Good news for fans of prolific Gen X alt/indie-rock luminaries ... or potentially, bad news for fans of prolific Gen X alt/indie-rock luminaries.
Sat. 1/26/13
Show: 8:00 PM
Presale ($15.00) & Day of show ($18.00)
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On stage and in the studio, Jon Spencer has 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.
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On stage and in the studio, Jon Spencer has 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.
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UK-only release."These two tracks are taken from the last album Acme Plus and have been remixed by electro-terrorist Techno Animal. Never released before, but you may have heard them at gigs before the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion came on stage. Please note this is a very limited release 12" only....
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion? Well, it's all kinda ... ... Thangyuh ver' much an' ladeez'n'gennulmen and now I got to tell you 'bout the fabulous, most groovy Blues Explosion! Urgh! The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion! Urgh! Yay-uh! Urgh! You know they make me wanna dance! And you know why? Urgh! I said, "You wanna know why, people?" Dang! Here's why and Lord have mercy, oh yeah, Lord have mercy on mah burning soul, yay-uh..! Funk it fuck it baby groove it, shake your tail feather, yay-uh! Stea......
In 1992, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion inked a deal with Caroline Records and requested a very specific signing bonus-- the then-new 10xCD Jerry Lee Lewis box set. Two years later, when the band jumped ship to Matador, they asked for the 9xCD Stax-Volt Complete Singles 1959-1968. As band lore has it, Caroline never sprang for the set, and the Blues Explosion's tenure there was short-lived and acrimonious. Matador, on the other hand, made good with Stax, and the band enjoyed a decade-long partn......
In 1997, right in the middle of the period documented by these two reissues, Jim DeRogatis encapsulated the backlash against Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's theatrical R&B; and soul-referencing act by asking, "Mr. Spencer," I hesitantly begin, "If you really loved black music as much as you said you did, how come you could never get beyond making fun of it?" DeRogatis' piece, which originally ran in Penthouse, was never as negative as this sucker-punch implies, but then, it wasn't the only article......
UK-only release. "Chapter 3 in Mute's expanded reissue series of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion original albums. Originally released as a 6 track EP, Mute will release a packaging of 10 tracks featuring brand new mixes by French DJ MC Relov, by avant garde musician John Oswald and Prince Paul of De La Soul fame. Tracklisting: Bellbottoms (remixed by Unkle), Flavor Pt. 1 (remixed by Beck Hansen, Mike Diamond, Mario Caldato Jr.), Flavor Pt. 2 (remixed by Beck Hansen, Mike Diamond, Mario Caldato Jr.),......
With their down and dirty brand of punk/garage blues, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion burst on to the New York City scene in the early '90s with the force of a detonation.Dirty Shirt Rock'n'Roll: The First Ten Years covers their six studio albums from eponymous debut in 1992 to 2002's Plastic Fang, but does not include songs from their last album Damage in 2004, when the band shortened its name to just Blues Explosion.This excellent 22-track compilation album shows how the band's subversively discor......
Sound: Jon Spencer and crew have created what rock music should have evolved into over the years instead of becoming stale and full of regurgitated pop riffs. Jon is not someone who is afraid to be different and here he uses his genre bending style to infuse proper rock n roll with scratching DJs, rappers and various other weird and wonderful sounds to superb effect. Don't let such things put you off though, they pull it off with such style and flare you won't even notice after a few runs though......
Entering the world of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion can be perplexing for the uninitiated. The band's roughshod feeding of rock and soul signifiers through a gnarly punk filter manages to pitch them somewhere in between pastiche and sincerity, where plastic showmanship and achingly indebted riffage is chained to buckets of sweat and a James Brown-like desire to entertain a crowd. Naturally, this is all best experienced in a live setting, although Spencer and his group have never had too much t......
Since forming 20 years ago, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion have been "ripping apart roots music", picking the bones clean and injecting some radical, dirty energy into its very heart and soul. This collection focuses on the band's first ten years/first five albums and presents a meaty cross-section of Spencer and Co's rabid concoction; one that coughs up screeching and unsettling rockabilly howls one minute ('Love Ain't On The Run', 'Hell'), and gigantic delta-blues hip-hop grooves the next ('......
Japanese-only release with exclusive tracks, B-sides, etc. Track listing: "Wait A Minute", "Get Down Lover", "Confused" (Zebra Ranch), "Bacon" (Sansano Mix), "Electricity", "New Year" (Rough Mix), "Lovin' Machine" (Automator Remix), "Chowder", "T.A.T.B." (For The Saints and Sinners Remix)....
Given the congenial pose he strikes with his current rockabilly outfit Heavy Trash, it's hard to remember a time when Jon Spencer was the most polarizing figure in American indie-rock. Sure, Vampire Weekend may catch message-board flak over the socio-economic disparities between their privileged upbringings and the impoverished African musicians who've inspired them, but they've never been labeled a minstrel act or, worse, racist-- tags that dogged Spencer and his band, the Blues Explosion, thro......
New York's finest release a new remix single, 'Heavy' taken from the forthcoming album Acme Plus. 'Heavy' is the band's most accessible single to date -- a cool, summer, hip hop remix by Dante Ross, best known for his work with De La Soul, House of Pain, and currently Everlast. The single contains exclusive b-sides and remixes by Japanese DJ Duck Rock and French DJ MC Revolv, including a radical re-working of the classic single '2 Kindsa Love'....
1994's Orange finds the Blues Explosion at the exact moment they left behind the pompadour-and-sideburns Crypt Records trash-can garage-rock universe and sidled their way into the Beastie Boys/Beck/Cibo Matto downtown genre-fucking cosmpolitan party. Beck actually shows up on Orange, literally phoning in a guest verse on "Flavor", and they toured with the Beasties soon after. It's easy to hear what those guys liked in the band's assault. The Blues Explosion were honest, organic experimenters-- f......
OK, so NYC's JSBX formed in 1990 and the last offering on this best of dates from 2002 but, hey, who really cares for accuracy? What you get here is rock'n'roll in the truest, no-holdsbarred sense that can't really be too accurate, lest it lose the spirit. Jon Spencer has that in spades. Black leather spades at that. With Russell Simins and Judah Bauer, Spencer pre-empted the whole bassless trio (or even duo) approach to garage rock by a decade, before bending it and shaping it into whichever ......
When the feet of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion initially touched land, it was as if a caveman had just woken from a frozen slumber, not unlike Brendan Fraser in Encino Man: rambling, muddy, a little confused, and unsure what do with so many new ideas. This was 1991 through 1992, the band's first year of existence, and coincidentally the same time as the release of Encino Man. In that year, JSBX recorded a lot, and it all seems to have somehow been nearly lost in the dust--or is perhaps sitting......
Artist Bio:
Jam Messengers play Rock and Soul music via the unlikely alliance of a Brazilian One Man Band (Marco Butcher -The Butcher's Orchestra) joined to a Blues Preacher from NYC (Rob K - Workdogs). Their mutual love for the raw and the spontaneous make them wickedly entertaining live!
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Jam Messengers play Rock and Soul music via the unlikely alliance of a Brazilian One Man Band (Marco Butcher -The Butcher's Orchestra) joined to a Blues Preacher from NYC (Rob K - Workdogs). Their mutual love for the raw and the spontaneous make them wickedly entertaining live!
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Artist Bio:
Cheap Time have come a long way in the short time they've been around, and it's with great pleasure that we finally have the culmination of their efforts distilled into the epic full-length sitting here before us. Even back in Jeff's formative days with his solo project, the Jeffrey Novak One Man Band, it was evident that he had so much more to give to the rock'n'roll underworld than that, or his contribution in the Rat Traps could suggest. Even despite the adrenaline-crazed sounds he was spewing forth, drumstick in guitar strumming hand, you can still marvel at the energy levels frantic enough to jump start a semi truck. In his latest creation, Cheap Time is a refined power pop vehicle that gleans the irresistible glittery nuances from all the right hiding spots for modern inspiration, and blasts them forth onto the futuristic palette of today's glam-savvy punk fans to absorb while scrambling to pick up the last scraps of non-comped Velvet Tinmine tracks still floating around.
As they displayed so brashly on their debut 7" on Sweet Rot last year, and their face-smashing follow-up Handy Man 7" on Douche Master earlier this year, Cheap Time still holds their Redd Kross influence close to their heart. Yet with further expansion on the 1976-era fork in the road artistic direction, they belligerently steer themselves into unclassifiable categories, akin to when the newly marketed 'punk' label was still being applied to atypical bands like The Quick, Television, The Fast and Milk 'n Cookies, much to the confusion of the record-buying public. While Cheap Time may inconspicuously take more cues from the Dickies, Sparks and Zolar X than anyone else these days, it's their unique assembly of all these incorrigible styles into one cohesive sounding record that makes them rise above the overall current wave of pop music, and into the clear forefront of modern rock'n'roll. As an album full of intensely buzzing hits and virtually no misses, its impact is immediate and irreversible and pulls the sticky sweet reduction of all these long-forgotten styles into one of the tightest and most enjoyable debut LPs in recent memory.
With Jeff Novak's short-lived Peoploids demos now re-recorded for the Cheap Time LP, also included is the crowd favorite "People Talk" (by the Jack Oblivian-penned late 80s band, The End), which was given new life, along with a boatload of viciously steaming pop hits surely destined for futuristic radio playlists on far away planets. The energy levels are insurmountable, the songs are simply unstoppable, and the damage they will do to the pop underworld is recklessly unavoidable. Cheap Time have the style, the spirit and the guts to tour like crazy and go far, so it's without any further hesitation that you lift up your lazy ass and pick up a copy of their remarkable contemporary touchstone of punk/pop brilliance before your little sister is downloading the tracks into her dirty diapers, and Jeff enters his hopefully unnecessary Cockney Rebel phase. Of course, I'm kidding, but with the doors blown wide open like they have been in the last few years, anything is possible, and being bowled over by new sounds is still as refreshing as ever before.
Artist info obtained from public profile, artist website or social media
Cheap Time have come a long way in the short time they've been around, and it's with great pleasure that we finally have the culmination of their efforts distilled into the epic full-length sitting here before us. Even back in Jeff's formative days with his solo project, the Jeffrey Novak One Man Band, it was evident that he had so much more to give to the rock'n'roll underworld than that, or his contribution in the Rat Traps could suggest. Even despite the adrenaline-crazed sounds he was spewing forth, drumstick in guitar strumming hand, you can still marvel at the energy levels frantic enough to jump start a semi truck. In his latest creation, Cheap Time is a refined power pop vehicle that gleans the irresistible glittery nuances from all the right hiding spots for modern inspiration, and blasts them forth onto the futuristic palette of today's glam-savvy punk fans to absorb while scrambling to pick up the last scraps of non-comped Velvet Tinmine tracks still floating around.
As they displayed so brashly on their debut 7" on Sweet Rot last year, and their face-smashing follow-up Handy Man 7" on Douche Master earlier this year, Cheap Time still holds their Redd Kross influence close to their heart. Yet with further expansion on the 1976-era fork in the road artistic direction, they belligerently steer themselves into unclassifiable categories, akin to when the newly marketed 'punk' label was still being applied to atypical bands like The Quick, Television, The Fast and Milk 'n Cookies, much to the confusion of the record-buying public. While Cheap Time may inconspicuously take more cues from the Dickies, Sparks and Zolar X than anyone else these days, it's their unique assembly of all these incorrigible styles into one cohesive sounding record that makes them rise above the overall current wave of pop music, and into the clear forefront of modern rock'n'roll. As an album full of intensely buzzing hits and virtually no misses, its impact is immediate and irreversible and pulls the sticky sweet reduction of all these long-forgotten styles into one of the tightest and most enjoyable debut LPs in recent memory.
With Jeff Novak's short-lived Peoploids demos now re-recorded for the Cheap Time LP, also included is the crowd favorite "People Talk" (by the Jack Oblivian-penned late 80s band, The End), which was given new life, along with a boatload of viciously steaming pop hits surely destined for futuristic radio playlists on far away planets. The energy levels are insurmountable, the songs are simply unstoppable, and the damage they will do to the pop underworld is recklessly unavoidable. Cheap Time have the style, the spirit and the guts to tour like crazy and go far, so it's without any further hesitation that you lift up your lazy ass and pick up a copy of their remarkable contemporary touchstone of punk/pop brilliance before your little sister is downloading the tracks into her dirty diapers, and Jeff enters his hopefully unnecessary Cockney Rebel phase. Of course, I'm kidding, but with the doors blown wide open like they have been in the last few years, anything is possible, and being bowled over by new sounds is still as refreshing as ever before.
Artist info obtained from public profile, artist website or social media
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