Dec 15, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 40th Songs of the Week of 2023. This will probably be the final Songs of the Week of 2023. More

Dec 12, 2023 By Mark Redfern

J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.) is releasing a new solo album, What Do We Do Now, on February 2, 2024 via Sub Pop. Now he has shared its second single, “Set Me Down,” via an animated music video. More

Nov 17, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2023. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 9 this week. More

Nov 14, 2023 By Mark Redfern

J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.) has announced a new solo album, What Do We Do Now, and shared its first single, “Can’t Believe We’re Here,” via a music video that features Fred Armisen, David Cross, Eugene Mirman, Bully, IDLES, and others. More

May 18, 2023 By Mark Redfern

MAN ON MAN are releasing their sophomore album, Provincetown, on June 16 via Polyvinyl. Now they have shared two new songs from it, “Take It From Me” and “Hush” (which features J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.). More

Sep 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 36th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week one artist has two songs in the main list, which is a Top 10 this time. More

Sep 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Wild Pink have shared a new single, “See You Better Now,” featuring J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. It is the latest release from the band’s forthcoming album, ILYSM, which will be out on October 14 via Royal Mountain. More

Jul 27, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Wild Pink have announced the release of a new album, ILYSM, which will be out on October 14 via Royal Mountain. They have also announced a tour in support of the album and have shared a video for the album’s title track, “ILYSM.” More

Jun 09, 2022 By Joey Arnone

SASAMI (aka Los Angeles-based musician Sasami Ashworth) has shared an alternate version of the song “Tried to Understand” from her newest album, Squeeze. The new version features J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. More

Dec 10, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Kim Gordon (formerly of Sonic Youth) and J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.), along with electronic artist BNH Deluxe (aka John Stephen RePass), have shared new songs as a part of Sub Pop Singles Club, Vol. 6. Gordon and Mascis have shared the songs “Abstract Blues” and “Slow Boy,” while RePass has shared “Earth is Somewhere Out There” and “Turntable.” More

Apr 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Alt-rock veterans Dinosaur Jr. are releasing a new album, Sweep It Into Space, this Friday via Jagjaguwar. Now they have shared its third single, “Take It Back,” via a stop-motion animated video for it. More

Mar 31, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Alt-rock veterans Dinosaur Jr. are releasing a new album, Sweep It Into Space, on April 23 via Jagjaguwar. Now they have shared its second single, “Garden,” via a video for it that features the band performing outside in the snow, with some animation overlaid. They have also announced a livestream concert for May 1st. More

Mar 01, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 65, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover. More

Nov 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.) has released a new solo album, Elastic Days, today via Sub Pop. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Nov 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.) is releasing a new solo album, Elastic Days, this Friday (November 9) via Sub Pop. Now he has shared the album’s title track, “Elastic Days,” via a video for the song that stars drag icon Dina Martina. Shane Wahlund and Michael Anderson directed the clip, which you can watch below, followed by his upcoming tour dates. More

Oct 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

An artist whose last song also made it to #1 on that week’s list and an anti-Donald Trump protest song scheduled to be covered by many more artists head this week’s Songs of the Week list. Plus Thom Yorkemakes the list yet again. More

Oct 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.) is releasing a new solo album, Elastic Days, on November 9 via Sub Pop. Now he has shared another song from the album, “Web So Dense,” via a lyric video for the song. More

Sep 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

In many instances an album’s strongest songs are shared before the album’s release. There were several albums released this week, however, that featured standout tracks that were not advance singles and so this week’s Songs of the Week features some of those, filtered in with other new singles released this week. More

Sep 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.) is releasing a new solo album, Elastic Days, on November 9 via Sub Pop. Previously he shared its first single, “See You At the Movies” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now he has shared another song from the album, “Everything She Said,” via a lyric video for the song (directed by Joe Salinas). More

Aug 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week’s Songs of the Week is packed. Firstly boygenius, the new supergroup featuring Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers, released three songs this week and all were worthy of the list. Thus we decided to expand it from a Top 10 to a Top 12, so that 10 separate artists were still included, be even that wasn’t enough, so we added one more for an unlucky Top 13. More

Aug 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.) has announced a new solo album, Elastic Days, and shared a new song from it, “See You At the Movies.” Elastic Days is due out November 9 via Sub Pop. Check out “See You At the Movies” below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art, as well as his upcoming tour dates. More

Feb 21, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Band of Horses released a new album, Why Are You OK, last June via Interscope and American Recordings. Jason Lytle of Grandaddy produced the album. Now they have shared a video for one of the album highlights, “In a Drawer,” which features backing vocals from J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.). More

Oct 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

American Laundromat Records are releasing Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith on October 15. The Elliott Smith tribute album will feature newly recorded covers of Smith’s songs by Amanda Palmer, Jesu/Sun Kil Moon, Waxahatchee, Lou Barlow, Adam Franklin of Swervedriver, Tanya Donelly, and others. More

Aug 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Dinosaur Jr. released a new album, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, last week via Jagjaguwar. Now they have shared a video for previously shared single, “Goin Down.” Atiba Jefferson directed the clip, which features skateboarding moves from frontman J Mascis and professional skateboarders Christian Hosoi and Harry Jumonji, while the band performs. More

Jul 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Dinosaur Jr. are releasing a new album, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, on August 5 via Jagjaguwar. Now they have shared another song from the record, “Goin Down.” Listen below. More

May 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Dinosaur Jr. just announced a new album, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not. The latest from J Mascis and band is due out August 5 via Jagjaguwar and the band shared an album announcement video featuring Henry Rollins. Now the band has shared the album’s first single, “Tiny,” which you can stream below. More

May 24, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Dinosaur Jr. have announced a new album, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, and a bunch of tour dates. The latest from J Mascis and band is due out August 5 via Jagjaguwar. Below is a funny little album announcement video featuring Henry Rollins in a room full of records (likely his personal record collection). More

May 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Band of Horses are releasing a new album, Why Are You OK, via Interscope and American Recordings. Now the album’s exact release date has been confirmed as June 10 (previously it was just listed as June). Also the band has shared another song from the album, “In a Drawer,” which features backing vocals from J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Sera Cahoone, and Jenn Champion. More

Mar 03, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

American Laundromat Records have announced Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith, which is due out October 15. The Elliott Smith tribute album will feature newly recorded covers of Smith’s songs by Julien Baker, Amanda Palmer, Jesu/Sun Kil Moon, Yuck, Waxahatchee, Lou Barlow, J Mascis, Adam Franklin of Swervedriver, Tanya Donelly, and others. More

Dec 10, 2015 By Mark Redfern

Kurt Vile‘s new studio album, b’lieve i’m goin down…, came out back in September via Matador. Last night he stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform a track from it, single “Pretty Pimpin.” J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. guested. You can watch video of it below, followed by his upcoming tour dates.

Jul 10, 2015 By Laura Studarus

On July 3, J Mascis performed at Landmark in Bergen, Norway. More

Feb 05, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Last night J Mascis stopped by Late Night With Seth Myers. More

Aug 27, 2014 By Laura Studarus

J Mascis’ new video for Tied to a Star cut “Every Morning” features Mascis as a cult leader. More

Aug 18, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Next week on Aug. 26 San Francisco songwriter Ty Segall will deliver his seventh solo album Manipulator. You can now stream the album, along with new albums by Merchandise, J Mascis, Basement Jaxx, and The Bug. More

Aug 01, 2014 By Michael Wojtas

Welcome to Under the Radar’s weekly playlist, where we compile the best and most exciting tracks to debut online in the last week (give or take). In this mix we’ve got new songs by alt-J (remixed by clipping.), Tweedy, JJ, The Rosebuds, J Mascis, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Music Go Music, Speedy Ortiz (covering Sibylle Baier), Wampire, Chance the Rapper (covering the theme song to ‘90s cartoon Arthur), Marrisa Nadler (covering Leonard Cohen), Foxes in Fiction, Terry Malts, Literature, Kamp!, Kate Boy, Purling Hiss, and more. More

Jul 30, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Cat Power fits right in with the quiet melancholy of J Mascis’ new track, “Wide Awake.” More

May 21, 2014 By Laura Studarus

J Mascis will release a new album this summer called Tied to a Star. More

Jan 23, 2013 By Cody Ray Shafer

IFC’s hilarious hipster-driven sketch comedy, Portlandia, starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, has featured plenty of indie music stars over its first two seasons, (The Decemberists, Isaac Brock, St. Vincent, Joanna Newsom, just to name a few) and that tradition continues with the show’s third season. This week’s episode features Dinosaur Jr.‘s J Mascis and members of Dirty Projectors in a battle of the gentle bands. More

Jul 12, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Weezer have announced that they will be presenting a cruise ship festival. More

May 05, 2011 By Laura Studarus

A from his recent solo album Several Shades of Why, Dinosaur Jr. leader J Mascis goes mellow for the video “Is it Done.” More

Jan 19, 2011 By Laura Studarus

On March 15, Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis will unleashed his solo acoustic debut via Sub Pop Records. In honor of that auspicious occasion, he’ll take to the road for a series of dates with Kurt Vile and Black Heart Procession. More

May 28, 2014 By Matt Fink

He fearlessly stares down sociopathic killers and hordes of zombies every week as the crossbow-wielding, motorcycle-riding Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead, but Norman Reedus readily admits that what really makes him nervous is the idea of talking to legendary Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis. More

Apr 05, 2011 By Frank Valish

On the road promoting his recent solo album, Several Shades of Why, Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis took some time to open up about his career, his current solo shows, and why he really just wants to join The Eagles. More

Nov 09, 2018 By Timothy Michalik

The “acoustic” album, more often than not, is a risky move. Yet, on J Mascis’ latest solo, “acoustic” album, Elastic Days, the immortal indie shredder regresses into a catastrophically vulnerable state of mind. More

Aug 29, 2014 By J. Pace

Here’s J Mascis with another batch of understated and partly unplugged tunes for Sub Pop. Mascis surprised everyone with the intimacy of 2011’s Several Shades of Why. More

Apr 05, 2011 By Frank Valish

Seeing J Mascis live is traditionally a loud affair, but on this night the guitar hero brought his expertise to a new acoustic context. And the results were remarkable. More

Mar 18, 2011 By Frank Valish

J Mascis has released a few albums solely under his own name. More