Apparently touring and recording with Dinosaur Jr , Witch , and his own J. Mascis + The Fog outfit -- as well as lending a hand to recordings by avant rock outfits on Thurston Moore 's Ecstatic Peace label like Free Kitten and Hush Arbors -- just wasn't enough for J Mascis . Solidifying his stature as the hardest working man in Marshall stack fortified grayhair showbiz, he has joined John Petkovic...
Dress down to impress Tomorrow, as has been decreed by indie-gnome Steve Lamacq, is the second annual Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt To Work Day . A shame I'm not in work, then - though I'll almost certainly be wearing a band T-shirt of some description en route for ATP... I wouldn't say I have any that I'm " a bit embarrassed of ", really - but I can do old. There's an OK Computer -era Radiohead...
Oh, Mew, what are we going to do with you? A 23 word album title with a nightmare cartoon of a cover, they aren't a band to make things easy for themselves, especially when the first track turns out to be largely played backwards (apparently it's a completely different song if you likewise play it backwards) At least they've never been a band lacking in ambition, Frengers now looking like less a quick...
Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unkown Lou Barlow has led an interesting life. Married four times, widowed twice, divorced once and 27 girlfriends in total over the years. Oh bugger, I’ve mixed him up with Ken Barlow again, haven’t I? Not that Lou hasn’t had a bit of a soap opera style rollercoaster ride when it comes to close relationships though. Where Ken has Deirdre, Lou has J Mascis....
50 Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy 49 Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3 48 Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It 47 Alasdair Roberts – Spoils 46 Broadcast & The Focus Group - …Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age 45 Richmond Fontaine – We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River 44 Reigning Sound – Love And Curses 43 Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream...
Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Dinosaur Jr. shows coming up at Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the "Doveman and Friends" show coming up at Mercury Lounge. Tickets are...
The Yo Gabba Gabba! folks are currently on tour with a rotating cast of musicians who drop in to do their weird kid tunes for live audiences. Dinosaur Jr were present at the New York stop, dropping in to deliver "Banana," a cover of a song originally done by the Aggrolites on the show. It's considerably less searing than Dino Jr.'s studio material, but it's still slightly menacing, especially...
Matt Valentina and Erika Elder mark their return to Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label with Barn Nova , the latest long-player in their considerable discography really tugs at the flowing locks of classic rock. Crafting an unholy combination of folk, blues, prog and psychedelic rock, the duo are joined by a host of bandmates and special guests which includes Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis.
via Mitchell Stirling @ Acclaimed Music Forum Uncut Magazine - Top 50 Albums of 2009 1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years 3. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 4. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life 5. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 6. XX – The XX 7. Wilco – Wilco (The Album) 8. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest...
The problem with being a band like Dinosaur, Jr, a band whose original lineup of J. Mascis, Murph, and Lou Barlow found a second life with consistent touring and two very solid studio albums in the latter half of this decade, is that it's damn near impossible to please all of those who remember you from the first time around. Depending on how you asked, there was either too many Lou Barlow songs or...
Devendra Banhart @ Town Hall on Nov. 22nd 2009 (via) Devendra Banhart and his band The Grogs played last night (11/22) at Town Hall - their first stop on their tour's two date NYC run. Tonight (11/23) they'll be at...
It was The YOI's most successful night at 93 Feet East last week and I got lucky and happened to be behind the decks for some of it. I'd chosen to go down the indie/rock route and it seemed to go down well, suiting the kind of club that 93 Feet East is. Here's what I played, in a slightly random order (and it was a two and a half hour set so it's quite a big list)... Passion Pit - Sleepyhead The Virgins...
Brittney Bush Bollay brought her camera to last night's Dinosaur Jr. show at Showbox at the Market. Here's a slideshow of what she saw along with a few stand alone shots to hold you over until I finish up a review of the show.
On tour to pre-promote their December 1st release of Stir the Blood , NYC's The Bravery took to a packed house at the Wiltern Thursday night. Once the band took the stage, it was clear from the feverish enthusiasm of the The Bravery fans that there was no other place to be, despite the fact that the concert calendar for November 5th also featured Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Neon Indian, and Avi Buffalo within...
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