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Chain & the Gang

Supplying a funky, stripped-down fusion of indie pop, funk, garage area punk, and lo-fi experimentalism, String & the Gang certainly are a vehicle for the thoughts and talents of Ian Svenonius — musician, article author, actor, Internet speak show sponsor, and frontman using the teams Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, …

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Faceless Werewolves

The Faceless Werewolves certainly are a Tx three-piece whose music grafts the primal groove of classic boogie rock using the thick, buzzy guitar attack of post-punk acts like Sonic Youth and Royal Trux. The Faceless Werewolves 1st came collectively in Denton, TX, in past due 2001, where guitarist Baldomero Valdez …

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Neil Michael Hagerty

Vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Neil Hagerty honed his subversive method of rock and roll with two of the underground’s most prominent rings. Within the ’80s, he fueled Pussy Galore’s anti-rock cacophony, and blurred the limitations between avant-noise and traditional rock and roll as one-half of Royal Trux within the ’90s. Hagerty also produced …

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Weird War

Weird Battle began being a supergroup from the Make-Up’s Ian Svenonius and Michelle Mae, and Royal Trux’s Neil Hagerty following the members’ primary projects dissolved. Originally, the music group, which also included Jessica Espeleta and Steve McCarty, was designed being a one-off task. After documenting their 2002 self-titled debut along …

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RTX

Just more than four years after Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema disbanded the initial version of Royal Trux, Herrema returned to music with RTX, a music group that applied the swagger and snarl of Accelerator-era Trux to a new lineup. Nadav Eisenmann and Jaimo Welch became a member of Herrema …

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Division of Laura Lee

The Swedish garage punk quartet Division of Laura Lee emerged within the middle- to past due ’90s, assembled from spare parts within the Swedish hardcore music underground and indebted towards the sounds of Washington, D.C.’s punk picture. Made up of vocalist/guitarist Per Stålberg, guitarist David Ojala, bassist Jonas Gustavsson, and …

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Black Bananas

In 2011, Move Town announced that RTX, the band Jennifer Herrema founded after renowned art-noise rockers Royal Trux disbanded, would continue performing beneath the name Dark Bananas (the title of the song from the band’s album Traditional western Xterminator). Along with Herrema, the lineup continued to be stable, carrying on …

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