Toronto rockers DANKO JONES will release Garage Rock! A Collection Of Lost Songs From 1996 – 1998 on April 4th, featuring lost tracks recorded in Toronto, New York and Washington DC between 1996 and 1998. The album is now available for pre-order via the Danko Jones official website here.

Frontman and namesake Danko Jones comments on the release:

"If a band continues past the gesticulation stage, the term 'Garage Rock' is usually rendered unusable. Back in the '90s, the Garage Rock scene as I knew it was a warts-and-all approach that favoured low-fi recordings and rudimentary playing over any modicum of musical prowess in order to glean some Rock N’ Roll essence. However, once a band got better at their instruments, songwriting and stage performance, the inevitable crossroads would eventually appear. Deliberately continuing to play against their growing skill would only evolve into a pose. There were a lot of bands who did exactly this in order to sustain scenester favour. We did the opposite.

This album is a document of what we were and where we came from. We didn’t know how to write songs and could barely play but we wanted to be near to the music we loved so badly. We ate, slept and drank this music. We still do. That’s why we have never had to reunite because we’ve never broken up. After 18 years, we’ve stayed the course, got tough when the going did and, above all else, we have never stopped. This album is the proof.

The tracklist is as follows:

Tracklist:

'Who Got It?'

'Make You Mine'

'I’m Your Man'

'She’s Got A Bomb'

'Rock And Roll Is Black And Blue'

'Dirty Mind Too'

'I’m Drinking Alcohol?'

'Love Travel' (demo)

'Bounce' (demo)

'Sexual Interlude'

'I Stand Accused'

'Best Good Looking Girl In Town'

'Payback'

'Lowdown'

'One Night Stand'

'Instrumental'

'Move On'

Danko Jones's live schedule is currently as follows:

March

7 - Windsor, ON - The Dominion House Tavern
8 - London, ON - Call The Office
14 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall

Tickets can be purchased here.

The band recently released their controversial new video, for the track 'Legs', featured on the Rock And Roll Is Black And Blue album, available via Bad Taste Records.

The video, directed by Bruce LaBruce, can be seen below. LaBruce, who is best known for his sexually charged and culturally challenging productions have been looking forward to working with the band for a long time, says LaBruce:

“I've known Danko and John for many years, and I went to many Danko Jones shows when they were first starting out in Toronto and in New York.After reconnecting with Danko last year at his book launch, we decided it was finally time for me to do a video for them.”

The video itself is in line with the direct vision LaBruce had to create a spectacular and unexpected video for the song. “Danko suggested their song Legs, and for some reason I immediately thought of some of my sexy and leggy acquaintances in the M-F transsexual community. I really love the work of the famous photographer Pierre Molinier, whose gender bending photographs have influenced a variety of artists, so I decided to pay tribute to his work in the video.”