Joseph Arthur & Russell Simins: Unreleased Project

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

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

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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Heavy Trash – Christmas in Königstein

Originally released on Heavy Trash / Powersolo – Favoritenserie no. 2 10″/CD by Rhythm Island Records (2008).

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEctFHoAyo

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“Scene of the year: Opening getaway, Baby Driver” – The A.V. Club

“The first six minutes of Baby Driver are pure bliss, neatly establishing the basic premise of Edgar Wright’s rollicking genre pastiche, while also functioning as a stand-alone blast of rubber-on-road, needle-on-vinyl movie magic. It’s a heist sequence that unfolds in real time, without dialogue, and from the perspective of Ansel Elgort’s tinnitus-afflicted getaway driver, who cues up and boogies to the garage-rock swagger of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion while his associates knock off a bank.” – avclub.com

Link: https://www.avclub.com/the-best-film-scenes-of-2017-1821177413

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMuUVw7TOM

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