JON SPENCER & THE HITMAKERS INVITE YOU TO TAKE A TRIP TO WORM TOWN!
‘SPENCER GETS IT LIT!’ ALBUM SET FOR RELEASE APRIL 1ST ON IN THE RED RECORDS
TOUR WITH QUASI BEGINS APRIL 11TH - TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Photo: Michael Lavine
JON SPENCER & the HITmakers invite you to take a trip to WORM TOWN!
Taken from the forthcoming hit record album - SPENCER GETS IT LIT! - Worm Town is a cautionary tale told with swagger and strut.
"Twinkle twinkle little star, tried to run but I didn't get far," croons Spencer, spinning his story over funky industrial percussion, chicken-scratch guitar, and interplanetary synths. Worm Town is a truly electric funeral, a futuristic fable for the 21st Centry and beyond.
In a place truly out of time and space, the video - made long distance using the most modern computer and satellite technologies - sees Spencer and the HITmakers caught in a vicious time loop, heading for moral reckoning and an almost certain demise.
Spencer explains, "You can have all the money in the world, luxury yachts, oil wells, and command an army, but when your time is up - none of that will matter - you got to go. And what you reap, you gonna sow"
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:
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
5/01 Santa Fe, NM Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
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
5/07 Louisville, KY Zanzabar
5/08 Charlottesville, VA The Southern
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.
1. Junk Man
2. Get It Right Now
3. Death Ray
4. The Worst Facts
5. Primary Baby
6. Worm Town
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
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