With Dinosaur Jr.’s latest album, I Bet On Sky, available for pre-order, it’s time for promotion to kick into high gear. Luckily, the band’s doing it in style and have recruited Portlandia’s feminist bookstore owner Candace (a.k.a. Fred Armisen) to interview J. Mascis about the record. Some amount of hilarity ensues.
I Bet On Sky follows 2005’s Beyond—the reunion record that followed that nasty break-up—and 2009's Farm, and marks the band’s second venture with label Jagjaguwar. Lou Barlow had hinted at a possible album back in January on Twitter, with a hopeful release date for spring of 2012. It took a little longer than predicted, but it’s now set for a Sept. 18 release. The pre-order comes with a special code to access an early digital release of the album, available to the anxious on September 4.
