... it's the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion covering the Beastie Boys. That's right. Jon, Judah and Russell do their version of "She's On It" from the 1985 Krush Groove soundtrack. Oh, and it's mashed up with Link Wray's "Jack the Ripper." Rarely does life get this good.
Apparently JSBX has had "She's On It" in its repertoire for a few years -- the video above is from late 2012. But this week they officially released it for Record Store Day and you can hear that official audio here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7EE10DySOs
Tonight at 9 eastern on the Travel Channel, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion rocks again. JSBX cut the theme music for Anthony Bourdain's terrific "No Reservations" series on the Travel Channel, which kicks off a new season tonight with a trip to Haiti. And while Jon, Judah and Russell won't show up on camera, you can still enjoy about 20 seconds of the music they wrote for the series. I'm told the whole cut runs about a minute long, but the producers of "No Reservations" use about a third of that as theme and incidental music on the show.
Besides the music, "No Reservations" is easily among the best shows on TV. If you're not familiar, Anthony Bourdain is one of the smartest, most literate and most interesting hosts on TV. He's was a chef in New York for years and now he travels the world sampling local cuisines. Bourdain really cares about the cultures he visits, not just about eating the most disgusting thing he can find just for the hell of it. You get the sense that his willingness to eat (and drink) just about anything stems not from blustery machismo like so many lesser hosts, but from a true love of food. Here he is sampling guinea pig -- yes guinea pig -- in Ecuador, and enjoy the Blues Explosion's intro music at the top of the clip:
