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saw Social Distortion awhile back, fun time, Mike Ness is always great, caught a handful of roses from him. shame about the drummer though, he had no pep
a certain rev horton heat is doing a brief tour thru Canada soon…
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+ 13% tax, still waiting on the same shop to receive the Japanese edition
worth every penny, haven’t stopped playing it!!!
nice to hold the actual package in your hand, love the disc, great pics inside by Phil Virus
another great review found at courant.com…
Quote:Dinosaur Jr’s Reunion Album Explosive, ExcellentMay 1, 2007
By ERIC R. DANTON, Courant Rock CriticAll the best Dinosaur Jr songs feature a moment where it sounds as if guitarist J Mascis has just ruptured something vital.
He’ll be in the midst of an incendiary solo, playing things that already seem impossible, when he’ll somehow dial it up another click, and POW – there’s a guitar hemorrhage, with no first aid in sight.
It happens so often, there should be a triage unit on "Beyond," Dinosaur Jr’s eighth album and the first since 1988 to feature all three original members. It’s a marvel of blistering lead guitar and fragile melodies hovering anxiously beneath massive overdriven riffs that evoke the all-out ferocity the band displayed on its first three albums in the late ’80s.
Back then, Mascis was credited with bringing guitar solos back to indie rock, and Dinosaur Jr was a huge influence on the alt-rock bands that followed, thanks to the Amherst, Mass., trio’s blend of hardcore punk and roots rock, played at devastating volume – intense enough to vibrate your teeth.
Part of the band’s early musical fury surely stemmed from nearly constant tension between Mascis and bassist Lou Barlow. When the strain became unbearable in 1989, Mascis announced he was breaking up the band, only to re-form it the next day – without Barlow. That duplicitous dismissal sparked years of animosity from the bassist, who managed to overcome his hostility enough to rejoin Mascis and drummer Murph for a summer tour in 2005 that went so well, it resulted in another set of live dates in 2006.
No one, least of all Dinosaur Jr, expected the rapprochement to yield a new album, but "Beyond" is so good, it redeems the idea of comeback albums from the desultory dollar-grab they are for so many acts (ahem, Meat Loaf).
Recorded last year in Mascis’ basement studio in Amherst, "Beyond" reprises the lo-fi aesthetic of the band’s seminal albums, 1987’s "You’re Living All Over Me" and 1988’s "Bug." It’s all churning guitars and booming bass lines, held together by clattering no-frills drumming.
The album opens with a split-second blast of amplifier noise on "Almost Ready," then erupts into the first brain-scrambling guitar solo on an album full of them. The rupture moment comes after the fourth verse, when Mascis squeezes off a series of staccato high notes, but it’s only a warm-up for some of the guitar histrionics to come.
The propulsive riff-fest "Pick Me Up," for example, downshifts into a spiky break-down section that explodes with visceral force as Mascis builds from bursts of choked-off notes into molten guitar spew that bubbles and froths until a towering crescendo ends the tune after 61/2 minutes.
It sounds aggressive, but the cacophony serves as a noisy screen for deceptively sensitive lyrics. Although his languid voice is overshadowed by a pummeling riff on "Been There All the Time," Mascis sings shyly about longing before his shrieking guitar solo comes marauding through.
Dinosaur Jr turns down the volume on the acoustic "I Got Lost" and also takes a gentler approach on "We’re Not Alone," at least until the rupture-moment guitar solo punctures the relative calm with shards of distortion. A pair of tunes by Barlow – "Back to Your Heart" and "Lightning Bulb" – focus on deep, sludgy grooves and yearning lyrics, but the bassist’s biggest contribution to "Beyond" is his role as musical foil.
Although their relationship is now healthier than it’s been in years, there’s still an unacknowledged, probably unconscious musical striving between Barlow and Mascis. It creates bristling creative tension, and the pressure mounts and the heat builds until, finally, something ruptures.
Contact Eric R. Danton at edanton@courant.com.
"tom_in_chicago " wrote:what are the odds that Dave does/says something regarding the volume ? Way back when they did "Start Choppin’" (?), he was "cleaning" out his ears going "hello ?!?! Is the PHONE RINGING ?!?! HELLO !?!?" Or maybe that was after "The Wagon" ?He always seems to like big guitar-based rock. Hopefully he’ll give a "now that’s rock and roll !" comment after J ends "Been There All the Time" (presuming that’s what they play) with a ‘facemelter’.
After dave gave them the big ‘yeah I liked that’, I thought J gave Dave the universal sign for the phone…after watching it a couple more times it looks like he just waved…
I was 20 minutes late for work so I could burn it to dvd & bring it with me, agree it was a bit raw at the beginning but definitely got me all worked up for the upcoming shows!!!
love this pic…
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Quote:Dinosaur Jr.
Beyond
By Stuart Green
http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid1=110&csid2=850&fid1=25283″>http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/gene … fid1=25283After surviving a tour or two without killing each other, the original line-up of Dinosaur Jr. set about recording their first album in 19 years and the result is nothing short of awesome. If there were any concerns that the time off and respective members’ forays into poppier pastures would mean an inability to recapture the grungy glory of yesteryear, they are put to rest early on Beyond. J Mascis’s massive wall of distorted guitars and Lou Barlow and Murph’s merciless rhythmic thud are as thick and heavy as ever, with Mascis’s indifferent wailing in fine form as well. Things are so rosy (for the time being) in DJ land that Barlow is allowed to front his two contributions to the album’s 11 tracks. About the only thing that has changed since 1988’s Bug is that the trio seem to have become possessed by the spirit of Crazy Horse — not the aboriginal one, the Neil Young one. The tracks clock in at an average length of four-and-a-half minutes thanks largely to the extended guitar solos in each song. Beyond is the sound of a band inspired, re-energised and most importantly, still relevant more than two decades after creating a sound and scene that has since become lucrative for so many inferior, mediocre bands
can’t wait to hear this…
Quote:KARL HENDRICKS ROCK BAND ‘THE WORLD SAYS’ (SURPLUS ANXIETY)I knew this was going to be awesome when I turned the CD over and saw a track sitting there at the end with the running time of 11:47. It was hard not to just jump right to it.
But I resisted. Better to start at the beginning.
If you don’t know Karl Hendricks by now, it’s not too late to get on board. The Pittsburgh-based rocker has kept a pretty low profile since releasing "The Jerks Win Again" four years ago on Merge.
Now he returns with vigor and volume blissfully intact on "The World Says," an indie-rock guitar record that restores one’s faith in indie-rock guitar records. The dueling instruments of Hendricks and Alexei Plotnicov are sublime — sizzling and snarling with the big fat tones of guitar gods Neil Young and J. Mascis.
There isn’t a single song here that doesn’t explode into some glorious Dino Jr.- or Crazy Horse-style jam (with bassist Corey Layman and drummer Jake Leger), even during the tight three minutes of "Mediocre Advice."
More than a mere guitar hero, though, Hendricks is a singer with a wonderful sense of melody and a world-weary lyricist with a subtle hand. The eight-minute leadoff track, "I’m Not Crying, Karl," finds him encountering his friends’ tears, whether sniffing through "E.T." as kids or reflecting on real-life miseries. He runs into a guy named Frank who tells him he sees dotted lines across his wrists, and says, "You stare so hard at your dreams they turn into blank walls/the compromises you settle for leave you shocked and appalled." The walls of frenzied guitars are well-earned after that.
Hendricks cleverly digs below the layers of communication on "Irony Fails Me" ("I count on the world to be [messed] up/It surprises me sometimes") and probes the nature of discontent on "Banned for Life ("Spend so much time/trying to fill a hole that you can’t find"). "The Last Uncompromising Hardcore Band" is a sludge-fest that rolls the credits on angry rock, as Hendrix, watching with indifference, sings "passion just seems silly anymore."
Now, to the 11:47. The song is "California in October." Hendricks is staring over the ocean cliffs, pondering life, death, breath and how "every day’s another stupid miracle." Then the scene cuts to Pittsburgh where gun shots ring out in an alley, "deep in the morning," and all you can do is "breathe in … breathe out." Before and after, Karl and Alexei shred and shred some more, in the manner of Built to Spill attacking "Cowgirl in the Sand."
It might be absurd to call this one of the best-sounding guitar records in years, but it wouldn’t be a lie.
Dinosaur Jr Beyond! ranked number 20 on chartattack.com canadian campus/community radio top fifty, for the week of April 20, 2nd week on the list, last week was #48…
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1 1 6 You Say Party! We Sa Lose All Time Paper Bag
2 2 9 Arcade Fire * Neon Bible Merge
9 3 3 Lesbian On Ecstasy * We Know You Know Alien8
5 4 7 Besnard Lakes * Are The Dark Horse Outside
3 5 5 LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver DFA
6 6 11 Do Make Say Think * You, You’re A History In Constellation
7 7 4 Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before The.. Epic
— 8 1 Cocorosie The Adventures Of Ghost.. Touch And Go
31 9 2 Wooden Stars * People Are Different Sonic Unyon
8 10 4 Low Drums And Guns Sub Pop
10 11 3 A Northern Chorus * The Millions Too Many Sonic Unyon
23 12 3 Grinderman Grinderman Anti
13 13 10 Peter, Bjorn & John Writer’s Block Redink
4 14 13 Julie Doiron * Woke Myself Up Endearing
15 15 4 Panda Bear Person Pitch Paw Tracks
12 16 11 Apostle Of Hustle * National Anthem Of Nowher Arts & Crafts
RE 17 2 Jim Bryson * Where The Bungalows Roam Kelp
36 18 2 Jenn Grant * Orchestra For The Moon Paris 1919
— 19 1 Various Artists The Secret Sessions: Rheo Zunior
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Quote:We live in a green world, but the ancient Earth could have been wrapped in a purple mantle.The eldest microbes might have employed another molecule than chlorophyll to get advantage of the Sun’s energy. Chlorophyll absorbs mainly blue and red wavelengths of the sunlight and as it reflects green ones, the plants appear as such for us.
But the green waves contain the highest energy level of the visible spectrum. “Why would chlorophyll have this dip in the area that has the most energy?â€
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Quote:Hüsker Düde meets Bad Plus in The Gang Font
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Dave King, drummer for The Gang Font feat. Interloper and Bad Plus, is convinced that after a YouTube viewing of Hüsker Dü’s legendary appearance on Joan Rivers’ “Late Showâ€
