The legendary JON SPENCER adds NYC show to September tour:
Beauty Bar 30th Anniversary at DROM September 13th
Beauty Bar 30th Anniversary at DROM September 13th
Brand new long-playing record
SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST
OUT NOW via Shove Records
WATCH the video for ‘Mr. Lion’ feat. illustrations by Marcellus Hall
Jon Spencer can't take any more on his latest long-player, SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST. Backed once again by the powerhouse rhythm section of Kendall Wind and Spider Bowman (of Woodstock NY's Bobby Lees), Mr. Blues Explosion is still lighting the torches and ringing the bells, singing and preaching from the rooftops, live on the world stage, on the airwaves, via satellite, and right here, right now, on a brand-new record.
Can rock’n’roll change the world?
Jon Spencer says YES.
“I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning,” Jon confides. “These past few years there has been a lot of emotional conflict and personal loss — the passing of time takes its toll. Losing friends, losing family, and all of this set against a world gone topsy turvy where it feels like we are losing basic freedoms… I’m trying to balance a lot of things, but the answer is always rock’n’roll.”
Across twelve brand new songs, Jon tears his heart out singing songs torn from the front page and beyond: futuristic power blues and garage-punk explosionisms about the nausea and paranoia delivered by a reality show president, and the power and resilience it takes to rebel. It is all deeply personal — the fight to create and live and push back against the dark forces — but he never loses sight that we’re all in this together.
“Rock’n’roll is America’s true gift to the world — the sound of revolution! It came out of the sky, a screaming, chrome-plated flying saucer, like an outer space monster, landed here on Earth so the freaks could have their say. It is the hip-shaking sound of rebellion. The blues is my bible, rock’n’roll is our battle cry!”
SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST was recorded with Jon’s super-powered touring band, and if you’ve been lucky enough to see them in the past few years — they’ve been playing non-stop, destroying audiences from Akron to Osaka, from San Jose to Santiago – then you know that Jon is still fronting the world’s greatest rock’n’roll live show: rama-la soul-shaking set for stun, sweat-soaked, and ultimately, beautifully, uplifting.
Picking up where 2024’s mini–LP SICK OF BEING SICK left off, Jon tears it up with Spider Bowman on drums and Kendall Wind on bass. They deliver hyper-driven soul and powerhouse groove, beats hard as diamonds and slick as ice, fuzz bass in your face, and an avalanche of uncontrollable urges, pushing Jon’s latest outbursts — hollering, drooling, sexified crooning, and vociferously lamenting these difficult times — to new levels of rock’n’roll expressionism.
SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST is the New New Super Heavy Rock for Hard Times.
Photo: Skyler Smith
LIVE SHOWS
JAPAN
8/17 - Nagoya - Club Quattro
8/18 - Tokyo - Club Quattro
9/6 - Troy, NY - No Fun - w/ Goons
9/7 - Quebec, QC - L’Anti - w/ Bloodshot Bill
9/8 – Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz PDB - w/ Bloodshot Bill
9/9 - Ottawa, ON – Bronson Centre - w/ Bloodshot Bill
9/10 - Toronto, ON – The Great Hall - w/ Thee Retail Simps
9/11 – Hamilton, ON – Bridgeworks - w/ Thee Retail Simps
9/12 – Rochester, NY – Bug Jar - w/ Harmonica Lewinski
9/13 - New York, NY - DROM (Beauty Bar 30th Anniversary) - w/ Daddy Long Legs & Kurt Baker
11/8 - Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre
11/9 - Seattle, WA – The Sunset
11/10 - Portland, OR – Dante’s
11/11 – Eugene, OR – John Henry’s
11/12 – Arcata, CA – The MIniplex
11/13 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
11/14 - Santa Cruz, CA – Moe’s Alley
11/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
11/16 – San Diego, CA - Casbah
