Lou Barlow

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 >>

SXSW Coverage Ahead. Plus, We're Sponsoring 50 Cent, Big K.R.I.T. and More

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Why Do We Still Bother With Encores?

Giveaway: Two Pairs of Tickets To See Sebadoh, Quasi and Dove Hunter at the Granada Tonight

Sebadoh​The two most celebrated albums from lo-fi indie rock legends Sebadoh, 1996's Harmacy and 1994's Bakesale, marked a significant change in direction from the band. Following the departure of co-founder Eric Gaffney and his frantic, experimental noise rock, the band shifted its sound from two ... More >>

Sebadoh, Quasi, Dove Hunter

Friday, February 18, at the Granada Theater

Show Announcements: Sebadoh, Quasi, WeDentonDoIt Christmas Special, Tokyo Police Club, Colin Hay, Alter Bridge, The Cool Kids, Vallejo, David Cassidy, Clay Aiken and More!

Sebadoh​Few bands are as synonymous with indie rock as Sebadoh, whose original members, including the prolific Lou Barlow, reunited in 2007 and have since been touring in support of some early record reissues. They've got more on the way in 2011, too, which is why we can expect them to be in top f ... More >>

Giveaway: Three Pairs of Tickets To Tomorrow Night's Lou Barlow and Sarah Jaffe Show at The Loft

Between his work in Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh and even on his own recent solo efforts, yeah, Lou Barlow's had something of a storied career--and as you can tell from the above cut from his 2009 effort, Goodnight Unknown, a varied one, too. So, yes, tomorrow night's performance from Barlow at The Loft ... More >>

For The Second Time, A Sarah Jaffe Song Is Named National Public Radio's Song of the Day

Melanie GomezSarah Jaffe​There's no such thing as too much publicity--and these days, Sarah Jaffe, who later this week kicks off her gig as the tour opener for Lou Barlow, is getting plenty. And the hits just keep coming: Today, in the wake of mentions in Magnet, Paste and elsewhere (including a f ... More >>

In A Piece Written For Paste, Lou Barlow Equates Good Records To A Church

​In case there was any doubt that Nic Hernandez was spot on about Lou Barlow's in-store performance at Good Records last week, Barlow himself confirmed as much today. While out on the road right now with Dinosaur Jr. and Built to Spill, Barlow, who is playing at least two sets a day on this tour ( ... More >>

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

Gig Alert: Lou Barlow's Free In-Store Performance at Good Records

Lou Barlow​We're all pretty excited around here--and rightfully so, I'd say--about the Built to Spill/Dinosaur Jr. show at the Granada Theater this evening. No doubt you are, too.I just hope you have your tickets already--over the weekend, we'd heard sales to the show had already reached 900 ticke ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr. and Lou Barlow And The Missingmen At The Granada Theater Thursday

​Round Rock artist Todd Slater designed this week's featured poster, which promotes tonight's bill of Built To Spill, Dinosaur Jr. and Lou Barlow and the Missingmen at The Granada. Look closely and you'll see that the ants crawling all over the woman's face; the design was inspired by the lyric to ... 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 >>

Dinosaur Jr. Still Avoiding Celebrity

Dinosaur Jr.

Beyond (Fat Possum)

Freak Scene Revisited

Cavedweller

Sugary Glue and a Bow of Bees (Meandering Way)

Lou Barlow

Emoh (Merge)

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Snow Patrol, Eisley

Wednesday, October 13

Sebadoh

Monday, August 23

Gold in Alaska!

Imaad Wasif proves you don't have to go Hollywood to be a diva

Very Clever, Boys

The top 10 indie-rock albums of 2003

The Folk Implosion, Mia Doi Todd, Alaska!

April 2

The Microphones

Mount Eerie (K)

Deadsy

Commencement (DreamWorks)

Timeless Flight

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

Preston School of Industry

All This Sounds Gas (Matador)

The freed band

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

Across the Bar

Deep-sixing Deep Ellum Records; The Tomorrowpeople play every song they know; Pleasant Grove gets Last Beat; Adventures of Jet hopes to be Born on the World Wide Web

Music Against Brain Degeneration Revue

Deep Ellum Live, August 8

Perfect, now

Built to Spill makes a record too good to Keep It Like a Secret

Dream weaver

Olivia Tremor Control rustles through the Black Foliage for the perfect sound(s)

Out There

Who's there?

Smog's Bill Callahan opens up for the finest album of his career

Out Here

Willing to wait

Lou Barlow works on solidifying Sebadoh's reputation

Big drummer boy

Funland's Will Johnson steps out from behind the kit

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