Dinosaur Jr to release another new album!
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Dinosaur Jr. influenced Nirvana and laid the foundation for the grunge movement -- and now, with the original lineup reunited after a 16-year split, the trio are returning to their seminal, punk-meets-classic rock sound with their new album. "It's totally old school," bassist Lou Barlow tells SPIN.com. "[The album] sounds like our first three."
But Dino's full-circle didn't come easily.
By now it's rock lore: The group -- Barlow, guitarist/singer J Mascis, and drummer Murph -- formed in Amherst, MA, in 1984. In 1989, after three albums (Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me, and Bug), Barlow -- who had stopped talking to Mascis -- was told the band was breaking up. A day later Mascis and Murph reformed with a new bassist, and Barlow found out via an MTV News report.
In 2005, nearly a decade after the last Dino album (1997's Hand It Over), and 16 years since Barlow was booted out and began working full-time on his bands Sebadoh and, later, Folk Implosion, the guys reunited to release 2007's Beyond. The album is a respectable alt-rock effort with their characteristic melodic surge and eardrum-busting guitars. But there was something missing, says Barlow: the vitality they had in their younger days -- which is recaptured on the upcoming record.
"It has an urgency," Barlow says of the album, expected in June. "Right away I knew it was superior to Beyond."
How did they restore the original vibe? Barlow points to the tight deadline for the forthcoming effort: The group met in Mascis' home studio in Massachusetts in November and immediately had a February target for completion. This constraint, says Barlow, instilled a collective respect for their time together -- something they lacked when recording Beyond.
"Beyond was the first time I'd actually seen us throw stuff out [of the sessions]," Barlow says. But with the recent sessions the band didn't dilly-dally; they recorded and refined all, and only, their 14 demos, including two covers -- "Houses," by '70s folk rocker Elise, and a Zombies song called "Whenever You're Ready."
New original songs include "Because I'm On and On," "Pieces," "You Are Weather," and "Imagination Blind" -- one of Barlow's two compositions for the record, which only has two chords and was written in the studio in one day.
In support of the yet-to-be-titled set, Dinosaur Jr. will hit the road this Spring on a 28-date U.S. tour. "We're playing a lot of places we've never played before," says Barlow. "We'll just play a normal, really good Dinosaur Jr. show."
Pack your earplugs, first-time concertgoers: "normal" means "really fucking loud."
And here's your cut-and-paste telling you all about it:
Dinosaur Jr. influenced Nirvana and laid the foundation for the grunge movement -- and now, with the original lineup reunited after a 16-year split, the trio are returning to their seminal, punk-meets-classic rock sound with their new album. "It's totally old school," bassist Lou Barlow tells SPIN.com. "[The album] sounds like our first three."
But Dino's full-circle didn't come easily.
By now it's rock lore: The group -- Barlow, guitarist/singer J Mascis, and drummer Murph -- formed in Amherst, MA, in 1984. In 1989, after three albums (Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me, and Bug), Barlow -- who had stopped talking to Mascis -- was told the band was breaking up. A day later Mascis and Murph reformed with a new bassist, and Barlow found out via an MTV News report.
In 2005, nearly a decade after the last Dino album (1997's Hand It Over), and 16 years since Barlow was booted out and began working full-time on his bands Sebadoh and, later, Folk Implosion, the guys reunited to release 2007's Beyond. The album is a respectable alt-rock effort with their characteristic melodic surge and eardrum-busting guitars. But there was something missing, says Barlow: the vitality they had in their younger days -- which is recaptured on the upcoming record.
"It has an urgency," Barlow says of the album, expected in June. "Right away I knew it was superior to Beyond."
How did they restore the original vibe? Barlow points to the tight deadline for the forthcoming effort: The group met in Mascis' home studio in Massachusetts in November and immediately had a February target for completion. This constraint, says Barlow, instilled a collective respect for their time together -- something they lacked when recording Beyond.
"Beyond was the first time I'd actually seen us throw stuff out [of the sessions]," Barlow says. But with the recent sessions the band didn't dilly-dally; they recorded and refined all, and only, their 14 demos, including two covers -- "Houses," by '70s folk rocker Elise, and a Zombies song called "Whenever You're Ready."
New original songs include "Because I'm On and On," "Pieces," "You Are Weather," and "Imagination Blind" -- one of Barlow's two compositions for the record, which only has two chords and was written in the studio in one day.
In support of the yet-to-be-titled set, Dinosaur Jr. will hit the road this Spring on a 28-date U.S. tour. "We're playing a lot of places we've never played before," says Barlow. "We'll just play a normal, really good Dinosaur Jr. show."
Pack your earplugs, first-time concertgoers: "normal" means "really fucking loud."
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