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 ...

The influential Californian weird-pop enigma Ariel Pink has been working on a ton of projects lately, like the drawn-out “Witchhunt Suite For WWIII” and Ku Klux Glam, a collaborative album with R. Stevie Moore. But he’s just now announced the follow-up to the breakout 2010 album Before Today. The new album is called...

Earlier today (Tuesday, April 17), Finnish melancholic dark rock/metal icons AMORPHIS played a special acoustic set at YleX Studio B Live in Helsinki, Finland. The complete show can now be streamed at this location. AMORPHIS's setlist for the performance was as follows: 01.Empty Opening 02. I Of Crimson Blood 03. Enigma 04. Sign From Th...

We haven’t yet received confirmation from publicists or label people, but it looks like we’re about to get a deluxe edition of one of the year’s finest albums, Bon Iver’s sprawling sophomore joint Bon Iver, Bon Iver. On YouTube, there’s now an enigmatic clip that sets the album’s music ...

Jesse Dylan knows a few things about dealing with difficult, enigmatic musical-genius types. He is, after all, the son of Bob Dylan, and he directed Method Man and Redman in their cinematic opus How High. For his latest effort, he’s helmed the bare-bones video for Tom Waits’s junkyard-blues howler “Satisfied.&#8...