Shaggy Dinosaur Jr. guitar wizard J Mascis is a notoriously flaky and reticent interview subject, so maybe that explains why he’s kept a deeply fascinating life episode to himself for the past couple of decades. But in a recent interview, Mascis mentions offhandedly that Kurt Cobain once extended Mascis an invitation to join Nirvana. L...

Right now, Dinosaur Jr. are enjoying one of the greatest second acts in the history of American indie rock. Ever since reforming in 2005, they’ve been operating at a level way higher than anyone expects from a reunited heritage acts; their recent albums Beyond and Farm can absolutely hang with their peak-era material. They’re...

After an ear splitting performance at the FYF Festival, Dinosaur Jr. headed down south to the Belly Up in Solana Beach for a full set as they prepare to release their new album I Bet On Sky. Few concerts reach the decibel levels like Dinosaur Jr. The triple towered guitar stack attack of J. Mascis [...]

Dinosaur Jr. go the Funny Or Die route for their new video for “Watch The Corners.” The band themselves only show up in digitally blurred cameo form. Instead, we see the story of a teenage girl who works at a supermarket and falls in with a bad boy who turns everything he touches into digital [...]

Of all the bands closely associated with The Year Punk Broke, Dinosaur Jr. is simultaneously amongst the most enduring and enigmatic. Singer, principal songwriter, and lead guitarist J Mascis was an introverted frontman with autocratic tendencies. Original bass player Lou Barlow was a sensitive, thin-skinned songwriting talent of his own, whose ...