Click your fingers applauding RTX

PHOTO by SASHA EISENMAN
RTX is 20 fully-stocked Guitar Centers descending in full flight on Roky Erickson—Sunset Strip shred-rock with camouflaged alien complexities within, led and fed by singer Jennifer Herrema, ex of Royal Trux and an unreconstructed original-source rocker to rival Hasil Adkins. (“Jennifer,” says bassist Kurt Midness, “tends to throw [...]

Seven bands five years ahead of my time

RTX by SASHA EISENMAN
Fifty-some weeks on this page and apart from abuse and hurtful misconception—I try to tip well whenever possible—I have also missed a lot of chances I should have gotten; deadlines and one page a week mean many musicians don’t always get a place to fit [...]