There comes a time when nothing else but a brain-hammering session with Pussy Galore‘s 1989 album Dial M For Motherfucker will do. And not just to clear the house of your so-called friends who’ve been sloshing cheap wine on your expensive new carpet all night. (Although it might work for that, too.) Jon Spencer, the man who shocked and awed the world with the noisiest band in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, went on to form three more exhilarating combos: Boss Hog (with his wife Cristina Martinez), Heavy Trash (his most recent band) and, of course, the stunning Blues Explosion, whose recent career-spanning compendium, Dirty Shirt Rock ‘N’ Roll (Majordomo), tells you plenty about the DNA of the man in charge. (The label is reissuing expanded versions of out-of-print Blues Explosion albums Now I Got Worry and Controversial Negro this week.) Spencer is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.
Spencer: There’s a new series of Doctor Who. It’s a science-fiction program from the BBC that I fell in love with as a kid. They used to show it on the local public-television channel. It was off the air for a really long time but revived back in 2005. They’ve just recently changed the actor playing the doctor, something that happens every once in a while. I think Matt Smith is number 11. There was some worry because he’s only 26, but he’s turned out so far to be OK. It’s a new producer and script editor, but they seem to be doing a good job. My favorite Doctor Who was the one I was first exposed to, played by Tom Baker. He was probably the first one that Americans my age saw.
Videos after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XohfkDibhMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPUF8an-XE
