Concert Preview: RTX, Totimoshi and Dirty Faces @ 31st Street Pub Saturday May 12th
Jennifer Herrema,
formerly one half of Royal Trux, an offspring of Jon Spencer's Pussy Galore,
leads RTX to the 31st
Street Pub in the Strip on Saturday May 12th. The band's second album, Western
Xterminator, has been compared to Too Fast For Love era Motley Crue (minus Tommy's
cowbell) and The Ramones and Stooges. Aaron Jentzen from the Pittsburgh City
Paper had an opportunity to interview
Jennifer Herrema for the May 9th issue.
Totimoshi are a throwback,
kind of Melvins-esque, sludge rock capable of some pretty intense emotionally
charged sounds. Plenty of classic heavy metal energy, mystery, instrumental
improv, guitar noise and post-punk dynamics that just moves you.
Mike Machosky,
in a review for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, summed up the Dirty
Faces better than I ever could. "They play rock and roll like the Stillers
play football — hard, angry, muddy, with a chip on their shoulder, and
a playbook that has all the unnecessary pages ripped out. It's heavy, but not
really punk, not really metal, and not garage rock in the color-coordinated
matching-suits sense. It's rusty, dirty Pittsburgh rock with bad attitude to
burn." The Dirty Faces also have Pittsburgh dates set for The Brillobox
on May 25th and are back at the Pub for a June 16th show.
DIRTY FACES - BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR
RTX
- BALLS TO PASS
RTX - WESTERN XTERMINATOR VIDEO by Mike Aho
RTX - live @ Safari Sam's on 11/12/06
TOTIMOSHI - CELLOPHANE
