Indie rock legends Sebadoh are back this spring with their first new album in more than six years. Titled Act Surprised, it was written and recorded after Lou Barlow moved back to Northampton, Massachusetts and reconnected with bandmates Jason Loewenstein and Bob D'Amico. Today we hear its lead single, "Celebrate The Void." In a press…

We at Stereogum are apparently not the only people obsessed with celebrating shit from 1994 on its 20th anniversary; the synthpop duo Ray & Remora pay tribute to the entire year on their new 1994 EP, which includes covers of songs by Guided By Voices, Superchunk, Weezer, Sebadoh, and Dinosaur Jr. There’s also a cutesy [...]

We heard “A State Of Mine” last year when Lou Barlow’s seminal indie rock band Sebadoh released their first album in 14 years. Now you can watch the video for it, which acts like a kaleidoscope of nuclear family dread. The video, animated by Geoff Hoskinson, captures rows of identical babies, men mowing lawns, and [...

Defend Yourself, Sebadoh’s first full-length album since 1999, is finally out tomorrow. Way back on 7/24, “I Will” was our first taste of the album, and now that song has a studio-centric video featuring lots of closeups of Lou Barlow’s bearded mouth, his guitar, and his cat transposed with hand-scrawled l...

Lou Barlow has spent the past few years back with Dinosaur Jr., making shockingly great Dinosaur Jr. reunion albums. But now he’s taken a break from that to get back with Sebadoh, the band he led after parting ways with Dino Jr. the first time, to make another strong reunion album. (I am probably asking [...]