Adam Green will be honored with a new tribute album, dubbed Moping in Style, that features renditions of his solo music from artists including Regina Spektor, Father John Misty, and Jenny Lewis. The project arrives in full December 1st, and as a preview, Org Music and Capitane Records have shared Sean Ono Lennon’s cover of “That Fucking Feeling.”
Best known as one-half of The Moldy Peaches, Green has released 11 solo albums over the past twenty years. The impressive roster on Moping in Style speaks to his influence in the indie rock community: in addition to those aforementioned artists, it boasts The Lemon Twigs, Frankie Cosmos, Lou Barlow, The Lemonheads, The Libertines, and Ben Kweller among its contributors. Pre-orders for the tribute album, which arrives on double LP gatefold and CD, are ongoing.
Ono Lennon completely transforms the title track to Green’s most recent album. While the original, thanks...
Best known as one-half of The Moldy Peaches, Green has released 11 solo albums over the past twenty years. The impressive roster on Moping in Style speaks to his influence in the indie rock community: in addition to those aforementioned artists, it boasts The Lemon Twigs, Frankie Cosmos, Lou Barlow, The Lemonheads, The Libertines, and Ben Kweller among its contributors. Pre-orders for the tribute album, which arrives on double LP gatefold and CD, are ongoing.
Ono Lennon completely transforms the title track to Green’s most recent album. While the original, thanks...
- 10/17/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Warren Haynes is taking a breather in his dressing room at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center in Asheville, North Carolina, after powering through a wicked jam of the Allman Brothers Band’s “Melissa” with country duo Brothers Osborne. He’s due back onstage in an hour for another inspired collab: performing Charlie Daniels Band’s “Trudy” with Appalachian hero Tyler Childers.
“Seeing people play together for the first time onstage, in front of a big audience, is beautiful because the music that happens as a result will never happen that exact way again,...
“Seeing people play together for the first time onstage, in front of a big audience, is beautiful because the music that happens as a result will never happen that exact way again,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Garret K. Woodward
- Rollingstone.com
Compelling, breezy, and ultimately a little bit too-surface level, Philipp Reichenheim’s compact documentary “Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.” is exactly what the title implies, an overview of the titular indie rock band that saw critical success in the ’80s and ’90s before imploding because of competing egos. Leaning more towards hagiography than tell-all, “Freakscene” does wisely allow the aging rockers — frontman J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow, and drummer Murph — the time and space to discuss their formation and eventual dissolution, but the film is really framed around their 2005 reunion, which has lead to a seven-show run at the Bowery Ballroom and a steady output of albums including last years “Sweep It Into Space.”
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- 6/2/2022
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
Dinosaur Jr. is one of the loudest and most dysfunctional rock bands still gracing stages today.
Movie goers will soon be able to watch the story of J Mascis and his band in a new feature documentary after Utopia picked up the rights.
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr., which is directed Philipp Reichenheim, German filmmaker and J Mascis’ brother-in-law, will premiere in the States as part of a one-night-only special theatrical event release as well as a digital release.
The doc will tell the story of the “You’re Living All Over Me” rockers, founded by Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow and drummer Murph in the mid-’80s, through to their reunion concert celebrating their 30th anniversary.
The band opened the doors for a slew of bands such as Nirvana as they turned up their Marshall stacks and punished audiences with their sludgy guitar solos.
The doc features exclusive interviews...
Movie goers will soon be able to watch the story of J Mascis and his band in a new feature documentary after Utopia picked up the rights.
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr., which is directed Philipp Reichenheim, German filmmaker and J Mascis’ brother-in-law, will premiere in the States as part of a one-night-only special theatrical event release as well as a digital release.
The doc will tell the story of the “You’re Living All Over Me” rockers, founded by Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow and drummer Murph in the mid-’80s, through to their reunion concert celebrating their 30th anniversary.
The band opened the doors for a slew of bands such as Nirvana as they turned up their Marshall stacks and punished audiences with their sludgy guitar solos.
The doc features exclusive interviews...
- 3/24/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Black Sabbath fans now have another footwear option, courtesy of DC Shoes. The skate brand’s latest Black Sabbath capsule collection celebrates the 50th anniversary of the release of the British rock band’s 1971 release, Master of Reality (which clocks in at No. 300 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.)
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The DC x Black Sabbath line takes inspiration from the iconic record cover’s font and color — black, gray, and a regal purple — as well as the metal pioneers’ various logos.
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DC x Black Sabbath Collection
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$12+
The DC x Black Sabbath line takes inspiration from the iconic record cover’s font and color — black, gray, and a regal purple — as well as the metal pioneers’ various logos.
- 11/1/2021
- by Carrie Bell
- Rollingstone.com
This warm-hearted profile of the US grunge-rockers doubles as a poignant rumination on friendship and personal growth – but gets its heft from the unpolished performance footage
Delving into the legacy of US rockers Dinosaur Jr, this dynamic documentary beautifully balances the giddiness of a fan and the warmth of a close friend. Such deftness is perhaps due to the fact that director Philipp Virus is the brother-in-law of J Mascis, who, along with Lou Barlow and Murph, made up the band’s original lineup. It is a portrait of a groundbreaking period in American music that also doubles as a poignant rumination on friendship and personal growth.
Formed in the mid-1980s, the original trio – two of whom were high-school friends – had a ragged wildness, straddling heavy metal and punk rock. Reserved and shy offstage, the three members were uncomfortable with the social side of the music business. Nevertheless, in spite of a slow start,...
Delving into the legacy of US rockers Dinosaur Jr, this dynamic documentary beautifully balances the giddiness of a fan and the warmth of a close friend. Such deftness is perhaps due to the fact that director Philipp Virus is the brother-in-law of J Mascis, who, along with Lou Barlow and Murph, made up the band’s original lineup. It is a portrait of a groundbreaking period in American music that also doubles as a poignant rumination on friendship and personal growth.
Formed in the mid-1980s, the original trio – two of whom were high-school friends – had a ragged wildness, straddling heavy metal and punk rock. Reserved and shy offstage, the three members were uncomfortable with the social side of the music business. Nevertheless, in spite of a slow start,...
- 10/1/2021
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Dinosaur Jr. played on the latest edition of NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series, performing several tracks off their new album Sweep It Into Space.
The band filmed the five-song clip, which was directed by Joe Salinas, in the empty Shea Theater in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. The set included three songs from Sweep It Into Space, “I Ain’t,” “Garden,” and “I Ran Away,” as well as “Feel the Pain” from 1994’s Without a Sound and “Freak Scene” from 1988’s Bug.
Dinosaur Jr. released Sweep It Into Space in April via Jagjaguwar.
The band filmed the five-song clip, which was directed by Joe Salinas, in the empty Shea Theater in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. The set included three songs from Sweep It Into Space, “I Ain’t,” “Garden,” and “I Ran Away,” as well as “Feel the Pain” from 1994’s Without a Sound and “Freak Scene” from 1988’s Bug.
Dinosaur Jr. released Sweep It Into Space in April via Jagjaguwar.
- 8/4/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
The statistics of Bandcamp Friday speak for themselves: In the year-plus since the launch of the campaign, during which the platform has waived its revenue share for music purchased on the first Friday of each month, fans have paid artists more than $50 million dollars. “Bandcamp is like my life source,” metal auteur Trevor William Church told Rolling Stone in 2019, no doubt speaking for many creators in the age of meager streaming royalties. Bandcamp Friday continues on May 7th — read on for a slew of recommendations from Rs staffers on what...
- 5/7/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Blistein, Rick Carp, Kory Grow, Joseph Hudak, Angie Martoccio, Rob Sheffield, Hank Shteamer, Simon Vozick-Levinson and Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Dinosaur Jr. have announced a new album Sweep It Into Space, out April 23rd via Jagjaguwar, and dropped its lead single “I Ran Away.”
Originally scheduled for mid-2020, Sweep It Into Space is the band’s first LP since 2016’s Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, and was recorded at Amherst’s Biquiteen in late autumn of 2019 following a U.S. tour. Kurt Vile co-produced the album, and performs the lead 12-string guitar on “I Ran Away.”
When recording with Vile was disrupted by the pandemic, lead singer J. Mascis...
Originally scheduled for mid-2020, Sweep It Into Space is the band’s first LP since 2016’s Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, and was recorded at Amherst’s Biquiteen in late autumn of 2019 following a U.S. tour. Kurt Vile co-produced the album, and performs the lead 12-string guitar on “I Ran Away.”
When recording with Vile was disrupted by the pandemic, lead singer J. Mascis...
- 2/23/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Lou Barlow will commemorate the 15th anniversary of Emoh with a reissue, slated for July 31st via Merge Records.
The solo album — which the Dinosaur Jr. bassist and Sebadoh frontman released in January 2005 — will be released as a double LP with eight demos. The vinyl marks the record’s first domestic release.
Merge Records
“Though Emoh was a positive step forward for me, listening to it now, I realize the songs clearly track the slow dissolution of my first marriage, the fatal break of several partnerships, and my struggle to acclimate to living in L.
The solo album — which the Dinosaur Jr. bassist and Sebadoh frontman released in January 2005 — will be released as a double LP with eight demos. The vinyl marks the record’s first domestic release.
Merge Records
“Though Emoh was a positive step forward for me, listening to it now, I realize the songs clearly track the slow dissolution of my first marriage, the fatal break of several partnerships, and my struggle to acclimate to living in L.
- 6/16/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Lou Barlow unwittingly walks right past the Get Up Kids’ frontman, Matt Pyror, in the video for the Kids’ new song called, ahem, “Lou Barlow.”
In the clip, Barlow — who fronts Sebadoh, plays bass in Dinosaur Jr., and records as a solo artist — ends up paying the price for not noticing Pryor when he does everything he can to get into the Get Up Kids’ concert, right down to presenting the club’s door man with a copy of the Kids’ new LP, Problems (out now). He points at the...
In the clip, Barlow — who fronts Sebadoh, plays bass in Dinosaur Jr., and records as a solo artist — ends up paying the price for not noticing Pryor when he does everything he can to get into the Get Up Kids’ concert, right down to presenting the club’s door man with a copy of the Kids’ new LP, Problems (out now). He points at the...
- 11/13/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
When J Mascis thinks about all of the albums Dinosaur Jr. put out in the Nineties, he says his favorite is the one most people know the least: Hand It Over. The record came out in 1997, as the alternative-rock boom was fading away, and the LP barely made it onto the Billboard 200, peaking at Number 188. The only song from that period to chart anywhere was the ultra-poppy “Take a Run at the Sun,” and that was in the U.K.; the song wasn’t even on Hand It Over. The...
- 10/3/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Dinosaur Jr. will host a new rock and roll summer camp, Camp Fuzz, July 30th through August 2nd at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, New York. The camp will host a mix of performances, forums, panels, classes and jam sessions. While Dinosaur Jr. are the only act attached so far, the band’s schedule is already packed: Frontman J. Mascis will host a “Pedals & Guitar style” class, Murph will teach a drum workshop and Lou Barlow will helm a four-string guitar and ukulele clinic.
Dinosaur Jr. are also...
Dinosaur Jr. are also...
- 3/12/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Indie rock stalwarts Sebadoh offer an alternative to anxiety on their new song, “Celebrate the Void,” which will appear on their first album in six years, Act Surprised, out May 24th via Dangerbird Records.
“Celebrate the Void” begins as a brooding head-nodder marked by plodding drums and warbling guitar licks that turn into a heavy crunch when the chorus hits. Halfway through, however, the track gathers steam and transforms into a blistering rocker that wraps with the unexpected rallying cry, “Empty my my/Celebrate the void.”
In a statement, Sebadoh...
“Celebrate the Void” begins as a brooding head-nodder marked by plodding drums and warbling guitar licks that turn into a heavy crunch when the chorus hits. Halfway through, however, the track gathers steam and transforms into a blistering rocker that wraps with the unexpected rallying cry, “Empty my my/Celebrate the void.”
In a statement, Sebadoh...
- 3/1/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Stephen Colbert and his audience felt the Bern on Friday night's Late Show as the host dedicated much of the episode to Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who is steadily closing in on Hillary Clinton's once-impenetrable lead in the Democratic presidential field. Before Sanders sat down for their interview, Colbert first served up a "Bern Notice" summarizing the candidate's "meteoric rise." "He's rising, you know, like meteors do," Colbert quipped.
"Sanders' popularity is surprising because he's a self-described socialist who would also be our oldest president ever. The man is 74 years old,...
"Sanders' popularity is surprising because he's a self-described socialist who would also be our oldest president ever. The man is 74 years old,...
- 9/19/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Hopefully, you've had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you’re looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we’ll be breaking them out separately. Here's a look at fall music.September 9/4Dam-Funk, Invite the LightThe 21st-century champion of G-funk convenes a wide spectrum of Los Angeles pop royalty on this record, with guest turns from Snoop Dogg, Flea, and Ariel Pink. Lou Barlow, Brace the WaveThe Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh co-founder announced this solo album only in July, after recording its nine tracks in six days. Per a YouTube trailer, it was made “without drums, without regrets.” Public Image Ltd, What the World Needs NowThese days, John Lydon (né Rotten) happily trades on a cartoon version of his image to make some scratch in TV commercials; that doesn’t mean he’s lost his taste for cartoonishly abrasive punk,...
- 8/25/2015
- by Alex Yablon
- Vulture
It was the summer of 1995. Bill Clinton was president, Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York, and Oj Simpson was on trial. That summer’s youth-oriented movies included Pixar's first movie Toy Story, the Disney musical Pocahontas — and Kids, in which wayward, stoned teens fuck each other senseless and head-stomp random strangers.
It might be hard to remember just how notorious Larry Clark's indie-skater odysey was. The movie grossed a modest $7 million at the box office that summer — a wild success when you account for the fact that it...
It might be hard to remember just how notorious Larry Clark's indie-skater odysey was. The movie grossed a modest $7 million at the box office that summer — a wild success when you account for the fact that it...
- 7/16/2015
- Rollingstone.com
The alt-rock trio Dinosaur Jr, which formed nearly three decades ago out of a hardcore band called Deep Wound, are as famous for their intra-band squabbling as they are for their sound. Bassist Lou Barlow was dumped in 1988 after three albums and drummer Emmett Jefferson “Murph” Murphy III was all but gone by the time Bill Clinton took office. Frontman J. Mascis carried on until 1997, when he retired the Dinosaur name. Then, in 2005, they reunited unexpectedly, and the three albums released since are as vital as their original material; if they’ve mellowed with age and reconciliation, it’s not apparent in the shredding. Vulture caught up with Barlow as the band tours in support of its tenth album, I Bet On the Sky. How does a band that was so legendarily dysfunctional get over the personality clashes to reunite?For me, there was kind of a moment. I went...
- 11/30/2012
- by Peter Hyman
- Vulture
Update: Sebadoh announces first new records in more than a decade, then quickly releases one of them
The seemingly unstoppable work ethic of Dinosaur Jr.’s Lou Barlow has led to not only a summer tour for that band but also a new album, I Bet On Sky, due out in September. As if this weren’t enough, Barlow recently announced that his other band, Sebadoh, is releasing a new five-song Ep. Titled Secret, it consists of the band’s first recorded new material since 1999’s The Sebadoh, and serves as a precursor to a full studio album that will be released sometime early next year. With song titles like "Arbitrary High" and "My Drugs," and ...
- 7/23/2012
- avclub.com
Of the all late-’80s and early-’90s alt-rock bands to get back together this millennium, we’re probably most thankful for Dinosaur Jr.’s reunion. Unlike other acts that just seem to be cashing in on nostalgia (we mean you, The Pixies), Dino Jr. has put out two solid records (2007’s Beyond and 2009’s Farm) since the warring egos of guitarist/primary songwriter J Mascis and bassist/second fiddle Lou Barlow reached a sort of détente. Earlier today, Pitchfork announced that the band will be releasing a third post-reunion record, I Bet On Sky, due Sept ...
- 6/13/2012
- avclub.com
With Nevermind anniversary weeks away, music's biggest bands reflect on the other indispensible albums from a great year for rock.
By James Montgomery
My Bloody Valentine's <i>Loveless</i>
Photo: Sire
On September 24, Nirvana's epochal Nevermind album turns 20, a milestone that will be marked with much coverage, celebration and consternation in the media ... not to mention a sundry of other events, including a high-profile benefit concert at Seattle's Experience Music Project and a Jon Stewart-hosted Q&A with Nirvana's surviving members.
And understandably so. After all, Nevermind was a game-changer in every sense of the term — the kind of album that brought about seismic shifts in music, fashion and culture in general, one that defined a generation and, as such, deserves to be mythologized. And, in the coming weeks, we suspect you'll see no shortage of stories that do just that.
And while Nevermind casts an indelibly lengthy shadow,...
By James Montgomery
My Bloody Valentine's <i>Loveless</i>
Photo: Sire
On September 24, Nirvana's epochal Nevermind album turns 20, a milestone that will be marked with much coverage, celebration and consternation in the media ... not to mention a sundry of other events, including a high-profile benefit concert at Seattle's Experience Music Project and a Jon Stewart-hosted Q&A with Nirvana's surviving members.
And understandably so. After all, Nevermind was a game-changer in every sense of the term — the kind of album that brought about seismic shifts in music, fashion and culture in general, one that defined a generation and, as such, deserves to be mythologized. And, in the coming weeks, we suspect you'll see no shortage of stories that do just that.
And while Nevermind casts an indelibly lengthy shadow,...
- 8/31/2011
- MTV Music News
On Tuesday (July 12), Weezer announced that they were partnering with Carnival Cruise Lines to launch a four-night voyage from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico called, appropriately enough "The Weezer Cruise" (aka "The whitest thing to hit the high seas since Thor Heyerdahl.")
The inaugural cruise sets sail in January, and boasts a lineup that includes not just the Weez, but Dinosaur Jr — and solo sets by both J. Mascis and Lou Barlow — Gene Ween, Wavves, and something/one called the Yacht Rock Review (which is appropriate, considering both the venue and the general pallor of everyone aboard). Fans who purchase tickets get access to all the shows, plus an exclusive Q&A with Weezer on the ship's lido deck, a photo op with the band and a sundry of other activities and amenities, including "swimming pools, water slides, relaxation decks, casino, mini-golf, ping-pong ... [and] karaoke."
Tickets start at just $699, though it should...
The inaugural cruise sets sail in January, and boasts a lineup that includes not just the Weez, but Dinosaur Jr — and solo sets by both J. Mascis and Lou Barlow — Gene Ween, Wavves, and something/one called the Yacht Rock Review (which is appropriate, considering both the venue and the general pallor of everyone aboard). Fans who purchase tickets get access to all the shows, plus an exclusive Q&A with Weezer on the ship's lido deck, a photo op with the band and a sundry of other activities and amenities, including "swimming pools, water slides, relaxation decks, casino, mini-golf, ping-pong ... [and] karaoke."
Tickets start at just $699, though it should...
- 7/13/2011
- by James Montgomery
- MTV Newsroom
One of the strongest pillars of underground music during the ’90s—and part of the lo-fi holy trinity that also included Pavement and Guided By Voices—Sebadoh put its best foot forward in 1994 with Bakesale, giving frontman Lou Barlow vindication and validation after Dinosaur Jr. booted him five years earlier. With Eric Gaffney no longer part of the songwriting equation—he just plays drums on four tracks here—Barlow and Jason Loewenstein stepped up and delivered a steady stream of classic pensive indie rock and unhinged rockers, and it rightfully catapulted the band into the upper echelon of the ...
- 6/14/2011
- avclub.com
Indie-rock band bests heavyweights like Lady Gaga and Eminem in the show's final category.
By Ryan J. Downey
Arcade Fire win Album of the Year at 2011 Grammy Awards
Photo: Getty Images
Who says the Grammys reward nothing but pop music?
Critical darlings Arcade Fire nabbed the top prize for Album of the Year at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night. The Canadian indie rock group's The Suburbs bested major label albums from megastars Eminem, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, whose media campaigns were as relentless as their radio hits were ubiquitous. The category was rounded out by Lady Antebellum, huge stars in the world of country and multiple Grammy nominees in their own right.
Check out photos of Arcade Fire's performance and more!
Arcade Fire's Album of the Year win was something of an upset, although MTV News' own James Montgomery did sort of call it for them.
By Ryan J. Downey
Arcade Fire win Album of the Year at 2011 Grammy Awards
Photo: Getty Images
Who says the Grammys reward nothing but pop music?
Critical darlings Arcade Fire nabbed the top prize for Album of the Year at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night. The Canadian indie rock group's The Suburbs bested major label albums from megastars Eminem, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, whose media campaigns were as relentless as their radio hits were ubiquitous. The category was rounded out by Lady Antebellum, huge stars in the world of country and multiple Grammy nominees in their own right.
Check out photos of Arcade Fire's performance and more!
Arcade Fire's Album of the Year win was something of an upset, although MTV News' own James Montgomery did sort of call it for them.
- 2/14/2011
- MTV Music News
Dirty Laundry talked to Lou Barlow, a true indie lo-fi legend at their chosen laundromat venue this week. Barlow went on to focus on Sebadoh and start Folk Implosion after being kicked out of Dinosaur Jr. in 1989, but has since reunited with them and his former idol, J Mascis.
The interview was posted in two parts with the second at Venus Zine up today. In it, Barlow talks about the healing acid trip he was on when he saw J Mascis on the cover of Spin and finally came to terms with his departure from Dinosaur Jr.
And you have to hear him tell about how he came to do the soundtrack for "Kids" after Harmony Korine wrote him crazy fan letters for his work with Sebadoh. Apparently Korine likes to throw those little exploding snaps at old ladies while he walks around in NY.
Download: "Gravitate" off Lou Barlow...
The interview was posted in two parts with the second at Venus Zine up today. In it, Barlow talks about the healing acid trip he was on when he saw J Mascis on the cover of Spin and finally came to terms with his departure from Dinosaur Jr.
And you have to hear him tell about how he came to do the soundtrack for "Kids" after Harmony Korine wrote him crazy fan letters for his work with Sebadoh. Apparently Korine likes to throw those little exploding snaps at old ladies while he walks around in NY.
Download: "Gravitate" off Lou Barlow...
- 8/26/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Today, at the Galaxy Room in Austin, Texas, Paste is bringing you another day’s worth of music. Lou Barlow will be there, as will The Middle East, along with Decemberists’ side project Black Prairie and a whole host of acts, from Fanfarlo to Shearwater to The Living Sisters, all brought to you by Bay Area Tone, To Write Love On Her Arms, Izze, Sierra Nevada, Busted Tees, 5-Hour Energy, Uv Vodka and Limelight. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., which is when the free beer and Izze start flowing. We’ll have the latter all day, but the beer is first come,...
- 3/18/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
Dinosaurs are extinct because they couldn't evolve. Dinosaur Jr. is alive and well because it can't evolve. You win some and you lose some. Too bad for the stegosaurus. Two opposable thumbs up for music fans.Stubbornly stagnating in the same late '80s scene of sweet melodies, slacker sentiments, and skronky, overdriven guitars that they pretty much inaugurated, guitarist, singer, and songwriter J. Mascis and sidekicks bassist Lou Barlow and drummer Murph just keep on bashing out the same old same old. After a nineteen-year hiatus, the original trio re-united in 2007 with Beyond, and followed that up with the...
- 12/4/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
In the years since Lou Barlow’s 2005 solo album Emoh, the indie-rock godfather has toured with his old bands Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr., recorded two superb LPs with the latter, and has seen his early Sebadoh albums re-released in deluxe editions. So it’s understandable that Barlow’s new solo release, Goodnight Unknown, finds him in a reflective mood, revisiting the various styles he’s attempted over the years. The album opens with the pounding, strummy rocker “Sharing,” which could pass for a later-period Sebadoh or early Dinosaur Jr. track, and throughout Goodnight Unknown, Barlow goes with what he ...
- 10/13/2009
- avclub.com
You may not know the name Lou Barlow -- he's never stolen the mike from a teenage country singer at the VMAs, exposed a breast at the Super Bowl or been the soundtrack to an iTunes commercial. But that doesn't mean that he or his bands -- Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh -- are any less important on our cultural sidewalk splatter. Both can be credited with shaping "indie" (I used quotes in a slightly sarcastic, eye-rollin' way) rock as we know it -- emo before it lost a ball, folk before it joined the circus and picked up a freak, rock before it forgot a guitar is better than most anything at all. Lou's got a new record out October 6th, Goodnight Unknown, via Merge Records. To celebrate, he's released a series of videos on Lootube, his own personal indie-porn...
- 9/15/2009
- by Marissa Moss
- Huffington Post
Lou Barlow, Og fuzz-rocker of Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh fame, recently unveiled the first music video off his forthcoming LP, Goodnight Unknown (out Oct. 6 on Merge) via Stereogum. "Don't Apologize", as it's titled, is an ball of introspection pulled straight from the Barlow canon. Now, if an as-yet-unidentified paranoia of blogs prevents you from clicking that link, you can still get your emotive-Barlow fix: He's handily collecting all of his videos for Goodnight Unknown into a new pet project: LooTube.
- 9/3/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Reprinted from It Feels So Good When I Stop by Joe Pernice by arrangement with Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc., Copyright (c) 2009 by Joe Pernice
Lou Barlow from Sebadoh was headlining, playing solo acoustic, so I was okay with suffering through the four opening acts. One of them was Jocelyn’s friend Stephen’s band. They were called the Coughins. They all smoked on stage and went to great lengths to look like they couldn’t give a shit how they looked. They embraced the crappy-playing-equals-pure-art-and-unmolested-genius myth. Stephen graduated from Pratt, but was doing production at Redbook because it was easy money. Jocelyn said that he’d designed some nice Vera Wang bridal knockoffs, and too bad they were counterfeits. I wasn’t too impressed, since Stephen had merely copied Vera’s design. Jocelyn said it still wasn’t easy to do. She suggested I try banging out a Cézanne.
Lou Barlow from Sebadoh was headlining, playing solo acoustic, so I was okay with suffering through the four opening acts. One of them was Jocelyn’s friend Stephen’s band. They were called the Coughins. They all smoked on stage and went to great lengths to look like they couldn’t give a shit how they looked. They embraced the crappy-playing-equals-pure-art-and-unmolested-genius myth. Stephen graduated from Pratt, but was doing production at Redbook because it was easy money. Jocelyn said that he’d designed some nice Vera Wang bridal knockoffs, and too bad they were counterfeits. I wasn’t too impressed, since Stephen had merely copied Vera’s design. Jocelyn said it still wasn’t easy to do. She suggested I try banging out a Cézanne.
- 7/30/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
When the original Dinosaur Jr. lineup reunited a few years back and recorded the album Beyond, guitarist J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow, and drummer Murph fell quickly back into step, making music that—strictly on a textural level—felt like it could’ve been released immediately after Bug, 20 years prior. The trio’s new Farm surpasses Beyond, inasmuch as the songs now match the strength of the sound. After the solidly rowdy opening love song “Pieces,” Farm hits an early high on track two, “I Want You To Know,” a noisy country-rocker marked by a staggering guitar riff and ...
- 6/23/2009
- avclub.com
Indie-rock vets sound strangely sedate
When Dinosaur Jr. ended a long hiatus with 2007’s Beyond, it was a triumphant return. The only album that gives the band’s 1987 masterpiece, You’re Living All Over Me, a run for best-of-catalog status, Beyond signified a don’t-call-it-a-comeback kind of comeback. Indeed, J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph had been here for years, but they also hadn’t been working together for years. All of which amounts to some serious expectations for follow-up Farm. Unfortunately, the album buckles under the pressure. At times, Mascis and Co. sound perfectly at home amidst a wall of distortion (see the bouncy, hook-driven “I Want You to Know”). But for the most part, they sound exhausted; from the plodding chug of “Ocean in the Way” to the utter drag of “Said the People,” a strange sense of sedation weighs down what should’ve been an exhilarating ride.
When Dinosaur Jr. ended a long hiatus with 2007’s Beyond, it was a triumphant return. The only album that gives the band’s 1987 masterpiece, You’re Living All Over Me, a run for best-of-catalog status, Beyond signified a don’t-call-it-a-comeback kind of comeback. Indeed, J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph had been here for years, but they also hadn’t been working together for years. All of which amounts to some serious expectations for follow-up Farm. Unfortunately, the album buckles under the pressure. At times, Mascis and Co. sound perfectly at home amidst a wall of distortion (see the bouncy, hook-driven “I Want You to Know”). But for the most part, they sound exhausted; from the plodding chug of “Ocean in the Way” to the utter drag of “Said the People,” a strange sense of sedation weighs down what should’ve been an exhilarating ride.
- 6/22/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
American alternative rockers Dinosaur Jr. are giving away a track from their much-awaited upcoming album via their website. The new album "Farm" is due for release June 23.
"I Want To Know You," the album's first single, can be downloaded on the band's website.
Meanwhile, the grunge rock pioneers, are in the midst of an extensive U.S. tour in support of the new album and are scheduled to head to Lancaster's Chameleon Club on Friday.
Tickets are in advance and the day of the show. The gigs conclude in New York on June 25. Guitarist J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow and drummer Murph were the band's founding members; however, Mascis has been the group's sole continuous member.
"I Want To Know You," the album's first single, can be downloaded on the band's website.
Meanwhile, the grunge rock pioneers, are in the midst of an extensive U.S. tour in support of the new album and are scheduled to head to Lancaster's Chameleon Club on Friday.
Tickets are in advance and the day of the show. The gigs conclude in New York on June 25. Guitarist J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow and drummer Murph were the band's founding members; however, Mascis has been the group's sole continuous member.
- 5/1/2009
- icelebz.com
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