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ATP Presents Don’t Look Back – The Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr, Deerhoof
London’s Alexandra Palace provided a spectacular venue for the biggest event yet in ATP’s Don’t Look Back series, as The Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr and Deerhoof came together to perform their most...
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Everything I Love Is Dead: Reflecting On The 1990s
By Jamie Halliday of Audio Antihero Records Born in 1987 to overprotective parents I all but missed the 1990s but with the benefit of internets I would later uncover that it was a decade of grunge,...
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Track Of The Day #100: Dinosaur Jr. – Watch The Corners
Those of you who started their musical upbringing in the late eighties will probably remember and love Dinosaur Jr. What might have escaped your attention is that they’ve been back together again for...
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Dinosaur Jr. – “Pierce The Morning Sun” (Play It Again Sam)
J Mascis long ago mastered the trick of how best to weld blistering pedal-to-the-metal rock with melody and it is something that has served him mighty well over the years. And here on the second...
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Dinosaur JR – The Electric Ballroom – 4th February 2013
The first thing you see is the hair. As the sold out crowd at Camden’s Electric Ballroom cheer when the lights dim it’s the grey, lank hair of Dinosaur JR frontman and guitarist J Mascis as he...
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REVIEW: Primavera Sound 2013
When the line-up was announced for Primavera in early 2013, I screamed as if someone told me Harry Styles would be there, who would have thought the cheeky little pube-head would have been spotted...
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J. Mascis – Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)
Is it time for J to declare Dinosaur Jr. extinct? Or can the delicate evolutions of J’s sound live in harmony with the more threatening beasts of his past? As a mainly acoustic affair, with little in...
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J Mascis – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 17th January 2015
J Mascis is a man of few words. His music does his talking for him. And for 70 totally absorbing minutes this evening, in a fully sold out Brudenell Social Club, it speaks volumes. The 16 songs he...
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NEWS: Dinosaur Jr. share ‘Solo Extractions’ from upcoming new album
On 5th August, American cult rockers Dinosaur Jr. are set to release their brand new album Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not via Jagjaguwar. The new collection is set to be another dose of what the band...
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NEWS: Dinosaur Jr. share new single ‘Goin’ Down’
It’s getting very close to 5th August, when rock icons Dinosaur Jr. will release their brand new album Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not via Jagjaguwar. The band have already shared ‘Tiny’ (and its...
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Dinosaur Jr – Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not (Jagjaguwar)
Despite recording the all-time definitive slacker anthem (1988’s classic ‘Freak Scene’), Dinosaur Jr have surprisingly become the most prolific and dependable of all the alumni of that incredible late...
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NEWS: Dinosaur Jr. reveal video for ‘Goin’ Down’
Alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr recently released their new LP Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not via Jagjaguwar, their fourth since reforming the original line-up in 2006. The album distils everything that’s...
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Dinosaur Jr – Leeds Stylus, 26/10/2016
Flanked by a wall of Marshall stacks, J Mascis slowly cranks out those familiar opening chords to ‘Bulbs of Passion’. As the indecipherable anguish of his voice arcs over the sound of his famous Fender...
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Vaureen – Extraterra (Rising Pulse Records)
Brooklyn’s Vaureen have been on the New York scene since 2011, and Extraterra is their debut album, following an acclaimed E.P. and a series of impressive US live performances. Like fellow three-piece...
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Dinosaur Jr. – Green Mind/Where You Been/Without A Sound/Hand It Over (Cherry...
Green Mind – Look at Green Mind, the major label debut by Dinosaur Jr. as you would Elvis‘s ‘That’s All Right‘ and the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Ok there were already those who did some of what this band...
View ArticleDinosaur Jr – Puke + Cry – The Sire Years 1990-1997 (Cherry Red)
I’m not usually one to do extremely belated reviews, but I received an email from one of our best PR folk (if you’re reading this and are PR yourself, then you are too) this morning asking me if I...
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NEWS: Folk Implosion to release music for Kids soundtrack
The Folk Implosion, Lou Barlow and John Davis’s recently reactivated musical project, will release Music For KIDS, a deluxe reissue of their original compositions that soundtracked Harmony Korine and...
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NEWS: J Mascis announces fifth solo album, unveils first single and video
J Mascis has announced his fifth solo album. February 2nd, 2024 will see the release of What Do We Do Now, worldwide on Sub Pop Records. Recorded at his studio Bisquiteen in Western Massachusetts,...
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FIRST LISTEN: J Mascis – What Do We Do Now? (Sub Pop)
J Mascis’ Can’t Believe We’re Here is an album rich with quirky vigour, and the album’s title track promptly gets things started. Featuring not one, but two different guitar solos, this opening track...
View ArticleDinosaur Jr – The Black Session – Live in Paris 1993 (Cherry Red)
On April 1st 1992, having bought tickets for the Rollercoaster Tour, on which headliners Blur were sharing the bill with My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Dinosaur Jr., I and the...
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