SPILL NEWS: JON SPENCER ANNOUNCES NEW SHOWS FOR 2027 | BRAND NEW ALBUM ‘SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST’ AVAILABLE NOW VIA SHOVE RECORDS

JON SPENCER ANNOUNCES NEW SHOWS FOR 2027

BRAND NEW ALBUM SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST AVAILABLE NOW VIA SHOVE RECORDS

Jon Spencer can’t take any more on his latest long-player, SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST. Backed once again by the powerhouse rhythm section of Kendall Wind and Spider Bowman, Mr. Blues Explosion is still lighting the torches and ringing the bells, singing and preaching from the rooftops, live on the world stage, on the airwaves, via satellite, and right here, right now, on a brand-new record.

Can rock’n’roll change the world?

Jon Spencer says YES.

“I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning,” Jon confides. “These past few years there has been a lot of emotional conflict and personal loss — the passing of time takes its toll.  Losing friends, losing family, and all of this set against a world gone topsy turvy where it feels like we are losing basic freedoms… I’m trying to balance a lot of things, but the answer is always rock’n’roll.”

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Across twelve brand new songs, Jon tears his heart out singing songs torn from the front page and beyond: futuristic power blues and garage-punk explosionisms about the nausea and paranoia delivered by a reality show president, and the power and resilience it takes to rebel. It is all deeply personal — the fight to create and live and push back against the dark forces —  but he never loses sight that we’re all in this together.

“Rock’n’roll is America’s true gift to the world — the sound of revolution! It came out of the sky, a screaming, chrome-plated flying saucer, like an outer space monster, landed here on Earth so the freaks could have their say. It  is the hip-shaking sound of rebellion. The blues is my bible, rock’n’roll is our battle cry!”

SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST ALBUM REVIEW

SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST was recorded with Jon’s super-powered touring band, and if you’ve been lucky enough to see them in the past few years — they’ve been playing non-stop, destroying audiences from Akron to Osaka, from San Jose to Santiago  – then you know that Jon is still fronting the world’s greatest rock’n’roll live show: rama-la soul-shaking set for stun, sweat-soaked, and ultimately, beautifully, uplifting.

Picking up where 2024’s mini–LP SICK OF BEING SICK left off, Jon tears it up with Spider Bowman on drums and Kendall Wind on bass. They deliver hyper-driven soul and powerhouse groove, beats hard as diamonds and slick as ice, fuzz bass in your face, and an avalanche of uncontrollable urges, pushing Jon’s latest outbursts — hollering, drooling, sexified crooning, and vociferously lamenting these difficult times — to new levels of rock’n’roll expressionism.

SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST is the New New Super Heavy Rock for Hard Times.

Tour Dates

LIVE SHOWS 2026
11/7 – Olympia, WA – Ilk Lodge *
11/8 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre *
11/9 – Seattle, WA – The Sunset *
11/10 – Portland, OR – Dante’s *
11/11 – Eugene, OR – John Henry’s *
11/12 – Arcata, CA – The MIniplex
11/13 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill* SOLD OUT
11/14 – Santa Cruz, CA – Moe’s Alley *
11/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *
11/16 – San Diego, CA – Casbah *

* with special guests Genre Is Death

JUST ANNOUNCED: 2027
1/14 – Syracuse, NY – Funk N Waffles
1/15 – Buffalo, NY – Mohawk Place
1/16 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
1/17 – Ferndale, MI – Magic Bag
1/18 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
1/19 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
1/20 – Cudahy, WI – X-Ray Arcade
1/21 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
1/22 – Omaha, NE – Waiting Room
1/23 – Lawrence, KS – Bottleneck
1/24 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
1/25 – Memphis, TN – Hernando’s Hideaway
1/27 – Dallas, TX 0 Deep Ellum Art Co
1/28 – Austin, TX – Continental Club
1/29 – Houston, TX – White Oak (Upstairs)
1/30 – New Orleans, LA – Chickie Wah Wah
1/31 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
2/1 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
2/2 – Nashville, TN – 3rd and Lindsley
2/3 – Louisville, KY – Whirling Tiger
2/5 – Cincinnati, OH – Woodward Theater
2/6 – Millvale, PA – Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
2/7 – Washington, D.C. – Union Stage
2/8 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
2/9 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
2/10 – New Haven, CT – Cafe Nine
2/11 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
2/12 – Portland, ME – Oxbow Blending & Bottling
2/13 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall

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Photo Credits: Skyler Smith