The few weeks that Lou Barlow has had off been between Dinosaur Jr tours has been a busy one...for his other band Sebadoh . Lou's been working on album art, and finishing the mastering of the band's first full-length album in 14 years. He also revealed the album title - Defend Yourself (also the name of a song on the album by Jason Loewenstein) - on Instagram recently. The new album follows on the heels of a self-promoted [...]
The month that Lou Barlow has had off been between Dinosaur Jr tours has been a busy one...for his other band Sebadoh . Lou's been working on album art, and finishing the mastering of the band's first full-length album in 14 years. He also revealed the album title - Defend Yourself (also the name of a song on the album by Jason Loewenstein) - on Instagram recently. Defend Yourself will be released on indie lable Joyful Noise in [...]
Boston ensemble Slowdim immediately strike me as the sorts who could quite conceivably become the kind of cult band cherished by legions of steadfast alternative music acolytes worldwide, were they only afforded vertiginous enough a platform. Needless to say we can't provide that pedestal, but we can give 'em something of a slight leg up in the meanwhile as they continue to optimistically "paddle upstream." Whether headed for the mainstream or other, more boggy patches Up Stream is a positive tour de force in jingly indie jangle, Paul Sentz' lax delivery redolent of Lou Barlow's better bits from [...]
Concerts! Shows! Performances! And this week in the Bay Area, they're extra-beardy! Friday, April 12 • 2013-04-12 Brian Posehn at Cobb's Comedy Club, San Francisco, 8:00pm • 2013-04-12 Brian Posehn at Cobb's Comedy Club, San Francisco, 10:15pm • 2013-04-13 Brian Posehn at Cobb's Comedy Club, San Francisco, 7:30pm • 2013-04-13 Brian Posehn at Cobb's Comedy [...] The post Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 4/11/13-4/17/13 appeared first on Spinning Platters .
The top mp3s have gone through many incarnations since the beginning of Consequence of Sound in 2007. What used to be an exhaustive roundup of all the singles, remixes, covers, and undiscovered gems emailed to us any given week evolved into a compilation whittled down to our 10 favorite new songs. For 2013, we’re again changing up the format with the hope of giving our selections some added weight. We’re still posting about our 10 favorite songs, but they’ll be ordered in quality from 10-1. Who takes home #1 this week? You’ll have to click ‘Next’ to find [...]
Indiana imprint Joyful Noise are to release the first in their new Cause and Effect series of split 73 vinyls. The premiere release will collect three different offerings from the likes of Thurston Moore, Lou Barlow and The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow. Neatly entitled Vol. 1 , the first outing sees former Sonic Youth guitarist Moore team up with Dumb Numbers, Dinosaur Jr./Sebadoah man Barlow share wax with Talk Normal and Yow go b2b with Child Bite. You can listen to the Barlow/Talk Normal contributions below, with Moore's cut 'Gleo' streaming [...]
Thurston Moore, Lou Barlow, y David Yow lanzarán nuevos sencillos con Joyful Noise La discográfica Joyful Noise anunció el lanzamiento de una nueva serie de splits 7 pulgadas titulada " Cause and Effect " que iniciará con música nueva del ex- Sonic Youth /actualmente cabeza de Chelsea Light Moving Thurston Moore y Lou Barlow de Dinosaur Jr. / Sebadoah . De acuerdo con el sello, se publicarán "tres diferentes splits", cada uno tendrá como lado A a un músico influyente e histórico, y [...]
Here's something Reddit users can file under "Shutupandtakemymoney": Joyful Noise has announced a new annual split 73 series titled "Cause and Effect" that will kick off with new music from ex-Sonic Youth/current Chelsea Light Moving frontman Thurston Moore and Dinosaur Jr./Sebadoah spokesman Lou Barlow . As the label notes, there will be "three separate split 73 records, which each adhere to an overarching theme: an influential, historically-significant solo musician on Side A, and the modern result of that musical influence on Side B." Thus, Moore's been paired with Talk Normal, Barlow shares wax with Dumb Numbers, [...]
Lou Barlow's calming "Crack And Emerge" is from a new 73 series from Joyful Noise that features indie rock legends and the artists they've influenced. The first in the annual series of Cause And Effect 373s is set for release later this spring and includes this song with Dumb Numbers' Sebadoh-and-Dinosaur-Jr.-infor med "Last Night I Had A Dream." Dumb Numbers is a project from filmmaker Adam Harding, who has made videos for Warpaint and DJ Shadow, as well as Barlow himself. Other pairings include Thurston Moore with Talk Normal and the Jesus Lizard's David Yow with Child Bite. The [...]
Lou Barlow's calming "Crack And Emerge" is from a new 73 series from Joyful Noise that features indie rock legends and the artists they've influenced. The first in the annual series of Cause And Effect 373s is set for release later this spring and includes this song with Dumb Numbers' Sebadoh-and-Dinosaur-Jr.-infor med "Last Night I Had A Dream." Dumb Numbers is a project from filmmaker Adam Harding, who has made videos for Warpaint and DJ Shadow, as well as Barlow himself. Other pairings include Thurston Moore with Talk Normal and the Jesus Lizard's David Yow with Child Bite. The [...]
With Another Girl, Another Planet racketing from speakers lingering overhead and Spinal Tap stacks spanning the stage, this evening is a most unmistakable indulging of our insatiable thirst for nostalgia. That stoner-rock stalwarts Dinosaur Jr. headline and do so beneath the clusterfuck intersection of Camden High Street, Parkway, Kentish Town Road and so on only shovels further impetus upon this overwhelming feel of retroaction and, heavy on slackened action, it makes for a fit snugger than most week-old t-shirts. It's unabashedly throwback, though then again so too are Dinosaur Jr.: despite their latest, and tenth full-length [...]
As if not being able to get a song on the album wasn't bad enough, Davis couldn't even get his face on the cover. It would be with only a slight hint of hyperbole that I might say this: Lou Barlow is perhaps the greatest, purest, indie songwriter. Ever. But in a sense it may indeed be true (with the allowance that such a statement is, of course, primarily a matter of opinion): his talent for writing an introspective lyric and then putting it to a catchy, yet simultaneously moving, melody is nearly [...]
Lou Barlow @ Terminal 5 ( more by Gretchen Robinette ) Like Dave Hill , Gretchen Robinette and many of us, The Dinosaur Jr. ' you're living all over me' 25 year celebration show at Terminal 5 was a major highlight of 2012 for Dinosaur Jr.'s own Lou Barlow . He told Pitchfork : people kept saying 'can you believe it's been 25 years since that record was released??' yes, yes i can.. easily.. so much happened since the release [...]
I was waiting to see if the world ended, before I posted this - thought it could save me some time - but here we still sit. It's Christmas morning, everyone's already done a list of some sort and I was hoping the list-y dust would settle before I posted mine. Happy Yule to y'all! The last half of this year for me sucked donkeys for a variety of intense, life-changing personal reasons. Admittedly, my output on BSR took a bit of a hit while I was struggling with real life. But in 2012 music was here, there [...]
Welcome back for part two of the Universal Wax Top 12 of '12. Our twelve albums of the year and why you should check them out. Part One covered Sams four albums of the year which included Beth Orton and ... Continue reading
On this edition of Audiography, we feature reviews of new albums by Memory Tapes , with Grace/Confusion , the group’s six-song EP of chaos; Tyvek’ s ear-splitting On Triple Beams , and Björk’ s remixes of Biophilia entitled bastards . We also feature a conversation between Consequence of Sound ’s Len Comaratta and Lou Barlow, founding member of both Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh. Though Dinosaur Jr. recently released its latest album [...]
[Photos courtesy of Dana (distortion) Yavin. See more of her excellent work HERE .] Here at NYCTaper, we have a special place in our hearts for Dinosaur Jr . Not only do they make outstanding music and have chops second to none but they have long supported the taping community, making several appearances on this website including one of the first recordings posted here . We were particularly ecstatic when the original lineup of J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph reunited in 2005 and have since released three superb albums. In the interim, we have [...]
Last night, Dinosaur Jr. celebrated the 25th anniversary of their renowned 1987 album You're Living All Over Me with a star-studded concert at New York's Terminal 5. The setlist included a full performance of the album, along with a second set packed with covers and surprise guests. Johnny Marr played guitar on two songs, specifically a cover of The Smiths' "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" and "The Wagon", which also featured Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew; Pixies' Frank Black sat in for a cover of "Tame"; former Sonic Youth members Kim [...]
With Hurricane Sandy bearing down upon us, it seems apt to relate Dinosaur Jr’s performance on Saturday night at the Union Transfer to an epic storm. As soon as J’s reverb drenched guitar blasted out of his ring of Marshall Stacks, it’s as if Zeus decided to unload all his power in one swift moment. With Murph and Lou providing the thunder and chug, J summoned up a squall of noise that he wrapped and spun around the crowd. J’s casual voice over it all provided the calm of the storm and offered a nice serenity to contrast with the [...]
Dinosaur Jr. re-emerged stronger than ever with with I Bet on Sky, their tenth record, and third since they reunited back in 2005. Beginning in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984, Dinosaur Jr. pioneered a
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