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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — Now I Got Worry [reissue]

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By Matt Blair (CHARTattack) May 28, 2010 3:47 pm
Remastering a record as deliberately lo-fi and raw as 1996's Now I Got Worry — which has arguably been the peak of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's recorded career — seems like a dangerous game. What if you "correct" too much of the rough, unapologetic grit that makes this album so unique? Aren't you basically running the risk of...
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Now I Got Worry
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — Dirty Shirt Rock 'N' Roll: The First Ten Years

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) April 16, 2010 4:45 pm
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are truly a band out-of-time, and it'd be curious to surmise whether they would've been more tapped had they arrived in 2002 rather than 1992. After all, bands like The White Stripes, The Hives and King Khan & The Shrines bore similar tunes and 'tude as the venerable NYC garage rocker. And yet even amid the...
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Chart Time Tunnel: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) October 16, 2009 3:10 pm
With so much of the world honouring the events of 20 years ago behind what was known at the time as The Iron Curtain, let's take a glimpse back at the campus charts from a decade ago, during a time when we weren't celebrating the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Julie Doiron And Wooden Stars' self-titled collaboaration was still...
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Khan — No Comprendo

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) May 8, 2001 2:59 pm
With the presence of such celebrity vocalists as Jon Spencer, Diamanda Galas and Andre Williams, it’s not too surprising that No Comprendo comes across as the electronic representative of the bluesy sludge-o rock that Williams and Spencer both work to the maximum.If The Cramps invaded Kraftwerk's recording studio and attacked their swamp...
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