PRESS/REVIEWS/ARTICLES/ETC. > OTHER ARTISTS VIEW: JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION / PUSSY GALORE 20 Miles / Judah Bauer Jews Who Rock (BOOK, US) COVER ONLY / Book featuring 'Jews Who Rock' which inlcudes Judah Bauer and Russell Simins (of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion). 2001.01.00 NME: Live Review (MAGAZINE, UK) 20 MILES UPSTAIRS AT THE GARAGE LIVE REVIEW: "JUDAH BAUER HAS A VISION. IN it, he steps out of Jon Spencer's shadow (his 'day job' is playing guitar for the mighty Blues Explosion) into the spotlight." 1998.01.17 Slug Magazine: Cover / Feature (MAGAZINE, UK) COVER ONLY 2002.05.00 Boss Hog Michael Lavine / Thurston Moore - Grunge (BOOK, UK) COVER ONLY 2009.09.02 The Peel Sessions (BOOK, UK) COVER ONLY 2007.11.04 NME: Itchy & Scratchy [Review] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "...and surely Cristina Martinez and Jon Spencer are too cool, and Clinic too sensible, to indulge such a crummy style mutation. Purity's not what it used to be, it seems. Cracking tunes, though." 2000.10.21 NME: Reading Festival Preview (PRESS, UK) Very brief mention of Boss Hog in Reading Festival article. 2000.08.20 NME: Snout To Write Home About [LA2 Review] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "Attitude - impeccable. Style - immaculate. Cristina Martinez, beautiful and spidery in black leather trousers and black satin hair, stalks the stage leggily like she's checking her web for food; you'd suspect her of biting the head off her mate, were it not for the presence of her husband Jon Spencer on guitar, looking small but still perfectly formed, muttering behind her." 2000.04.29 NME: On The Couch / Get It While You Wait Review (PRESS, UK) What's your most treasured possession? "My memories, and my life experiences - if you lose those, you don't have anything. I don't keep diaries - I make records." 2000.04.22 Rock Sound: Cover/Feature (PRESS, SPAIN) COVER ONLY 2000.04.00 Darling: Cover/Feature (PRESS, EU) COVER ONLY 2000.03.00 Il Mucchio: Cover/Feature (PRESS, ITALY) COVER ONLY 2000.02.15 Les Inrockuptibles: Cover/Feature (PRESS, FRANCE) COVER ONLY 2000.02.15 Spex: Cover/Feature (PRESS, GERMANY) COVER ONLY 2000.02.00 Rockerilla: Cover/Feature (PRESS, US) COVER ONLY 2000.02.00 NME: Whiteout Review (PRESS, UK) "This would be fantastic if you weren't son convinced of half a tune here and half a melody there wasn't so painstakingly considered. Here is a record that smugly wallows in underachievement, secure in the ludicrous conceit that any concessions to entertainment or humanity are a sign of weakness." 2000.02.12 Rockin'On (PRESS, JAPAN) 4x IMAGES ONLY 2000.00.00 Whiteout (A4 SHEET, UK) WHITEOUT INFORMATION SHEET: "The sound is an evolution of the punky sexploitation of the old, toward something a little more slinky and subversive. The old influences are there to be heard but this time round loops and programming have enhanced the sound to create a benchmark album to herald in the 21st Century." 2000.02.12 NME: Whiteout [Single Review] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "The naked truth. And this time, back on an indie after a breif dalliance with Geffen five years ago, La Hog have turned into Siouxsie And The Banshees and been produced by a member of The Cardigans." 2000.01.22 Bikini: Article (MAGAZINE, US) INTERVIEW (SCAN): "Boss Hog singer Cristina Martinez walks into an East Village coffee shop on a bright Saturday afternoon looking, for all the world, like the chick from Friends on the way to her day job as a dominatrix" 0000.05.00 Bust: Cover/Feature (MAGAZINE, US) INTERVIEW (SCAN - although first two paragraphs are not clear): "Did you fear the sex would change with a bambino in the house? Jon: We don't keep any drugs in the house. What are you talking about? Cristina: We got rid of the bambino when the baby was born." 1998.12.00 Details: Funky Big White Noise [2100 WORDS] (PRESS, US) "Growing up in the '70s in Hanover, New Hampshire, Jon Spencer was a polite kid too scared to watch horror movies. ten years after that, he was a Brown dropout living in Washington, D.C., with his band, Pussy Galore watching trash movies and horror films all night long." 1996.12.00 Mommy and I Are One: Article (PRESS, US) COVER ONLY 1996.FALL Melody Maker: Astoria/I Dig You [Reviews] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "Like Jon Spencer, coming on like a Menswear wet dream in big collar and skinny-rib suit, he looks - and this is not a good omen - priddydam slick. Cristina looks simply delightful, of course. Slightly perved, subtly curved, not a rough edge in sight. This too is not a good omen." 1996.03.23 Ruta 66: Cover/Feature (PRESS, GERMANY) COVER ONLY 1996.00.00 Factory: Cover/Feature (MAGAZINE, SPAIN) COVER ONLY. 1996.00.00 Magnet: Cover/Feature (MAGAZINE, US) COMPLETE SCAN: "When Cristina Martinez strides out of her New York City apartment building, you can't help but think. "So this is what they mean by glamour."" 1995.10.00 NME: Album Review (MAGAZINE, UK) BOSS HOG (SCAN/TEXT): "THE TRUTH is out. Cristina Martinez, all catwoman curves and guile and spikey high heels, is the female Jon Spencer. Or perhaps that should be: Jon Spencer is the male Cristina Martinez." 1995.09.30 BB Gun: Who's The Boss [Interview] (PRESS, US) TEXT:  "I don't wanna end up like Dee-Lite walking the runways of Paris and stuff...MTV was exciting because I love House of Style and I wanted to hear Cindy Crawford say: Boss Hog. Obviously I'm interested in fashion...but I don't wanna get pegged."  1995.00.00 Eyedeal [#3]: This is Not A Love Song [2000 Words] (PRESS, US) TEXT:  "I hope you like Boss Hog because you're going to be seeing a lot more of them. As of December '94 they are signed to DGC. I was very pleased when Cristina agreed to an interview with Eye Deal and equally as surprised when Jon and Jens showed up before she did. "  1995.00.00 Abus Dangeraux [#44] (PRESS, FRANCE) COVER ONLY  DEC.94 - JAN.95 Maximum Rock N Roll [no. 127] (PRESS, US) COVER ONLY 1993.12.00 Fiz [#7]: High on the Hog [3700 Words] (PRESS, US) TEXT:  "Well, I realize this was supposed to be Chesley's New York thing, but I just couldn't help getting my own schnoz into the picture. I mean, c'mon! We're talkin' Cristina here folks, and my blood is as red as it comes. Not only does she front a group that boasts the best of the best players in the galaxy (not to mention that she is Mrs. Jon Spencer), and work a bitchin' day job..."  1993.07.00 Fiz [#5]: All Roads Lead To Spencer: A Historic Look At The ... [3400 Words] (PRESS, US) TEXT: "Fiz: Hazelmyer [Tom Hazelmyer of Amphetamine Reptile Records] told me that all of the records he puts out, Drinkin', Lechin' and Lyin' is one of his all time favoruite to just pop on and listen to. Jon: I know he said he really likes the first cut on that record for driving. That's really a nice compliment." 1993.03.00 Alternative Press #43: Control Hogs On The Road To Ruin [3200 Words] (PRESS, US) TEXT:"He gave us 25 copies of Bands That Could Be God that he had lying around the Matador offices to name a song after him," Charlie snickers. "We were supposed to promo that record in the song but we couldn't fit 'Bands That Could Be God' in the rhythmic scheme. So it didn't work out."  1991.12.00 Spex # 4: Cover / Feature (PRESS, GERMANY) COVER ONLY 1991.04.00 Butter 08 VOX: Butter [REVIEW] (PRESS, UK)  SCAN/TEXT): "Butter is a baffling scree of lounge hip-hop, nuclear age TV themes, punk attitude and filthy rock 'n' roll, One minute they're barreling through the crazed spy-theme samba of 'Dick-Serious' (complete with Dragnet-style sample)" 1998.01.00 Select: Butter [REVIEW] (PRESS, UK) TEXT (Very Short Mention): "What It Sounds Like: Incredibly bass-heavy ur-rock with all the weight of the funk, but none of the sex." 1997.12.00 Cat Power NME: Shepherds Bush Empire (PRESS, UK) LIVE REVIEW (TEXT): "The legendary fragile Cat Power, she of the onstage freak-outs and intoxicated, incoherent mid-song ramblings, is no longer with us. The clouds have cleared both over Shepherds Bush and onstage tonight, as a sober Ms Chan amazes all..." 2008.02.09 Childballads The Stool Pigeon (PRESS, UK) INTERVIEW/ARTICLE (TEXT): "After a decade in the wilderness, during which time it was suspected he may have been claimed by his heroin addiction, Jonathan Fire*Eater's extraordinary frontman Stewart Lupton is back with a new band, Childballads. But he remains unsure whether he's got it in him to find the success he always craved." 2007.07.00 Crunt Maximum Rock N Roll [no. 127] (PRESS, US) COVER ONLY 1993.12.00 David Holmes NME: Bow Down to the Exit Sign [REVIEW] (PRESS, US) SCAN 2000.06.10 Five Dollar Priest Mojo: Five Dollar Priest (PRESS, UK) SCAN: "Pulpy noir thrills from New York sleaze supergroup." 2009.02.00 Gibson Bros. The Man Who Love Couch Dancing [PRESS RELEASE] (PRESS, US) TEXT: "The music scene's most lowdown combo, the Gibson Brothers, have dedicated their ornery careers to the relentless pursuit of degenerate forms of American music. Cooking blues, country, rockabilly, Rock and Roll, even lounge music and comedy in one dirty, bochalism-ridden stew-pot... " 1991.06.00 Howl!: Review (PRESS, GERMANY) THE MAN WHO LOVED COUCH DANCING (SCAN): Very brief German-language review. 1991.06.00 Gibson Bros. - Pulse: Upstarts - Rumblings From the Underground: Gibson Bros. - Blue Light Special Blues [300 Words] (PRESS, US) TEXT: "What we're playing is our version of the blues; it's not really meant to be ironic or tongue-in-cheek," says Gibson Brother Jeff Evans. "It's just that it's 1990, and there's certain things that have influenced our lives - Kennedy..." 1990.12.00 Gibson Bros. - Request: Some Blues Like They Used To [550 Words] (PRESS, US) TEXT: Their passion for blues and rockabilly has led to the release of Punk Rock Driving Song of a Gun a collaboration with the Workdogs, a Hoboken rhythm section that, according to Howland, "heard our first performance in New York when we were so drunk and loud that no one could have enjoyed it, and they wrote us a letter saying they loved it." 1990.00.00 Heavy Trash Jam: Two Page Article (PRESS, ITALY) COVER ONLY: Magazine with two-page Heavy Trash article. If anyone can email a scan of the article please contact the site.  2010.01.00 Uncut: Midnight Soul Serenade Review (PRESS, UK) LIVE REVIEW (TEXT): "Heavy Trash are on their third album, but have too long laboured under the shadow of the parent group, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. That will change with Midnight Soul Serenade, a spine-tinglingly brilliant album of belching rockabilly from Spencer and his analog co-conspirato; Madder Rose's Matt Verta-Ray." 2009.12.00 Heavy Trash - il Manifesto: Crudi per Sempre [ARTICLE] (PRESS, ITALY) HUGE SCAN: Italian language article on Heavy Trash. 2009.00.00 Ruta 66: Midnight Soul Serenade Review (PRESS, SPAIN) SCAN: Spanish language review.  2009.11.00 NME: 100 Club Review (PRESS, UK) LIVE REVIEW (TEXT): "It's as if Elvis Presley's stillborn twin was cryogenically frozen and later resuscitated as Jon Spencer. So inevitably Heavy Trash's demented rockabilly blues - equal parts Spencer (of Blues Explosion infamy) and Matt Verta-Ray (from Speedball Baby) - is very '50s rockabilly as if it was created by MC5 and James Brown in the 1960s. The duelling guitars..." 2008.02.09 Alarm: Cover/Feature (PRESS, US) INTERVIEW/ARTICLE (TEXT): "Collapsed on ratty couches in their basement recording studio on the Lower East Side, Spencer and Verta-Ray are answering a few questions in their down time. They've finished with the recording and mixing of their sophomore album, Going Way Out with Heavy Trash, and are trying to find time to breathe before the accompanying tour." 2007.11.12 PulpHope (BOOK, US) COVER ONLY 2007.06.25 Rockabilly Monthly: Cover/Feature (MAG, US) COVER ONLY 2005.06.00 Keep Cool, Stay Crunchy (FLYER, DENMARK) SHORT BIOGRAPHY (SCAN/TEXT): Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray are the NOW sound of rockabilly! Heavy Trash is the perfect soundtrack for boozy all-night throw downs, pettin’ parties and psychedelic fright shows. Mr. Spencer, of course, is the most exciting performer in rock 'n' roll today. 2005.00.00 Honeymoon Killers Gearhead: Alright, This Time, Just The Girls [REVIEW] (PRESS, US) Very short review of the Alright, This Time Just The Girls collection. 1999.FALL Howl!: Article (PRESS, GERMANY) INTERVIEW/ARTICLE (SCAN): German-language article titled "You Are What You Eat" includes band photo featuring Russell Simins. 1991.06.00 Jack O' Fire Interviews Regarding: Bring Me The Head of Jon Spencer (PRESS, US) TEXT: "Tim saw the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion opening for the Jesus Lizard and said Spencer played some harp. At that time, we’d only played as Jack ‘O Fire a few times. Later, I met Spencer while I was touring with ’68 Comeback opening up for Boss Hogg. Spencer looked me over and asked if I was Jack ‘O Fire- like he was angry. " 2005.02.00 John Spencer / Jon Spencer I Have Fun Everywhere I Go... [PAPERBACK] (BOOK, US) COVER ONLY 2009.05.12 I Have Fun Everywhere I Go... [HARDBACK] (BOOK, US) COVER ONLY 2008.05.13 The Official Punk Rock Book of List [PAPERBACK] (PRESS, US) "1. Fast food (McDonald's, Burger King, etc.) - Avoid at all costs. Sometimes this is hard to do; there just aren't many options in some places. This food will come back to haunt you and definitely make you feel crummy. Conversely/perversely, White Castle, which definitely always makes ya shit, should still be consumed at any and all opportunities. " 2007.10.31 The Official Punk Rock Book of List [HARDBACK] (PRESS, US) "1. Fast food (McDonald's, Burger King, etc.) - Avoid at all costs. Sometimes this is hard to do; there just aren't many options in some places. This food will come back to haunt you and definitely make you feel crummy. Conversely/perversely, White Castle, which definitely always makes ya shit, should still be consumed at any and all opportunities. " 2007.00.00 Les Inrockuptibles: Ma Compile (PRESS, FRANCE) LARGE SCAN 2007.09.11 The Rare Testimonial (PRESS, UK) LARGE SCAN 0000.00.00 Mojo: James Brown - The Mojo Interview (PRESS, UK) LARGE SCAN: "He was an incredible inspiration for me. When I was at university, the bands I liked, like Cabaret Voltaire, were always talking about him in the music papers at a time when he;d really been forgotten about by the mainstream." 2004.08.00 Chip Kidd & Jon Spencer - The Genesis of the Plastic Fang (PRESS, US) SCAN: Comic / Interview 2002.10.00 NME: On The Couch (PRESS, UK) " What song describes you best? "I don't know who it's by, but there's this song and its refrain goes, "Crazy mixed-up kid". If it came out at all it was probably in the '50s. It's a blues song. And also the theme from Star Trek. But not that new one." 1998.12.05 Melody Maker: Rebelious Jukebox [1400 Words] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "What's always appealed to me are records made by bands which are just too messed up and weird. It's like you're finding something secret. It's music that came from nowhere. The Monks were a bunch of American GIs in Germany in the Sixties who formed a band out of boredom. They were a garage band by default. The Electric Eels were so f***ing weird." 1995.03.04 Underground Film Bulletin 6: The Most Hated Filmaker In The World (PRESS, US) FULL TEXT: "When they were completed originally, I guess in '84 or '85, I showed 'em around in like five places in New York City. I was real excited because I had to come to New York after finishing a semester and seen a show and I read the UNDERGROUND FILM BULLETIN, so I got really excited and I really wanted to show the stuff and I did and nobody really came. Then I got more interested in other stuff." 1987.00.00 Money Mark NME: Albums of The Year 1998 (PRESS, UK) COMPLETE TEXT: "17, Push The Button, Money Mark (Mo'Wax). All of the hop, with out being self-conciously hip. Money mark is madcap keyboard repairman turned madcap creator of wonderously casual, deliciously unrestrained pop and vital Beastie Boys collaborator. "Push The Button" is funky, groovy and joyous, his Old Skool report reads: "Couldn't do much better."" 1998.12.19 Vox: Push The Button [Review] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "Three albums on from those days, Money Mark has blossomed from the cheesy, breezy keyboard king of the Beasties' hip little empire into a sputtering engine of garage rock, '70s soul and Lord knows what else. And the results are quite marvellous." 1998.06.00 Select: Push The Button Sampler (PRESS, UK) SHORT ARTICLE (TEXT): "Russell Simins plays the drums and Sean Lennon plays bass. There was no logic to the video. This man was telling me a war story. He was supposed to cross the channel and he didn't really wanna go, so he tied the wheel up to make the boat go in a big circle. So I did the same with my car." 1998.06.00 Melody Maker: Phat Cash / Push The Button [Review] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "From the catchy "Too Like You" to the mouth-watering country drawl of "Rock In The Rain"; from the deep-fried "Maybe I'm Dead" marching about to the clatter of spoons on saucepans to the gorgeous Booker-T-meets-Lennon soul of "Hand In Your Head", this is pure pop for anytime people." 1998.05.02 Select: The Mild Mannered Janitor / Hand In Your Head [Review] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "Welcome to the cabinet-crafting, Espace-driving, roach-toking, child-rearing, desert-dwelling, Cheap Trick-loving world of the Beasties' experimental keyboard king Mark Ramos-Nishita. A world where out mild mannered hero, previously a full-time carpenter and part-time session player, was hired to build record shelves for Adam 'Ad Rock' Horowit..." 1998.03.00 R.L. Burnside Melody Maker: A Ass Pocket of Whiskey (PRESS, UK) "No suprises here, but plenty of treats: Jon Spencer's cochlea-piercing yelp at the close of "Snake Drive"; the humours hustlers' exchange between Spencer and Burnside in "The Criminal Inside Me"; the murderous but casual urgency that drives "Goin' Down South"" 1996.06.00 The Sadies Mojo: In Concert Volume One [Review] (PRESS, UK) SCAN of short review 2006.09.00 Schneider TM NME:Grand Slang [Review] (PRESS, UK) "Crack open the WHite Lightning, oh quality-deprived indie children - City Slang, alt-pop's most faithful benefactor, is ten years young. And what finer way to celebrate a decade of inspired esoterica than this cookie-warming grab-bag of rarities and previously unavailable lovelies?" 2000.07.01 Russell Simins Jews Who Rock (BOOK, US) COVER ONLY / Book featuring 'Jews Who Rock' which inlcudes Judah Bauer and Russell Simins (of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion). 2001.01.00 NME: New York Irving Plaza [Review] / Public Places [Review] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "Everyone gets sick of their day job now and again, and even if you've spent eight years of your life in rock'n'roll nirvana - behind the drumkit of the spasmodically mighty Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - something can still be missing. For Russell Simins, it's a void that only a solo album will fill" 2000.11.04 Select: Have You Ever / Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme [Review] (PRESS, UK) TEXT: "I think when I said I wanted to be a musician, that kind of upset my mom. But now my parents couldn't be happier for me. I mean, they were very good about it, they got me a drum set when I was seven years old, they let me play it all my life, but I think that they were always a little concerned..." 1998.11.00 Grand Royal: Issue Two [Russell Simins article] (PRESS, US) COVER ONLY 199?.00.00 Solex vs Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer Amsterdam Showdown, King Street Throwdown! [COMIC STRIP] (PRESS, UK/US) LARGE IMAGES of comic strip-style press release 2010.04.05 Independent: Amsterdam Showdown, King Street Throwdown! [REVIEW] (PRESS, UK) "This is partly due to the convoluted nature of its creation, with Amsterdam-based sample-splicer Elisabeth Esselink, aka Solex, sending part-finished recordings over to New York for the Boss Hog partnership of Jon Spencer and Cristina Martinez to add their punk-blues touches. " 2010.04.05 Ween NME: White Pepper [REVIEW] (PRESS, US) SCAN 2000.06.10