Dinosaur Jr
News: Bearded Theory 2024 announce first wave of acts, including headliners Jane’s Addiction
Having already delivered one of the best festival line-ups of 2023, DHP Family are at it again with today’s news that next years will include a headline set by none other than Californian legends, Jane’s Addiction, who will be making their first festival appearance in the UK since 2016’s Download. Also on the bill, at …
News: Tent Pole: A Musical Jamboree festival 2024 announces super slick lineup
Following on from the success of its’ inaugural iteration in 2023, the good folk at A Day On The Green, I Oh You, Love Police and Triple R have gathered together another electrifying lineup for the 2024 Tent Pole: A Musical Jamboree festival to be held on Saturday, 17th February, 2024 at Mt Duneed Estate …
Live Review: Dinosaur JR / Garcia Peoples – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London 16.10.2022
‘Dinosaur Jr.’ last graced the stage at Kentish Town forum 17 years ago Today they play alongside special guests for the tour from psychedelic rockers ‘Garcia Peoples’ for their long awaited sold out UK shows. Fans are in for a treat with the array of back catalogue of the band’s indie rock fusion. Anybody who …
Live Gallery + Set list: Dinosaur Jr. / Garcia Peoples – Vicar Street, Dublin 10,10,2022
Dinosaur Jr. opened their tour at Dublin’s Vicar Street and man did the make some noise, they blow up a dust storm as can be seen in some of the photos where the dust particles are flying, the guys blow peoples eardrums for an hour and a half with a 19 song set list.Support came …
100 albums of 2021 you shouldn’t miss, plus playlist
In a moment a folly, I (not me and my editorial team, or my writers, or indeed anyone) decided to make a playlist of the year. Not one of those in order ones, just a playlist of good records, written by the esteemed writers here at Backseat Mafia. I don’t know what possessed me to …
Film Review – Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Rising from the ashes of Deep Wound, a high school hardcore punk band from western Massachusetts, J Mascis and Lou Barlow formed Dinosaur Jr. in 1984. They were joined by Murph on drums and influenced by a shared love of slower heavy music. After releasing a couple of albums, they began to gain momentum in …
Album review: Lou Barlow – ‘Reason To Live’: a crisp Americana homecoming that reveals its beauties slowly
NOTHING less than absolute royalty of the US alt.rock scene, Lou Barlow, formerly of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and Sentridoh, The Folk Implosion, is set to grace our ears with his first solo album in six years. Good things come to he who waits. That album, Reason To Live, will be out this very Friday, May …
See: Lou Barlow – ‘Into My Arms’: Lou welcomes you into his warm, lo-fi embrace; it’s good to be back
AN ABSOLUTE statesman of the American alt.rock scene, whose easy and innate way with a tune has led us forward from Dinosaur Jr. through Sebadoh (I mean, m’lud: “Flame”? Case surely rested), Lou Barlow is shortly to deliver his first solo album in six years: shortly as in, a week today, actuellement. After decades on …
Album Review: Dinosaur Jr – Sweep It Into Space; file under essential
The last year has been, let’s face it, odd to say the least. The global pandemic has brought a horde of fearful anxieties and a desperate need for something solid to cling on to, a life raft to pin our hopes to and sail away from all this uncertainty. Enter then Dinosaur Jr, the somewhat …
See: The lyric video for the cosmic Americana pop drop of Lou Barlow’s ‘Love Intervene’
WITH a first solo album in nigh on six years just cusping the horizon – it’s called Reason to Live, it’ll be out at the end of the month on Joyful Noise Recordings, and you can find out where to snag yourself a copy down at the end there – and following the chiming, heartfelt loveliness of “Over …