J Mascis

50 Important SXSW Music Questions

Editor: We have so many questions in Austin. Here are 50 of them. 1. Will I like the pedicab costumed as The Hulk if he gets angry? 2. Are we all really just in New York? 3. Is this t-shirt rad? 4. Do you want to get some 'za, which is now absolutely the slang for pizza? 5. How far can you sprint w ... More >>

Turbo Fruits' Jonas Stein on Dallas: "A Strip Club Made Me Buy a Giant Shirt For $25"

Turbo Fruits put on a very memorable set a few months ago at Bryan Street Tavern, and the Nashville group returns tomorrow with PVC Street Gang, Sealion and Savage and the Big Beat at Dada. Frontman Jonas Stein remembers that show, along with other musical firsts. Was guitar the first instrument th ... More >>

Dinosaur Jr. - The Prophet Bar - 10/6/12

Dinosaur Jr. The Prophet Bar Saturday, October 6 It's a tale that's been repeated throughout the history of rock: a washed-up band comes to town to promote new album, fans demand the familiar old stuff and a journalist writes a negative review. At Saturday night's Dinosaur Jr. show, this old spell ... More >>

Dinosaur Jr.

Saturday, October 6, at the Prophet Bar

The Six Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Astronautalis, Friday, October 5, at Granada Theater This time last year, former North Texas rapper Astronautalis had just released his 11-track gem, This Is Our Science. This Friday, he opens for Flobots, a Denver-based prog hip-hop group signed to Motown Records. On his website, Astronautalis enco ... More >>

J. Mascis Covers Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians' "Circle" For Pitchfork.TV

​Back in March, we shared with you quite the treat -- a clip of legendary axe man J. Mascis covering Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians's "Circle" during an in-store performance in Boston. Since then, the song's kind of become a standard in the Mascis' solo sets.Funny thing about these solo off ... More >>

Watch: J Mascis -- "Circle of Friends (Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians Cover)"

Who knew J. Mascis was an Edie fan?​So here we were, sitting around DC9 HQ, talking about music as we tend to do, and, specifically, about our highlights from SXSW weekend. And, somewhere between my loving ramblings about Odd Future, Noah W. Bailey mentioned that, in his quick Austin sojourn, he'd ... More >>

SXSW 2011 Buzz Power Rankings: Kanye West Stays On Top, But His Lead Is Shrinking...

Everybody knows he's a motherfucking monster.​Thursday at SXSW 2011 has come and gone -- but Kanye remains solidly in his spot atop our buzz power rankings, as determined by chatter we're hearing on the street. His lead is shrinking, though -- Odd Future is hot on his tail, proving once again that ... More >>

Sebadoh, Quasi, Dove Hunter

Friday, February 18, at the Granada Theater

Staff Trax: Sweet Apple, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Seabear and Teenage Fanclub

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Staff Trax: Happy Birthday, The Walkmen, Stars, Sarah Jaffe, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and, uh, Rammstein?

​Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend dominate our coverage. Consider this a chance to get some more insight into our personal tastes. And a chan ... More >>

Staff Trax: Slayer, Future Islands, The Lilys, Dinosaur Jr, Be Your Own Pet and Captain Beefheart

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Q&A: Richie James Follin of The Willowz Talks Maturity and The Letter Z. Also: A Giveaway!

Anaheim, California's The Willowz have been doing the punk/soul/garage/blues thing since 2002--and to some fine results. In 2004, two of the band's songs added much-needed grit to the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Featuring Richie James Follin's screeching, J. Mascis-inspired sin ... More >>

What It Was Like: Twelve More Bands To Close Out SXSW 2010 in Style

Pete FreedmanWashed Out played the Fader Fort on Saturday, backed by Brooklyn's Small Black.​Another year, another grueling sprint to South by Southwest's end--only, this year, well, things seemed a little different than in year's past. Especially on Saturday night.More so than on any previous nig ... More >>

North of the Dial

Last Night: Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr. at the Granada Theater

Built to Spill, Dinosaur Jr., Lou Barlow & The Missing Men, Disco DoomGranada TheaterOctober 22, 2009 Better Than: a Thursday evening at home in your rocking chair.​ At his Good Records performance held earlier last night, Lou Barlow expressed his love for playing in the endangered venue of ... More >>

Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr.,Lou Barlow & the Missing Men

Thursday, October 22, at the Granada Theater

Southbound and Down: One Last Best and Worst of SXSW '09

Patrick MichelsThe best photo of SXSW, in my book. And, yes, we at DC9 are clearly obsessed with Monotonix. We know. If all goes to plan (which never happens, but we'll see), we should have a few more belated dispatches from bands who played SXSW popping up in the next couple of hours and/or days. ( ... More >>

What It Was Like: Baptist Generals, Red Red Meat, Mark Sultan, Herman Dune, Justin Townes Earle, The Tallest Man On Earth, Dinosaur Jr.

Noah W. Bailey The Baptist Generals' Chris Flemmons at the Sub Pop Showcase.Band: Baptist GeneralsWhere: Sub Pop Showcase at Radio RoomWhat It Was Like: If you're ever seen the Baptist Generals play one of their "rug shows" then you know what a special experience these all-acoustic sets can b ... More >>

What It Was Like: These United States, Phosphorescent, BLK JKS, Foreign Born, Akron/Family, Dinosaur Jr

Pete Freedman Phosphorescent captivates the crowd at Mohawk's Patio.Night two at SXSW 2009 very much encapsulated everything I love about SXSW: Writing down a schedule of shows to see, throwing it out the window and catching a whole different lineup of acts that were probably better than any ... More >>

Monsters of Rock

Mastodon lives up to the legacy of bands with prehistoric monikers

Dinosaur Jr. Still Avoiding Celebrity

Pop Quiz

Failure isn't an option

Dinosaur Jr.

Beyond (Fat Possum)

The Lemonheads

The Lemonheads (Vagrant)

Perfect

From Now On

Older, wiser, and

with a longer beard,

Doug Martsch spills his "Conventional Wisdom"

Mew

And the Glass Handed Kites (Sony)

Get Out, 08/10/06

Dinosaur Sr.

Freak Scene Revisited

Taylor Hollingsworth

Tragic City (Brash)

Mark Mulcahy

In Pursuit of Your Happiness (Mezzotint)

Jad Fair, Mandarin, The Theater Fire

Friday, January 14, at Rubber Gloves

Jesse Malin

The Fine Art of Self Destruction (Artemis)

Arlo

July 26

Damnations

March 7

Return of the Prodigal

These are Johnny Cash's Bastard Sons, in whom he is well-pleased

Best of the Best

This pretty much speaks for itself

Timeless Flight

L.A.'s twangy, trippy Beachwood Sparks ascends with a white-soul masterpiece

Pete Yorn

musicforthemorningafter (Columbia)

Tired of Waiting

The center of the musical universe, Austin welcomes the beautiful and the ugly

Listen Up

Who says 2000 was a bad year for music?

Scene, Heard

London ain't so great

Lightening Up

Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis is back with a new album, a new attitude, and a mouthful of food

Your Bruises

Death Cab for Cutie is just trying to stay healthy long enough to pay for a broken windshield

Jad Fair

One of rock's true oddballs

The freed band

After more than a decade, Sebadoh is on its own again and starting over

Roadshows

Willing to wait

Lou Barlow works on solidifying Sebadoh's reputation

Roadshows