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Dinosaur Jr. Announces Bug Tour Dates

This summer, the longtime Dinosaur Jr. members will take to the road, where they will play their definitive record Bug in its entirety.  read more

Lou Barlow and The Missingmen to Tour this Summer

It wasn’t too long ago that veteran fuzz-rocker Lou Barlow was touring the U.S. in support of his latest release, Goodnight Unknown_, and keeping a tour diary here on Paste‘s own pages. Now, the founding member of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and Folk Implosion is at it again with an upcoming summer tour with The Missingmen. Though his journaling days are over (for now), he’s keeping up quite an internet presence with his collection of videos on "_LooTube":http://www.mergerecords.com/lootube/ and a stream of Goodnight Unknown at the Merge online store....  read more

Lou Barlow, Black Prairie, Shearwater Play Paste's SXSW 2010 Thursday Party

Today, at the Galaxy Room in Austin, Texas, Paste is bringing you another day’s worth of music. Lou Barlow will be there, as will The Middle East, along with Decemberists’ side project Black Prairie and a whole host of acts, from Fanfarlo to Shearwater to The Living Sisters, all brought to you by Bay Area Tone, To Write Love On Her Arms, Izze, Sierra Nevada, Busted Tees, 5-Hour Energy, UV Vodka and Limelight. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., which is when the free beer and Izze start flowing. We’ll have the latter all day, but the beer is first come,...  read more

Jeff Mangum, The Mountain Goats, Yo La Tengo, Jay Reatard, Many More Contribute to Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox

When Chris Knox (Tall Dwarfs, Toy Love) suffered a stroke this summer, his peers from around the world realized what they could have lost: a musician who deserved more credit for introducing punk and alternative music to his home country of New Zealand....  read more

Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Tempe/Solana Beach - 11/3-4/09

Tempe, AZ 11/3 8 am flight to Phoenix from the Burbank, Bob Hope Airport, the perfect airport: small, boarding planes off the tarmac up a staircase always feels romantic, somehow. Though the feelings I have leaving home again are far from wistful. Phoenix is in the Desert; it makes Los Angeles look like a rain forest....  read more

Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Boulder/Fort Collins/Halloween - 10/29-31/09

Boulder 10/29 Dinosaur Jr’s very complicated history somehow all comes together here, in Boulder, Colorado. It’s interesting that it is virtually halfway between Massachusetts and my new home in California. Blee Music, Dino’s management, has masterminded each step of our reunion career: when to record a new record, when to tour. It has brokered nearly every band discussion. As the designated parent, it also absorbs all the ambivalence and occasional yelling. So our appearance at the Boulder Theater is fraught with expectations and concern. Boulder is where the smoking ban began—the ban that has now spread to Italy, of...  read more

Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Boulder, CO - 10/29/09

Wake to a bus disturbance. It seems a wheel nearly shimmed off while we were in route. We are on the side of the highway (I-76), it is sleeting and the smokers are out smoking in the breakdown lane. Murph is wandering on the frontage road attached to his cell phone (I worry that he’ll be hit by a speeding pickup truck; he’s occasionally oblivious to traffic.) We congregate in the front lounge and have a pretty good time considering we are stranded. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch film with Johnny Depp) is on the DVD player and we appreciate Neil...  read more

Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Omaha, NE - 10/27/09

The building complex for the club (The Slowdown) contains an Urban Outfitters, an American Apparel and the offices of Saddle Creek records, among other left of the dial businesses. A testament to how well Bright Eyes and his compatriots have done? I don’t know and don’t ask anyone about it....  read more

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

Lou 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