100+ Items Found For the jon spencer blues explosion (showing top 100 results)

Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.181) - "...With second guitarist Judah Bauer and drummer Russell Simins...[Spencer] wails fractured postmodern bluesoid stuff that's as weird, fun and spooky as original blues-dripping rockabilly."Entertainment Weekly (11/25/94, p.77) - "...New Yorker Spencer and his two bandmates jam like it's blues night in the psych ward....The resulting cross between rock and insanity can be thrilling in its fervency..."- Rating: BQ (10/94, p.126) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Blues Explosion manage to work on entertaining, lurching variations on the power trio format with Spencer himself exhibiting a hectoring deference to both Mark E. Smith and Jerry Lee Lewis..."Alternative Press (12/94, p.86) - "...ORANGE is an ambitious, well-executed release that shows growth while still shaking some action..."Option (3-4/95, p.135) - "...the third official Blues Explosion album peppers its scrungy, bar-based blues with funk, rockabilly, disco, Stax soul, several Elvis shudders, a bit o'white noise, and Beck's infamous phoned-in guest rap....More importantly, it works..."Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #16 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.Billboard (p.36) - "Fast, punky and laced with nods to the sounds of the '70s..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.58) - Ranked #68 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Beefheart, Stax, James Brown: all get stomped under the Cuban heel of Russell Simins' monster beat."Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "ORANGE was the blues as heard from the streets of Manhattan, post-Public Enemy, punk rock and all that other New York noise."NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #16 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'Pitchfork (Website) - "The Blues Explosion were honest, organic experimenters -- fusing tons of different styles into their musical assault without compromising their ferocity or making any of it sound forced."Record Collector (magazine) (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The] balance of rough with smooth, the comic with the deadly serious, was perfect."57.84642

Spin (p.120) - "Time and practice have made them a far more straightforward rock band..."Uncut (p.106) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[The] further broaden their sound, which embraces Stax-style soul, nuggety funk and gruff, politicized rap with equal enthusiasm. More variety in their blues, certainly, but no less vigour."Magnet (p.93) - "DAMAGE runs through classic Blues Explosion moves on the title track but ventures quickly and assuredly into a horn-heavy instrumental, a punchy, funky and glitchy excursion featuring sax by James Chance..."CMJ (p.12) - "DJ Shadow squelches a 9/8 vamp while James Chance unleashes unholy sax skronk..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 - "As overdriven and mutated a nose as ever they've managed, DAMAGE! also retains Blues Explosion's trademark sweat-drenched feel for soul..."57.84642

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Rolling Stone (10/3/96, p.72) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...NOW I GOT WORRY finds the Blues Explosion...stripping down to basics. Spencer and the band eschew the hip-hop influences that came to a head on 1994's ORANGE, opting instead for a more gutbucket approach..."Spin (11/96, pp.121-122) - 7 (out of 10) - "...retreats from the promising, wiggy pomo melange of 1994's ORANGE in favor of garage raunch....there's no confusing the deft simplicity of Spencer's current riff-conjuring with the nascent primitivism of his band's debut CRYPT STYLE..."Q (11/96, p.136) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...This album...is the trio's most unapologetic yet, with screeching dementia through broken-down amps, speed railroad blues and barely decipherable lyrics..."Alternative Press (12/96, p.80) - 5 (out of 5) - "...JSBX have made an album that not only honors the raw, spontaneous emotionalism of the music that inspires them...but also done so without aping them mindlessly or attempting revision..."Vibe (3/97, p.140) - "...New York City punk rockers the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion mine the Mississippi Delta for the secrets of its soil..."Melody Maker (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #11 on Melody Maker's list of 1996's "Albums Of The Year."Melody Maker (9/28/96, p.48) - Recommended - "...Everything's under control, everything's allowed room to breathe. Not a note, not a beat is wasted. There are continual explosions of noise; drums roll, and guitars scrape in glorious monotony....a replica, sure. But it's so damn EXCITING!"Musician (1/97, p.85) - "...continues to smash funk backbeats, blues cliches, and sleazy slide guitar work against a wall of (literally) screaming punk mania....Ludicrous and excessive, the style works--mainly because it just plain rocks....Rackety, impolite, compulsively rhythmic, and funny as hell..."Village Voice (2/25/97) - Ranked #39 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] Spencer howling distorted blues moans over white noise and eerie harmonies..."Pitchfork (Website) - "[H]ere the abrupt breakbeat edits and dubby textures feel less like tentative dabbles and more like strategic devices used to better convey the songs' anxious energy."0.342041

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Q (4/00, p.115) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...a unique cross-fertilization of British beat group blues with the abrasive Detroit power of The Stooges and MC5....touting howled vocals over bass-less proto R&B..."Alternative Press (7/95, p.104) - Ranked #88 in AP's list of the `Top 99 of '85-'95' - "...The groove from Jon Spencer comes from a possession of spirit and soul. There is enough rock 'n' roll there to hold on to but its presence is neither the purpose nor the goal. It's heavy like a hammer and sassy with organ..."Option (9-10/93, p.127) - "...like Mick Jagger and David Johansen before him, Spencer mines all the appropriate blues and soul men, from John Lee Hooker to Al Green. Unlike those, he ain't making a lot of tokens doing it..."Melody Maker (9/25/93, p.34) - "...Jon Spencer plough[s] an even more maverick furrow than before....[EXTRA WIDTH] is a great row....One of the best records in months..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's stewed in funk and soul....Spencer played sinful loverman, his lycanthrope snarl drenched in slapback reverb, sounding gargantuan."NME (Magazine) (9/4/93, p.30) - "...EXTRA WIDTH throws it all up...our Jon is willing to regurgitate 40 years' worth [of rock] any damn way he pleases..."Uncut (magazine) (p.103) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Bass-less, earnest, witty and fierce, the Blues Explosion mashed blues, rock, soul and punk on this 1993 breakthrough."0.4733158

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"[T]he band blast through a typical live show of the time -- blues standards and those electrifying pop hits." Uncut "It's the live footage from 1966 that makes this DVD so appealing..." Mojo9.023625

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"...[A] family-friendly comedy....Embraces turn-of-the-century self-help ideology in a crushingly sincere masculine bearhug..." New York Times "...Secret intelligence....Willis teams up happily with [Breslin]..." -- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly "...[Willis and Breslin are] feisty and fun as a physical match-up..."Rolling Stone "...It's a sweet film, unexpectedly involving, and shows again that Willis, so easily identified with action movies, is gifted in the areas of comedy and pathos..." Chicago Sun-Times8.713884

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Down Beat (12/96, p.68) - "...Brainstorm plays a smooth, easygoing brand of melodic fusion that owes a clear debt to the classic Weather Report combination of saxophone, synthesizers and hand drums..."5.995235

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The Wire (p.67) - "[A] perfect illustration of the one-rhythm album's double-pronged attack....It's as cheap and nasty as dancehall comes, which is why it's so teeth-grindingly addictive.'5.995235

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JazzTimes (9/02, p.90) - "...An album that grooves infectiously with the unbridled energy of a late-night jam session. Simply put, this album is a delight from start to finish..."Paste (magazine) - "Combining doo-wop, gospel, the Cuban Son tradition, blues and -- above all -- a heavy dollop of P-Funk bass-quake, Cleary and his band stomp through a dozen tracks that considerably spice up the already-rich N'awlins piano gumbo."5.975517

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"Jeffrey Tambor does good work as Harris Chappell, the once-noted director at the center of the story..."New York Times4.882259

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Dirty Linen (p.90) - "A couple of the songs on this album are actually two of the three songs that Alan Lomax taped from Moore in 1959. Playing the two versions of 'Jimmy Sutton' back to back is a study in contrasts..."4.864117

Record Collector (magazine) (p.88) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "While the lyrics are necessarily subjective, they are buoyed by proficient, even inspired, performances and memorable music."4.864117

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JazzTimes (p.74) - "[T]he young baritone's voice has grown distinctly deeper and gruffer, his style looser, his songwriting sharper and stronger....VAGABOND confirms the emergence of a major new talent."4.864117