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	Guardian \| Rocky road to recovery
		Jennifer Herrema, the former singer of the cult band Royal Trux, explains her love of classic AM radio rock to Will Hodgkinson
		But Jennifer Herrema, the former singer of the cult American sleazy rock band Royal Trux and now the leader of RTX, swears by it.
		The band split in 2000 after Herrema fell off the wagon when her father became terminally ill. Now Royal Trux have been acknowledged as one of the main influences for the new generation of rock bands that have come in their wake.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5044251-111426,00.html (1031 words)

	Royal Trux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Royal Trux was an American rock band, founded by Neil Hagerty (vocals, guitar) and Jennifer Herrema (vocals).
		While the band received mainstream media exposure during their time on Virgin (Herrema even appeared in several Calvin Klein ads in the mid-1990s), Virgin was reportedly unhappy with "Sweet Sixteen," and dropped the band from the label before they had completed their final record.
		Back on their original label, Drag City, the band released "Accelerator," a relentlessly catchy hook-driven monster that yielded bizarre tones and frequencies through layer upon layer of compression in the recording and lyrics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Trux (664 words)

	Rough Riders \| Music \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		Once bonded in both music and holy matrimony, Herrema and Hagerty are now charting individual, unconventional courses, splitting ownership of everything down to the letters of their old band name--Herrema jokes that Hagerty owns all the vowels (a couple of which he's using for his new fantastic trip, the Howling Hex).
		Herrema created Transmaniacon--named, as she ambiguously explains, because "the alliteration of it sounded like the sound I wanted in the record"--with producer Nadav Eisenman and multi-instrumentalist Jaimo Welch, twentysomething music outsiders she met through a photo shoot.
		And for the off hours, there's also Herrema's ongoing visual artwork (part of Royal Trux' past aesthetic), which she seems to approach with the same methodology she applies to her music: "I just have big poster paper pinned to the wall and I can add to it incidentally," she explains.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=20403 (687 words)

	www.myspace.com/royaltrux
		Herrema had warned me the addresses on their street were laid out nonsequentially - which doesn't sound legal, however appropriate it might be for Royal Trux - but I have no problem spotting their house.
		Herrema can sing as if possessed, swaggering faceless behind her stringy mane and good-guy cowboy hat; or she can grunt her lyrics in a grotesque monotone, seemingly wrapped up in an entirely different number than the band.
		Jennifer Herrema's recording contribution is limited this time to vocals, and she and Neil twine their voices in a wobbly, gravelly symmetry, their heavy-lidded, richly languid air imparting a time-suspending cool, one that vividly illustrates the unapologetically heroin-oriented lyrics.
	profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=31589704 (6724 words)

	PSF \| PSF Interview: Jennifer Herrema / RTX
		Rising from the ashes of the legendary Royal Trux, Jennifer Herrema's new trio RTX are moving and grooving on visionary rock kicks with the monstrous intelligence of their debut album Transmaniacon.
		When I ask Jennifer what she hates, she gives me her definition of rock, and is over the moon to hear that I think Transmaniacon perfectly embodies it.
		Jennifer Herrema (RTX): I hate segregation, marginalization, and using platforms to highlight music.
	www.furious.com /perfect/rtx.html (2029 words)

	www.danielchamberlin.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The two core members — the husband-and-wife team of Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema — had kicked infamous heroin habits and were on tour supporting one of the best albums of their 15-year career.
		Herrema denies experiencing a total relapse, though she does admit she “fucked around with a lot of pills for a month.” Either way, Royal Trux was ending, and a divorce from Hagerty was imminent as Herrema returned to Virginia to see her dying father.
		Now 32, Herrema has been living in Southern California for the past year, surfing at least three times a week and recording Transmaniacon, her first album under the new RTX moniker.
	www.danielchamberlin.com /article.py?id=1094749405.15.0.0289357443931 (1209 words)

	RTX Archive: Arthur Issue 12 [September 2004]
		Jennifer Herrema has spent the last 10 years establishing her reputation as a rocker through Royal Trux, her partnership with singer-guitarist Neil Haggerty [sic].
		The album rocks like a monster truck, a powerful growling 11-song reminder that Herrema can stand on her own as a singer/songwriter in the tradition of not only great female rockers like Joan Jett, but also among those male icons who dominate the Classic Rock World.
		Herrema says she's been perfecting her growl since Royal Trux required her to invent vocals for songs that "weren't classically pop, where the vocals had to present themselves more as an instrument." All her new projects are a mature culmination of past experiences with music and pop culture.
	www.rtxarchive.com /rtx/arthur12.html (1948 words)

	Music: No Trux Stop Ahead (Tucson Weekly . 07-24-00)
		It goes like this: Herrema's father was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given three months to live, and Herrema had suffered some stomach problems at the outset of the tour from the stress she was under.
		First there's Herrema, covered in layers of clothes and looking like a walking art project, complete with mirror shades and a fresh cigarette dangling from her mouth.
		This stint with PG would take Hagerty and Herrema up to New York and give the two the small amount of indie credibility they would need to get Royal Trux up and running as a full-time operation in 1988.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-24-00/tw_mus.html (1067 words)

	Mundane Sounds
		Neil went off on his own, and Jennifer disappeared, destined to be dismissed as the sexy but less respected singer of Neil's band.
		With flying guitar solos, Herrema's rough, scrtachy blues-rock moan and some tight-as-hell playing, there's no reason for RTX to not be considered a great hard rock band.
		Herrema is coming into her own, and it's a fascinating thing to hear.
	www.mundanesounds.com /record_review.php?id=1270 (403 words)

	Boston's Weekly Dig: Music: I Thought You Were Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		While Neil Hagerty went on to release a handful of solo records, the only signs of life from his partner-in-crime, Jennifer Herrema, were in glossy, drug-chic magazine photo shoots.
		Herrema's vocal limitations are hidden behind layer upon layer of multitracking and intense vocoder distortion; her lyrics are often incomprehensible, and yet they somehow remain catchy as hell.
		Herrema handles most of the singing duties, while Hagerty's trademark whole-song guitar solos have been replaced by Welch's low-end metallic doomsday riffs.
	www.weeklydig.com /articles/i_thought_you_were_dead (802 words)

	Portland Mercury - Music - Rough Riders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Unfortunately, the Trux chapter in rock history closed right after the turn of the new century: The band's creative energy was short-circuited by the ongoing intrusion of drug addiction and the death of Herrema's father.
		Once bonded in both music and holy matrimony, Herrema and Hagerty are now charting individual, unconventional courses, splitting ownership of everything from their Virginia property to the letters of their old band name.
		Her vocals are vocodorized and amplified, punctuating steroid-pumped instrumentation yet balancing those fist-waving experiments against a rough core that keeps Herrema more woman than machine.
	www.portlandmercury.com /portland/Content?oid=32946&category=22153 (737 words)

	Kentucky Kernel -- March 03, 1997
		But the band centered on vocalist Jennifer Herrema and guitarist Neil Hagerty has a musical portfolio as assorted as they come, including cracked-up blues, garage boogie and lo-fi chaos.
		It could be because Jennifer Herrema looks so much like Edie Sedgwick and sings with a voice as gruff and masculine as Niko.
		The lyrics on this song are as trite as those on the rest of Eating February, but the tune is exceptional as the instruments cohere through beautifully orchestrated, selfless cooperation.
	www.kernel.uky.edu /1997/spring/0303/div04.html (984 words)

	Music: Royal Trux
		Even without the palatial digs, to say that Herrema and her partner-in-crime Neil Haggerty are not your garden-variety indie rockers would be a huge understatement.
		Herrema will also toss off comments that all overdoses are simply "getting what you deserve," but you are not likely to coax any public service messages out of her, be it barbed or candy-coated.
		In fact, they could be accused of subscribing to the heroin chic of the late '80s when the majority of Trux photos show Haggerty and Herrema in different stages of nodding off.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1999/090999/music4.html (507 words)

	RTX Archive: Portland Mercury [January 20-26, 2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		That leaves Herrema with RTX, her second band in her 32 years, and Transmaniacon, the group's cosmic maiden recording voyage.
		And on Transmaniacon, her throaty crackle snakes through a labyrinth of scrap rock and salvaged arena metal, a combination that's nearly as confounding and contradictory as any Trux output.
		Herrema created Transmaniacon--named, as she ambiguously explains, because "the alliteration of it sounded like the sound I wanted in the record"--with producer Nadav Eisenman and multi-instrumentalist Jaimo Welch, twenty-something music outsiders she met through a photo shoot.
	www.rtxarchive.com /rtx/portlandmercury.html (670 words)

	Ink 19 :: Royal Trux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Presiding over our session today will be Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema, known to the world as rock and roll's rabid pit bulls of fuzz, Royal Trux.
		Herrema continues her "are you sure that's a chick singing" vocals - if a more incredible woman exists in music today, I ain't seen or heard her.
		Royal Trux's music is deceptively simple - at first, it sounds like most any other stoner rock jive, until you start to break it down, and realize it's not so much melody and tempo as it is anarchy set to a four-four beat.
	www.ink19.com /issues/august2000/wetInk/musicRS/royalTrux.html (276 words)

	jennifer herrema
		The entity known as Royal Trux was officially born when 15-year-old Jennifer Herrema met a young guitarist named Neil Hagerty in Washington, D.C. in 1985.
		Neil and Jennifer have always defied expectations in their no-bullshit approach to getting things done, refusing to compromise their integrity in allegiance to any established system of thought.
		Inarguably, the Trux's finest achievement is the development of their own set of peculiar aesthetics which they've etched out with their music, art, writing, as well as the way this philosophy manifests itself in their lifestyle.
	www.angelfire.com /punk3/rogerdeforest/rtx/rtxint22.html (6325 words)

	Keith Richards Interview
		Royal Trux (guitarist Neil Hagerty and singer Jennifer Herrema) first came together in 1985 and have since recorded four albums and assorted singles full of sonic confusion and seemingly random noise.
		My first reaction was no fucking way, but Jennifer said she would do the interview, and all I had to do was pose for some pictures, so I said okay.
		Jennifer went in, and I waited for the photographer to fetch me. I saw Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart walking around.
	members.tripod.com /amused_2/keith.html (2270 words)

	THE POST: Royal Trux reign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		They're stopped in Lawrence, Kan., on their way to Columbia, Mo. Outside of the health food store, after visiting the laundromat, Trux vocalist Jennifer Herrema is shouting into the cellular phone, trying to get every word in before the battery dies.
		Made up of Herrema and Neil Hagerty (who plays practically all the instruments), the Trux formed in 1989, when the two were only 16.
		Speaking of gorgeous, Jennifer had a stint as a Calvin Klein model when the Trux were on the cover of a cheesy musician magazine, though she describes the modeling biz as boring work where she met interesting people.
	thepost.baker.ohiou.edu /archives/archives2/092499/901.html (492 words)

	RTX Archive: Magnet Issue 17 [April 1995]
		Hagerty and Herrema were a bit wary of taking on Brown, whom they had never met and had heard conflicting stories about.
		When PG collapsed into an unpleasant miasma in the late '80s, the door was opened for Herrema and Hagerty to expand upon their many twisted themes, and Royal Trux was born.
		The early years are ones Herrema and Hagerty aren't especially eager to discuss these days, and given the group's almost legendary past penchant for all forms of chemical stimulation, it's no wonder why.
	www.rtxarchive.com /archive/articles/magnet17.html (1923 words)

	RTX - Transmaniacon drops tomorrow - who's psyched???
		Jennifer: 'Transmaniacon' is a title that could end up meaning a lot of things and it has meant things in the past, but I thought it was time to take my shot at it.
		Jennifer: I'm sure I pointed them in a lot of directions, but I would have done that either way....they could be twice my age and they would still be pushed in a certain direction or off a cliff.
		Jennifer: It's fine, and it lead to a great record deal for me. I liked the fact that there was a lot of money floating around music at that time.
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=5046629 (6211 words)

	Royal Trux- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the early ‘90’s, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema were as known for their chemical indulgences and combative personalities as their band Royal Trux was for creating raucous, anarchic noise.
		Herrema’s growlin’ paean to the "Waterpark") and bluesy mid-tempo vamps (such as Hagerty’s in-your-face "Stop") that keep the original buzzing spirit of the Trux alive and kicking while introducing a real melodic sensibility to the proceedings.
		Toward the end, the crew throw off some fleshed-out grunge jams that could’ve been pruned but, overall, this is an end-of-summer blastoff readymade for those last trips to the, yes, waterpark.
	www.virginiamusicflash.com /royal2.htm (188 words)

	Royal Trux band
		Jennifer I never really asked them why they were doing what they were doing.
		In the end, I don't think we were going to change their minds and I really don't know where all the initial enthusiasm came from in my mind, they must've liked what we'd done before.
		Jennifer Being the first artists on Drag City, and being so tight with them, it's really whatever we want to do.
	www.virginiamusicflash.com /royaltru.htm (1087 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Royal Trux tickets, dates
		Herrema and Hagerty play mostly beat-to-hell, thrift-store guitars, howl over the noise, and let a crappy little drum machine keep a beat.
		Both Herrema and Hagerty "play" like they couldn't care less about what they were doing (and they probably couldn't), but there's a spark here -- maybe an accidental one, but a spark that makes these messy chunks of distortion more interesting than your average underground rant, although it's not what you'd call friendly, inviting music.
		Herrema actually sang, but her voice still hadn't improved much beyond a one-octave cat-growl.
	www.ticketmaster.com /artist/750232?brand=none (960 words)

	lostcosmonaut: so long
		We should have talked about Jennifer Herrema then, and thanked our stars we were alive, and celebrated th living.
		It's just an undeniable objective fact that ah'll never be as cool as my cat or Jennifer Herrema, because to do that I would have to try, and once you start to try, you're dead.
		Jennifer Herrema was in a band named Royal Trux, whom I never liked before, because I'd pitched my tent on th Fugazi and Minor Threat side of things, where people's relationships w/ substances were uneasy, @ best.
	lostcosmonaut.livejournal.com /125274.html (2652 words)

	Raw Material: Chicago's music, uncooked
		They are the king and queen of heroin haze, the progenitors of music so gritty, so simultaneously dirty and sexy that you can nearly taste the music and smell the electricity.
		After riding the sound to a major-label deal, Royal Truxsters Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty have driven full circle back to Drag City.
		It was the end of a relationship that was decidedly lukewarm, the exact opposite of the Trux relationship with Drag City and label owner Dan Koretzky.
	www.newcitychicago.com /home/daily/raw/100898.html (683 words)

	rtx
		One: Jennifer Herrema and Neil Michael Hagerty's final clutch of collaborative albums as Royal Trux proved that the put-on had not been in vain.
		I guess it's obvious that RTX mostly = Royal Trux - Neil Hagerty, or that with the choice of musicians being purely Jennifer's there are going to be some changes in the aesthetic balance.
		This collection of turbulent rocknroll is dedicated to Jennifer Herrema's recently passed father.
	www.fivespace.net /rtxtrans.html (664 words)

	Earwax 2
		But last reports have the band's core, singer Jennifer Herrema and guitarist Neil Hagerty, cleaned up and living in the relative calm of rural Virginia.
		Perhaps the change of scenery has had a profound effect on the band, or perhaps someone has invented the methadone patch.
		There's still plenty of spacey pedal work, plodding rock riffs, and Herrema's laryngitic growl is still Herrema's laryngitic growl.
	www.citypaper.net /earshot/earshot.0297/earwax2.shtml (615 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Royal Trux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To celebrate their fifteenth year together, Herrema, Hagerty et al have released Pound for Pound.
		From the second that Neil Hagerty's guitar enters the first track, "Call Out the Lions," it's clear what the listener is in for -- basically, roots rock, but squeezed through a filter constructed from the last twenty five years' worth of punk and post-punk.
		The band even manages to sound quite fetchingly like T. Rex on "Platinum Tips," a catchy tune with killer guitar licks and, as always, classically growly Herrema vocals.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/jun-12-00/royal.html (232 words)

	rtx or hagerty?
		yo, children--which is the most promising and stimulating post-royal trux project: neil michael hagerty's howling hex, or jennifer herrema's rtx?
		Neil's more prolific, interesting, and just plain better, but let me wait until Jennifer releases her book before I decide.
		I actually dreamed last night that Hagerty and Herrema were the final act (not headlining; more like an afterthought) of an outdoor rock festival.
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=5554183 (508 words)

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