Otis Redding plays the Stones: 9 incredible cover songs
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Nine Inch Nails, Jawbreaker, and that's kinda it: What The A.V. Club saw at Riot Fest 2017
This past weekend, a few A.V. Club staffers headed to Chicago’s Douglas Park for Riot Fest, the marathon three-day…
Taking Back Sunday, Dinosaur Jr., Built To Spill and others get Riot Fest aftershows
Riot Fest is coming to Chicago in September, and while seeing bands like Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age, and…
Dinosaur Jr. and Built To Spill to play classic albums live at Riot Fest 2017
Earlier this week, Chicago’s Riot Fest announced its lineup for 2017, coming out swinging with the announcement that…
Dinosaur Jr., Jonathan Richman, and Ty Segall lead the 2017 Pickathon lineup
Though this year’s Pickathon festival in Oregon won’t have a fictional Flaming Lips feud, its actual musical acts…
Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis racked up the points on @Midnight
You don’t have to be a comedian to win @Midnight. In fact, there are very few requirements for becoming an @Midnight cha…
The Judgment Night soundtrack foretold the rap-rock apocalypse
Rap-rock, nu-metal, rap-metal, shit-metal, douche-rock. Whatever variably damning epithet you wanted to call it (just…
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On its 4th post-reunion offering, Dinosaur Jr. digs deep to unearth its best self
When Dinosaur Jr.’s original lineup of J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph was restored (after much fraught and…
60 minutes of Dinosaur Jr.’s stormy guitar epics
For such a guitar-driven art form, rock ’n’ roll is surprisingly low on guitarists with distinctive sounds. Many of the…
Here’s what’s coming to record stores and streaming services in August
Every Friday, dozens of new records are released into the wild. Some make big splashes, and others sink almost…
The A.V. Club is co-hosting a Lollapalooza afterparty
If you’re living in Chicago right now, you can probably feel it in the air: Lollapalooza 2016 is a little more than a…
Dinosaur Jr. gives a glimpse of what it’s not with new album and tour
Dinosaur Jr. announced last month that it would be opening for Jane’s Addiction for a few shows this summer, as well as…
Let’s all congratulate J Mascis on his brand new VW Golf
Even indie-rock icons want to drive the hatchback Car And Driver magazine has named one of its 10 best values. At…
Jane’s Addiction, Dinosaur Jr., and Living Colour announce quick pre-Lollapalooza tour
Lollapalooza starts in a few months, and now Jane’s Addiction has announced that it’s going on a quick tour before…
Revisiting the book that immortalized the ’80s indie punk rock scene
It was sometime around 1997 or 1998 when author and rock journalist Michael Azerrad was sitting at home watching a…
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Brace The Wave is Lou Barlow at his most contemplative and confessional
Recorded in just six days and boasting a relative simplicity and an arrangement largely limited to Barlow’s voice and…
Mark Linkous’ family blocks crowdfunded Sparklehorse tribute album
The family of the late Mark Linkous has blocked a planned and crowdsourced Sparklehorse tribute album. The non-profit…
Hear a reissued, 1993 song by the pre-Beachwood Sparks outfit Further
Further never became well known during its existence in the early ’90s, but it wasn’t for the lack of some great music.…
J Mascis announces new album, listen to a track
The music world has swirled and rushed around J Mascis since the mid-’80s, when he launched Dinosaur Jr., and though…
Lecherous Gaze rocks deep and dirty with “Night’s Edge”
Lecherous Gaze guitarist Graham Clise has been busy lately in Witch, a stoner-metal outfit that counts Dinosaur Jr.’s…