Tickets are still on sale for the official BV Northside showcase at Music Hall of Williamsburg (6/15) with Caveman, Frankie Rose, and two more TBA. Tickets for the King Khan & the Shrines show at Bowery Ballroom go on...

Sebadoh has confirmed a summer U.S. tour. Originally forming in the late 1980′s following Lou Barlow‘s departure from the band Dinosaur Jr., the group went [...]

Sebadoh at MHoW, Nov. 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Sebadoh are touring again, this time a late summer East Coast jaunt that will finish up in NYC on August 22 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for the Bowery show go...

2009: Outdoor Miners - "Twelve Hundred Dollars" by Devin Friesen on 05-22-2012 “Everybody, pay your rent.” Maybe it translates more subjectively in text, but the preceding statement takes on a sort of reassurance as the hook of “Twelve Hundred Dollars.” Vaguely ennui’d in delivery, it’s a small part of a song that should be a year-round anthem for the functioning slacker archetype, as if to say: yeah, stocking shelves is a bore, but it pays the rent – besides, we’ll all get to hang out soon, right? The production on the first Outdoor Miners single is a bit murky ...

As the name suggests, Manchester's sonic-screechers Easter have undergone re-birth in their longer-at-it-than-you'd-imagine history. They released an EP back in 2009 but before that band leader Thomas Long had been “ writing, jamming and gigging in the city since he was fifteen ”. Yet the current line-up of Easter is a fresh start – or development – of the band’s sound: brooding dark rock, melding pop hooks and post-rock experimentation to fine effect. Joining Long now are drummer Andrew Cheetham, experimental guitarist Danny Saul and bass player Gavin Clarke. On the cusp of the release of debut long-player “Innocence Man”, I ...

1988: Dinosaur Jr. - Bug by Winston O'Boogie">Dr. Winston O'Boogie on 04-18-2012 Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü. It’s safe to say that SST Records had the strongest lineup of the late 80s. These bands pushed the volume and intensity of guitar-rock to earsplitting heights, but none of them could quite pull of the face-melting, fuzz-drenched guitar freak-outs of SST label mates Dinosaur Jr.’s own J Mascis. After rising to the pinnacle of slacker apathy early in life, Mascis rounded up his high school buddies Lou Barlow and Murph to form Dinosaur Jr ...

The ongoing wave of folk-textured songwriting has produced more than its fair share of anaemic, dungaree-clad wannabes. Tom Williams & The Boat are not amongst them. Hailing from Tunbridge Wells, the band's music has plenty of acoustic whims but alongside this are shades of an art rock heritage. There are flecks of cult indie outsiders The Triffids on new album 'Teenage Blood', while the guitars have a crisp edge which recall elements of alt rock dons Sebadoh. More anti-folk (in the Jeffrey Lewis sense) than nu-folk, 'Teenage Blood' is due to be released on April 16th. ClashMusic have obtained an advance stream - listen to the album below and then check out a track by track guide from the band. - - - Teenage Blood This is the title track to the new album. A big country rock stomper, this track opens the album with a big ambient count in, testament to the space in which the album was recorded - a working brewery. This place served as the bands HQ in the center of the Kent country side. With a country fiddle and lilting harmonies, the track shows a more melodic & constructed approach to the songwriting on this album, as well as exhibiting newer influences, from Teenage Fanclub and Big Star, to The Band and Tom Petty. Teenage Blood was a song that came late in the process of writing the album, a project that amassed over 100 songs, with the band eventually recording 23 over a 12 day session in the Summer 2011. Teenage Blood was one of a handful of re-written or, 'Frankenstein-ed' songs that were some of the last to be recorded for the forthcoming second Tom Williams & The Boat album under the same name. Lyrically the song dwells on a sense of genetic inevitability to the woes of relationships broken and lost, and establishes a theme for the new album, the post relationship aftershock apocalypse! Too Young Another late comer to the party, Too Young was one of the last songs to be recorded for the new album. As straight forward a pop song as the band have penned to date, Too Young represents a pop sensibility and clarity, newly found on this album. Musically referencing anything from a tearful The Cure, to a Subterranean Bob Dylan, the song sees the band break free from previously exhausted folk references into a fresher sounding British guitar pop sound, more typical to the most recent material. Little Bit In Me The first song to be written for the new album, Little Bit In Me re-establishes the dark musical and lyrical content of previous Tom Williams & The Boat singles such as See My Evil and Get Older. The lyrics meander and stagger through a landscape of scarred and pitted characters, all ever present in a nightmarish gene pool that I yearn to escape from! With the violin referencing a Rolling Thunder era Dylan, and the guitar a Bends era Johnny Greenwood, Little Bit In Me is one of the more aggressive moments on the album, and is already a firm live favourite. Trouble With The Truth Trouble With The Truth was written early on in the writing of the new album. Lyrically it returns to characters from an earlier TW&TB; track Wouldn't Women Be Sweet, whilst establishing a new found darkness and righteous anger. Recorded completely live, it's one of two tracks on the album to retain the initial live vocal, and demonstrates nicely the sprawling warehouse barn space of the brewery in which the album was recorded. Lyrically deranged and menacing, the narrative centers round the escape of the protagonist from a basement leaving, 'the bodies and the bones'. The track charts the escape from a demented and ...

Find out which album Lou Barlow is most proud of. Hint: it's not a Dinosaur Jr or Sebadoh record.

In 2010, Unicycle Loves You stripped away the studio gloss of their self-titled 2008 debut and took a large step forward with the release of Mirror, Mirror. With frontman Jim Carroll in complete control of the recording process, the resulting record was one far more true to the band's vision, and more representative of their influences. Once again handling the roles of songwriter and producer, Carroll has dug even further into his Sebadoh/Guided By Voices-influenced home-recording roots for Unicycle Loves You's latest record, Failure . Loaded with buzzing guitars in the red, highly addictive melodies, and lush boy ...

Ahead of a solo tour, quasi-Australian citizen LOU BARLOW (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr) tells us about the band that made him do a double-take in his dad's pick-up truck, and the song that makes him hulk around his lounge room like a zombie. Photo by MATIAS CORRAL . Eddy Current Suppression Ring I love Eddy Current Suppression Ring. They opened for Dinosaur Jr a few years ago and I was completely blown away. They played 'Colour Television' among all their other awesome tunes. After the show I thought I may never ever hear them again. I figured it was one of ...

Flavorwire creates a literary mixtape for To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch. Classics Rock! lists tributes by musicians to author Harry Crews. ToneDeaf interviews Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and Folk Implosion. The Foster's Daily Democrat covers a collection...

Dom Miller (pictured), former frontman of local legends Rocketsmiths, will be supporting Lou Barlow of the also a bit legendary Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr. when he plays a solo show at the Old Museum on Saturday Apr 14. Tickets are $39+bf from www.oldmuseum.org .

by John Crowell • April 2012 After spending years listening to and analyzing someone’s songs, it’s often surreal to hear them pick up a phone and say hello. Even more surreal for me (as an ardent Lou Barlow enthusiast through his work with Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, The Folk Implosion, and his solo material) was the experience of hearing Barlow ask me to hold on a second before we started the interview so he could oblige his young daughter in spraying WD-40 on a squeaky door hinge in their home. It was disarming to hear such a lovingly playful exchange ...

A laid-back LOU BARLOW has a laugh at his own expense before explaining why fans can expect to hear some Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh material on his upcoming run of solo shows. TOM HERSEY writes.

My first festival experience was back in ‘94 at Reading. Having recently left school I was contributing to a number of local magazines and well on the way to becoming the biggest gobshite in the whole of West Yorkshire; example - how about a lengthy article on how 60ft Dolls are our generation’s version of The Jam – big fail and in no way an isolated one. Equipped with two blagged tickets thanks to Echobelly or some other band of indie losers, we hit the National Express pike-bus from Leeds station full of giddy festival cherry popping anticipation. Cunningly putting red ...