Blackup / Brat Farrar: Split 7″ Single

Posted on January 16, 2018 by admin

There are a few copies of the Blackup / Brat Farrar split 7″ single on Red or Gold vinyl or as a package with a baseball shirt designed by Brian Walsby available direct from the Blackup bandcamp page:

https://blackup.bandcamp.com/album/blackup-brat-farrar-split-7

nb. Unique artwork is added to the 7″ sleeves upon request.

UPDATE: The standard edition is due to be available from Slice of Wax towards the end of January / early February 2018.

“We are currently finalizing two long overdue releases : the BLACKUP/Brat Farrar split 7″ and the Psycho Mutants 7”.

There will be GOLD!

Screenprinting job will be done with the help of Stephane from TROU NOIR

Two screenprinted postcard designed by Xavier Benoit will complete the bloody gold edition of the BLACKUP/Brat Farrar split. The cards are called “Satan et son fils” and “Montagne de bites” and I urge you to NOT google that last one.

We will also make a screenprinted cover for the milky gold version of the Psycho Mutants 7″.

Both these records should be officialy released by the label at the end of the month or early February. Stay in touch!” – https://www.facebook.com/sliceofwax/

The Blackup track (‘Left To Right’) was originally released on the album Ease & Delight on which Jon Spencer is credited with “some pre-production”.

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The Film Programme: Baby Driver Sound Design

Posted on January 15, 2018 by admin

Sound designer Julian Slater discusses Baby Driver on the most recent episode BBC Radio 4’s The Film Programme.

In this clip he covers the very beginning of the movie going into Bellbottoms by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Listen to the full show on iTunes or BBC.co.uk.

Download / Stream here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l203n

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Joseph Arthur & Russell Simins: Unreleased Project

Posted on January 7, 2018 by admin

Three songs from the unreleased Joseph Arthur and Russell Simins project (from 2012/2013) were recently posted online by ‘Tiny Echoes’.

Take You Out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EguqmYqIlJg

Rough It Up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixdDU6Dyti4

I Can See You Don’t Mean It:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b91wRC0DO8

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60th GRAMMY Award Nominations feat. JSBX

Posted on December 30, 2017 by admin

The Baby Driver compilation album and Danger Mouse ft. Run The Jewels & Big Boi – Chase Me are nominees for the 60th GRAMMYs awards which are due to take place in New York on 28 January 2017.

GRAMMYs Site: https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/60th-grammy-awards-full-nominees-list

Chase Me is based on Bellbottoms by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and features on the Baby Driver soundtrack album.

Official Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHShmiCxL8s

Posted in Compilations, Jon Spencer, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Judah Bauer, Russell Simins

Peach of Immortality: Nine Disc Compilation feat. Jon Spencer

Posted on December 27, 2017 by admin

Peach of Immortality – Surrealismus: Paris Prag Rockville.

Nine CD compilation on Karl Schmidt Verlag by Tom Smith featuring Jon Spencer on “Live, 9:30 Club, Washington, DC (8 December 1985)” and “Six Times Since (URA, 1985) long sequence”.

The digital version costs €39, and the physical edition will be €59 plus postage

Due to be available online here https://tomsmithksv.bandcamp.com/music

The tracks featuring Jon Spencer can be streamed in full on the bandcamp page:

Complete Performance (Live, 9​.​30 Club, Washington, DC, 8 Dec 85): https://tomsmithksv.bandcamp.com/track/902-complete-performance-live-930-club-washington-dc-8-dec-85

Six Times Since (Sequence) (Westminster Basement Session, 26 Nov 1985): https://tomsmithksv.bandcamp.com/track/504-six-times-since-sequence-westminster-basement-session-26-nov-1985

Photo Credit: “POI: 1985, recording the Six Times Since album with Jon Spencer, my then-bandmate in Pussy Galore.” – Tom Smith

“Laughing here while listening to the 9:30 performance from December 8, 1985. Those elfin twerps from Jesus and Mary Chain were so livid that they locked us out of the dressing room – as if we could have given half a shit. Really, the best intro to any show, ever – Jared slicing up his guitar case and bearing down on the strings with an electric razor, Rogelio doubling and tripling with his wah-wah cello, me manipulating Led Zep‘s “Since I’ve Been Loving You,” and Jon Spencer soloing during the breaks at several levels of fetid mania above the Reid brothers‘ capabilities. (And, unfortunately, for a minute or so, an idiot at the mixing desk bellowing into the house mic to make light of it all.) I‘m amazed we pulled it off without police interference. When we did our Mary Chain manip, holy fuck. The spittle hit the sporran!” – Tom Smith (28 December 2017)

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