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Going Steady: Dinosaur Jr. Shares The Love

Jul 17, 2009, 10:25am

Story by Samuel Duke Dinosaur Jr. are old. You can see it in J. Mascis's hair, once a seemingly never-washed curtain of stringy brown that has turned a greyish white. Drummer Murph, once the band's resident hippie, is bald, and Mascis and bassist Lou Barlow both have, gulp, kids. But as of today they are in the midst of a grueling tour routing through Japan, Europe and the US to support their new (and second since reuniting in 2005) album Farm . Can we even call it a reunion anymore now that we're on the second record? [...]

Artists: Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth

Tags: Features, Sonic Youth, dinosaur jr, Front Page Spotlight

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