3/31/2022

Jon Spencer and the HITMakers Share New Video / Album Out Tomorrow / Tour Starts April 11th

 
JON SPENCER & THE HITMAKERS GONNA SOCK IT TO YOU WITH THEIR DEATH RAY!
 
WATCH THE DANGEROUS NEW VIDEO RIGHT NOW! 
 
SPENCER GETS IT LIT! ALBUM OUT TOMORROW ON IN THE RED RECORDS 
 
TOUR WITH QUASI BEGINS APRIL 11TH - TICKETS ON SALE NOW
 
Death Ray image: B.A. Miale
 
DEATH RAY is an instant clank’n’roll classic taken from the insidiously subversive new record, SPENCER GETS IT LIT!  
 
"I like it when you shoot!" cries Spencer in this wicked, psychedelic romp that will take over your television set and bend your brain!  Hidden trauma, repressed desire, and double identities all do battle in this theater of the mind! 
 
Spencer throws himself into the burning pit between good and evil, but beware: things are not all what they seem, not when true love is at stake! Total submission is the order of the day — a burning desire to sacrifice one's self to a perfect ideal! 
 
Photo: Michael Lavine
 
SPENCER GETS IT LIT is classic Jon Spencer taken to the extremis – electro-boogie, constructivist art pop, a psychedelic swamp of industrial sleaze and futurist elegance. It is an epic master work of freak beat from the world’s weirdest garage. Across brain-boggling layers of fury, fuzz guitar, and a crash-bang battery of phaser blasts, photon torpedoes, and otherworldly zounds, he frantically spits, croons, rhapsodizes, and seduces. Spencer Gets It Lit is his most complex and groovy record in years, a dark, danceable odyssey – both a studied take-down of the early 21st century, and a celebration of the place where electricity meets the mind. 
 
Thirteen wicked hot songs of love, loss, lust, life — from the Farfisa-fueled,warped psycho -punk  rave-up of “JUNK MAN,” to the intimate lover's plea of “My Hit Parade,” to the outer-space end-of-days country funk of “WORM TOWN," Spencer Gets It Lit delivers all of the friction, excitement, and post-modern depravity one could ever ask for!
 
Says Spencer, "Send out the Hit Signal! This is the most uncompromising album I've ever made!" 
 
And the HITs just keep on coming! 
 
Joining the HITmakers on the tour will be Janet Weiss! (Sleater Kinney, Wild Flag, The Jicks, Quasi, etc). Spencer says, "As a long-time fan of her wicked drumming style, I am so very excited to have this opportunity to play with Janet!" 
 
Every show will be opened by a full set from Janet and HITmaker Sam Coomes championship tag-team, Quasi! 
 
Guaranteed to be a tour for the ages!!! 
 
True heroes of the underground! 
 
Freak forces combined and multiplied in this indie-rock dream bill! 
 
Photo: Bob Coscarelli
 
TOUR DATES:
 
NORTH AMERICA:
 
4/11 Buffalo, NY Rec Room
4/12 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
4/13 Detroit, MI El Club
4/14 Chicago, IL Schubas
4/15 Milwaukee, WI Back Room at Colectivo
4/16 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
4/18 Omaha, NE Waiting Room
4/19 Denver, CO Globe Hall
4/20 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
4/21 Boise, ID Neurolux
4/22 Portland, OR Dantes
4/23 Vancouver, BC Fox Cabaret
4/24 Seattle, WA Madame Lou’s (The Crocodile Second Stage)
4/26 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
4/27 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
4/28 San Diego, CA Casbah
4/29 Tucson, AZ 191 Toole
4/30 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
5/02 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep
5/03 Wichita, KS Wave
5/04 Kansas City, MO Record Bar
5/05 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill Duck Room
5/06 Indianapolis, IN Hi-Fi
 
UK/EU
 
6/09 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
6/11 Newcastle The Cluny
6/12 Glasgow Audio
6/14 Manchester Deaf Institute
6/15 Bristol Thekla
6/16 London Oslo
6/17 Diskmuide 4AD
6/18 Numegen Kids N Billies Festival
6/19 Izel Fete de la Musique
6/21 Maastricht Muziekgieteru
6/22 Utrecht DE Helling HLD
6/23 Lessines CC Rene Magrite (outdoor)
6/24 Sint Niklaas Great Gigs In The Sky (outdoor) @ De Casino
6/25 Haarlem Kliko Festval @ Patronaat
6/26 Rotterdam Rotown
 
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
 
JON SPENCER & the HITmakers 
SPENCER GETS IT LIT! 
Bob Bert - trash, Sam Coomes - synth & vocal, M. Sord - drum, Jon Spencer - vocal & guitar 
Produced by Bill Skibbe & Jon Spencer at Key Club Recording Co., Benton Harbor, MI, July - August 2021. 
 
2. Get It Right Now 
4. The Worst Facts 
5. Primary Baby 
7. Bruise 
8. Layabout Trap 
9. Push Comes To Shove 
10. My Hit Parade 
11. Rotting Money 
12. Strike 3 
13. Get Up & Do It 
14. Germ Vs. Jerk* 
15. The Devil's Ice Age* 
 
*Tracks 14 & 15 are CD only 
 
OUT APRIL 1ST ON IN THE RED RECORDS
 

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