Watch your smoke. Jon Spencer reverting to his Pussy Galore days, wrestling Black Flag’s “My War” before dousing it in gasoline and setting it ablaze. If the original was the sound of angry youth, then […]
Category: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
AD Presents :: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, New Orleans
I’m jumping on an airplane bright and early Wednesday morning to fly into New Orleans for the first of Aquarium Drunkard’s three Jazz Fest shows this week. We’re kicking off Wednesday night with the unfuckablewith […]
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion :: Orange (Reissue)
“Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.” Truer words have never been spoken. Jerry Lee Lewis said that shit, as writer Mike Edison quotes […]
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion :: Now I Got Worry (Reissue)
Imagine Orange kidnapped, blindfolded, tossed in the trunk of a car—doused with gasoline, lit on fire, and set adrift at 80 miles an hour, in backwoods Mississippi, under a new moon. That is, approximately, the sound […]
R.L. Burnside :: A Ass Pocket of Whiskey
“It’s so much cussin’ on there, man, it’s like playin’ the dozens with somebody. That stuff tickles ’em.” – R.L. Burnside (reflecting on the recording of A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, Pulse magazine 1996) Speaking of Jon Spencer , […]
Jon Spencer :: Theremin Demonstration (Must See)
Hey kids, ever wonder how Jon Spencer gets all those wacky sounds out of that box on stage? Me too. It’s called a Theremin , and here he demonstrates it for a group of school children in a […]
Knock My Teeth Out, Make Way For The Gold
“Knock My Teeth Out, Make Way For The Gold…” — Boss Hog, ‘I Dig You’ In the early-mid ’90s, while I was knee deep into the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , this “side project” by Spencer and his wife […]
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion :: Afro
Download: MP3: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion :: Afro ——– Amazon: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Extra Width —————————————————————————————————————————- Butter 08 :: Dick Serious Let’s time travel to 1996. Butter 08: indie super group featuring members of Cibo Matto, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Skeleton Key. Ladies and gentleman, […]