The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Announce Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015, Share “Do the Get Down” Visual
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion have, as promised one year ago, announced the follow-up to 2012′s Meat and Bone. Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015 is out March 24 via Mom + Pop. It was recorded at the Daptone House of Soul in Bushwick.
Check out the Allen Cordell-edited “reverse gentrification”-themed visual featuring “Do the Get Down” below. It collects clips featuring iconic NYC figures, artists, movies, and musicians, including Jay Z, Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, the Ramones, Lou Reed, and more.
According to a press release, the album is “a document of New York City, a chronicle of grit and terror and love.” It continues:
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!
The band have also announced their first string of upcoming tour dates with more shows to be announced later. Their first date is a Planned Parenthood benefit in Brooklyn on Valentine’s Day featuring Julianna Barwick, Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith Group, Austin Brown of Parquet Courts, Jonathan Toubin, Shannon Funchess of Light Asylum, and more. Check out the dates below the video and tracklist.
Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015:
01 Funeral
02 Wax Dummy
03 Do the Get Down
04 Betty vs. the NYPD
05 White Jesus
06 Born Bad
07 Down and Out
08 Crossroad Hop
09 The Ballad of Joe Buck
10 Dial Up Doll
11 Bellevue Baby
12 Tales of Old New York: The Rock Box
13 Cooking for Television
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion:
02-14 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall Of Williamsburg (Planned Parenthood Benefit)
04-08 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall
04-09 Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
04-10 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
04-11 Washington, DC – Black Cat
04-12 Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
04-15 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
04-16 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
04-17 Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree
04-18 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
04-19 Louisville, KY – Zanzabar
04-20 Indianapolis, IN – Radio Radio
04-21 Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
04-23 Columbus, OH – The Basement
04-24 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
04-25 Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theater
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