Jon Spencer – XL Live, Harrisburg, PA, US (18 December 2025)

Jon Spencer set at XL Live, Harrisburg, PA, US with Samantha Fish and Cedric Burnside on 18 December 2025.

Line-up:

Jon Spencer
Spider Bowman
Kendall Wind

PARTIAL SET LIST:

Come Along
I Got The Hits
Guitar Champ

nb. Jon Spencer, Kendall Wind, Macky Spider Bowman, Cedric Burnside and the Samantha Fish band performed Goin’ Down South.

“Jon Spencer Sets the Tone (and Kicks the Door In)

Jon Spencer doesn’t ease into a room. He sort of barges in sideways, dragging electricity behind him. At Club XL on Dec. 18, his set hit like a garage door slamming shut and reopening repeatedly. Raw riffs, sharp rhythms, vocals half-spoken and half-barked, with no wasted motion. Spencer prowled the stage like he was testing the room’s load-bearing walls, daring them to crack. What worked was how unfiltered it felt. No nostalgia act energy here. This was confrontational rock and roll, the kind that reminds you how much danger used to live inside a three-minute song.

By the time Spencer wrapped up, the room felt scrubbed clean. Whatever expectations people brought in with them had been knocked loose.

…at the end of the set, Cedric Burnside and Jon Spencer, along with their band mates, came back onstage wearing “Team Naughty” Christmas shirts, which cracked Samantha up.” – Michael Sprouse (parklifedc.com)

Cedric Burnside / Samantha Fish / Jon Spencer / Mickey Finn Photo: Danny Bland
Live Image: Screen-grab from video by ‘koswill414’