Now Reading: Jon Spencer announces new album, shares “Knock ‘Em Out” ++ pics from Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise
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Jon Spencer announces new album, shares “Knock ‘Em Out” ++ pics from Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise
Jon Spencer announces new album, shares “Knock ‘Em Out” ++ pics from Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise
Jon Spencer is back with a new album, Songs of Personal Loss and Protest, which will be out June 12 via Shove Records. He made it with his current band of Spider Bowman on drums and Kendall Wind on bass, who are also known as the rhythm section for The Bobby Lees.
“I’m in a time of spiritual reckoning,” Jon says of the album. “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.”
Continuing that thought, Jon adds, “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!”
The first single from the album is “Knock ‘Em Out” which is, unsurprisingly, the kind of high-octane ripper Jon Spencer is known for. Listen below.
Jon Spencer just played the 2026 Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise and we’ve got photos from that by Dimitri Mak below.
You can catch Jon and his band at the UK’s Bearded Theory Festival in May and they’ve got a few shows over there after that. All dates are below.
Songs of Personal Loss and Protest
1. Fanfare (Another Point of View)
2. Vermin Attack!
3. Hangover
4. Knock ‘Em Out
5. Give It Up 4 the Devil
6. Mr. Lion
7. Orange Slice Blues
8. Slip Away
9. Step On the Gas
10. I’m Taking Off
11. Wet & Wild
12. No More
Jon Spencer: 2026 Tour Dates
May 21–24, 2026 – Walton-on-Trent, UK – Bearded Theory Festival
May 22, 2026 – St Leonards, UK – The Piper
May 25, 2026 – Bristol, UK – The Fleece
May 26, 2026 – Exeter, UK – Cavern Club
May 27, 2026 – Oxford, UK – O2 Academy2 Oxford
