Indie rock legend Lou Barlow remains plenty busy with his bands Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh, but now the Folk Implosion, his other group, is getting ready to drop their first new album in decades. Barlow started the Folk Implosion with his penpal John Davis in 1993, and they scored an out-of-nowhere hit with 1995’s “Natural One,...

I can tell I’m getting older because the nostalgia tours are pandering exceptionally hard to me right now. I mean, look at this shit: Weezer will head out this fall to celebrate 30 years of their self-titled debut LP, aka the Blue Album. They’re playing the record in full, and they’re bringing along both the Flaming...

In January, King Tuff (Kyle Thomas) released his sixth studio album, Smalltown Stardust, and he’s currently touring his way through the US. He also recently teamed up with SiriusXM to record an acoustic cover of Dinosaur Jr.’s 1994 classic “Feel The Pain,” which he appears to have recorded remotely as a du...

Newport Folk Festival goes down this weekend in Rhode Island, and both Courtney Barnett and Dinosaur Jr. are on the lineup. Yesterday, during Dinosaur Jr.’s set, the college-rock greats brought Barnett out to sing and play guitar on ’90s classic “Feel The Pain.” Both acts are still promoting some new-ish r...

“I don’t know where people get this idea that it’s supposed to be fun or something to play music,” J Mascis says in his signature hyper-relaxed drawl, near the beginning of the new documentary Freakscene: The Story Of Dinosaur Jr. “That seems to hinder a lot of people: ‘Well it&#821...