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	Royal Trux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Royal Trux was an American rock band, centered upon Neil Michael Hagerty (vocals, guitar) and Jennifer Herrema (vocals).
		Royal Trux carried rock's dream through the end of the century, navigating through a depth and breadth of musical, poetic and artistic ideas unparalleled by any in their field.
		Royal Trux also released the triple LP "Singles, Live, Unreleased," which aptly summed up the astonishing variance of styles and consistency of quality that Royal Trux had crafted over the preceding decade or so, as well as a pair of EPs and substantial video and webwork.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Trux (731 words)

	Varsity Arts & Culture -- Royal Trux Ramble On (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		By the time Royal Trux released its fourth record, 1993's Cats and Dogs, the band was bowing at the altars of Zeppelin and the Stones in an unironic outpouring of sincerity.
		But while Royal Trux has long abandoned the sewers of New York for the fields of Virginia, pure-bread college types refuse to let go of the junkie mystique, as if they still want to vicariously live out their hedonic fantasies through the band.
		In fact, Royal Trux has successfully executed its very own rock n' roll swindle, as it became one of the few bands to be paid by a label for not making a record.
	www.varsity.utoronto.ca /archives/118/dec10/review/royal.html (1060 words)

	THE POST: Royal Trux reign
		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.
		Though the Royal Trux have put out an album every year (which brings them to a total of 10 albums), Herrema wouldn't classify the band as prolific.
		Royal Trux hits the stage with Geraldine and the Indoorsman on Saturday at the Union Bar and Grille, 18 W. Union St. Tickets are $5 in advance, $6 at the door.
	thepost.baker.ohiou.edu /archives2/092499/901.html (492 words)

	Royal Trux interview: Glimmer Twin Infinitives
		Only in the case of Royal Trux you have the junkie-goddess (now clean) known as Jennifer Herrema prowling the stage with Jagger-like cockiness and her partner Neil Haggerty grinding raunchy guitar riffs from Sticky Fingers-era Stones.
		PSF: Neil was in Pussy Galore prior to Royal Trux.
		Royal Trux was his "thing." He considered Pussy Galore his National Service.
	www.furious.com /perfect/royaltrux.html (2388 words)

	PAST ARCHIVES Royal Trux
		Royal Trux are a New York boy/girl duo, augmented by whoever seems to be around at the time, and this is their fifth album, reputedly their most commercial.
		Virgin paid the Trux $1.3 million to never darken their doors again, which the band invested in a home studio and a green Jaguar.
		It retains the Trux's convention of operating on the precipice of complete collapse, full of rowdy, unkempt rock ahn rahl that owes as much to stadium-hogging mega-Americana like Black Oak Arkansas and Grand Funk Railroad as it does to more obvious antecedents such as "Exile On Main St" and The Cramps.
	www.pastarchives.co.uk /royal.html (1388 words)

	Royal Trux: Hand of Glory: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Royal Trux's 1990 four-song album Twin Infinitives holds an odd position in the canon of drug music.
		Now that Royal Trux's new joint, Hand of Glory-- really a "lost album" from the late 80s-- has hit the shelves, our chance to sit down and seriously inhale some fresh slowness is upon us.
		Trux's article from 1989 stands as a testament to the flexibility of the track.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/r/royal-trux/hand-of-glory.shtml (573 words)

	73 YEARS OF ROYAL TRUX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Neil was in a band before Royal Trux, and on that band's last LP, he sang (on a track called "Revolution Summer'') the words "Nostalgia is a terrible thing." Neil refuses to discuss that band now; he's put it behind him.
		Accelerator is Royal Trux's seventh LP and it's as impossibly great as any of their past triumphs.
		Trux manages to convey a general impression of a decade of sound without ever sounding like a retro outfit.
	envy13.com /archives/reviews/2002/01/09/73_years_of_royal_trux.html (2576 words)

	3 Oct 98 - ROYAL TRUX: ACCELERATOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The last song, "Stevie", is an untidy exercise in mild white funk that surprises by not being in the least bit deviant, finishing, as it does, on a perfectly conventional extended guitar break.
		In between these songs Royal Trux touch base with most of the significant movements in U.S. rock since Les Paul freed everything up with one of those once in a lifetime nifty ideas.
		Royal Trux claim their influence comes primarily from television and I suppose 'Juicy Juicy Juice' might be the paean to good living that crops up every so often on a show like Sesame Street but this episode has a cadre of subversive music terrorists running amok, holding Mr.
	www.zeitgeist-ireland.com /reviews/archive/981003_006.phtml (208 words)

	Royal Trux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It's taken more than a decade, but Royal Trux have finally gotten around to writing a couple of songs.
		This one opens with precisely the kind of cheap thrills for which Royal Trux have always seemingly considered themselves too (un)refined.
		Truth be told, though, neither Spencer nor Royal Trux have been the axis for blues punk in quite some time.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/09/09/ROYAL_TRUX.html (666 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Radio & Music > Royal Trux: dirty, like that bastard
		I think that the Trux are very much a 'headphones' kind of band, and the studio is a big part of their craft.
		When I first heard Royal Trux, I was under the impression that they were just this scuzzy druggy bar band, but that's only one facet of their sound.
		After ingesting everything Royal Trux that I could get my hands on for months on end and, ultimately, growing to love them very much, I have to say that the RTX album seems like a natural progression, at least on the Herrema side of the equation.
	www.barbelith.com /topic.php?id=12200 (1646 words)

	Royal Trux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sweet Sixteen (Virgin), the sixth album from Royal Trux, easily answers the question "How much is too much?" The answer: "This much." Sweet Sixteen showcases Royal Trux's hallmark fascination with glam, '70s RandB, and raw-boned blues, but unlike 1995's wonderful, regally excessive Thank You, it doesn't have any spring in its step.
		Thank You was Royal Trux's first release on a major label (the band released their first EP in 1988), and though some fans -- predictably -- called it a sellout, the complete, crisp vision behind its lankiness was nothing short of impressive.
		Of course, there are lots of rock--and-rollers who aren't "giving" performers; they spread their egos for all to see, they don't pander, they want to make it clear they don't want you to love them.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/02-27-97/ROYAL_TRUX.html (679 words)

	newtimesbpb.com \| \| Short Cuts \| Royal Trux \| 2000-07-20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Royal Trux struggles with a rep as clumsy, junkie noise merchants, developed during its early days a decade ago.
		But forget that, because Royal Trux's wide world of sound is so much grander than Spencer's jokey formula-mongering with his Blues Explosion.
		Trux regularly makes the sort of rock-myth records the Rolling Stones would be making if their passion, skill, and sense of form hadn't largely abandoned them 20 years ago.
	www.newtimesbpb.com /issues/2000-07-20/shortcuts.html (331 words)

	Royal Trux: Pound For Pound ---Ink Blot Magazine
		Royal Trux was their first album in 1988, followed by Twin Infinitives in 1990, Untitled in 1992, and Cats and Dogs in 1993.
		Royal Trux are the only band I can think of who've managed to make it big in the indie world by playing exclusively '70s classic rock.
		Have no fear - Royal Trux are still up to their old trix, singing about "shooting from the pocket" and needle culture.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Royal_Trux_Pound.htm (404 words)

	Royal Trux - Pound for Pound (Drag City)
		Years ago I remember thinking that Royal Trux should really be a super cool band, so I would listen to and even buy their albums as they came out and discover that, no, they weren't as good as you would expect.
		A couple weeks later or so another Royal Trux record would come out, and I'd have the same problem again.
		Then the other day I was being dragged from record store to record store with a friend and feeling quite bored when I saw this new Royal Trux record sitting on a shelf.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/royaltrux.shtml (208 words)

	Music: Royal Trux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Royal Trux ranch house is nestled on four acres of land, housing their own 24-track recording studio.
		Royal Trux never did anything to hide their love of drugs.
		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)

	Royal Trux draws inspiration from Stones, blues rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Instead, Royal Trux is content to wallow in its own murky glory, and on Thank You, the band lovingly executes its blues-rock riffs and, at the same time, isn't afraid to display its musical influences in its own songs.
		Some may find Royal Trux a bit grating and discomforting, but that may be part of the band's goal.
		For those seeking any signs of life from the indie-rock scene, Royal Trux and their contemporaries offer a proud, unposed, and straightforward product that won't disappoint.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V115/N12/trux.12a.html (601 words)

	VH1.com : Royal Trux : Biography
		Jon Spencer's blues deconstruction unit, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion; the second was Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema's dissonant junkie nightmare known as Royal Trux.
		Early Royal Trux records (two self-titled records and Twin Infinitives) are, to say the least, extreme.
		While purists were hissing sellout (as they always do), Royal Trux hooked up with Neil Young-producer David Briggs and cut Thank You, a great, greasy glob of lo-fi rock fueled by cigarettes and junk food.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/royal_trux/bio.jhtml (517 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Royal Trux
		Whether Royal Trux is an elaborate joke or an art-brut monument is in the ear of the beholder.
		Although the band's new course can be stultifying (the repetitious "Ray O Vac" is one exercise in self-flagellation that doesn't bear waiting out), Royal Trux has carved a profoundly gritty niche on whatever planet it is they're transmitting from.
		The last three tracks resurrect the ghost of Royal Trux past and send it in new directions, relying on sound collage and kitchen-sink musical flourishes (a “snake charmer” and wood flute on “Coming Out Party”).
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=royal_trux (1185 words)

	Fluxblog Is Not Essing Around (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A part of the reason why I'm posting these Royal Trux songs is in reaction to The Kills.
		Trux Lite!" That's sort of unfair, I know - The Kills actually sound a lot more like a bizarre hybrid of late 80s LA pop metal and late period Velvet Underground, and the Trux resemblence is fairly superficial.
		The Trux have an originality of sound and persona that I don't think anyone could ever ape, so it would be sort of miraculous if there ever were actual Royal Trux soundalike bands out there.
	newflux.blogspot.com /2003_03_24_newflux_archive.html (361 words)

	Royal Trux interviews, articles and reviews from Rock’s Backpages
		ROYAL TRUX is as much a rock’n roll fairy tale as a musical ethos, a terribly incomplete story without the first chapter.
		Chicago’s infamous Royal Trux have finally made the major-label album of "low-down Sticky-Fingered raunch ‘n’ roll" they’ve always threatened to.
		Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema, the "Glimmer Twins" of Royal Trux, have packed a lot of living into the past decade – including heroin abuse and...
	www.rocksbackpages.com /artist.html?ArtistID=royaltrux (119 words)

	Supersphere: Chicago - Minneapolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This record sort of has the feel of a Royal Trux "spring cleaning", with so many elements from albums past thrown to the side as well as picked up, dusted off and used again, and sounding better then ever before.
		This is like the Royal Trux that Royal Trux has always wanted to be -- a tight knit, rock 'n' roll band, kicking out jams and blasting out crash and bang songs that reek of catchy, noisy, trashy, world-weary skill.
		They're simply Royal Trux at the high point in their historic, stoic, strange, loud, lying, ramshackle, rude careers.
	www.supersphere.com /MediaMix/Reviews.html?NAME=royaltrux (585 words)

	Browse by Artist: ROYAL TRUX
		From back in the day when it seemed like Royal Trux had something to do with the future of the universe.
		Freshly clipped guitar riffs, beats with bounce, the odd keyboards, roadhouse choirs of backing vocalists, and their twinned lead voices are the weapons of choice this time.
		Royal Trux seem to be showing us how they got from there to here, and as usual they sum up their history with their blues, their church bells melted into smooth armor, these underwater vocals and just a head shake.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/royal.trux.html (598 words)

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		Unwrappin’ a Royal Trux record is like gettin’ an anonymous package in the mail; ya never know what yer gonna get.
		What makes the whole Trux thang fun is, by comparison, everything else close (Jon Spencer, the Delta 72, Silver Jews, mebbe even White Hassle (still fun) or Beck (not so fun)) seems relentlessly frigid and formalistic.
		Sure, ya can go one better and accuse Royal Trux of bein’ parodies themselves (or parodies of themselves, depends on yer point of view), ya know, hipsters in old metal Tees ransackin’ yard sale LPs and passin’ Black Oak Arkansas rip-offs as art rock.
	www.lollipop.com /archive_temp.php3?content=issue53/53-04b-18.html (320 words)

	Music: One Less Virgin (Newcity Chicago . 10-12-98)
		The Trux are the victims, as well as the victors, of a situation that's common in this age of corporate music fortresses.
		The Trux recorded two full-lengths, "Thank You" and "Sweet 16," but before the third even went to the studio, the Trux were out of the contract and 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.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-12-98/chicago_raw.html (473 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Rhythm & Views (June 22 - June 28, 2000)
		Royal Trux, are the epitome of postmodern rock-n-roll.
		Many have tried to de/reconstruct the rock and roll idiom, but in terms of genres tackled, I'm convinced Royal Trux has simply built a better mousetrap.
		Radio finds the Trux incorporating layers of effects and drum loops into the guitar noodling of Hagerty and the repetitive scratch of Herrema.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2000-06-22/qscans.html (166 words)

	Album Review: Royal Trux - Veterans Of Disorder
		I had a slight disagreement with my very good friend Snitcher just last week regarding the uncoolness of couples in bands, the kind of ugh-factor that comes to a person's stomach (well mine anyway) when you think of the tweeness of it.
		I reckoned this was the case, he argued that so long as the music was good it didn't matter.
		If he'd have added the words "Royal" and "Trux" to his argument I would have had to shut my mouth immediately.
	www.alternativecuts.co.uk /rec_royaltrux_vod.htm (414 words)

	Ink 19 :: Royal Trux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		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.
		Trux has carved out a singular niche for themselves over the years - in large part because they are so damn compelling.
	www.ink19.com /issues/august2000/wetInk/musicRS/royalTrux.html (284 words)

	Pound for Pound - Royal Trux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		How can you not dig lyrics from her like "When I was 12 and my and my *** was up for grabs, those kids at school had bedroom religions such as me, something was wrong with them, how do you get any of whats going on..they just genuflect and choke it back...".
		Royal Trux CAN play and do it well.lt;pgt;Reason I have to bring up The White Stripes (not that I really dislike them) is the fact they are attempting EXACTLY what Royal Trux have been doing since the 80s without the intensity/musicianship/song writing/passion of team Neil/Jennifer.lt;pgt;This new "garage punk revival" is a joke.
		Basically Royal Trux are the musical equivalent of a party that has run amok.
	www.rapmusicville.com /Pound_for_Pound_B00004THKQ.html (485 words)

	Ink 19 :: Royal Trux
		Veterans of disorder may apply to Royal Trux, but Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty seemed at-ease, well-adjusted, charming, focused and relatively healthy performing before a packed Cooler in NYC.
		Spillout into the bar was inevitable, where thankfully, the somewhat muddy sound mix in the main room was given space to dissipate, and so the bass/percussion-heavy rock songs were revived by clearer fuzzy guitar and the dual vocal stylings of Jennifer and Neil.
		The Royal Trux discography stretches far back, but the Sweet Sixteen cut "Morphic Resident" was one of the older cuts.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_11/live_ink/029_royal_trux.shtml (282 words)

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