
Over the last couple of years when we've written about The Polyphonic Spree it mostly focused around their enthusiasm for holiday music. On August 6, the choral-rock ensemble will release their properly punctuated album - Yes, It's True. - their first set of new material since 20072s The Fragile Army . The Tim DeLaughter fronted act, who harnessed the power of crowd-sourcing to help fund their new record in raising $100,000, will head out for a 12-date summer tour, which includes a high profile appearance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, as well [...]

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will head out on tour this summer, getting in a show at Lancaster, PA's Chameleon Club on July 19th. The rock and roll band returned in 2012 with Meat and Bone after an eight year hiatus, during which members of the band pursued other musical interests while still releasing compilation albums and occasionally performing live together. Tickets and information for the summer show can be found here . The return of the Blues Explosion was marked in Philadelphia with a rousing and exceptionally loud Free at Noon performance in October; [...]

JSPE @ Bowery Ballroom, Nov. 2012 ( more by Lionel Bergeron ) Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has just announced a summer North American tour that will hit the Southwest, West, and the Northeast. NYC will get a visit on July 18 at Music Hall of Williamsburg . Tickets for that show go on sale Thursday (4/25) at noon. Jon Spencer last played NYC back in November . They may be exploding the blues near you, too. All JSBE [...]
The Quebec City Summer Festival has revealed its 2013 lineup. This year marks the festival's 46th anniversary, with over 100 performances scheduled between July 4th and 14th. The lineup includes The Black Keys, Wu-Tang Clan, Rush, Passion Pit, MGMT, Belle & Sebastian, Weezer, Bassnectar, Ellie Goulding, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Father John Misty, Amadou & Mariam, Solange, The Joy Formidable, Mac DeMarco, Diamond Rings, Austra, Lunice, Justin Townes Earle, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Besnard Lakes, and Doldrums. Also playing are Dr. John, Tiësto, Bruno Mars, Def Leppard, Wiz Khalifa, Femi Kuti & The [...]

auf rock'n'roll ist verlass. wo popmusik oftmals nur flüchtige silhouetten erschafft und die eigene kurzlebigkeit mit viel inszenierung zelebriert, steht der rock'n'roll mit beiden füßen fest auf dem boden und will sich von nichts und niemanden bändigen lassen...
Returning for a third outing, if this year streamlined to but the one solitary day next month is to witness the return of All Tomorrow's Parties' tangential I'll Be Your Mirror festival to Alexandra Palace for an afternoon-cum-early evening-cum-black night shebang which looks set to be explosive, and so too expansive as any other. For where previous editions have focussed on altogether gloomier aesthetics ( Portishead called upon anyone and everyone from DOOM and Company Flow to Swans and GY!BE, whilst last year featured the likes of the Melvins, Slayer, Codeine and so on) this [...]
We're completely ecstatic to reveal the second wave of artists playing at Sled Island 2013! Lineup additions include Danish hardcore phenoms Iceage, indie rock royalty Superchunk, the Miami-based doom pop of Torche, The Night Marchers featuring members of Sled Island 2012 faves, Hot Snakes, psych-rock hype factory Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Weakerthans frontman John K. Sampson, and prolific lo-fi folksters Mount Eerie performing with a full band. Also announced today is the mind-melting masters of hip hop jazz improvisation, BadBadNotGood, hyperbole-inducing Ottawa-based producer Ryan Hemsworth, frantic Vancouver punk rockers White Lung, artful R&B pop crooner Javelin and genre-defying Los Angeles DJ, [...]

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are one of the many great bands to come out of the 90s. A few years ago, it seemed like their days of rock were behind them, but a funny little thing happened in recent memory. A few performances here and there has lead to a pretty regular schedule for the band, and so that leads us to today. The band have announced a few summer dates with a few more likely forthcoming. Check out the list below. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion tour dates: 06/14/13 - [...]

Ottawa Bluesfest has revealed the lineup for its 2013 festival, which takes place July 4th - 14th at Lebreton Flats Park in Ottawa, Ontario. The lineup includes Skrillex, Wu-Tang Clan, Passion Pit, Animal Collective, Belle & Sebastian, Neko Case, Tegan & Sara, She & Him, Killer Mike, El-P, Weezer, Stars, Sharon Van Etten, Dawes, The Joy Formidable, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Fitz & the Tantrums, Amadou & Mariam, Justin Townes Earle, Diamond Rings, Atlas Genius, LP, Ra Ra Riot, and Camera Obscura. Also playing are Dixie Chicks, Rush, B.B. King, Zac Bown Band, fun., [...]

A quick peruse of the recently released Golden Plains Lucky Seven set times tells you one thing: you'll need to be full of beans until well into the wee hours, as some of the highlights come late late on Saturday night. Taking place at the Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre in Victoria, this festival is beaut by virtue of the fact that it all happens on one stage. There are no hellish clashes and no excruciating sacrifices to make. Easy as pie! You can see CAT POWER [...]

It's contest time free music fans! Here are deets for our contest today: Up for grabs: One lucky winner will receive a spot with +1 on the promoter's will call list for the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion show at Red 7 on Tuesday the 22nd. How to enter: Leave a comment with why you should win and we will pick the best entry! Closing Time: Monday @ 5pm. Don't forget a valid email address so we can get in touch [...]
Two gigs coming up in NOLA at One Eyed Jacks. The Blues Explosion on the 20th (tickets) and Calexico on the 24th (tickets). The JSBX burned the house down at fest two years back...this should be no different. To land a pair, leave your name, an email (in the email field) and which show you [...]

Le Blues Explosion de Jon Spencer, Russell Simins et Judah Bauer est un groupe blues-punk né au début des années 90, spécialisé dans le rock'n'roll groovy et furieux, référence pour des milliers de groupes rock dans le monde, héraut du rock indépendant n'ayant jamais connu de succès mainstream à l'instar de certains groupes qu'ils auront inspirés. « Bag of Bones » est un extrait de Meat + Bone , album come-back sorti en 2012, que vous pouvez écouter sur Grooveshark . → Allez relire « Le Jon Spencer Blues [...]
In their video for " Bag Of Bones ," a troglodytic stomp-rocker from their 2012 comeback album Meat And Bones , the members of the reunited '90s underground hellraisers Jon Spencer Blues Explosion appear in animated form. They travel through a psychedelic universe, starting barfights and macking on six-eyed alien ladies. Seems like it should be an average Tuesday for these guys. Lucy Dyson and Joseph Jensen direct; watch it below. Read More...
[author-name] In their video for " Bag Of Bones ," a troglodytic stomp-rocker from their 2012 comeback album Meat And Bones , the members of the reunited '90s underground hellraisers Jon Spencer Blues Explosion appear in animated form. They travel through a psychedelic universe, starting barfights and macking on six-eyed alien ladies. Seems like it should be an average Tuesday for these guys. Lucy Dyson and Joseph Jensen direct; watch it below. Read More... [...]
[author-name] In their video for " Bag Of Bones ," a troglodytic stomp-rocker from their 2012 comeback album Meat And Bones ,

"Don't call it a comeback" is usually a phrase uttered self-protectively by musicians who are very much coming back from some degree of obscurity. Dr. Dre wasn't exactly absent during the seven-year stretch between his first and second albums ("California Love," anybody?), but his 1999 sophomore release 2001 is littered with lines like "Ladies pay homage, but haters say Dre fell off/ How, nigga? My last album was The Chronic ." If he ever gets around to releasing Detox , it'll surely be stacked with similar "I never went away" rhetoric (and, undoubtedly, lyrics about headphones.) [...]

For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012 . You can see what our listeners voted for as their Top Albums of 2012 here . Cody ChesnuTT at our CMJ broadcast at CMJ Union NYC, 10/17/12 // photo credit: Benjamin Mobley ( more photos ) Michele's 2012 Top Ten Albums Greetings music lovers, it's that time of the year again where the KEXP DJs reach into their hearts and [...]