THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION!
PREMIERE 'BAG OF BONES' ON ROLLINGSTONE.COM!
ADDITIONAL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED!
NEW ALBUM 'MEAT AND BONE' RELEASED SEPTEMBER 18TH!
Photo: Stefano Giovannini
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:
October 4: Abbey Bar – Harrisburg, PA
October 5: U Street Music Hall – Washington, D.C.
October 6: Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA
October 12: Middle East – Cambridge, MA
October 13: German American Music Hall - Pawtucket, RI
October 16: Higher Ground Lounge - South Burlington, VT
October 17: Corona Theatre – Montreal, QC
October 18: Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON
October 19: Magic Stick - Detroit, MI
October 20: Earth House - Indianapolis, IN
October 21: Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL
October 22: Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis, MN
October 23: Turner Hall - Milwaukee, WI
October 24: The Basement - Columbus, OH
October 25: Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA
November 1: Pearl Street Nightclub – Northampton, MA
November 2: Club Helsinki – Hudson, NY
November 3: Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
November 8: Casbah - San Diego, CA
November 9: El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
November 10: Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
November 12: Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR
November 13: The Crocodile - Seattle, WA
November 14: Biltmore Cabaret - Vancouver, B.C.
Meat And Bone is the first studio album by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in eight years. This is straight up, Grade A Blues Explosion, mixed by Mr. Spencer himself, with no special guests. Meat And Bone is 12 prime cuts of raw rock 'n' roll, recorded on Sly Stone's "Riot" Flickinger console at the legendary Key Club Recording Studio in Benton Harbor, MI, and mixed in the jungles of New York City. Judah Bauer, Russell Simins and Jon Spencer continue to blow minds with their fusillade of energy and rhythm, and have once again proven that the Blues is #1!
The
new album comes on the heels of the meticulous and loving 2010 reissues
of the band’s Matador albums, including the classics Extra Width, Orange, and Now I Got Worry. (And more recently, the re-release of the long out-of-print seminal Pussy Galore catalog.) It was amid this period of looking back, that Spencer, Simins and Bauer began the process of moving forward.
Says Jon Spencer: "We
still have that psychic glue that allows us to create music together.
Over the course of a year touring and writing new songs and recording,
we rediscovered our shared history as a band. We circled the wagons, and went back to our roots. In a way this is almost like another first album."
On stage and in the studio, Judah Bauer, Russell Simins and Jon Spencer have destroyed and rebuilt American roots music with such ferocity and wild abandon, that it's hard to believe there is anything left. It's been twenty years since The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion first pressed 'record', and twenty years since Spencer and his A-Team of sonic terrorists tore up the indie-rock landscape with fever and a visceral, untouchable vision of rock'n'roll that did for a new wave of blues-punk primitivists what Helen of Troy's face did for the armada.
But make no mistake: The Blues Explosion was
there first. They are the original. It was their sanctified outbursts
and mind-bending riffs that began the new-fangled roots rock revolution
and spawned countless imitators. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has
blazed a furious trail into the future with incendiary spirit built
from courage, audacity, and revolt. Nothing has been the same since.
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