Jon Spencer & the HITMakers Tour w/ Quasi Starts April 11th / New Album Out Now On In The Red

JON SPENCER & THE HITMAKERS TOUR WITH QUASI KICKS OFF APRIL 11TH!

 

‘SPENCER GETS IT LIT! ALBUM OUT NOW ON IN THE RED RECORDS! 

 

Photo: Bob Coscarelli

 

Catch Jon Spencer & the HITmakers LIVE in the USA & Canada!

 

Featuring the incendiary talents of BOB BERT (Pussy Galore, Sonic Youth), SAM COOMES (Quasi, Heatmiser), and - for the first time ever - JANET WEISS (Sleater Kinney, Wild Flag, The Jicks, Quasi)! 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: 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 clanking cri de coeur of “DEATH RAY,” 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!" 

 

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"It all bends to Spencer's sweat-inducing whims; as always, he does what he does, and does it like almost nobody else can.” BrooklynVegan

 

"Was a four-year wait for the new Spencer Gets It Lit really worth it? Well yes, yes it was worth it, and the quicker you acknowledge that the better off you might be." Ghettoblaster

 

"Hugely entertaining." MOJO **** 

 

"A sonic witchdoctor who'll blow your mind." Uncut ****

 

“A perfect mix of old-school rap and dirty ’60s garage punk, surely that very spontaneity is what gives the track its wild, feral energy. The spine-chilling horror screams remind that it is most definitely a Jon Spencer joint.” (Junk Man) BlackBook

 

"Jon Spencer and the Hitmakers are here to crank it up and blow our pants off, ... Anyone who has the chance to see this current ensemble, must do so immediately. Peppered with rarities, Blues Explosion songs, even Pussy Galore cuts, Spencer was a bewitching figure on stage, ripping though all the tracks with raw grit and fury." Ground Control Magazine

“It’s a hell of a show, further cementing Jon Spencer’s status as a king of trashy, noisy rock’n’roll.” Vanguard UK

 

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 7^th 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

 

UK/EU

 

6/09 Birmingham Hare & Hounds

6/10 Leeds Brudenell Social Club

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