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Witch cast their evil spell on Santos'

Q&A: Sebadoh & Dinosaur Jr.'s Lou Barlow On '80s Hardcore, Signing With SST Records And How Evil J Mascis Used To Be

via Sub Pop RecordsSebadoh.​The staggering gamut of cred Lou Barlow boasts in the hardcore, post-punk, lo-fi and indie rock realms toes past the line of the ridiculous and the legendary. In the early '80s, Barlow obliterated his guitar in the cataclysmic Massachusetts hardcore band Deep Wound ... More >>

NO SLEEP ’TIL BROOKLYN

CMJ’s Music Marathon kicks into gear

Q & A: Don Fleming On The Grunge Years, Courtney Love's Work Ethic, The Velvet Monkeys And Being Sonic Youth's "Manager"

​One of the more surreal moments in television history happened one superlate evening in 1989, when Sonic Youth appeared on the avant-garde-leaning music program Night Music on the severely avant-lacking NBC network. With downtown skuzz buddy Don Fleming playing SY's "manager on keyboards"
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Live: Getting The Warm And Fuzzies With Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up, Off Terminal 5 Thursday, June 23 Better than: You and your friends sitting around, telling each other how much you appreciate each other. Keith Morris is a founding member of both Black Flag and The Circle Jerks, the co-author of a song called "World Up My Ass," and a pi ... More >>

Q&A: Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles On "Practical Righteousness," The Replacements' Goof Songs, And His Band's Our Band Concert Set

​Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles named his band after one of Shakespeare's most violent, least regarded plays. He writes songs named "Upon Viewing Brueghel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'." His band's most recent album uses the Civil War as a metaphor for political and persona ... More >>

YUCK RETURNS

Palatable rock at Bowery Ballroom

Sebadoh

Palatable rock at Bowery Ballroom

Five Awesomely Awkward J Mascis Interviews

What do you think about when you're doing your guitar solos? "Oh, you know, what's for dinner and...very weird thoughts." Let us not ask too much of J Mascis. The Dinosaur Jr. frontman has given us much already: classic albums, amazing videos, monster solos befitting the name Dinosaur Jr, scientifi ... More >>

J Mascis

What do you think about when you're doing your guitar solos? "Oh, you know, what's for dinner and...very weird thoughts." Let us not ask too much of J Mascis. The Dinosaur Jr. frontman has given us much already: classic albums, amazing videos, monster solos befitting the name Dinosaur Jr, scientifi ... More >>

Ted Leo, Titus Andronicus, Tune-Yards, And Dan Deacon Lead Bonkers Our Band Could Be Your Life All-Covers Tribute Show

​This show is crazy: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life -- an exhaustive history of '80s-indie giants from Sonic Youth to Fugazi to Black Flag -- the Bowery Ballroom is hosting a one-night-only parade of modern alt. superstars covering the bands ... More >>

Live: Yuck Brave The Thunder Snowstorm At Glasslands

Less like Dinosaur Jr than you might have hoped/feared. Pics by Rob.​Yuck/Total Slacker Glasslands Wednesday, January 26 Better Than: Watching American Idol exploit that brain-damaged woman, evidently If you're here tonight, than you really want to be here. This includes your headliners, the ... More >>

'CMJ: PS I Love You+Soft Reeds+Dear Comrade'

Less like Dinosaur Jr than you might have hoped/feared. Pics by Rob.​Yuck/Total Slacker Glasslands Wednesday, January 26 Better Than: Watching American Idol exploit that brain-damaged woman, evidently If you're here tonight, than you really want to be here. This includes your headliners, the ... More >>

My Morning Jacket

Less like Dinosaur Jr than you might have hoped/feared. Pics by Rob.​Yuck/Total Slacker Glasslands Wednesday, January 26 Better Than: Watching American Idol exploit that brain-damaged woman, evidently If you're here tonight, than you really want to be here. This includes your headliners, the ... More >>

'Little Fury Things Records Party'

Less like Dinosaur Jr than you might have hoped/feared. Pics by Rob.​Yuck/Total Slacker Glasslands Wednesday, January 26 Better Than: Watching American Idol exploit that brain-damaged woman, evidently If you're here tonight, than you really want to be here. This includes your headliners, the ... More >>

Watch forgetters Play Live in Gainsville

Blake Schwarzenbach's forgetters played the Bowery Ballroom about a week and a half ago, but prior to that, their big winter event was a tour--called Too Small to Fail, after one of their better songs--up and down the East Coast. In Gainsville, Jeremy Silveira caught the band's whole set on video, ... More >>

This Weekend! Devo, Sonic Youth, Talib Kweli, and Devendra Banhart

​So even Devo now is into this play-a-classic-album-in-its-entirety thing: They're at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza Friday (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!) and Saturday (Freedom of Choice). Have the courtesy to let that part of the setlist run out at least before you start hootin' and holle ... More >>

Sonic Youth+Dinosaur Jr.

​So even Devo now is into this play-a-classic-album-in-its-entirety thing: They're at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza Friday (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!) and Saturday (Freedom of Choice). Have the courtesy to let that part of the setlist run out at least before you start hootin' and holle ... More >>

At Last, the Answer to the "Which Jawbreaker Song Would the Hold Steady Put on a Mixtape?" Question

​It's "Fireman." Our guess would've been "Bad Scene Everybody's Fault," but what do we know? That's a "mixtape shirt" up there, by the way, customized and signed by the Hold Steady's Tad Kubler, currently on auction (via Insound) to benefit 826NYC. There's also an Of Montreal one; further edit ... More >>

News Roundup: Vampire Weekend Comment Bombs, Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, LCD Soundsystem

​--The free download of Vampire Weekend's new track "Horchata" has shaken the dust off the intractable divides between the army of anons. Over at Brooklyn Vegan, we see college students ("The F. Scott Fitzgerald of American Indie Rock") pitted against college students ("...it's like the whiffe ... More >>

Lou Barlow

​--The free download of Vampire Weekend's new track "Horchata" has shaken the dust off the intractable divides between the army of anons. Over at Brooklyn Vegan, we see college students ("The F. Scott Fitzgerald of American Indie Rock") pitted against college students ("...it's like the whiffe ... More >>

News Roundup: Girls Album Listening Party, Music at Fashion's Night Out, Ellen DeGeneres Takes American Idol, Lee Ranaldo's Broken Wrist

​--If you somehow haven't heard Album, the sublime glazed-over debut by San Francisco's Girls, Impose and Insound are holding a listening party for the record--and for fellow Matador signees Times New Viking's Born Again Revisited--at Bruar Falls in Williamsburg next Wednesday, September 16th. ... More >>

News Roundup: The Walkmen, Green Day, Jay Reatard

​ --The Walkman have announced a fall tour. The band, still supporting last year's massive You and Me, will play the already-announced Guggenheim August 14 as part of the It Came from Brooklyn series and then play a stacked double-bill with Dinosaur Jr. in Central Park on August 16. The rest o ... More >>

Lovvers

​ --The Walkman have announced a fall tour. The band, still supporting last year's massive You and Me, will play the already-announced Guggenheim August 14 as part of the It Came from Brooklyn series and then play a stacked double-bill with Dinosaur Jr. in Central Park on August 16. The rest o ... More >>

Live: Dinosaur Jr. Leave "Billie Jean" Alone at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

via dennischang's photostream Dinosaur Jr. Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, June 25 Dinosaur Jr. did bring up Michael Jackson from the stage last night, frontman/guitar wizard J. Mascis muttering something about Farah Fawcett and MJ and, later, when Lou Barlow took requests: "What are we gonna ... More >>

Week in Review: I Want to Be Michael Jackson When I Grow Up

The news that obliterated the week that was: MJ. Our remembrance here, plus the complete Michael Jackson Voice archives, as written by the dream team of Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy, Greg Tate, Vince Aletti, Stanley Crouch, Guy Trebay, Nelson George, Elvis Mitchell, Simon Frith, and Scott Poulson-Br ... More >>

Tonight! Who's the Better Scion? Ziggy Marley or Dinosaur Jr.?

Adult Swim's team of terrorists and aliens have organized a summer-long series of free shows at Santos' Party House. Tonight, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman joins Cheeseburger, the Woggles, and, apparently, "a hockey-mask-wearing burlesque review." [ED: Shouldn't that be "revue"? Or will s ... More >>

Michael Jackson, 1958-2009

Michael Jackson is dead, and I'm taken aback by how incredibly unpleasant a feeling it is, far beyond the usual celebrity-grieving response: This is devastating in an unexpected and overwhelmingly surreal way. I'm also tremendously/overly conscious that at this exact moment thousands of writers/blog ... More >>

Stream Dinosaur Jr.'s Farm

Stream the entirety of Dinosaur Jr.'s rock solid Farm, out this coming Tuesday, at their MySpace. On top of the three songs already out and circulating--the ferocious, double-soloing "I Don't Wanna Go There," album highlight "I Want You to Know," and "I'm Over It"--we heartily recommend "There's No ... More >>

Week in Review: I've Never Seen So Many Sick Weirdos Gathered in One Place

Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>

Birds of Avalon+the Library is on Fire

Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>

Dinosaur Jr.

Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>

Wow, That Ridiculous J. Mascis Skateboarding Trick Was Actually Performed by J. Mascis

SOTC buddy Ryan Dombal gets to the bottom of Dinosaur Jr.'s video for "I'm Over It," in which the band's three aging members do obviously stunt-doubled tricks on one skateboard and two BMX bikes. Except some of it--and not just the part where J. Mascis awkwardly cruises into the frame, and then si ... More >>

Want to See J. Mascis Do a Kickflip?

Continuing their streak of awesomely, defiantly old-school gestures, Dinosaur Jr. chose to make the video to "I'm Over It" an homage to skateboarding and BMX biking: J. and Murph and Lou cruising around town, Mascis on a skateboard, his rhythm section on bikes. 90% of the tricks here are pretty ob ... More >>

Week in Review: Penetration!

Hey, it was porn week! Zach live-blogged the Dim Mak porn video. Jadakiss vowed to wake up beside you naked. Peter Saville's Erotic House of Pop streamed online. Asher Roth debuted his sweet new Bukkake-inspired video. (Speaking of which, Asher Roth should probably lose that hypeman.) The police ... More >>

On Dinosaur Jr.'s "I Want You to Know"

The post-reunion Dinosaur Jr. has been so consistent at such a high level that, mostly, what separates one song from another is nothing more complicated than an extra solo or backing vocal. J. Mascis has an incredible feel for the tiny detail that elevates any one of his songs from good to great. He ... More >>

New Dinosaur Jr. Farm Cover Presently On Route to Saruman's Castle

The slobby, scrawled, couch-and-legs motif on the cover of Dinosaur Jr.'s wildly great 2007 comeback album Beyond was, like the music contained therein, a hilariously accurate homage/send-up of the late '80s SST aesthetic with which the band was then prominently associated. From artwork on, this w ... More >>

BRING IN THE NOISE . . .

. . . And you're not getting sleepy now

Reprising a Classic Built to Spill Record, For Good and Ill

Perfect From Now On gets all spilt on some green

ATP Rocks the Catskills

Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine

SOUNDS PERFECT

Built to Spill play their most elegant album

Interview: Barry Hogan, Creator of All Tomorrow's Parties

Built to Spill play their most elegant album

"Perfect From Now On" Is the Best Built to Spill Album

Built to Spill play their most elegant album

DINOSAUR JR. JR.

J Mascis’s Witch crank it up

Whose Nostalgia?

No R.I.P. for the rock album just yet—Sonic Youth's seminal Daydream Nation lives again at McCarren Pool.

The Sound of Summer

Emperor reigns. J Mascis rocks. And Panda Bear goes all California.

Noise From the Front

For the week of November 29–December 5

Where You Been

Alt-rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. return to the freak scene as seniors

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Alt-rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. return to the freak scene as seniors