One For The Weekend: Jon Spencer & The HITmakers

Watch the video for "Worm Town" off Jon Spencer & the HITmakers' new album Spencer Gets It Lit out April 1st. 

Here's the scoop...

Taken from Jon Spencer & the HITmakers' forthcoming album, SPENCER GETS IT LIT!, "Worm Town" is a cautionary tale told with swagger and strut. 

 

"Twinkle twinkle little star, tried to run but I didn't get far," croons Spencer, spinning his story over funky industrial percussion, chicken-scratch guitar, and interplanetary synths. "Worm Town" is a truly electric funeral, a futuristic fable for the 21st Centry and beyond. 

 

In a place truly out of time and space, the video - made long distance using the most modern computer and satellite technologies - sees Spencer and the HITmakers caught in a vicious time loop, heading for moral reckoning and an almost certain demise.

 

Spencer explains, "You can have all the money in the world, luxury yachts, oil wells, and command an army, but when your time is up - none of that will matter - you got to go. And what you reap, you gonna sow"

 

SPENCER GETS IT LIT! is classic Jon Spencer taken to the extremis – electro-boogie, constructivist art pop, a psychedelic swamp of industrial sleaze and futurist elegance. It is an epic master work of freak beat from the world’s weirdest garage. Across brain-boggling layers of fury, fuzz guitar, and a crash-bang battery of phaser blasts, photon torpedoes, and otherworldly zounds, he frantically spits, croons, rhapsodizes, and seduces. Spencer Gets It Lit is his most complex and groovy record in years, a dark, danceable odyssey – both a studied take-down of the early 21st century, and a celebration of the place where electricity meets the mind. 

 

Thirteen wicked hot songs of love, loss, lust, life — from the Farfisa-fueled,warped psycho -punk  rave-up of “Junk Man,” to the intimate lover's plea of “My Hit Parade,” to the outer-space end-of-days country funk of “Worm Town," Spencer Gets It Lit delivers all of the friction, excitement, and post-modern depravity one could ever ask for!

 

Says Spencer, "Send out the Hit Signal! This is the most uncompromising album I've ever made!" 

Check out "Worm Town" below followed by Jon Spencer & the HITmakers' upcoming tour dates. 

 

Jon Spencer & the HITmakers on tour

4/11 Buffalo, NY Rec Room

4/12 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace

4/13 Detroit, MI El Club

4/14 Chicago, IL Schubas

4/15 Milwaukee, WI Back Room at Colectivo

4/16 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry

4/18 Omaha, NE Waiting Room

4/19 Denver, CO Globe Hall

4/20 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge

4/21 Boise, ID Neurolux

4/22 Portland, OR Dantes

4/23 Vancouver, BC Fox Cabaret

4/24 Seattle, WA Madame Lou’s (The Crocodile Second Stage)

4/26 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill

4/27 Los Angeles, CA The Echo

4/28 San Diego, CA Casbah

4/29 Tucson, AZ 191 Toole

4/30 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar

5/01 Santa Fe, NM Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery

5/02 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep

5/03 Wichita, KS Wave

5/04 Kansas City, MO Record Bar

5/05 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill Duck Room

5/06 Indianapolis, IN Hi-Fi

5/07 Louisville, KY Zanzabar

5/08 Charlottesville, VA The Southern