For our latest Vintage Video installment, we present this pro-shot footage of Dinosaur Jr’s original lineup — J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph — rehearsing at the University of Massachusetts in 1986.

Dinosaur Jr guitar slinger J Mascis has teamed up with two members of Cobra Verde and one of his Witch bandmates for a new project: Sweet Apple, which delivers its 12-track debut album, Love & Desperation, on April 20, and is expected to tour later this year.

[tweetmeme]Amoeba Records today posted the latest in its “What In My Bag?” video series — in which musicians shopping at the California chain’s outlets show off their hauls — this time featuring Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis at the record shop’s massive Hollywood store. In the clip above, Mascis — never the chattiest guy — [...]

Pixies play Canada
While fans await U.S. dates for the band’s Doolittle anniversary trek, the Pixies today announced their first North American concert in four years: a slot on the bill of the Virgin Festival Ontario next month.
The fest — Aug. 29 and 30 at Burls Creek Park in Barrie, Ontario — will be headlined by [...]

Dinosaur Jr this week recalled the European edition of its new Farm CD for sounding — no joke — too loud.
The band, which apparently wants to save its deafening volume for the concert stage, reports on its Web site that an “audio problem” occurred while duplicating the original master in the studio: “The duplication ‘doubled’ [...]

With its new album, Farm, hitting stores today, Dinosaur Jr has announced a nearly two-month, coast-to-coast North American tour that runs from the end of September through late November.
The classic indie-rock act — featuring original members J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph — will play a pair of shows in New York and Massachusetts [...]

Record Rack: A weekly round-up of the pertinent new releases hitting stores this Tuesday:
ARTIST: R.E.M.
RELEASE: Reckoning: Deluxe Edition
BACKSTORY: The second installment in the band’s 2CD reissue series features the classic 1984 album on one disc, and a 16-track bonus disc that includes  a concert recorded July 7, 1984, at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom, featuring live performances [...]

The founding lineup of Dinosaur Jr is offering up the first official taste of its forthcoming LP in the form of “I Don’t Want You To Know,” a free MP3 posted on the band’s Web site.
The track appears on Farm, due out June 23 on Jagjaguwar.The record is the second by the band’s classic lineup [...]

The reunion of its classic ’80s lineup — J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph — still intact, Dinosaur Jr this week revealed the track list and release date for its second post-comeback album.
Jagjaguwar will release the 12-track Farm on June 23, after the band completes a lengthy, and previously announced, club tour of the [...]

Despite the frosty history between seemingly catatonic guitar god J Mascis and the decidedly more emo Lou Barlow, the reunion of Dinosaur Jr’s classic ’80s lineup not only continues, but will produce a second post-comeback album, as well.
The band, also featuring drummer Murph, this week announced it has signed to Jagjaguwar, and will go out [...]