Jason Pierce

Sunset Rubdown is a band that has evolved by leaps and bounds since 2006 when Camilla Wynne Ingr, Michael Doerksen and Jordan Robson-Cramer all came on board to help Spencer Krug bring the project to a fuller realization in a live setting and eventually in the studio. Read More

Almost every song that he plays tonight at the rammed 100 Club with his new band, The Pink Monkey Birds, is greeted with either an anecdote or dedication. Read More

The one time I saw Spiritualized (sometime in the fall / winter of 2003 I think), I was sick. Read More

For an album as vast as 'Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space' there was simply no way we could edit a transcript with Jason Pierce. Read More

Where most bands of his generation used guitar pedals as an excuse to stare at the floor, Jason Pierce used them to voyage to the stars. Read More

With Britpop on its arse-end and gasping the final death rattle before its long-awaited demise in 1997, two British bands who had always marched to the beat of their own drum released two of the best albums of the decade: seminal works of ethereal beauty that stuck out like sore thumbs amongst the bloated and self-satisfied regurgitations from Noel, Damon et al. While history may have Radiohead's OK Computer pegged as the greatest album of the 90's, the initial plaudits heaped upon Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space were just as gushing - NME even gave it the number one gong in their Album of the Year Poll ahead of their po-faced Oxford contemporaries. Read More

British maverick space rockers Spiritualized could be set to release a new album sometime next year. Read More

The seemingly absurdist statement Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space actually gets directly to the core of Spiritualized and to what is arguably the best post- Nirvana rock album of the 1990s. Read More

"Who's that scary monster on the bottom of the LP, dad?" Read More