Dinosaur Jr.

Fanatics! Tonight's Show Is Packed With Mix Tape Goodness

RADIO BROADCAST #215 05-12-13 Fanatics. I would like to thank the girls from Honest Marquee for giving us one of their new tracks for us to play. I think it's a great one. Tonight's show is packed with mix tape goodness and I think you're going to dig it. I want to thank you for all the letters y ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Your Ears Are in Good Hands

KCRW BROADCAST #207 03-16-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Our Constitutional Rights Require Constant Vigilance Fanatics! Is this fantastic or what?! We are back on the radio yet again and this one is going to rock! Last week, we had quite the esoteric affair, especially ending with Free Bird. Perhaps ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Pere Ubu and More Thin Lizzy

KCRW BROADCAST #200 01-26-13 See also: Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please Fanatics! It's amazing how great our show is tonight. Sometimes I have to stand back and marvel at how damn consistently great the music is, just how incredibly excellent week after week all of thi ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: An All-Kill, No-Fill Show

KCRW Broadcast #186 for Saturday, October 20, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Noise Music Is the Real Thing Fanatics! Tonight we will enjoy an unbelievably cool mix of songs. The weather is cooling slightly and we will take advantage of that and unleash some deep heaviness. If you notic ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Grimes, Madonna

Monday, October 8 Superhumanoids THE ECHO L.A.'s Superhumanoids make pop songs out of star parts -- like the glow, the heat, the empty space and of course the wisps of fire that make NASA scientists curse every time a space probe gets singed by the stuff. This is heavenly stuff, with singer Sarah ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Garbage, Nick Lowe, Culture Collide

Tuesday, October 2 Garbage WILTERN When they formed in 1994, future chart fixtures Garbage had the makings of a sterile vanity project. Created by veteran studio rats (including Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind), with a grafted-on unknown vocalist, their formula appeared better suited to ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr.'s Brand New Album 'I Bet On Sky'

KCRW Broadcast #179 for Saturday, September 8, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me Fanatics! Tonight, we have a fantastic show for you. We will continue four weeks with Jimi Hendrix in our first hour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience's second album Axis: Bold As Love in mon ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am writing to you from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. I am not on vacation. I have a show here. The ... More >>

FYF Fest Day Two - The Faint, Converge, Dinosaur Jr - September 2, 2012

FYF Fest Day 2 The Faint, Converge, Dinosaur Jr and Others September 2, 2012 See also: *Our review of FYF Day One *Take our FYF quiz Better Than: Striking for a 40 hour work week. After a series of intense showers and professional-assisted dust removal, we were back for day two of the purporte ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Going in Deep With One Last Wish

KCRW Broadcast #178 for Saturday, August 25, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! When It Comes to Cracking Down On Protests, Are We Any Better Than Russia? Fanatics! Welcome to September. While I am sure it may still be hot where you are, it is in fact September and autumn is upon us. Tonigh ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Great German Music

KCRW Broadcast #176 for Saturday, August 4, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! In a Rut Fanatics! Hello from Germany. I am currently living in the Hamburg at an airport hotel. I am doing two nights at the Wacken Festival. Since I am here and not with you and the other two at the Jasonic Tem ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: British Invasion

KCRW Broadcast #175 for Saturday, July 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns Fanatics! Since I will be in beautiful Dorset, UK on this evening, we have already put this show together and it is ready to lunge forth when the engineers at KCRW hit the b ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Stop Whining About How Today's Music Sucks

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am lucky to be someone who is easily contented. For me, listening to music is the best thing ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: World Debut of J Mascis/Heavy Blanket Album

KCRW Broadcast #162 for Saturday, April 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Down Under and 
Hard to Find Fanatics! Hello from beautiful Sydney, Australia. I am a few hours away from another show here. I have been finding some great records here that will find themselves in our upcoming ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! For Those Suffering Valentine's Day Heartbreak

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] One of the best romantic messengers is, of course, music. And then when it's over and you are ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] A few days ago, I was sitting backstage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, in the same area ... More >>

The Weezer Cruise: Rivers Cuomo Shows Us His Underwear

By Wendy Fonarow My best friend and I recently found ourselves boarding the Weezer Cruise. The red eye from L.A. took us to Miami, where we departed for a five-days-at-sea music carnival, featuring Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, the Antlers, Ozma, and, yes, Weezer. Our shipmates included quirky 30-somethi ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! My New Year's Resolution: To Rock Out

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] For many years I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! My Travels With Dinosaur Jr. 


[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Of Rock and Dinosaurs I am on the road with Dinosaur Jr. ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr. Mode

​See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Beach Boys' SMiLE: Even Better than Advertised KCRW Broadcast #145 for Saturday, December 17, 2011 Fanatics! I am well into the short tour with Dinosaur Jr. The band have been playing excellently and the audiences have been into it! I sit on J's side ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Recovering From A Stooges Coma

​See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.? KCRW Broadcast #144 for Saturday, December 10 Fanatics! What a show! It's the mother of all shows. It's gigantic and fantastic! It is extraordinary and wonderful in every way. It hits all the marks a ... More >>

1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke

Sun Araw and Warm Climate - Hard Rock Cafe - 8/3/11

Sam BlochCameron Stallones (Sun Araw) and Caitlin C. Mitchell (Warm Climate)​Sun Araw Warm Climate Hard Rock Café in Hollywood 8/3/11 Better Than: The Elvis impersonator at Palm Thai. "Had we known it was gonna be like this, we might have done it a little differently." Cameron Stallones ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Brutality, the Humanity, the Tour

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr., Six Major Guitar Players

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #120 for Saturday, June 25. Fanatics! Writing to you from the upper level of Terminal Five here in New York City. We are in night four of this amazing Dinosaur Jr. tour. The band has been raising the bar every night and the shows are getting more and more cranked ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Of Rock and Dinosaurs

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tonight: Gray Joel, Melvins' Sugar Daddy Live

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #114 for Saturday, May 14. Fanatics! I am back from a few days in Louisiana and Florida. I am in one piece although my legs have been eaten by all manner of insects. We all got chewed upon quite a bit. Our cameraman Kris stood on fire ant hill and they really did ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Ludos, Buzzcocks, Joy Division

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #109 for Saturday, April 9. Fanatics! If you notice, our show tonight does all it can to evade all classification. Perhaps the single song that embodies the idea behind the overall is track two, our Ludus. Check that arrangement! That's what tonight's show is all ... More >>

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SXSW Bands from A-Z: I - L

​ As SXSW gets ever closer, we figured we'd continue being servicey and give you a guide to some of the highlights of the official showcases, alphabet style. Yesterday we gave you E - H, today it's I - L. So here we go: five more awesome bands to see in SXSW's official lineup.

Henry Rollins: Out of Africa and Into the Land of Acting Without a Script (with Cameo Appearance by Princess Leia and His Favorite Dylan Song)

Timothy NorrisHenry Rollins' Weird Record Academy for the Open of Ears: Last night at the Echoplex​ [For more exclusive shots from Henry Rollins' event last night, see Timothy Norris' slideshow 'Henry Rollins @ The Echoplex'.] I am back from Africa. That was a long haul. From Entebbe, Uganda ... More >>

Allison Anders and Kurt Voss Kickstart New Rock Film, 'Strutter" -- Details From The Directors.

Strutter-ers Dante Ailano White and Ericka Clevenger​Don't Knock The Rock film fest creator Allison Anders has been celebrating rock n' roll, punk, pop and folk in film with DKTR events since 2003, but music has always played a major role in her own films (Mi Vida Loca, Border Radio, Sugartown ... More >>

Hanoi Henry: Henry Rollins Grooves to Funkadelic in Ho Chi Minh City, Bears Witness to the Still Open Wounds of America's Most Controversial War and Broadcasts Straight Outta Vietnam's Busy Streets

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis

Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

Tonight in NYC: Sebastian Meissner and Kwartludium Adapt SST Records Output

This struck us as a potentially fascinating exercise that we would love to see tonight --except it's in New York. German electronic producer Sebastian Meissner (aka Klimek) is teaming up with Polish avant-classical group Kwartludium to present "Solid State Transmitters," an homage to great LA label ... More >>

Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101

Also, Pixies, Justice, the Happy Hollows and others

SXSW: Who Would Leave Metallica for Black Cobra? Our Man in Austin

Randall Roberts Finds Himself in the Studio With the Silversun Pickups

SXSW '09, Day 2: On Applying for Secret Canadian Citizenship, The Tidal Wave of Tastemaking, and Dirty Projecting

Last year was my first year in Austin, so I can't really speak to nebulous notions of the SXSW "good ol' days." Anecdotal evidence suggests that the place has expanded exponentially each year since the rise of the Internet, and the demolition of the quasi-mythological monoculture. In layman's term ... More >>

Swervedriver Gazes Back

A chat at the pub reanimates one of the great also-rans of '90s British guitar rock

Band of Horses and Dinosaur Jr.

Band of Horses and Dinosaur Jr. at the Wiltern, September 8

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