, Spain at PRIMAVERA SOUNDJune 07 - in Geneva, Switzerland at CAVE12June 08 - in Paris, France at INSTANTS CHAVIRÉS June 11 -in Porta, Portugal at NOS PRIMAVERA SOUND
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link