(Say Hello) RTX becomes Black Bananas

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 speed-punk band name, Jennifer Hermena and the gang saw it as an 80s mash-up of bassy gogo and arena-built hair metal. The single "Rad Times" rides an audacious cool that challenges Ariel Pink's crown of questionable taste. Bl...

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