James & Contortions Now Available on Bandcamp!

Guess what? Thanks to Superior Viaduct, James has a new Bandcamp page, and it just happens to be Bandcamp Friday. Pick up a physical or digital (or both) copy of the Contortions' BUY. And keep an eye on the Bandcamp page as we'll be adding more releases in the future. Purchases made via Bandcamp are one of the better ways to support artists! Click here and BUY: https://jameschance.bandcamp.com.

The Flesh Is Weak by James Chance now available on Vinyl!

The new album from James Chance & The Contortions is now out & about in the world. You can order it directly from us. Two versions are available, standard & 180 gram vinyl, and both include a digital download code with all copies. Shipping is free within the United States.

Standard vinyl edition - order here

180 gram vinyl edition - order here

James Chance for President! Vote The Flesh Is Weak!

 

Available this Friday, you can pre-order now: radi.al/TheFleshIsWeakJChance. 

 Tour dates: 

11/10 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric (album release show; tickets here) 

11/12 Austin, TX @ Beerland (info here, only $5.00!) 

12/10 Toronto, Canada @ The Rivoli (tickets here)

The Flesh Is Weak: New Album From James Chance & The Contortions Now Available For Pre-Order!

On November 11th, True Groove Global Soul is honored to bring you a new album of cutting edge punk funk from no wave legend James Chance & The Contortions entitled 'The Flesh Is Weak' (produced by Tomás Doncker & James Dellatacoma). Get ready to contort yourself as you have never contorted yourself before, and if you are new to James Chance, well, get ready for a true New York original...Pre-order on iTunes now: http://radi.al/TheFleshIsWeakJChance.

Gettin' into something funky for the weekend: Melt Yourself Down

Tour dates:

11/10 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric (album release show; tickets here)

11/12 Austin, TX @ Beerland (info here, only $5.00!)

12/10 Toronto, Canada @ The Rivoli (tickets here)

Melt Yourself Down: New James Chance & The Contortions Track Now Streaming at Stereogum!

Wrap your ears around "Melt Yourself Down," the brand new single from James Chance & The Contortions, over at Stereogum. Its the first taste of James' next album, The Flesh Is Weak, which he has been working on recently with Contortions member/producer Tomas Doncker and the folks at True Groove Records. The album will be available in November with some tour dates to accompany it. Melt Yourself Down here.

Tour dates:
11/10 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric (album release show; tickets here)
11/12 Austin, TX @ Beerland (info here, only $5.00!)
12/10 Toronto, Canada @ The Rivoli (tickets here)

Melt Yourself Down: Images from a new video shoot for first single from new album

Here's a couple of images from a recent video shoot for a NEW James Chance album! James is rocking a jacket actually owned & worn by Liberace. 

Thanks to Dylan Mars Greenberg. More info to come soon.

James Chance & Les Contortions Live in Milan at Lofi, May 22, 2016

Happy Saturday night everyone. Thanks to Luca, the sound man at Lo Fi Milano, for this recording of the May 22, 2016, gig by James & Les Contortions!

Setlist (Compositions by James Chance except where noted): 

01. Designed To Kill 

02. Home Is Where the Hatred Is (Gil Scot Heron) 

03. Do the Splurge 

04. Street With No Name 

05. Jaded 

06. Melt Yourself Down 

07. Disposable You 

08. Put Me Back In My Cage 

09. No Pity In the Naked City (Jackie Wilson/Alonzo Tucker) 

10. Contort Yourself 

11. I Can't Stand Myself (James Brown)

 

The reviews are in: BUY

The recent Futurismo deluxe vinyl reissue of the Contortions BUY is garnering some very nice praise. Check the links below for just a couple of recent reviews:

The Vinyl District says: "...Buy persists as Chance’s essential contribution to the rock narrative. An LP of groundbreaking genre cross-pollination emanating from a locus of inspired and occasionally belligerent individualism, it continues to impress." Continued here.

Big Takeover Magazine says: "...this is the definitive version of Buy. Even if you have a previous version of it, this is worth every penny." Continued here.

James Chance: The Aurora Sessions (Nov. 2013)

Here are two versions of the same session which James just passed on to us. The Aurora Sessions were taped taped last November by Dean Loren, and it was shown on a Manhattan Neighborhood Network show he has called Are You a Star? (I think we know the answer to that question.) It was recorded in the rehearsal room at the Aurora.

Aurora Sessions, Version 1:

1) That Old Black Magic take 1 (composed by Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen, arr. James Chance) 

2) Peggy's Blue Skylight (Charles Mingus) (take 1) 

3) Sapphire's Safe Spot (James Chance) 

4) Don't Smoke In Bed (Willard Robinson, arr. James Chance) fragment 

5) That Old Black Magic (take 2) 

6) Sapphire's Safe Spot (take 2) 

7) Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, arr. James Chance) 

Aurora Sessions, Version 2:

1) That Old Black Magic (take 3) (composed by Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen, arr. James Chance) 

2) Peggy's Blue Skylight (take 2) (Mingus) 

3) Sapphire's Safe Spot (take 2) (James Chance) 

4) That Old Black Magic (take 1 including false starts) 

5) That Old Black Magic (take 2) 

6) Peggy's Blue Skylight (take 1) 

7) Sapphire's Safe Spot (take 1) 

8) Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, arr. James Chance) 

9) Odd Man Out (James Chance) 

10) Don't Smoke In Bed (Willard Robinson, arr. James Chance) 

11) Strictly Confidential (Bud Powell)