Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV's Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from '80s college rock to '00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten [...]

photo by Renata Steiner With a name like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , who could go wrong? But thankfully for all of us, these New Yorkers deserve the name. After all, they've been blowing our minds for over 20 years. With a ten LPs, a large collection of EPs and B-sides compilations and countless singles, Spencer and his band of rockers are master craftsmen in their own way. Blues Explosion is in a league of its own. Drawing on American roots music and down and dirty rock 'n' roll, their songs are a complex concoction [...]
Tracks: No Reservations Tell me That You Love Me My War Get Your Pants On Black Thoughts Not Clear Still Chicken Dog Strange Baby / Happy Birthday Elvis
The stuff that dreams are made of... C'mon, you didn't actually think I'd publish my 2011 lists during the actual year of 2011...did you? Now that I have the undivided attention of eight people: Best Show(s) That I Never Saw Lightning Bolt at Healthy Times Fun Club (RIP) Soundgarden/Queens of the Stone Age/Mastodon etc. at the Gorge Pig Destroyer at [...]
Março é mês de regresso da Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, de acordo com o site oficial do trio: dia 14 no Hard Club, no Porto, e, no dia seguinte, naquela sala do Cais do Sodré com nome de serviço de telecomunicações móveis.

Recommended Show: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2011 JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION @ MAXWELL'S 1039 Washington St Hoboken, NJ 07030 $15, 8PM This show might sound familiar. We recommended Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at Maxwell's about a month ago . That show ended up being canceled, but this time it's really happening. Suzanne Vega @ Joe's Pub 2:54, Total Slacker, & Dive @ Shea Stadium Little Scream, Rain Machine, & Akau @ Pianos The Lighthouse and The Whaler & [...]

ATP Concerts have announced that The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will play The Scala in London on March 8th. Tickets go on sale this coming Monday at 10am from here .
Watch 10 more scary/frightful music videos from last year's edition. HEALTH - "We Are Water" Directed by Eric Wareheim. Rob Zombie - "Living Dead Girl" Directed by Rob Zombie. Misfits - "American Psycho" Directed by John Cafiero. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Sweet'N'Sour" Directed by StyleWar. Masia One Feat. Death From Above 1979 - "The Hazing" Directed by Matt Burke. Bookmark [...]

Recommended Show: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011 JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION @ MAXWELL'S 1039 Washington St Hoboken, NJ 07030 $15, 8PM Holy shit! It wasn't long ago when we announced 2011 tour dates for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ; New York wasn't on the list. While Maxwell's is technically New Jersey, we're happy about this! Signal Path @ Brooklyn Bowl Iron and Wine & The Low Anthem @ Terminal 5 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson @ Glasslands The Crystal [...]

Blues Explosion @ SSSeaport in 2009 ( more by Dominick Mastrangelo ) "Everywhere we go, people ask us, When will the Blues Explosion record a new album? And while I respect that spirit, and we are flattered and feel the passion of our fans, the reason to make a new record has to reside inside the Blues Explosion. And a show at the world-famous Maxwell's club in Hoboken New Jersey is a perfect opportunity to perform some new material before taking it into the recording studio." - Jon Spencer [...]
The Huffington Post interviews author Jennifer Egan about growing up in San Francisco. How did living in San Francisco shape your work? I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the 60s. We were bummed out about it. I grew up feeling like I wanted to grow up ten years earlier, and I wanted to construct every sense of what that moment was like. I made a study of what the counterculture consisted of, and it led me into other [...]

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at Brooklyn Bowl in 2010 ( more by Ryan Muir ) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion spent a good portion of the past year touring in support of reissues stuffed with rare/unreleased tracks, including appearances at Matador 21 , Pitchfork , and other dates. The band's other recent accomplishments include a split with Melvins on AmRep and a SuperBowl commercial . In the future you can catch the the NYC trio on October 13th [...]
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ARTIST: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - [Discography, Part Two] Examining JSBX' releases from Acme through present day. DATE: 08-31-11 WRITER: Bill Adams By 1998, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion had already caused a pretty impressiev stir in the North American Underground rock community. By then, they had already dragged the blues kicking and screaming into the modern age by introducing it to a quagmire of new ideas and stimuli. The results were truly view-expanding as [view more]
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ARTIST: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - [Discography, Part One] Examining JSBX' releases from Year One through Controversial Negro. DATE: 08-31-11 WRITER: Bill Adams The problem with being in the music press is that on occasion, it's virtually impossible to construct a running dialogue that logically explains an artist's growth. Sometimes it just seems like there's no rhyme or reason to the steps an artist takes between points A, B and C without including a multitude of other steps [view more]

ARTIST: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Lights The Fuse For Another Charge After having looked back for last year's reissues project, Jon Spencer now starts carefully looking forward. DATE: 08-13-11 WRITER: Bill Adams It may have been almost a decade since last the band launched a large-scale tour but, since the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion unveiled its mammoth reissue project last year, they've fallen right back in step with old practices and taken every opportunity to remind the world what they're made of. Most recently, the band embarked on [...]
Recently we were debating the relevance of a reunited Jon Spencer Blues Explosion —the band will be at the Wonder Ballroom on August 18—and how their recent reformation hasn't garnered the fawning praise of another seminal '90s indie act that is headed this way in the coming weeks. Truth is, JSBX were always a polarizing act, one that elicited its fair share of commentary, both positive (at a land of slack shouldered mumbling frontman, the Spencer was king) and negative (they sound like Blues Hammer ). Yet no matter where you side on [...]

Ah man you haven't heard of Matt Pinfield ? What's wrong with you? You must of been really stoned in the 902s or your're from Canada. The music industry in the world of DJs and VJs was pretty much catered and curated by him all the way from with his early College Radio days in the mid 802s to today. If there is a up and coming act Uncle Matty knows about them - no researcher tells him. He just listens and literally gives them a spin. One of those place was the old Melody Bar on French Street [...]

- Frequenze Split - JOHN SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION & MELVINS meet "BLACKBETTY" t he john spencer blues explosion - black betty m elvins - black betty

El Mono recomienda rockear para no enfriar: Esta semana estaremos de gira con The DT's y The Tormentos por Brasil. Pero antes, vamos todos el miércoles a Niceto Club para la edición argentina del festival Porão do Rock. Confira la lista de eventos de la familia Scatter Records para esta semana: > The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (USA) / The DT's (USA) / The Tormentos / Satan Dealers en Niceto Club [...]