The legendary JON SPENCER announces NEW dates for 2027!
DON’T FORGET - West Coast tour starts November 7th!!
(With support from NYC noise band GENRE IS DEATH!!!)
Brand new album
SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST
available on LP, CD (bonus tracks), and all digital platforms
via Shove Records
Photo by Skyler Smith
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, 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.
VIDEOS:
LIVE SHOWS 2026:
11/7 - Olympia, WA - Ilk Lodge *
11/8 - Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre *
11/9 - Seattle, WA – The Sunset *
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* SOLD OUT
11/14 - Santa Cruz, CA – Moe’s Alley *
11/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *
11/16 – San Diego, CA - Casbah *
* with special guests Genre Is Death
JUST ANNOUNCED: 2027
1/14 - Syracuse, NY - Funk N Waffles
1/15 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
1/16 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
1/17 - Ferndale, MI - Magic Bag
1/18 - Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme
1/19 - Chicago, IL - Schubas
1/20 - Cudahy, WI - X-Ray Arcade
1/21 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
1/22 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room
1/23 - Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
1/24 - St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway
1/25 - Memphis, TN - Hernando’s Hideaway
1/27 - Dallas, TX 0 Deep Ellum Art Co
1/28 - Austin, TX - Continental Club
1/29 - Houston, TX - White Oak (Upstairs)
1/30 - New Orleans, LA - Chickie Wah Wah
1/30 - New Orleans, LA - Chickie Wah Wah
1/31 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn
2/1 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
2/2 - Nashville, TN - 3rd and Lindsley
2/3 - Louisville, KY - Whirling Tiger
2/5 - Cincinnati, OH - Woodward Theater
2/6 - Millvale, PA - Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
2/6 - Millvale, PA - Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
2/7 - Washington, D.C. - Union Stage
2/8 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
2/9 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
2/10 - New Haven, CT - Cafe Nine
2/8 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
2/9 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
2/10 - New Haven, CT - Cafe Nine
2/11 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse
2/12 - Portland, ME - Oxbow Blending & Bottling
2/13 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
2/13 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
"Jon Spencer channels grief, frustration, and righteous anger into another blast of cathartic rock’n’roll...He’s got so much personality in his voice that Spencer could probably start a riot with a spoken-word album, but he’s especially amped up here, and Wind and Bowman breathe fresh life into a sound he’s been igniting for decades." - BrooklynVegan
“Songs of Personal Loss and Protest is one of his best realized projects in some time…a superb evocation of what he does best and a sonic second wind from one of indie rock's great wild card talents.” - All Music
"A high-octane, mind-melting outing from a familiar face still finding new ways to deliver his lofty visions." - Glide
“Inescapably re-ignites the primal three-pronged assault of JSBX’s self titled party-starter from 1992….The wisdom of Macky Spider Bowman’s recruitment is instantly felt as the 20-something drummer’s John Bonham-worthy breakbeats, with sinewy bassist Kendall Wind locked in tight, Spencer sounds properly invigorated, hitting new heights of freewheeling lechery and, with fitting sartorial confluence, Bellbottoms-esque groove.” - MOJO
“"Uncommonly, fiercely tight.” - Uncut
"Jon Spencer has never sounded better and his music has never been more needed. This is one of the best albums of the year. Maybe it's THE BEST." - Ground Control
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For over forty years, Jon Spencer has been an innovative force in the independent music scene. An acclaimed live performer, he has amassed a dizzying, disruptive discography as the leader of Pussy Galore, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Heavy Trash, and Jon Spencer & the HITmakers, as well as with Boss Hog, The Honeymoon Killers, Gibson Brothers, and Taxidermy Girls.
His numerous collaborations include working with Steve Albini, Add N To X, Nicole Atkins, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bomb The Bass, R.L. Burnside, James Chance, Coldcut, Chuck D, Dan The Automator, Jim Dickinson, DJ Shadow, Einsturzende Neubauten, Guitar Wolf, GZA, David Holmes, Japanese Popstars, Dr. John, Calvin Johnson, Steve Jordan, Khan, Moby, Money Mark, The Muffs, The North Mississippi All Stars, Princess Superstar, Puffy Ami Yumi, The Sadies, Nancy Sinatra, Solex, Solomon Burke, Speedball Baby, Rufus Thomas, UNKLE, Unloved, Andre Williams, and Bernie Worrell.
His production credits include: Cheater Slicks, Demolition Doll Rods, Experimental Tropic Blues Band, Perrosky, Mike Edison, Jesper Munk, Sunshine & The Rain, The Bobby Lees, and recently the Grammy-nominated Death Wish Blues album by Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton.
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