Brooklyn Vegan — by Ian Chainey What would happen if you played Royal Trux, Wolf Eyes, AIDS Wolf, and Formant at the same time? Well, something that will probably get you booted from your apartment complex, but if you guessed Dan'l Boone you're... more info

Pitchfork - Album Reviews — Carmen Villain's first single, "Lifeissin", was a placid ballad with something dark and evasive at its core: Over a faint glimmer of guitar, Villain murmured sour nothings about closing the blinds, going to hell, living in fear. Even the song's run-t... more info

DrownedInSound — Accelerator’s savage vitality hasn’t diminished one iota in the intervening decade-and-a-half: quite what point it’s ultimately trying to make remains typically elusive, but you get the sense that it’s somehow been proved right in the long-ru... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Royal Trux's 'Twin Infinitives' Do you ever hear your influence on new bands? Do you often hear something and say, "Oh!" Yeah, I have. And people from other bands have told me that. But I think it's more signifiers than... more info

Guardian Music — Band's website crashes as fans rush to hear new material from a group who make the Stone Roses look like Billy ChildishThe Avalanches have released their first original song in a decade. A Cowboy Overflow of the Heart is a spoken-word demo featuring ... more info

Guardian Music — Readers make their case for their favourite fancy fretworkEarlier this week we asked readers to nominate their favourite guitar solos.The response has been astonishing. Here's a brief selection of the emails we received – and, given we didn't want ... more info

Impose Magazine — Jennifer Herrema warped your world with Royal Trux, Gap's golden model gal, RTX's front running front woman and has now changed the band's name to Black Bananas with the most triumphant Rad Times Xpress IV out now on Drag City. We caught ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Alright, enough of the pretty. Switching gears, this has been scratching that Royal Trux itch of late – say, if paired with Spacemen 3′s Forged Prescriptions and the Velvet Underground’s ’67 Gymnasium bootleg. The three tracks below hail from... more info

Stereogum — Name: Black Bananas Progress Report: Jennifer Herrema talks about her new project, Black Bananas, and all kinds of other rad shit. There are few humans that embody the notion of “bad ass” quite as thoroughly as Jennifer Herrema. As one half of Ro... more info

Stereogum — The former Royal Trux member Jennifer Herrema now leads the trash-rock band Black Bananas. In their new “TV Trouble” video, she and her homies sit around watching TV Carnage-style montages of trash television while looking extremely stoned. There... more info