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April 19, 2006 | 11:25 pm
Sludgefeast in Boulder
He warned us—and he was right. The reunited Dinosaur Jr remains as ear-bleedingly loud as ever in its 21st century incarnation. At the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colo. last weekend, the gargantuan Marshall stacks towering behind J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph conjured up memories of Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps movie, and accordingly, you could feel Mascis’ shredding guitar work rattling your bones throughout the night. Fans would probably complain if they were given anything less.
Despite Mascis’ silvery gray hair, Dino Jr sounded positively youthful as they tore through a short-but-sweet set of tunes plucked almost exclusively from their first three albums (freshly reissued by Merge Records last year). As a rhythm section, Barlow and Murph are an impressive team, ably jumping from breakneck hardcore tempos to lumbering, almost Zeppelin-like power trio dynamics. And Mascis, as Barlow has noted, seems more willing than ever before to act like the guitar-god his fans have always wanted him to become. On “Raisansâ€
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