Jon Spencer

CRITIC'S PICK:
Sat., Jan. 24
Jon Spencer, The Garden Club at Wild Heaven West End - The list of different bands Jon Spencer has fronted in a forty-year career is too long to list here. But each has pushed the boundaries of what is basically scuzzy, punked-out garage rock into oblique, sometimes even experimental, waters. His latest, Sick of Being Sick (2024), is another shot into the ominous, occasionally twisted beyond, where Spencer has thrived and cultivated a large cult audience. Any semblance of blues that might have appeared as leader of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has been subsumed by a noisy yet driving attitude that makes Iggy Pop seem like a choir boy. Strap in and hang on for a ride to the dark side of his brain. - Hal Horowitz