Dinosaur Jr. Touring, Recording New Material
Caroline Bermudez reports:
Few stranger things have happened than Dinosaur Jr. reuniting and touring. Like President Bush getting reelected or that snake in Florida that combusted after attempting to swallow an alligator whole.
Last year, the notoriously embattled duo of J. Mascis and Lou Barlow performed together under the Dinosaur Jr. name for the first time in 15 years. Incredibly enough, they're still together. And recording new material! Riding the success of last year's reissues of their first three albums (Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me, and Bug), the band recently revealed that they are currently ensconced in Mascis' home studio, hard at work on a new record. Woo!
The band has also announced even more tour dates, which will take them to Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and back across America in February, March, and April. It all winds up in England, for the Dinosaur Jr.-curated date of the All Tomorrow's Parties' festival. If you didn't see them over the summer, you'll have a prime opportunity to catch the narcotic wonder that is J. Mascis. Freak scenes:
02-26 Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya-AX
02-27 Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya-AX
03-01 Osaka, Japan - Namba Hatch
03-02 Nagoya, Japan - Diamond Hall
03-05 Perth, Australia - Club Capitol
03-07 Byron Bay, Australia - Great Northern
03-08 Brisbane, Australia - The Tivoli
03-09 Sydney, Australia - Annandale Hotel
03-10 Sydney, Australia - Metro Theatre
03-11 Melbourne, Australia - The Corner Hotel
03-12 Melbourne, Australia - The Corner Hotel
03-13 Auckland, New Zealand - Shadows
03-29 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Tea Room
03-30 Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q
03-31 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
04-01 New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
04-02 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon
04-03 Jacksonville, FL - Freebird
04-04 Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
04-05 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
04-06 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
04-07 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
04-08 Atlanta, GA - The Variety Playhouse
04-09 Nashville, TN - City Hall
04-10 Memphis, TN - Young Avenue Deli
04-11 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue
04-12 Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
04-13 Lawrence, KS - Liberty Hall
04-14 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
04-16 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
04-18 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
04-19 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
04-20 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
04-21 Hollywood, CA - Troubadour
04-22 Hollywood, CA - Troubadour
05-19 East Sussex, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow's Parties) *
* with Mission of Burma, Dead Meadow, Broken Social Scene, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lilys, The Bevis Frond, Eater, The Magik Markers, Tracy + the Plastics, Herman Düne, Mt. Eerie
In other Dinosaur Jr. news, the band will release its first DVD this summer. Filmed at New York's Irving Plaza this past December and at other shows on that same tour, the DVD features backstage footage from the reunion tour, one-on-one interviews with band members, and a full set of performances.
As previously reported, Witch, Mascis' new stoner rock band with members of freak-folk collective Feathers, will release their debut album on Tee Pee records on March 7. They have one show scheduled in support of the record so far, at Brooklyn's Northsix, on March 23.
i listened to them a lot in high school. 
