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Also this issue: Replay Summer Monsters The Mountain Goats Gina Scipione Fast Horse Summer Hootenanny |
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July 25-31, 2002
musicpicks
Neil Michael Hagerty
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It wouldn't be hard to hate Neil Michael Hagerty. Lord knows I have. First, he has three names. Then, as the greasier half of Royal Trux's faux-Delta-urban psychedelia, he played John Doe to Jennifer Herrema's Exene. Then he broke that up. Ugh. Then I thought for a second: I like John Doe. Way more than Exene. Plus, his sophomore solo Plays That Good Old Rock and Roll (Drag City) out-slimes and out snake-boogie sound-collages most of what Royal wrought with a jam-band brio often hidden below lo-fi licentiousness. Mind you, it's not as powerful a musical effort as his eponymous solo. Plus it's really brief. But Good Old's bluntness and trashy, sampled ambience adds to its beat boogaloo while complementing Hagerty's surprisingly lovely soul-falsetto. It's a haunted harmony-filled (fuck you, Jen!) Southern-gothic sound in league with the very best of the Stones' '70s greats or The Cramps' ookiest fright fests.
Fri., July 26, 10 p.m., $8, with Hector Boyd of London, The North Star, 27th and Poplar sts., 215-922-LIVE.
