The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion!
Brand New Album!
Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015
Out March 24th Through Mom + Pop
Listen To DO THE GET DOWN On Pitchfork
Appearing At Planned Parenthood Valentine's Day Benefit
at Music Hall Of Williamsburg
US Tour Begins April 8th
Side One
1. Funeral
2. Wax Dummy
3. Do The Get Down
4. Betty vs. the NYPD
5. White Jesus
6. Born Bad
7. Down and Out
Side Two
1. Crossroad Hop
2. The Ballad Of Joe Buck
3. Dial Up Doll
4. Bellevue Baby
5. Tales of Old New York: The Rock Box
6. Cooking for Television
New York City is a big place. A loud place. Some of that noise is music. And some of the music is noise.
Sucking it all in and turning it loose with prejudice, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion takes a ferocious bite out of the Big Apple with their new long-player, Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015, the first record of the new era that demands to be stopped and frisked!
Like the best sides that percolated up from the Bronx, the Lower East Side, and Greenwich Village across the 1970s and ‘80s – Freedom Tower 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!
It’s all here: The Hustler and The Trust Fund Baby, the Mosh Pit Casualty, the Celebrity Chef, the Crooked Cop, the Struggling Artist, the Sucker MC, the forgotten Sex Workers and Last-Chance Cinderellas. Within these grooves are cold-water tenements, blue-chip galleries, dingy Avenue B studios, and the last real warrior poet whose dark magick brings garage rock ghosts back from the grave!
Freedom Tower is a radical portrait of New York City set to the savage funkacide of the Blues Explosion, locked and loaded with the most deadly, predatory guitar riffs that primitive magnetic tape can handle…. From start to finish, Freedom Tower is overmodulated, cooked with dirt, and finished in acid rain! Freedom Tower is packed with the kind of beats and rhymes that will make even the most reserved Walter Mitty jump back and say “damn!”
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.
Rehearsed and polished in a string of secret gigs and unannounced opening slots in theaters, hotel bars, and dives (often under assumed names), and then recorded at the legendary Daptone House Of Soul in Bushwick and mixed with hip-hop cult legend Alap Momin at the cutting edge of Harlem, Freedom Tower is the most provocative statement of urban pathos and panache ever recorded.
Play this record at all-night rent parties, picnics, discotheques, and protests!
There are eight million stories in the Naked City — but there is only one Blues Explosion!
Freedom Tower - dig it now, while you still can!
Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 is available to pre-order now from iTunes, and direct from the band with exclusive JSBX tote bag and slipmat. All pre-orders come with an immediate download of Do The Get Down.
LIVE SHOWS
(More Forthcoming):
February 14 - Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NY
Planned Parenthood Benefit w/ Shannon Funchess (Light Asylum), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Julianna Barwick, Austin Brown (Parquet Courts), Jonathan Toubin DJ set, and more...
April 8 - Iron Horse Music Hall - Northampton, MA
April 9 - Brighton Music Hal - Allston, MA
April 10 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
April 11 - Black Cat - Washington DC
April 12 - The Southern - Charlottesville, VA
April 15 - Grey Eagle - Asheville, NC
April 16 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA
April 17 - The Bottletree - Birmingham, AL
April 18 - Mercy Lounge - Nashville, TN
April 19 - Zanzabar - Louisville, KY
April 20 - Radio Radio - Indianapolis, IN
April 21 - Pyramid Scheme - Grand Rapids, MI
April 23 - The Basement - Columbus, OH
April 24 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH
April 25 - Rex Theater - Pittsburgh, PA