Jon Spencer – Kreative Kontrol Ep. #1103: NEW INTERVIEW

Jon Spencer – Kreative Kontrol Ep. #1103, new interview with Vish Khanna.

“Jon Spencer returns to discuss his new album Songs of Personal Loss and Protest, making the trek to play shows in Canadian cities like Edmonton, the uncertain status of Jon Spencer and the HITmakers, how his new trio featuring Kendall Wind and Macky Bowman came to be and whether or not this band will have a name, the comprehensive Jon Spencer fan site, Pop Catastrophe, what it’s like playing in a band with/relating to much younger musicians, their tremendous musical knowledge and skills, writing these new songs collaboratively, digging into this fraught socio-political moment in time while also mourning the loss of loved ones, working with Deke Dickerson, American cultural erasure, marginalization, and Little Richard, exhibiting empathy for evil people, the artistic burden of doing promotional work that show promoters used to do, upcoming tour dates, other future plans, and much more.”

Photo: Skyler Smith

Listen Here: http://vishkhanna.com/2026/06/11/ep-1103-jon-spencer/

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Jon Spencer – WFMU Interview: 12 June 2026

Jon Spencer interview at WFMU 91.1 FM in Jersey City, NJ, US on 12 June 2026.

Broadcast 3 – 6 pm on Mona’s show.

“Fri. Jun 12th, 3pm – 6pm: Jon Spencer
Mona welcomes Jon Spencer for a special release party of his new album Songs of Personal Loss and Protest. They’ll deep dive into the album, choosing key songs to discuss the New New Super Heavy Rock for Hard Times.”

Mona: https://www.instagram.com/monamierecords/

WFMU:
https://wfmu.org/
https://www.instagram.com/wfmu/

Show to be archived here: https://wfmu.org/recentarchives.php

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Bob Bert – Beach Bongo Bloodbath: NEW RELEASE!

Bob Bert – Beach Bongo Bloodbath released June 12, 2026 on Bar/None Records which features Julie Cafritz on Pussy Galore cover ‘Fuck You, Man‘.

“Bob Bert proves he’s the coolest thing to come out of New Jersey since the vibrating bed, as he takes over the controls and spews his groovy magic all over his latest joint BEACH BONGO BLOODBATH. Playing nearly every instrument, spouting the occasional beatnik banter and covering Love Comes In Spurts makes this psychedelic hullabaloo the perfect party album.” – Lydia Lunch

Most music gourmandizers know the name Bob Bert as the drummer for Sonic Youth in their formative years. He also beat car gas tanks for Pussy Galore. Bob has also recorded albums and toured the world with Bewitched, Action Swingers, Chrome Cranks, Knoxville Girls, Five Dollar Priest, and in more recent times Lydia Lunch Retrovirus and then coming full circle playing metal percussion again with Jon Spencer & the HITmakers.

With BEACH BONGO BLOODBATH Bob Bert is finally stepping out under his own name for his first true solo album. For this outing he has seriously re-worked a number of cover songs into a veritable audio soundtrack for the movie of his life. Surprisingly for a guy who has slammed away for some very noisy guitar outfits, this is an album with NO guitars or bass. (once you hear his drum-centric take on Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen” you will never hear that song the same way again).

Bob utilizes a variety of drums and percussion sounds as well as piano, synths, theremin, Farfisa, Rhodes, etc creating a new world of sound. There are six originals and eight covers that play to his love of campy teenage horror flicks, art damaged punk fuk-u-ness and Warholian underground groover vibes In fact, lets cue up some tracks from BEACH BONGO BLOODBATH to help tell the Bob Bert story.”

Link: https://therealbobbert.bandcamp.com/album/beach-bongo-bloodbath

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Jon Spencer – The Agit Reader: NEW INTERVIEW

“For those interested in the noisier end of the rock & roll spectrum, Jon Spencer needs no introduction. As the leader of rock deconstructionists Pussy Galore and frontman and namesake for the decidedly groovier but no less incendiary Blues Explosion, as well as a sideman with the Gibson Bros, Honeymoon Killers, and wife Cristina Martinez’s Boss Hog, he’s had a hand in some of the greatest sides of vinyl of the last 40 years. But in the decade since the Blue Explosion’s dissolution, Spencer has hardly kept still. He’s seemingly constantly on the road with bassist Kendall Wind and drummer Macky “Spider” Bowman, formerly of The Bobby Lees, in tow, and is set to release a new album, Songs of Personal Loss and Protest (Shove Records), this week. The second album the trio has recorded together, it exhibits many of Spencer’s calling cards while still being an invigorated take on kicking out the jams…”

Full Interview: https://agitreader.com/wp2/jon-spencer/

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Jon Spencer – A Whirlwind Call For Change

“A whirlwind call for change: Given the power of the live experience, MIK SABIERS recommends Jon Spencer’s new album

BLUES-TINGED gui­tar, rauc­ous rock and roll, drums that sound a call to arms and a bass that make you shake: New York blues and noise maes­tro Jon Spen­cer is tak­ing his new album, Songs Of Per­sonal Loss And Protest, out on the road — and what a riot it is.

It reeks of the MC5 and Kick Out The Jams, but this time the counter cul­ture is try­ing to pre­serve the status quo of peace, equal rights and all that made Amer­ica great, and rail­ing against the cur­rent regime that is rap­idly redu­cing people’s rights…

…Music­ally this is blues-driven, old school rock and roll with a proper New York punk edge. Kend­all Wind on bass is mes­mer­ising, while her fel­low band­mate from The Bobby Lees – Macky “Spider” Bow­man — drums like a dynamo wav­ing sticks a plenty.

And stage left is Spen­cer, gui­tar player extraordin­aire, preacher, blues­man, bring­ing the room into his thrall, prac­ti­cing what he preaches. His lyr­ics cite the power of the people and the power of music, and they com­bine to cre­ate a whirl­wind call for change, and if the energy in the room is rep­lic­ated in the real world then change is going to come. And it’s about time too.

Songs of Per­sonal Loss and Protest is released June 12 by Bronze Rat Records.”

Full Article: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/whirlwind-call-change

Review of Jon Spencer – The Dome, London, UK (5 June 2026)
w/ Ye Nuns

Jon / Kendall / Spider show #190

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