The JSBX North American Tour Begins April 8
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Brings Freedom to North America!
Tour Begins April 8
Explosive Live Footage From The Legendary Five Borough Freedom Tour
Watch it NOW On Brooklyn Vegan!
‘Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015’
Album Out Now Through Mom+Pop
Cassette Freedom Coming Soon From Burger Records
Photo by Christina Domingues
The Five Borough Freedom Tour – NOW THE TRUTH CAN BE TOLD!
THE BLUES WAS #1 IN NEW YORK CITY ALL LAST WEEK! To celebrate the release of their long-playing record album Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015, the Blues Explosion brought their brand of high-octane street hassling back home, with an unprecedented Five Borough Freedom Tour! Relive all the excitement with this special film report, as they level neighborhoods in Staten Island, Manhattan, Jersey City, Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Queens!
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:
April 8 – Iron Horse Music Hall – Northampton, MA
April 9 – Brighton Music Hall – Allston, MA
April 10 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
April 11 – Black Cat – Washington DC
April 12 – The Southern – Charlottesville, VA
April 14 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC
April 15 – Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC
April 16 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA
April 17 – The Syndicate – 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 22 – Blind Pig – Ann Arbor, MI
April 23 – The Basement – Columbus, OH
April 24 – Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
April 25 – Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, PA
May 6 – Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA
May 7 – The Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
May 8 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
May 9 – The Ritz – San Jose, CA
May 11 – WOW Hall – Eugene, OR
May 12 – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR
May 13 – Imperial Theatre – Vancouver BC
May 14 – The Crocodile – Seattle, WA
May 15 – The Bartlett – Spokane, WA
May 16 – Neurolux – Boise, ID
May 17 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
May 19 – Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO
May 21 – Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
May 22 – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
May 23 – Casbah – San Diego, CA
May 27 – Abbey Bar – Harrisburg, PA
May 28 – Bowery Ballroom – NYC, NY
June 8 – Higher Ground – Burlngton, VT
June 9 – Fairmount Theatre – Montreal, QC
June 10 – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON
June 12 – Thalia Hall/Drill – Chicago, IL
June 13 – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI
June 14 – Turf Club – St. Paul, MN
June 15 – Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
June 16 – Record Bar, Kansas City, MO
June 17 – Rose Music Hall – Columbia, MO
June 18 – Old Rock House – St. Louis, MO
June 19 – Woodward Theater – Cincinnati, OH
June 20 – 123 Pleasant Street – Morgantown, WV
“A record as chaotic and full of life as the city that inspired it, Freedom Tower sweats with feverish energy.“ Consequence Of Sound
“Proof that the city hasn’t lost its soul just yet” New York Post
““The band’s 10th album is a Big Apple riot…electronic glitches skip, hi-hats plink harshly, vocals are distorted and echoed, and explosions explode.” Rolling Stone
“… greasy riffs, twanging licks, tight drumbeats, banging, clattering, handclapping, and leather-trousered ass wiggling….expertly rendered, precisely messy, irresistibly life-affirming punky, funky rock ‘n’ roll.” Under The Radar
“…an infectiously upbeat energy that keeps that action moving at a brisk clip ….the Blues Explosion’s cheeky, scrappy brand of rock’n’roll is still something to cherish in the here and now.” Pitchfork
“Freedom Tower is a record you need to hear because it proves the golden rule of rock music. Just play your balls off and the ass will follow.” Big Takeover
“Freedom Tower pares the group back to the elements, the razor-wire riffs some of their best; while Spencer’s holler sounds as grease-slicked and super-cool as ever” **** MOJO
“Freedom Tower showcases three men who grasp that great rock’n’roll can be at once rudimentary, virtuoso and preposterous” **** Uncut
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‘DO THE GET DOWN’, ‘BETTY VS. THE NYPD’ AND ‘ROCK BOX’
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!
Coming soon from Burger Records; a cassette version of FREEDOM TOWER. Here’s what Sean Bohrman of Burger has to say about it: “In 1998 I was in high school laying on my bed watching MTV2 and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Talk About The Blues” came on and I immediately sat up. I loved the song, told my friends to check it out and bought ACME on CD. It became my soundtrack on long drives. Now, through the help of our friend Matt Rendon of The Resonars, we’re on JSBX’s radar and the stars have aligned for us to collaborate on a cassette release of their excellent new album, Freedom Tower!!! Real attracts real, so we’re really honored that this is really happening!!!”
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