Fellow South Sounders, mark your Blackberries - you're in for a treat Tuesday at Olympia's beloved Brotherhood Lounge. RTX, along with two other awesome bands, are coming to blow minds.
To most, the band RTX means the revival of one-half of the legendary Royal Trux, a band that rode the waves of the ‘90s on a surfboard made of sex, drugs and all things rock ‘n' roll. These days, RTX is still a familiar blistering combination of noise rock, indie hardcore, fuzzy, squealing, sexy riffs and the hot-blooded gritty vocals of front woman Jennifer Herrema ... only cooler.
To Pierce and Thurston counties it means: fuck yeah! We get to witness a sweet piece of in-your-face, badass beauty; we get to scream appreciation until we're hoarse the next day; and we get to reminisce about this show five or ten years down the road, all in fine Northwest fashion.
Having garnered rave reviews from Decibel, Vice, Village Voice and the like, RTX is dotting the coast with a Sonic Youth-y, MC5-ish sound. I bet you a fifth of whiskey if Kurt Cobain was still in Oly you'd see his skinny ass at the front of the crowd for this show, right next to every music-hungry hipster in town.
And it's not just the raw energy that Herrema channels on stage - ripping down walls with her sultry cries. It's the voice of the crowd echoing back the primal connection of blood and booze through every head-bang and fist-pound.
Add, RTX tour mates Heavy Cream (from Nashville Tenn.) will bring all the tricks and kicks only a backwoods punk band with three girls and one dude can. Also on the bill is local indie rockers Morgan and the Organ Donors.
"It's a rare show because all the bands are fronted by women. We're excited to play with them because they all shred," says Morgan and the Organ Donors' guitarist, Wildman James Maeda. "It would be a bummer for anyone to miss this show."
Take Maeda's advice: get down to the Broho and see this show.
[The Brotherhood Lounge, with Heavy Cream, Morgan and the Organ Donors, Tuesday, Sept 6, 9 p.m., $5, 119 Capitol Way N., Olympia, 360.352.4153.]
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low bar said on Sep. 01, 2011 at 9:23pm
"I bet you a fifth of whiskey if Kurt Cobain was still in Oly you'd see his skinny ass at the front of the crowd for this show, right next to every music-hungry hipster in town."
You've lost your mind. That is all.
rok said on Sep. 05, 2011 at 2:25pm
Shit, in my rock daydreams, Kurt married Jennifer Herrema sweetly in Hawaii fifteen years ago, detoxing from peskier habits on pot brownie wedding cake as Courtney's funeral arrangements are being carried out by Geffen Records lackeys...
low bar said on Sep. 06, 2011 at 3:43pm
You're all crazy. Fender selling a Cobain Jaguar for 2k. Crazy people in bands who look like a fucking Urban Outfitter commercial. I saw Herrema's hair style on a bus stop poster. The only real people in Oly are the homeless. "with a Sonic Youth-y, MC5-ish sound." If I want to hear Sonic Youth, I'll listen to Sonic Youth.
Nikki Talotta said on Sep. 06, 2011 at 5:38pm
Oh bitter bar, it must be so lonely in your cynical, jaded little world. What happened? Did you once try to strike an artistic chord, only to be rejected by all the "crazies" in the world? Lunatics who like to have fun and listen to talented, stylish musicians? Nut jobs that can dance to an original sound in the same vein as as a familiar one without a care? I'm sorry, that sounds tragic. Maybe you should come to the show - I'll introduce you to my homeless friend, Jimmy, he'll be there. And I can make you a nice, stiff drink so you can start to relax, and just maybe, that stick will slide a little out of your ass.
low bar said on Sep. 06, 2011 at 11:01pm
nope nikki i never stooped as low as to join a band or whatever. because as groucho marx would say, i don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. you can give my drink to jimmy. everything was cool till you made me think about herrema's rock star hair and cobain being in the same room. what a fucking gaffe nikki, seriously. rock shows like these are over. the strokes can fuck off too. drama queen rock.
low bar said on Sep. 06, 2011 at 11:04pm
honestly? who is fucking up the code here? that fucking electric bull that was in the vault has led to some serious bullshit happening downtown, and although the black cowboy in there running the thing was rad, its no excuse for the commenting order on this thread to be fubar as well. get it together volcan'to.
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