Sebadoh were something of the “Beautiful Losers” of the ’90s indie scene. Lou Barlow emerged from Northamption hardcore act Deep Wound, and later Dinosaur Jr., having famously been acrimoniously dismissed from the latter. He’d certainly borrow from J Mascis’s pop instincts, as well as Deep Wound’s wonton aggression, throughout Sebado...

In the weeks since Phoenix dropped “Entertainment,” the bright and candy-colored first single from their forthcoming album Bankrupt!, we’ve heard way-different versions of the song from Dinosaur Jr. and Blood Orange. And now Phoenix themselves have offered their own divergent take on the song. Performing it live for...

Dinosaur Jr.’s “remix” of “Entertainment,” the bright and shiny new single from French superstars Phoenix, was actually an excellently bittersweet cover. In his own remix of the same track, the great mutant-pop producer Dev Hynes (working under his Blood Orange alias) has actually left a few elem...

Phoenix release their brand new album 'Bankrupt!' on April 22 and play a London show the same day

It’s tough to say why Phoenix are selling Dinosaur Jr.’s cover of their new song “Entertainment” as a remix rather than a straight-up cover; as far as I can tell, Dino Jr. keep no elements of Phoenix’s original version of the song intact. Instead, J Mascis turns their gleaming, precision-engineer...