The Alternative Elite: Dinosaur Jr. 2.0
Dave Toropov
September 25, 2006
I’m going to be completely honest with you all. Instead of upholding a bias-free, journalistic, objective view on music, I’m going to let my Indie nerd go completely nuts for the rest of this column.
I love Dinosaur Jr.
To an extent that probably is not healthy.
And, by extension, I border on worshipping the band’s songwriter, brilliant guitarist, and lead singer, J Mascis.
Dinosaur Jr. is an alternative band that was mainly active between 1985 and1989, after which Mascis kicked out the band’s bassist Lou Barlow. From that point on, Dinosaur Jr. unofficially became “The J Mascis Bandâ€