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About Me

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Nominated for BEST LIVE ACT OF THE YEAR by: Is This Music Magazine, The Indy Music Awards 2008, and Maps Magazine
"Thomas Truax (pronounced troo-aks) is a feisty sonic dreamer gadgeteer, songwriter and performer...capable of crafting some very potent songs... poetically evocative and rich with melancholy, both by dint of sounds and the texts."
-David Greenberger, Signal To Noise
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There are lots more Truax videos up on YouTube.com and many here on myspace if you search as well
Three full albums, ’Audio Addiction’, ’Full Moon Over Wowtown’, and ’Why Dogs Howl at the Moon’, and some singles and compilation tracks are out on various labels. Try CDbaby.com or digitally from the Itunes Store

"Thomas Truax is probably one of the five or ten best singer/songwriters in the world that you’ve never heard of. ...an exceptional talent, unique and resistant to comparison, yet fairly accessible even to casual listeners."
-- Jennifer Kelly, SPLENDID magazine

"...not of this earth...I still can’t think of a single show I’ve seen that was as beguiling or as charming or as plain bananas as this one." -AlexKirk, Gigwise.com
"Beguilingly Bizarre" -Uncut
Here’s a link to an Interview
There’s a lot more press, reviews, information, music and interviews at my ’official’ website:
www.thomastruax.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/11/2005
Band Website: thomastruax.com
Influences: ..I think it's the toxins in the water supply...
Sounds Like: ClickKLACK!THUMP!!!ClickKLACK!!-THUMP!!!WrrrAAAANG!, Didleydang!THWAP!..."AAAaaoooOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Thomas Truax is that rare beast - a total one-off." -Martin Lilleker, Sheffield Telegraph
"In Truax’s hands music is merely a vessel for his scattershot imagination, earning him a place in a lineage that includes Captain Beefheart and Viv Stanshall and, latterly, a less-frenetic Liars..." --Alan Downes, LOGO Magazine(review of Full Moon Over Wowtown)
"...It’s a bewildering melange of garage rock songs, avant garde sounds and cabaret showtunes, full of whistles, toy piano, ice cream chimes and invented instruments... with shades of Tom Waits’ storytelling, Nick Cave’s theatricality and Lux Interior’s howling-at-the-moon madness." -Ged M, SoundsXP
"The first track on Audio Addiction reminded us of Frank Zappa and The Residents mixed with Gary Numan. The remaining eleven tracks sounded nothing like any of the three...and left us scratching our heads in confusion. The wildly creative and utterly confrontational Thomas Truax is the kind of artist who makes reviewers climb the walls...as they try to figure out exactly what he is doing and who he actually sounds like. The answers to those questions may well be out of reach, as Truax writes and records music that is not easily described or categorized....just exactly what is Thomas Truax doing on this album...? Hard to say, actually. Like Vivian Stanshall, this man is in a league all his own. Accordingly, Audio Addiction is most certainly headed for cult status... (Rating: 5)" -Babysue Music Review
Record Label: SL Records(UK)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NEW REMIX SINGLE +WOWTOWN RADIO PODCASTS

A newly remixed single version of 'Stranger On A Train' from 'Why Dogs Howl At The Moon' is released this month on SL Records. It features a more psychedelically-tinged treatment and raucous rockabil...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:49:00 PST

NATURE Magazine Feature +Cleveland Film Festival

I'm lucky to have the bandmates I do. Curiously, somehow my motorized Sister Spinster, the metal Hornicator and co. have spun their way into the March 6 issue of this prestigious international journa...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:18:00 PST

Solo Act of the Year 08 Indy Awards +Kruger Magazine Features

Hi! Those of you who are on my email list will have already got this but if not:The INDY MUSIC AWARDS 2008 is another award I've been honored with being nominated for (this time for Best Solo Act of t...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:47:00 PST

Best Live Act of the Year Nomination

Hope everyone is having a good new year so far. There's lots going on in Wowtown, things growing in my laboratory and my head so more 'proper' blogging soon I promise! But meanwhile, I'm flattered th...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:23:00 PST

Film Premiere "One Man In The Band"

I'm excited to announce that 'One Man in the Band', Adam Clitheroe's long awaited feature-length documentary featuring yours truly and other one-man (or woman) music makers including Dennis Hopper Cho...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:31:00 PST

Another fall from grace

The 'Dogs Part 2' tour has launched well. In large part this is because JJ Crash is driving me around for a lot of this, saving me the exhaustion of lugging Sister Spinster, etc. up...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:05:00 PST

Where am I when Im not in Wowtown?

I'm not one for regular blogging about my life off the road (or much about being on it either), but once in a while I get going and a few people have been asking just where is it I'm actually ba...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:47:00 PST

Like A Fallen Tree Non-LP instrumental version

As promised, in previewing tracks from the latest CD I'm throwing in a few alternate versions for some of the tracks. Here's a web-only variation on the album version of this piece, stripped of it's v...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:23:00 PST

Track o' the Week: "If We're Gonna Go Crazy"

Love can be the most transcendental experience. (It can also make you relate to and understand some of the worst, corniest mainstream music ever created, ah well). But throughout history songs about l...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:42:00 PST

Track o' the Week: "Why Dogs Howl At The Moon Part 1"

Why Dogs Howl at the Moon Part 1It's been heartwarming that the new album has been getting such good reviews. (Some of the first ones have been posted online over at my 'official' thomastruax.com site...
Posted by Thomas Truax on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:27:00 PST