“I really enjoy interacting with the audience,” Jon Spencer said. “A live rock concert is a sort of communion like a church. It’s a very powerful event not just for the musicians but for everybody.”
Tour Preview / Interview: http://concertguidelive.com/2015/04/featured/jon-spencer-blues-explosion-the-constellation-room/
Tour Dates: http://thejonspencerbluesexplosion.com/shows/
Photo Credit: Micha Warren
Poster by Nat Damm for The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and We Are Hex show at Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR, US on 12 May 2015.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion tour continues this week. View all dates / ticket info here: http://thejonspencerbluesexplosion.com/shows/
Nat Damm: http://www.gigposters.com/designer/15633_Nat_Damm.html
DN’T have just posted a photo of a new test pressing which hopefully means the tracks they recorded at NY Hed with Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray in 2013 will be getting a release in the not-too-distant future.
Photo: facebook.com/354948877857548/photos/a…
DN’T:
http://dntnyc.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dont/354948877857548
dntnyc.bandcamp.com
“JSBX have clearly positioned themselves as part of a lineage and also as scholars of said lineage: working to carry the tradition of American music while constantly analyzing and annotating it, viewing it as though through a cracked mirror, with distortion, refraction, and omission.”
Link: http://cokemachineglow.com/records/jonspencerbluesexplosion-freedomtower-2015/
“…this might be the most focused and meticulous the Blues Explosion has ever been.”
Link (LP Review): http://groundcontrolmag.com/detail/9/4156/
““Do The Get Down” is all about the beat and Spencer’s own vocal association with it and could have been the best song you never heard come out of the vaults at Stax…”
Link (CD Review): http://groundcontrolmag.com/detail/3/4123/
“The razor-wire riffs some of their best.” – Mojo (May 2015)
“And yes, they are still kicking your favorite band’s ass across the stage.”
“What makes them important today is what made them important two decades ago. There is still an element of danger about their music; danger in its simplicity.”
http://bigtakeover.com/recordings/the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion-freedom-tower-mom-pop
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“OO: Throughout your career, you’ve always been part of projects, like with the Blues Explosion of course and Boss Hog, and Heavy Trash. Have you ever considered doing a solo project? Considering your music history, I don’t even know what that would sound like.
JS: I’ve definitely thought about it, but I like to collaborate with people. It’s why I was drawn to making music, it’s to work with people. It’s not just me by myself. Maybe the closest I ever came was, I made a record with the Dickenson brothers, it was called Spencer Dickinson, I think that was around 2000. It was a spur of the moment project. I went down there with a lot of ideas and sketches for songs. There’s a lot of me on that record, and it’s an interesting record. I like to write with other people. Occasionally by myself, but mostly with other people.”
GroundControlMag.com have just published a new interview with Jon Spencer from the day of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion appearance on Boston Rock Talk and the show at Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA (9 April 2015).
Photo / Words: Ollie Ottoman
Current Tour Dates:
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