![]() But I like the stuff that’s not that, too. I think it’s only a matter of time before people start going back and listening to music that’s in the studio with actual players and instruments again. You’ll see Future or Lil Nas X wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt, or Kim Kardashian wearing a Crass crust punk leather jacket. I don’t really care if rock n’ roll is alive or not. Stuff like Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees-people like that because it harkens back to a particular type of music that younger people are just discovering now, like an eighteen-year-old discovering glam rock or garage rock. What role do you see rock ‘n roll having today? Do you feel that there’s any of its energy or spirit still left? You deconstructed it and used it as a pastiche. Royal Trux really fucked with rock ‘n roll. I make it up as I go, but I’m doing pretty well. I’ve also been obsessed with the stock market lately. I was wondering when they were going to come back. I got the Gucci fanny pack because fanny packs are the number one thing I have always had throughout life. I like the idea of alternative radio, people listening to old school mixtapes.Īre you still doing any fashion or design work? I like him, it’s just strange to me that mainstream radio chooses a handful of songs and keeps pumping them. I’m coming out of the grocery store and I’m still listening to Post Malone. I’ll go to the grocery store, and I’m listening to Post Malone. How did you start doing your radio show at Dublab? I think radio is such an important medium to authentically share music, and we are increasingly losing that. Neil just finished another Howling Hex record. I’m going to go back to doing Pink Bananas. I don’t think that we’re going to play as Royal Trux for a while now. The logo of the temple is the purple mountains, from the Purple Mountains album cover. What I did notice is that when Cassie, his widow, invited me to Nashville for the burial and memorial, I got a photograph of the temple that the ceremony was going to be at. ![]() He’d been writing me the past three months a bunch. He was a great dude, very up and down, troubled. I was like, ‘What?’ So I went and started reading the lyrics, and I was like, ‘Holy shit, this is about us!’ And those are the exact directions I gave to him back then. I found out yesterday that he wrote the song, “We Are Real,” about him, Neil and I, and was told that the beginning of the song contains the directions to our old farmhouse in Virginia. I always read what he had to write, but I didn’t listen to his music that often, because I get too affected by constantly melancholy or dark stuff. His book, Actual Air, is one of my favorites. You know, I love David’s writing, we collaborated with him on some stuff on the Thank You album. I was actually going to bring up David, if that’s alright? We’ve got the new EP and two shows in San Francisco that were supposed to be David Berman shows, but since he killed himself, now we’re playing them. We have this Royal Trux album coming out at the end of November. So, how are things? You’ve got a new EP out with Ariel Pink, and some upcoming shows.Įverything’s great, taking care of my puppy, shit like that. Herrema is confident and in high-spirits, genuinely excited to share everything she’s been working on. I spoke with her over Skype from Berlin, her in Huntington Beach, about the late, great David Berman, radio, fanny packs, and more. None of this seems to have fazed Herrema, who continues her prolific music, fashion and design work, with no signs of slowing down. This year saw their welcome return with the acclaimed White Stuff, with a cancelled tour thrown in due to Herrema’s brush with the law. But the subsequent drama surrounding their tumultuous relationship, with both drugs and each other, only distracts from the band’s fabled output, at once channeling the rock swagger of Exile on Main Street-era Stones, and mixing it with the swirling noise of Sun City Girls and U.S. ![]() during the late ‘80s, after Hagerty’s brief stint with garage rock pioneers, Pussy Galore. The duo of Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty found their beginnings in Washington D.C. What other cult noise rock band signs with Virgin records in the midst of the ‘90s alt-rock boom, retains 100% of their creative control, and then walks away with a quarter of a million dollars? Only Royal Trux. ![]()
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