Royal Trux

Among the artists playing this year: Thee Oh Sees, Austra, Weyes Blood, Ja Som, The Besnard Lakes, Royal Trux, RZA, Swet Shop Boys, Hurray for the RIff Raff, The Dears (performing No Cities Left in full), Elza Soares, Jessy Lanza, Mount Eerie, Public Service Broadcasting, Lady Miss Kier, the return of Think About Life, and more.

‘Platinum Tips and Ice Cream’ will be out June 16 via Drag City

It’ll be RTX’s first since the early ’00s and, in true Trux fashion, they made it in two days (one in each city), “live and unrehearsed.”

This update features some of the biggest names yet, including New Pornographers, Future Islands, Wu Tang Clan, Grandaddy, Joey Bada$$, Polica, Sylvan Esso, Royal Trux, Weezer, and Julie Byrne.

Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema are coming to Austin together.

“It was hard to come up with something positive from 2016 to turn into a list, but a Top Ten of what I love about Royal Trux seems topical enough.” – Jeffrey Novak

“This is the music I listened to whilst walking around San Fransisco on Thanksgiving, the music I heard in my head, and also some of the tunes various people were listening to on the streets that I ‘Shazammed’.” – Alexis Taylor

One of the most consistently awesome music festivals in the world, Primavera Sound happens every spring in Barcelona and they just announced the unsurprisingly killer 2017 lineup, including Arcade Fire, Frank Ocean, Bon Iver, The xx, Aphex Twin, Grace Jones, Slayer, Solange, Van Morrisson and tons more. We were so excited we decided to dedicated […]

The STACKED Barcelona festival also has Solange, Van Morrison, Run the Jewels, Miguel, Flying Lotus, The Magnetic Fields, Death Grips, Descendents, Angel Olsen, Broken Social Scene, Japandroids, Swans & still so much more.

While he’s been getting more attention with the Royal Trux reunion shows, Neil Michael Hagerty continues to make music on his own, having released Denver this spring…