{"id":481780,"date":"2019-02-04T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=789503"},"modified":"2019-02-04T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:22:07","slug":"see-ex-hex-rock-through-nuclear-war-in-tough-enough-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-ex-hex-rock-through-nuclear-war-in-tough-enough-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Ex Hex Rock Through Nuclear War in \u2018Tough Enough\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-04-at-6.58.17-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ex-hex\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ex-hex\" data-tag=\"ex-hex\">Ex Hex<\/a>\u2019s music video shoot for new single \u201cTough Enough\u201d coincides with a nuclear Armageddon in the band\u2019s latest visual for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ex-hex-new-song-cosmic-cave-new-album-its-real-776750\/\">upcoming LP <em>It\u2019s Real<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTough Enough\u201d video begins as a run-of-the-mill low-budget film shoot, with Mary Timony and company butting heads with the director. However, midway through the video, a nuclear war occurs and Ex Hex and the filmmakers are forced in a conveniently located fallout shelter. After a year in the bunker and the radioactivity subsides, Ex Hex reemerge from the shelter, ready to rock \u201cTough Enough\u201d for the handful of survivors.<\/p>\n<p>As for the song, Ex Hex said in a statement that \u201cTough Enough\u201d is \u201call about three-dimensional power chords interplaying with whammy dive bombs. It\u2019s a song about turning on your tough switch and forging ahead through whatever storms are happening around you \u2019cause you have no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s Real<\/em>, Ex Hex\u2019s first album since 2014\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/rips-107369\/\"><em>Rips<\/em><\/a>, arrives March 22nd via Merge Records. The trio previously released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ex-hex-new-song-cosmic-cave-new-album-its-real-776750\/\">Cosmic Cave<\/a>\u201d from the album and scheduled a 29-date North American tour in support of <em>It\u2019s Real<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ex-hex-new-tough-enough-video-789503\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex Hex\u2019s music video shoot for new single \u201cTough Enough\u201d coincides with a nuclear Armageddon in the band\u2019s latest visual for their upcoming LP It\u2019s Real. The \u201cTough Enough\u201d video begins as a run-of-the-mill low-budget film shoot, with Mary Timony and company butting heads with the director. However, midway through the video, a nuclear war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 14:16:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}