The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Are Officially Done

Followers who’ve been ready for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion to reunite after their lengthy hiatus are in for some disappointment as founding member Jon Spencer confirmed what most individuals already knew, that the band was formally finished.

The three-piece New York-based storage rock band fashioned in 1991 and made a reputation for themselves with stay reveals and with their experimental strategy to sound and recording strategies.

Whereas the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion discovered solely modest success on the charts, their musicality led them to collaborate with quite a few established artists, together with Elliott Smith, Beck, Solomon Burke, Steve Albini, Martina Topley-Hen and Advert Rock of the Beastie Boys.

Nevertheless, the group went on hiatus in 2016 after a last album, Freedom Tower was launched the earlier yr, and has been quiet since.

Now, Spencer revealed that the hiatus is everlasting throughout a current look on the Kreative Kontrol podcast, telling the host Vish Khanna that the group parted methods after founding member Judah Bauer power well being points made touring unviable for the group.

Spencer’s not finished with music although and launched a solo album in 2018. He’s additionally launched a brand new band, Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers with one digital album already within the can.

“Effectively, “by no means say by no means” however for my very own sanity I needed to come to grips that the band was finished—a minimum of in the interim—and that I ought to transfer on. Thus, the beginning of the Hitmakers.