12 June 2026
Blues rock veteran JON SPENCER has been riffin’ around since 1983. He did so, with…
take a deep breath, his first band Pussy Galore, his gang the Blues Explosion, with his wife Christina Martinez‘s in Boss Hog, with his group the Hitmakers, and now as a trio (under his own name) with Kendall Wind on bass and Spider Bowman on drums.
Their album, called SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST, is out now.
Press info: “Garage punk for today, hyper-driven soul and powerhouse grooves,
beats hard as diamonds and slick as ice, fuzz bass in your face, and an avalanche
of uncontrollable urges, pushing Jon’s latest outbursts — hollering, drooling, sexified crooning, and vociferously lamenting these difficult times — to new levels of rock’n’roll expressionism.”
Spencer: “I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning. These past few years, there has been a lot of emotional conflict and personal loss, the passing of time takes its toll. Losing friends, losing family, and all of this set against a world gone topsy-turvy, where it feels like we are losing
basic freedoms I’m trying to balance a lot of things, but the answer is always rock ’n’ roll.”
TUTV: Spencer is fed up, as millions of us, with that monkey in the White House. He totally messed up the world’s balance with trade wars, insulting and intimidating other countries and their leaders for not kissing his fat ass, and with his economically disastrous Iran war, and all this in just 18 months. Whatever disturbs Spencer’s mind, he seeks distraction in his music, as we music junkies do in listening to it.
There’s an abundance of anxiety, anger, and fury to ventilate on this new record, instigating a non-stop riff-licks-hooks flood. Old skool blues explosions. A 32-minute
tirade of raging rock ‘n’ rebellious roll excitation. Songs Of Personal Loss And Protest has enough deliberative firepower to reinvigorate us with the confidence to face and fight
the daily turmoil caused by larger-than-life egos in charge, who derail our lives.
Thanks, Jon.
Singles.
– KNOCK ‘EM OUT –
– ORANGE SLICE BLUES –