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Cool to see info coming up on the web about J’s new release
Hoping some interviews and more european dates start coming in soon

Couple finds, you have to scroll down a bit on both links but…

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J Mascis + The Fog ready LP plus UK-only single
2 September 2002

J Mascis, of Dinosaur Jr fame, returned in 2000 with an album under the name J Mascis + The Fog featuring guest appearances by, among others, Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices and Kevin Shields, ex My Bloody Valentine. Berlin’s City Slang Records has revealed that at the end of the month they’ll release a UK-only 7" single with A-side Everybody Lets Me Down, to be followed on 14 October with the full length Free So Free. Back in the USA, Culver City, California’s Ultimatum Music releases Free So Free on 8 October.
City Slang claims the production quality on the new self-produced disc is much better than on 2000’s More Light, also self-produced, which for all its energy comes across as a bit muddy. Check our link (below) for a full-length MP3 of new song Tell The Truth.
Tracks on Free So Free will be Freedom, If That’s How It’s Going To Be, Set Us Free, Bobbin, Free So Free, Tell The Truth, Someone Said, Everybody Lets Me Down, Say The Word, and Outside.
Mascis has been touring in Europe, and has posted some solo dates for this and next month in the UK and the US. They are

September
11 – Deventer (Club Lek)
13 – London (The Metro)

October
9 – Cambridge, MA (TT The Bear’s)
10 – Northampton, MA (Pearl Street)
11 – Philadelphia (North Star)
12 – Brooklyn (North Six)
16 – Pittsburgh (Rosebud)
17 – Detroit (Magic Stick)
18 – Cleveland (Grog Shop)
23 – Portland, OR (Blackbird)
24 – Seattle (Tractor Tavern)
25 – San Francisco (Bottom Of The Hill)
26 – Los Angeles (The Roxy)
| J Mascis + The Fog | | J Mascis on City Slang | | J Mascis on Ultimatum Music | | Tell The Truth (full length MP3) | | top of page |

Uberslacker & Marshall Stacker
J Mascis Offers Free Album in October
Oddly, not a Soup Dragons cover in the bunch
Will Bryant reports:
Ãœberslacker and Marshall stacker J Mascis returns with his second post-Dinosaur Jr. offering, Free So Free, October 8th on Ultimatum Records. With song titles like "Freedom," "Set Us Free," and "Free So Free," you’d think the label would cut us a break on the price for Mascis’ follow-up to 2000’s More Light, but nope– it lists for $15.98. I guess that’s the new economy for ya. The press materials for the album promise a "concept album" full of "zigzagging guitar solos and pure melody." Free So Free was recorded in Mascis’ own Amherst, MA studio with the revolving cast of shady characters known as The Fog. Tracklist:

01 Freedom
02 If That’s How It’s Going To Be
03 Set Us Free
04 Bobbin
05 Free So Free
06 Tell The Truth
07 Someone Said
08 Everybody Lets Me Down
09 Say The Word
10 Outside

Mascis has mapped out a short tour to support the record in October. As is apropos for an artist whose songs are virtually non-stop solos, he’s leaving The Fog at home and performing his new material all by his lonesome. Tour dates:

10-09 Boston, MA – TT The Bears
10-10 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
10-11 Philadelphia, PA – North Star Bar
10-12 Brooklyn, NY – North Six
10-16 Pittsburgh, PA – Rosebud
10-17 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
10-18 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
10-23 Portland, OR – Blackbird
10-24 Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
10-25 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
10-26 Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy

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