Jennifer Herrema is an American rock music singer, song writer, record producer, artist, and model best known for her work as one half of the influential rock band Royal Trux

Royal Trux

Royal Trux was an American alternative rock band from 1987 to 2001, founded by Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema .-History:...

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Biography

Herrema started the Royal Trux "band" at the age of 16 with partner Neil Hagerty

Neil Hagerty

Neil Michael Hagerty is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. He is best known for his work in Royal Trux. Hagerty released several solo albums since Royal Trux's demise in 2001, followed by recordings under the moniker The Howling Hex...

. She has produced and mixed many records under the name Adam & Eve

Adam & Eve

Adam & Eve was the name of a major international exhibition of contemporary art held at the Saitama Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan , Saitama, JapanOctober 10 1992 - December 6 1992...

 including such artists as The Make-Up, Palace Brothers, Brother JT, Edith Frost

Edith Frost

Edith Frost is an American singer-songwriter who describes her music as "pensive countrified psychedelia". Born in San Antonio, Texas on August 18, 1964, Frost moved to Brooklyn in 1990 where she played in the country bands the Holler Sisters, the Marfa Lights and Edith and Her Roadhouse Romeos...

, The Delta 72

The Delta 72

The Delta 72 were an American alternative music band formed in Washington, DC in the summer of 1994, later relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

, Woodbine, V-Twin

V-twin

A V-twin engine is a two-cylinder internal combustion engine where the cylinders are arranged in a V configuration.- Crankshaft configuration :Most V-twin engines have a single crankpin, which is shared by both connecting rods...

, The Kills

The Kills

The Kills is a rock band formed by American singer Alison Mosshart and British guitarist Jamie Hince . Their first three albums, Keep On Your Mean Side, No Wow, and Midnight Boom, have garnered much critical praise...

, Ping Pong Bitches

Ping Pong Bitches

The Ping Pong Bitches is an all girl electroclash band from England, who formed in 2000. Fronted by three rather risque members , they released their self-titled debut EP in 2000 on Alan McGee's Poptones label...

, Delakota

Delakota

Delakota were an English indie dance band from the late 1990s. The band mixed elements of Baggy, retro rock music, indie pop and modern dance music to produce a sound which was often compared to Primal Scream....

, The Chicks, and Bad Wizard. Herrema has written articles for many publications including Vice Magazinehttp://www.ecampus.com/book/0446692816, RayGun, and Dazed & Confused

Dazed & Confused (magazine)

Dazed & Confused is a British style magazine, that was set up in 1992 and published monthly. Its founding editors were Jefferson Hack and Rankin...

 and has conducted interviews with Keith Richards

Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...

 and John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...

 for publication. Her artwork has appeared in gallery exhibitions including "Violence the true way" at the Peter Kilchmann Gallery in Zurich, "Red White Blue" at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery NYC, the Sanrio

Sanrio

is a Japanese company that designs, licenses and produces products focusing on the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture. Their products include stationery, school supplies, gifts and accessories that are sold worldwide and at specialty brand retail stores in Japan...

-sponsored "KITTY EX." traveling exhibition throughout Japan, and a collaborative effort with Rachel Mason at the TRUDI gallery in Los Angeles. She was the original "heroin chic" poster girl as interpreted by photographer Steven Meisel

Steven Meisel

Steven Meisel is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book Sex...

 for Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein

Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....

 print ads and TV commercials. She has also appeared in ad campaigns for Hysteric Glamour

Hysteric glamour

Hysteric Glamour is a Japanese designer label created by artist Nobuhiko Kitamura in 1984. The theme of the label is 1960s mass media, with T-shirts featuring pictures of famous musicians like Marc Bolan and the Sex Pistols, and art work by Andy Warhol. Other themes include comics, pornography,...

, H & M, and Henry Duarte as well as appearing in the independent film "Southlander".

Herrema and past partner Hagerty were instrumental in starting the independent record labels Drag City

Drag City (record label)

Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

 and Domino Records. She has 20 record releases and has played and recorded with many musicians since 1989 including Jon Theodore

Jon Theodore

Jon Philip Theodore is a drummer, formerly a member of The Mars Volta. He has become best known for his explosive, multi-textural and dynamic playing style.-History:...

, David Pajo

David Pajo

David Pajo is an American alternative rock musician. He has played a wide variety of music, loosely fitting into several other genres: hardcore, math-rock, post-rock, electronica, folk and indie-pop...

, Chris Pyle, Artimus Pyle

Artimus Pyle

Thomas Delmer "Artimus" Pyle is an American musician best known for playing drums with Lynyrd Skynyrd, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.-Early life and career:...

, Alan Licht

Alan Licht

Alan Licht is an American guitarist and composer, whose work combines elements of pop, noise, free jazz and minimalism. He is also a writer and journalist.-Biography:Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968...

, Alex Minoff

Alex Minoff

Alex Minoff is an American musician from Pennsylvania who is known for his work with the groups Golden, Weird War, and Extra Golden.Though coming from an independent rock 'n' roll tradition, Minoff plays Kenyan Benga music in Extra Golden, which also includes a drummer and singer-guitarist from...

, Mike Fellows

Mike Fellows

Mike Fellows AKA Miighty Flashlight is an American musician who has performed and recorded with a variety of groups and artists since the early 1980s...

, Chris Bald, Paz Lenchantin

Paz Lenchantin

Paz Lenchantin is an American musician of French ancestry. She came to Los Angeles, California with her family at the age of four....

 and MGMT

MGMT

MGMT is an American alternative rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. After the release of their first album, the members of their live band, Matthew Asti, James Richardson and Will Berman, joined the core band in the studio...

. Presently Jennifer Herrema heads a band called RTX which includes Nadav Eisenman, Kurt Midness, Brian Mckinley, and Jaimo Welch.

Royal Trux

Herrema has explained the reason for the breakup of the band and cancelling the Pound For Pound tour as such, "[w]e went out on tour for that, made it to Pittsburgh and... I was really fucked up. Two days before we left I was told my dad was gonna die and I didn't handle it well. I freaked out. Then when we got to Pittsburgh I checked myself into the hospital in this ruse to get painkillers. That was the end of that, I was in full "getting fucked up mode" again. Neil and I talked about it and I said, "I can't do this." It was like an out of body experience. I was so sad. I was drinking and it wasn't like having a party, I was just so sad. We made the record and I had been talking to him about personally taking time off, separating and having time away from each other. Everything came to a head. I think I just basically threw the table upside down and crashed the whole thing."

RTX

Herrema's new band called RTX has finished an album and will be releasing the record in the coming months, "[t]he new album is in a holding pattern for a few months. It's done, but I have to finalize some mixes and a few overdubs. It was supposed to come out this fall but I've decided to do it in the spring. I don't wanna rush it. I've been really busy and wanted a break. I think we're gonna call it Rad Times Four."