Jon Spencer Blues Explosion new album and tour
Hail, hail rock 'n' roll! And all hail the The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion! Back with a brand new album and an Australian tour in August 2015.
Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 be thy album name and it's every bit as triumphant and exciting as the title would suggest. Rehearsed and polished in a string of secret gigs and unannounced opening slots in New York City theatres, hotel bars, and dives (often under assumed names), and recorded at the legendary Daptone House Of Soul in Bushwick, Freedom Tower - like the best sides that percolated up from the Bronx, the Lower East Side, and Greenwich Village across the 1970s and ‘80s - is more than a high-octane dance party record, it is a document of New York City, a chronicle of grit and terror and love!
For nearly a quarter-century the Blues Explosion have been sweating, freezing, eating, drinking, fucking, fighting, winning, and losing in New York City, perpetrating some of the most timeless moments of musical mayhem in the history of Manhattan and beyond. As ever, Jon Spencer tells the tales, Judah Bauer plays the blues, and Russell Simins smashes things to bits... And as always Blues Explosion stomp on the faux underground oasis peddled by bourgeois hipsters and marketing jocks to deliver the real deal - rock’n’roll that is unapologetically nasty and strong.
In recent times JSBX have toured Australia appearing at the Golden Plains Festival, Sydney Festival, Hobart's MOFO and on select double-bills with fellow noise addicts Dinosaur Jr. They return this time for a headline appearance at Supersense - Melbourne's newest cultural event - also featuring John Cale, Lydia Lunch, Mark Ribot, Chris Abrahams (The Necks), HTRK and more. It's a (super) sensory overload with the Blues Explosion being the proud bearers of the 'overload'. Elsewhere The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will lift the roof off venues in New Zealand, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart and Perth with Queensland gutter-punks HITS joining the circus for shows in Brisbane and Sydney.
There are eight million stories in the Naked City - but there is only one Blues Explosion!
Ladies & gentlemen, please welcome the fabulous, most groovy, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion back to Australian shores this August.
Tickets for all shows except Supersense Festival on-sale June 5th
Thu 6th Aug - Brisbane, The Zoo - tickets from Oztix
Fri 7th Aug - Sydney University, Manning Bar - tickets from Oztix
Sat 8th Aug - Melbourne Arts Centre, Supersense Festival - tickets from the Supersense Festival
Sun 9th Aug - Hobart, Republic Bar - tickets from Moshtix
Tue 11th Aug - Perth, Rosemount Hotel - tickets from Oztix
Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 be thy album name and it's every bit as triumphant and exciting as the title would suggest. Rehearsed and polished in a string of secret gigs and unannounced opening slots in New York City theatres, hotel bars, and dives (often under assumed names), and recorded at the legendary Daptone House Of Soul in Bushwick, Freedom Tower - like the best sides that percolated up from the Bronx, the Lower East Side, and Greenwich Village across the 1970s and ‘80s - is more than a high-octane dance party record, it is a document of New York City, a chronicle of grit and terror and love!
For nearly a quarter-century the Blues Explosion have been sweating, freezing, eating, drinking, fucking, fighting, winning, and losing in New York City, perpetrating some of the most timeless moments of musical mayhem in the history of Manhattan and beyond. As ever, Jon Spencer tells the tales, Judah Bauer plays the blues, and Russell Simins smashes things to bits... And as always Blues Explosion stomp on the faux underground oasis peddled by bourgeois hipsters and marketing jocks to deliver the real deal - rock’n’roll that is unapologetically nasty and strong.
In recent times JSBX have toured Australia appearing at the Golden Plains Festival, Sydney Festival, Hobart's MOFO and on select double-bills with fellow noise addicts Dinosaur Jr. They return this time for a headline appearance at Supersense - Melbourne's newest cultural event - also featuring John Cale, Lydia Lunch, Mark Ribot, Chris Abrahams (The Necks), HTRK and more. It's a (super) sensory overload with the Blues Explosion being the proud bearers of the 'overload'. Elsewhere The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will lift the roof off venues in New Zealand, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart and Perth with Queensland gutter-punks HITS joining the circus for shows in Brisbane and Sydney.
There are eight million stories in the Naked City - but there is only one Blues Explosion!
Ladies & gentlemen, please welcome the fabulous, most groovy, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion back to Australian shores this August.
Tickets for all shows except Supersense Festival on-sale June 5th
Thu 6th Aug - Brisbane, The Zoo - tickets from Oztix
Fri 7th Aug - Sydney University, Manning Bar - tickets from Oztix
Sat 8th Aug - Melbourne Arts Centre, Supersense Festival - tickets from the Supersense Festival
Sun 9th Aug - Hobart, Republic Bar - tickets from Moshtix
Tue 11th Aug - Perth, Rosemount Hotel - tickets from Oztix
