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(Bothering) Interview Week: Jennifer Herrema and the continuing adventures of the Rad Times Xpress

5267 days ago
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

Lantern :: Burned Youth (Cassette)

5336 days ago
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

Progress Report: Jennifer Herrema

5382 days ago
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

Black Bananas – “TV Trouble” Video

5384 days ago
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

RTX are now Black Bananas, releasing LP, touring w/ Sleigh Bells (dates & MP3)

5408 days ago
Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG DOWNLOAD: Black Bananas - "Rad Times" (MP3) Black Bananas Jennifer Herrema soldiered on with RTX following the demise of Royal Trux on 2001. Now RTX has evolved into Black Bananas, who are welcoming their debut LP Rad Times... more info

Singles, Live, UnreleasedRoyal Trux

5440 days ago
Impose Magazine — When they 'formed' Royal Trux in 1985 Neil Hagerty (previously of Pussy Galore) and Jennifer Herrema (who was sixteen at the time, and later became the original Calvin Klein heroin chic model of the 1990s) appeared to be a mystical musical marriage, ... more info

(Say Hello) RTX becomes Black Bananas

5460 days ago
Impose Magazine — Royal Trux or RTX are not splitting up. Everybody got to keep their job, but one listen to "Rad Times" confirms the band had little choice in giving its new sound a new moniker. Even though we think Black Bananas would be better suited as a seminal s... more info

(Brooklyn Hater) Circle Pit, Motherfucker

5708 days ago
Impose Magazine — Before I even got to listen to the music, Australian duo Circle Pit impressed me for three reasons: 1. They look like their lives are totally fucked, and making this music is really the only thing keeping them from cleaning up their acts. I'm going t... more info

The Kills at SXSW 2011 - review

5718 days ago
Guardian Music — The Kills leave the crowd at SXSW wanting more by only playing new material and shunning their normal onstage shenanigansThe Kills are sometimes dismissed for having delusions of rock'n'roll grandeur. Sometimes they're dismissed for a lack of origina... more info

Royal Trux - Reissues

5786 days ago
DrownedInSound — Royal Trux's legend hardly required them to produce any actual product, but somehow the records kept rolling out, and Domino has just had the decency to reissue the first four, without extras or explanation, a decade after the pair went their separat... more info

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