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RTX and front woman Jennifer Herrema descend on Olympia

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Fellow South Sounders, mark your Blackberries - you're in for a treat Tuesday at Olympia's beloved Brotherhood Lounge. RTX, along with two other awesome bands, are coming to blow minds.

To most, the band RTX means the revival of one-half of the legendary Royal Trux, a band that rode the waves of the ‘90s on a surfboard made of sex, drugs and all things rock ‘n' roll. These days, RTX is still a familiar blistering combination of noise rock, indie hardcore, fuzzy, squealing, sexy riffs and the hot-blooded gritty vocals of front woman Jennifer Herrema ... only cooler.

To Pierce and Thurston counties it means: fuck yeah! We get to witness a sweet piece of in-your-face, badass beauty; we get to scream appreciation until we're hoarse the next day; and we get to reminisce about this show five or ten years down the road, all in fine Northwest fashion.

Having garnered rave reviews from Decibel, Vice, Village Voice and the like, RTX is dotting the coast with a Sonic Youth-y, MC5-ish sound. I bet you a fifth of whiskey if Kurt Cobain was still in Oly you'd see his skinny ass at the front of the crowd for this show, right next to every music-hungry hipster in town.

And it's not just the raw energy that Herrema channels on stage - ripping down walls with her sultry cries. It's the voice of the crowd echoing back the primal connection of blood and booze through every head-bang and fist-pound.

Add, RTX tour mates Heavy Cream (from Nashville Tenn.) will bring all the tricks and kicks only a backwoods punk band with three girls and one dude can. Also on the bill is local indie rockers Morgan and the Organ Donors.

"It's a rare show because all the bands are fronted by women. We're excited to play with them because they all shred," says Morgan and the Organ Donors' guitarist, Wildman James Maeda. "It would be a bummer for anyone to miss this show."

Take Maeda's advice: get down to the Broho and see this show.

[The Brotherhood Lounge, with Heavy Cream, Morgan and the Organ Donors, Tuesday, Sept 6, 9 p.m., $5, 119 Capitol Way N., Olympia, 360.352.4153.]

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