Royal Trux
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Royal Trux: Royal Trux (Royal)
Review by Byron Coley, Forced Exposure, Summer 1989
…IT WAS my (apparently erroneous) belief that Jon & Julia were the primary form-disrupters in Pussy Galore. ...
Very Sad Trouser Twins: Royal Trux
Profile and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, June 1993
NEIL HAGERTY AND Jennifer Herrema are a tightly-tied 20th century Hansel and Gretel that the candy path led too far into the dark forest. Parts ...
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, August 1993
ROYAL TRUX is as much a rock’n roll fairy tale as a musical ethos, a terribly incomplete story without the first chapter. This inspirational ...
Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 29 January 1994
In 1990, ROYAL TRUX released Twin Infinitives, a double album once described as one of the 'most hallucinatory avant-rock sprawls ever'. Then they got even ...
Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives (Domino/CD only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 5 February 1994
"NOW THAT I can get outside of myself, I can see how that record has something that might not catch on immediately," admitted Royal Trux's ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, MOJO, March 1995
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. Does the big time beckon? ...
Royal Trux: It's All Chauffeur Now
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 3 June 1995
They're the most notorious rock band on the planet. They're wilder than a starving lion. So how come ROYAL TRUX are afraid of pre-teen Washington ...
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Melody Maker, 23 May 1998
TONIGHT, EVERYONE wants to be a cowboy, a hustler, a rock'n'roll star. There's an accentuated swagger to the crowd; drinks are ordered and ferried with ...
Royal Trux: Veterans of Disorder
Review by Andria Lisle, Ray Gun, October 1999
Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema, the "Glimmer Twins" of Royal Trux, have packed a lot of living into the past decade – including heroin abuse ...
Royal Trux: Flapper & Firkin, Birmingham
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 1 December 1999
F***, F***, f***, f***. Try and get hold of the feeling, try and lash it down in blood and spunk just why this did what ...
Bang, Crash Brilliance: Royal Trux: Scala, London
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 18 December 1999
ROYAL TRUX don't give a damn and don't care who knows it. ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2000
Pound for pound, the trailer park noise symphonies of Royal Trux out-weird everything this side of Ornette Coleman and The Grateful Dead. Edwin Pouncey travels ...
Royal Trux: Accelerator Re-issue (Domino)
Review by Kate Allen, idolmag.co.uk, November 2012
The next in a long line of re-issues from the back catalogue of Chicago grimy rock duo Royal Trux, 1998's Accelerator is back in print ...
Veterans Of Disorder: Royal Trux Interviewed
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 22 November 2012
With their formative album Accelerator recently reissued, Neil Kulkarni asks Jennifer Herrema to look back over the noise-rock duo's career, taking in junkiedom, spectrum analysers ...
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