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Sweet Apple

Sweet Apple to release new album July 28th

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Photo by Andrew Kesin

Sweet Apple – 2014 – Amherst | Photo by Andrew Kesin

SWEET APPLE, the band of rockers featuring J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr., Heavy Blanket), Tim Parnin (Cobra Verde, Chuck Mosley), John Petkovic (Cobra Verde, Death of Samantha, Guided By Voices) and Dave Sweetapple (Witch, Eerie), will release their new album, Sing the Night in Sorrow, on July 28 via Tee Pee Records. SWEET APPLE collaborated across several state lines to create the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2014 release, The Golden Age of Glitter, hailed as “throwback power pop that should soothe the soul of just about any riff-loving rock fan” by Esquire and one of the “Best Albums of 2014” by ABC News.

Given the band’s geographical reach — its four members live in Massachusetts, Vermont and Ohio — it’s no surprise that SWEET APPLE’s inner circle has expanded outwards for this release. The four-piece have confirmed that guest musicians who have contributed to Sing the Night in Sorrow include Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age),Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices), Rachel Haden (Haden Triplets) and Doug Gillard(Guided by Voices, Nada Surf). Meanwhile, Stephen McBean (Black Mountain, Pink Mountaintops) will join the band on second guitar.

Sing the Night in Sorrow explores themes such as longing and escape, darkness consumed by endless daylight, love amid lovelessness, faulty memory, alienation and distance. The LP is set to a musical palette that is wide-ranging, mixing atmosphere with impact. Sing The Night In Sorrow rolls out insurgent guitars, glitter-stomp, and orchestrated pop, at once timeless and contemporary.

   “Sweet Apple is different from most bands in that we’ve all met on the road, in different places, far from home,” says Petkovic. “Cleveland is a world away from Vermont or Massachusetts, where Dave and J reside.  It can be tough to keep it going when you’re spread out, but the distance and differences it brings informs the music in a way that makes it unique and gives the band a reunion-like quality whenever we get together. People always ask us, ‘What the hell are you doing in a band together?’”

With more details – and new music – due to be unveiled in the coming weeks, SWEET APPLE are gearing up to leave their mark on 2017. Follow the band on Facebook,Instagram and twitter.

~ via Action-PR

@midnight with Chris Hardwick

J Mascis on @MIDNIGHT WITH CHRIS HARDWICK Dec 5th

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J Mascis will join Dave Hill & Steve Agee on Comedy Central’s @Midnight with Chris Hardwick on Monday Dec 5th.  Should be a fun show!
They usually put a couple full uncensored episodes on on the website for a few days after it airs.

In the area and want to go catch it live?  Go here to get on the list (free but 18+)

J was on an Austrailian Game show Spicks and Specks in 2010. Watch it below:

J Mascis on Australia’s Spicks and Specks (2010)

 

Radio DJ: J Mascis takes over the airways on radioeins

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Listen as J Mascis sits in for an hour long friendly takeover as the on air host for Radioeins.

J Mascis at Radio Eins

J Mascis at Radio Eins

Playlist

  1. King Khan – I’ll be loving you
  2. Leaf Hound – Freelance Fiend
  3. Wild Style Lion – Love Was In Me
  4. Gun Club – Sex Beat
  5. The Ring – I Wanna Be Free
  6. Sonic Rendezvous Band – City Slang
  7. Steve Gunn – Waterwheel
  8. Sibylle Baier – Tonight
  9. My Bloody Valentine – Thorn
  10. Blitz – Someone’s Gonna Die
  11. Sonic Youth – Shadow Of A Doubt
  12. Void – Who Are You
  13. Young Marble Giants – Final Day
  14. Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag
  15. Easy Action – Friends Of Rock’n’Roll

Go to Radio EINS to Listen Now

Dinosaur Jr Japan Anniversary Special talk show

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Tokyo Club All Nighter 2016

Tokyo Club All Nighter 2016

Getting ready to play the Hostess Club All_nighter, Dinosaur Jr had a talk show with @tokyobryan and autograph session at Tower Records Shibuya yesterday which was live streamed.  You can watch the archive of the show at abemafresh.tv (content starts around 15:40)

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Dinosaur Talk show 2016-08-19

Dinosaur Jr Talk show in Japan 2016-08-18

Thanks to @waninon for the updates!

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Rank Your Records: J Mascis Rates Dinosaur Jr. Albums From Bummer to Classic

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Last week Glide Magazine posted their rankings of Dinosaur Jr albums and this week we get J Mascis’s take on his rankings thanks to Noisey Magazine.

We sat down with the frontman and unimpeachable guitar wizard, who notoriously does not like talking about his albums, to go through every single one of Dinosaur Jr.’s releases at length.

Source: Rank Your Records: J Mascis Rates Dinosaur Jr. Albums From Bummer to Classic | NOISEY

What would your picks be?  There are no wrong answers 😉

Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead (Greatful Dead Tribute) is now streaming

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J Mascis joins Kurt Vile and the Violators to cover The Greatful Dead‘s “Box of Rain” in the enormous new “Day of the Dead” tribute album.

 

“Day of the Dead is a new 5xCD , five-and-a-half-hour compilation produced by the National’s Bryce and Aaron Dessner as a benefit for the Red Hot organization. With a cast of dozens drawn from a cross-section of indie-ish musical worlds, the set, like its MTV predecessor, signals another milestone in the San Francisco band’s profound influence on American music, closing old circles and opening new ones. In the same way that no single Grateful Dead show (or song performance, or even era) could ever be definitive, the 59 tracks of Day of the Dead represent (merely!) a major entry in the ever-deepening catalog of Grateful Dead covers, interpretations, and reinventions. Already containing universes, the Dead’s songbook is what makes the set enjoyable as a whole, transcending the performers and their translations. Perhaps even more than those of Bob Dylan (no stranger to covering the Dead), the songs of Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter welcome musicians of all stripes—loud and quiet, singers and instrumentalists, big-eared non-virtuosos and players alike.”

— via Pitchfork

Listen to the whole album here or http://www.dayofthedeadmusic.com/

Tracks included:

Touch of Grey • The War on Drugs
Sugaree • Phosphorescent, Jenny Lewis & Friends
Candyman • Jim James & Friends
Cassidy • Moses Sumney, Jenny Lewis & Friends
Black Muddy River • Bruce Hornsby & De Yarmond Edison
Loser • Ed Droste, Binki Shapiro & Friends
Peggy-O • The National
Box of Rain • Kurt Vile and the Violators (featuring J Mascis)
Rubin & Cherise • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Friends
To Lay Me Down • Perfume Genius, Sharon Van Etten & Friends
New Speedway Boogie • Courtney Barnett
Friend of the Devil • Mumford and Sons
Uncle John’s Band • Lucius
Me and My Uncle • The Lone Bellow & Friends
Mountains of the Moon • Lee Ranaldo, Lisa Hannigan & Friends
Black Peter • Anohni and yMusic
Garcia Counterpoint • Bryce Dessner
Terrapin Station (Suite) • Daniel Rossen, Christopher Bear & The National (featuring Josh Kaufman, Conrad Doucette, Sō Percussion & Brooklyn Youth Chorus)
Attics of My Life • Angel Olsen
St. Stephen • Wilco with Bob Weir (live)
If I Had the World to Give • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Standing on the Moon • Phosphorescent & Friends
Cumberland Blues • Charles Bradley and Menahan Street Band
Ship of Fools • The Tallest Man On Earth & Friends
Bird Song • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Friends
Morning Dew • The National
Truckin’ • Marijuana Death Squads
Dark Star • Cass McCombs, Joe Russo & Friends
Nightfall of Diamonds • Nightfall of Diamonds
Transitive Refraction Axis for John Oswald • Tim Hecker
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad • Lucinda Williams & Friends
Playing in the Band • Tunde Adebimpe, Lee Ranaldo & Friends
Stella Blue • Local Natives
Eyes of the World • Tal National
Help On The Way • Béla Fleck
Franklin’s Tower • Orchestra Baobab
Til the Morning Comes • Luluc with Xylouris White
Ripple • The Walkmen
Brokedown Palace • Richard Reed Parry with Caroline Shaw and Little Scream (featuring Garth Hudson)
Here Comes Sunshine • Real Estate
Shakedown Street • Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Brown-Eyed Women • Hiss Golden Messenger
Jack-A-Roe • This Is The Kit
High Time • Daniel Rosen and Christopher Bear
Dire Wolf • The Lone Bellow & Friends
Althea • Winston Marshall, Kodiak Blue and Shura
Clementine Jam • Orchestra Baobab
China Cat Sunflower · I Know You Rider • Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Easy Wind • Bill Callahan
Wharf Rat • Ira Kaplan & Friends
Estimated Prophet • The Rileys
Drums · Space • Man Forever / Sō Percussion / Onieda
Cream Puff War • Fucked Up
Dark Star • The Flaming Lips
What’s Become of the Baby • s t a r g a z e
King Solomon’s Marbles • Vijay Iyer
Rosemary • Mina Tindle & Friends
And We Bid You Goodnight • Sam Amidon
I Know You Rider • The National with Bob Weir (live)