If the excitement of seeing Dinosaur Jr. reformed, rehearsed, and rapacious isn’t enough to sell you on the project, get this: all the footage was directed and patched together by none other than Dave Markey, director of such amazing films as The Year Punk Broke, The Reinactors, and my perennial favorite, Rap Damage (In Seearch of the Hip Hop Rabbit).

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We have been lucky enough to both see and interview Dinosaur Jr in the past, so consider this night verified for excellence! And as it happens, two of you have won tickets to go to the show! To win tickets, we asked us to send your CUTEST VIDEO OF A BABY ANIMAL—an “Animal Jr”–and send [...]

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For those who want a sneak peek of tonight’s live performance by Dinosaur Jr., with an interview from Henry Rollins included in the package, check out our 2009 interview of J. Mascis by Allison Anders, with an assist from daughter Tiffany Anders! Rollins is a funny guy, but it’ll be hard to top Allison Anders [...]

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“The film was done with love and respect for Ginn and Black Flag, one of the world’s most important bands, still… even after all of this.”

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The Horribly Wrong take the cartoonish violence from the childish id and cram it all into a gleeful, in-the-red punk rock rant. I’m talking axes and killing children and burning down the house with your whole family in it. It makes me want to drink Pabst from the can and slam into a wall.

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Guitarist Andy Coronado (Wrangler Brutes, Monorchid, Skull Kontrol) presents here his list of “Beltway Outsiders”—DC-area bands that were never a part of the famous Dischord-and-friends hardcore punk world. He will be DJ-ing tonight at Big Freak.

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A living room vibe with Henry Rollins is what KCRW promises to deliver on Thursday, Dec 9, 8pm, at the Echoplex. “Henry Rollins – Rare Cuts and Conversation” is a benefit for the radio station. Tickets on sale Wednesday, November 17. They call it a listening party: “Rollins has been searching his musical vaults and [...]

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HENRY ROLLINS FREQUENT FLYER TOUR TAKES OFF FEBRURARY 17 TICKETS ON SALE DECEMBER 4 (PRE-SALES STARTING DECEMBER 1) Henry Rollins trades in his airline miles for a tour bus with the launch of his Frequent Flyer Tour in early 2010. Henry’s latest talking tour kicks off January 12 in Dublin, with the 45-date first North [...]

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The Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime is one of the several weathered foundations of L.A. RECORD. Exactly twenty-five years later, it still starts bands and makes friends. Minutemen bassist Mike Watt meets for pizza at San Pedro’s excellent Pavich’s Pizza for remembering D. Boon and George Hurley and that guy Mike Watt in the summer of 1984. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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I cursed my choice of drink: whiskey; it was all wrong. In the middle of the empty dance floor, some dude in black contorted his torso indolently. The music doesn’t seem meant for this type of response, though. It wants to inspire palm-trees swaying, or feet dangling out a window on desert roads, or smoking pot on the porch while discussing succulents. Sly or uncomfortable, maybe, Luke Top calls the dude out, simultaneously encouraging and admonishing him.

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