17 July 2026
Ohio‘s musician/singer-songwriter LOU BARLOW, co-founding member of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, was born named Louis Knox Barlow on 17 July 1966.
Happy 60 to the man credited with helping to pioneer the
lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Have a flaming day.
– SEBADOH –
– DINOSAUR JR –
Brand new single
Daily electricity to load your batteries
1 July 2026
Photo by Jeff Fowler
The now 60-year-old J. Mascis‘s grungy slacker rock band DINOSAUR JR. just announced the upcoming delivery of their 13th LP, baptized THERE NEAR. It’ll land on August 28th.
Tracklist and pre-order info here.
Created in short, intense bursts over the course of a year, There Near was recorded almost entirely by Dino’s core trio: Murph on drums, Lou Barlow on bass/vocals and J Mascis on guitar/vocals.
Spooky artwork
J Mascis about writing the new LP: “I’m not always sure what a song is ‘about’ when
I’m writing it. I guess the meaning will present itself at some point. I’ll use whatever words
work. And a lot of it will be influenced by whatever esoteric mumbo jumbo I’m reading at
he time.
I try not to think too hard about any of it. I think it’s a drag that
Spotify shows all the lyrics to a song. What’s the fun of that?.”
Good golly! The first single SEVERAL GOT AWAY
is a stupendous sockdolager. Bombshelling hit!
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Significant longplayers from the past
19 February 2026
American slacker rockers DINOSAUR JR. led by commander J Mascis
have released their 4th LP GREEN MIND, today 35 years ago, on
19 February 1991.
It was the band’s first release after their bassist Lou Barlow left to form
his own bands, Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, as well as the first on
a major label.
The record is close to being a J Mascis solo album. He played most
of the instruments, with founding drummer Murph only featuring
on three tracks.
It peaked at #168 on the Billboard 200. Single The Wagon went to €22.
Rolling Stone: “Green Mind “sounds every bit as energetic and full-blooded
despite much of the record being performed solely by Mascis, whose guitar
playing, will bowl over even confirmed louder-is-better zealots.”
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10 December 2025
JM was born on 10 December 1965 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Happy 60!
Last week slacker heroes DINOSAUR JR. fronted by legend J MASCIS started
a seven-night residency at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg in Brooklyn to celebrate
the 30th anniversary of their landmark album Where You Been.
Every night they invite guests to the stage. So far Hamilton Leithauser, Isaac
Brock, Kurt Vile, Warren Haynes, Lee Ranaldo, and Kevin Corrigan passed by.
Last night Kim Deal, probably the coolest of all invitees, joined the dinos
for 3 songs. Pixies’ Gigantic, The Breeders’ Divine Hammer, and DJr’s cracker
Tarpit.
Thanks to fan CowboyKidd you can watch footage from this awesome live collaboration.
Two legends, Dinosaur Jr.‘s J Mascis (who dropped a new solo single last
week, listen below) and My Bloody Valentine‘s Kevin Shields became pals
back in 1962 when their bands toured the US together.
They met several times afterward.
And yesterday J Mascis invited Shields to the Dinosaur Jr. gig in the Garage in London.
They played 3 songs. Tarpit from DJ’s 1987 album You’re Living All Over Me, Thorn from MBV’s 2012 EP and The Cure‘s classic Just Like Heaven (more than 400 million streams on Spotify).
Lots of noiiiizzzzz.
New J Mascis single Can’t Believe Where Here.
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2 June 2022
An homage documentary to grungy slacker rockers DINOSAUR JR. featuring original
members J Mascis (guitar, vocals, primary songwriter), Lou Barlow (bass, vocals), and Murph (drums) goes on screen in the USA.
J Macsic in the docu: “I don’t know where people get this idea that it’s supposed to be fun or something to play music,” J Mascis says in his signature hyper-relaxed drawl, near the beginning of the new documentary Freakscene: The Story Of Dinosaur Jr. “That seems to hinder a lot of people: ‘Well it’s not fun, why should I do it?’ That never occurred to us that it’s supposed to be fun. It’s just, music was really important and we wanted to do it.”
Freakscene: The Story Of Dinosaur Jr. already played in European cinemas,
but will be screened for the first time in American theatres. All dates below.
The trailer
Screen dates USA
Eye-catching album artwork
Cover of the highly praised masterpiece album by J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr.,
titled You’re Living All Over Me. Released 35 years ago this year (December 1987).
The illustration is by Maura Jasper who designed the artwork
for several Dinosour Jr albums. Check them all out here.
Single: Little Fury Things
Full album
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