The former Royal Trux member Jennifer Herrema now leads the trash-rock band Black Bananas. In their new “TV Trouble” video, she and her homies sit around watching TV Carnage-style montages of trash television while looking extremely stoned. There are also a whole bunch of scenes where a caveman wears bloody underpants on his head and jerks off with raw chicken juice, so I’m going to go ahead and call this one NSFW even if you don’t see any actual caveman schlong. Don’t make my mistake and watch this one while eating. Daniel Perez directs. It’s below.

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When the Walkmen stopped by Daytrotter recently, they decided to make it Neil Hagerty tribute day, covering “Yellow Kid” from Royal Trux’s 1998 album Accelerator along with Neil Michael Hagerty‘s “Chicken, You Can Roost On The Moon” and “Greasy Saint” and “I’m Your Son,” both from 2003′s Neil Michael Hagerty & the Howling Hex. I’m a longtime Hagerty fan, solo material and all, but have always especially dug (and still dig) the dirty blues and psychedelic barroom squalls of Royal Trux, his project with Jennifer Herrema. My personal favorite is 1990′s Twin Infinitives because it found me at the right time and appealed to the free-noise part of my brain, but you’d do well to take the Walkmen’s advice and search out the later, more reigned-in Cats And Dogs. Before you listen to Ham & Co. give it a go, it’s interesting to read their thoughts behind Hagerty and the covers:

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Truth be known, one of us swore by Royal Trux in his younger days, going as far as sporting a Thank You sticker on his guitar. Twin Infinitives and Cats And Dogs anyone? They were the sleazy, noisy, bluesy, real-deal shit that went to darker, more buzzed places than their straight-and-narrow indie brethren. That said, after Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema went separate ways — he to a solo career under his given name and the Howling Hex, she to art, modeling, jewelry-making, writing, etc., and RTX — the old magic wasn’t entirely there, despite the strength of any given individual release. But hey, behold the weird energy conjured in the sunspotted Sasha Eisenman-directed surfing safari video for “Knightmare & Mane.” Remember that disconnected junkie thing? Let’s pitch it against a psychedelic beach ramble: We get to see an oceanside blonde-on-Slash-y guitar moment, a dude riding waves with a cat mask, and Jennifer toking in the sand.

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