The Bobby Lees – Move: Video

UPDATE: Release date moved to 17 July 2020.

The Bobby Lees will unleash their new album Skin Suit on May 8th via Alive Naturalsound Records. The LP was produced by underground punk legend Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion.

Sam Quartin (vocals, guitar), Kendall Wind (bass), Macky Bowman (drums), and Nick Casa (guitar) kick up quite a rollicking ruckus on Skin Suit which is filled with energetic, gritty, passionate, and rhythmically antic tracks. One such number is the jaggedly lurching and way-too-brief “Move.”

Full Article: https://bigtakeover.com/news/VideoPremiereMovebyTheBobbyLees

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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Alternative Nation, MTV (1996): Video

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion set for Alternative Nation, MTV Studios, London, UK on 6 October 1996.

Broadcast on 29 October 1996
Presented by Toby Amies
Produced by Katelijne De Backer
Assisted by Nick Hutchings
Directed by Nick Wickham

SET LIST:

Identify
Fuck Shit Up
Love All of Me (False Start)
Love All of Me
Water Main
Skunk
[Band Introductions / Instrumental Interlude]
Get With It
Wail
Rocketship
2Kindsa Love
Vacuum of Loneliness
Can’t Stop

Love All of Me & the band introductions were released on Live Promo Video.

Posted in Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Live, Video

Mojo: This Is A Call feat. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

The new issue of Mojo Magazine (#318 / May 2020) features Bellbottoms by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on it’s ‘This Is A Call’ compilation CD.

Available in the UK from 17 March 2020.

Tracklist:

01. Sugar – Gift
02. Superchunk – The First Part
03. Sebadoh – Beauty Of The Ride
04. Shudder To Think – X-French Tee Shirt
05. Lotion – She Is Weird City
06. Girls Against Boys – Don’t Got A Place
07. Pond – Young Splendor
08. Madder Rose – Car Song
09. Built To Spill – Car
10. Robert Pollard – Psychic Pilot Clocks Out
11. Sunny Day Real Estate – 8
12. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Bellbottoms
13. The Grifters – Last Man Alive
14. The Jesus Lizard – Fly On The Wall
15. Red Red Meat – Chain Chain Chain

“Meanwhile, our rifftastic covermount CD gathers the best mid-’90s US alt-rock from Sebadoh, Sugar, Superchunk, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and more. Inside the issue: Jon Savage relives 1970 – rock’s first watershed year; Art Garfunkel waxes strange; Jarvis Cocker strikes back; Margo Price marches on. Plus: how ‘The Ox’ was felled; the new Pearl Jam album; The Jesus & Mary Chain map their Darklands; The Black Crowes bury the hatchet; The Psychedelic Furs’ Richard Butler ’fesses up; Andrew Weatherall, Ivan Kral, Andy Gill, Joseph Shabalala and David Roback are remembered. And: The rise, and fall, of The Wobbles!”

More info on this issue: https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/mojo-318-may-2020-foo-fighters

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The Bobby Lees – I’m A Man: Track Premiere

The Bobby Lees – I’m A Man (from the forthcoming Jon Spencer-produced album ‘Skin Suit‘) is featured as a track premiere on BlurtOnline.com.

It takes a lot of balls to try and pull off a Bo Diddley cover. So it seems pretty apt that the female-fronted garage punk band The Bobby Lees not only attempt it, but do so with amazing results.

“I’ve heard people say ‘you can’t cover Bo Diddley, you just can’t’ so I thought fuck it, let’s try,” said frontwoman Sam Quartin. “We had a lot of fun recording ‘I’m a Man.’ As far as the gender thing, when doing PR for this record, I’ve been asked what I want to be called.

“When I look at anyone else or myself, all I see is energy trapped inside a bag of flesh, so you can call me whatever you’d like! And sorry Bo Diddley, we failed but we love you.” – blurtonline.com

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxvpKn9CTI

Full Feature: https://blurtonline.com/news/track-premiere-the-bobby-lees-im-a-man/

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Jon Spencer in ‘Music Portraits 1989-2001’ by Hester Doove

Jon Spencer from the Hester Doove book ‘Music Portraits 1989-2001’, published June 2020.

Pages:160
Size:220 x 269 mm

More Info: https://hesterdoove.com/music-portaits/

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