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Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Kansas City - 10/26/09
Ah, there’s espresso less than a block away from the bus. They ask me if I want sugar. I’ve never been asked if I wanted sugar in my espresso. In europe, they deliver it with a sugar packet on the side. Never heard of it pre-treated. It costs $1.93, which is, coincidentally, exactly how much a bus-adjacent double espresso is in Omaha the next day.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryLou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Dallas/Houston/Austin/Oklahoma City
Four shows playing with Built to Spill and their opening act, Disco Doom (sweet people from Switzerland). A four-band bill. No soundchecks for the missingmen, strict time limits, rush rush. Any groove we settled into by Atlanta is gone. Back to head down, make sure all the cords are plugged in, on and off, hacking through the sets, merch sales plummet.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryLou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - 10/17/09 - Atlanta, GA
A Halloween parade, a hangover and a "jazzy Jimmy Buffett" in-store performance... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryLou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - 10/16/09 - Louisville, KY
I spent a lot of time in Screwyville 97-99 when Sebadoh were more or less based here. We had a practice space downtown that we shared with Pavement for awhile. It’s a cool place. It’s got a cosmopolitan vibe mixed with the kinda Kentucky you may expect, shotgun shacks and anti-abortion billboards.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryLou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - 10/15/09 - Chicago, IL
Back at the vic theater. Last time I was here was a Sebadoh show in '96 (?) in which we alienated the big commercial station that sponsored the show, Q101, when a friend ripped down their banner. The promo people at Sub Pop begged me to write a letter of apology. Don't remember if I did or not. I hope i didn't.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryLou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - 10/14/09 - St. Louis, MO
Been on tour for well over a week. In St. Louis now: a good place to start a tour diary as any, the gateway city. Sebadoh played our 2nd turbo acoustic (Jason Loewenstein on bass, me on guitar, drums on a boombox) show here six years ago. We sold 50 t-shirts from the stage and a woman was trying on t-shirts, on the stage. Sexy chaos, and one of my favorite shows of all time. This time, dinosaur is greeted by a series of threatening phone calls to the club from a man vowing to “kick our mother fucking asses”... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryLou Barlow Tours, Launches LooTube, Keeps Tour Diary for Paste
Lou Barlow, OG fuzz-rocker of Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh fame, recently unveiled the first music video off his forthcoming LP, Goodnight Unknown (out Oct. 6 on Merge) via Stereogum. "Don't Apologize", as it's titled, is an ball of introspection pulled straight from the Barlow canon. Now, if an as-yet-unidentified paranoia of blogs prevents you from clicking that link, you can still get your emotive-Barlow fix: He's handily collecting all of his videos for Goodnight Unknown into a new pet project: LooTube.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsXX Merge Day One Photos: The Magnetic Fields, Conor Oberst, The Rosebuds, Lou Barlow and More
[Above: Lou Barlow]Photos taken by PJ Sykes at XX Merge... read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsPop Montréal 2009 Lineup to Include Dinosaur Jr., Matt & Kim and Many More
If the hypothetical world of indie rock and pop (no, not that one) over the last decade could be sketched out, common consensus would see connecting lines crisscrossing between New York, Austin, Omaha and Seattle. Amateur geographers though we may be, that's a frustratingly Amero-centric list, especially since it ignores the quebeçois charm of Montréal.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsPitchfork Fest '08 Day One: Looking Back On 'Don't Look Back'
(FLAVA FAV!)It took a field of hipsters to hold back reality t.v.’s favorite half of Public Enemy last night in Chicago’s Union Park, as Chuck D shot the gun on Pitchfork’s third effort in the festival realm with the opening diatribes of hip-hop’s seminal album, It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, sans his counterpart. Chuck D upon Flavor’s belated entrance: “Where the fuck were you on “Bring The Noise?”Flavor Fav: “I don’t know Chuck, I was with the family.”... read more
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