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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Album / Upcoming Back for the Attack with Black Bananas

Posted by on Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:37 PM

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  • Drag City

"End loafs of bread, black bananas, and broken crackers." —RTX, "Black Bananas"

After releasing three raucous records as RTX, Jennifer Herrema has changed their name to Black Bananas. In September, Dave Segal described RTX as "less arty and subversive" than Royal Trux, her previous combo with Neil Hagerty.

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  • Drag City

Near as I can tell, there isn't much difference between RTX and Black Bananas, which features the same players (Brian Mckinley, Kurt Midness, Jaimo Welch, and Nadav Eisenman). Since RTX has been touring with Kurt Vile as of late, it only makes sense that he would appear on their first single, a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Before They Make Me Run."* RTX video for "Black Bananas" below.

Over the years, Herrema has also modeled for Calvin Klein, interviewed Keith Richards, and designed denim. Love it or loathe it: the lady has a style. About her layers of fur, flannel, and leather, Herrema told Vice, "When I get on stage and start to sweat it feels good, like my skin is all soft. I like to sweat my ass off every night. If I don’t sweat when we’re playing I don’t feel like I’m doing my job."

* In 1986, Pussy Galore, which featured Hagerty, covered the entirety of Exile on Main Street.

Drag City releases Rad Times Xpress IV on 1/31/12.

 

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I cant F***in wait!!!!!!!! BTW the black bananas video above is the band RTX...Black Bananas (the band) has a new video on their new web site blackbananasband. I'm not sure what is so difficult to understand about the difference. RTX nor Black Bananas have anything to do with bell bottoms or ZZ Top. Amazing how wrong writers are!! You should just ask their fans..they would laugh at you.
Posted by jackson brown on November 4, 2011 at 8:07 AM
Grant Brissey, Emeritus 2
Hey genius—she put the RTX vid up because that's where they got the name, and she even says it's a RTX video, had you bothered to read. She also put a link to Black Bananas' cover of the Stones' "Before They Make Me Run." In short, shut it.
Posted by Grant Brissey, Emeritus http://www.grantropolis.com/ on November 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Kathy Fennessy 3
@1 I aim to amuse. @2 Thanks!
Posted by Kathy Fennessy http://kathleencfennessy.blogspot.com/ on November 4, 2011 at 11:40 AM

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