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Event The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and special guests Garden State Social Club 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!

the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

THE BLUES IS # 1 in NEW YORK CITY, and to celebrate the release of their new long-playing record album Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will be bringing their brand of high-octane street hassling back home with an unprecedented Five Borough Freedom Tour!



The Blues Explosion will be leveling neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island the week of March 23 to March 28, including free shows at dive bars, breweries, and beyond!

And if those Five Fingers of Death weren't enough to knock you out, the JSBX will also blast out a special set at WFMU's new state-of-the-art recording & broadcasting facility, The Monty Hall, in the sixth borough, Jersey City, NJ !



Garden State Social Club

Sweaty-n-grindy R&B-infused all-NJ rock combo fronted by Lynne Von Pang and including ex-members of Raunch Hands, Swingin Neckbreakers, and Devil Dogs. The sound of a wild mash up of Laverne Baker, James Brown, Etta James, Tina Turner plus a handful of dirty Jersey originals! Location Monty Hall (View)

43 Montgomery St.

Jersey City, NJ 07302

United States 43 Montgomery St.Jersey City, NJ 07302United States Categories None

Minimum Age: 18 Dog Friendly: No Non-Smoking: Yes! Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! Contact Owner: WFMU On BPT Since: 06 Aug 2009 Liz Berg lizb@wfmu.org Q&A Question: I've never been to your new venue or seen Blues Explosion-shame I missed tix sales. Should I be online before 8pm to get tix? On the Montgomery entrance? Answer: We will be selling tickets at the door tonight, so just come to 43 Montgomery St by 8pm.

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