From the RTX camp:
Depending on where in time you are, RTX are gearing up or are already out there, rocking the world one town at a time on the Western Xterminator Tour 2007! This is really only the second-ever US tour for RTX, but the first time around for the rock-solid new lineup that holds forth on Western Xterminator. Backing the always-unbelievable Jennifer Herrema all the way are Brian McKinley, Kurt Midness and Jaimo Welch. Go for the show and stop by the merch table to see what craziness Nadav’s got for you this time around — skull rings, hoodies, wife-beaters — the sky’s the limit for RTX, on-stage and off!

From the Howling Hex camp:
"Call it what you will – XI, Monster-Bird, Outta Focus – but don’t you dare call it dull. The excitement quotient ratchets up on a song-by-song basis on their new album, courtesy of a Howling Hex band that drew it all together in the weeks leading up to the recording. Of course, they were on the road when they wrote it – and road time is unlike the time the rest of us experience, stretching with a timeless elasticity that makes one doubt resident spatial laws... ah, but it’s not for us to understand. They made the album, we just listen. And with XI/Monster Bird/Outta Focus, we’re listening to a rush of bracing rock and roll, delivered punk style, pop style, prog style.. and the hits keep on coming. Concert Master Neil Michael Hagerty gave his band the short leashes required to create such taut works of music and then stood with them and delivered. It’s out there now, go check into it."