Brooklyn Vegan — FFF Fest lines yesterday (via) Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest kicked off in earnest yesterday (11/7) with such bands as Judas Priest, Alt-J, Dinosaur Jr, DFA 1979 and more. But Friday wasn't all fun fun fun. A large amount of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Meat Puppets @ Rough Trade - 11/1/14 (via BrooklynVegan Instagram) Meat Puppets and Cass McCombs brought their co-headlining tour to NYC over the weekend for shows at Rough Trade on Halloween and November 1. Meat Puppets headlined... more info

Stereogum — Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis leads the riff-rock side project Sweet Apple, but the band’s namesake is Dave Sweetapple, the Witch member who also plays in Sweet Apple. He’s the star of the band’s new Halloween-themed video for “Reunion,” a triu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — J Mascis w/ Dinosaur Jr at MHOW in May (more by Caroline Harrison) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... J Mascis, Luluc @ Bowery Ballroom J Mascis may... more info

NME — Dinosaur Jr. member chats about music and zombies with young music fan more info

Stereogum — Among rock critics, Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis is notorious for being one of the worst interviews of all time, mostly for his Greg Popovich-like ability to stay perfectly perfunctory while every atom of his body screams that he’d rather not be ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher California's Happy Diving make sludgy, punky rock that suggests they've probably listened to a few Dinosaur Jr or Torche records in their time. They put out an EP on Father/Daughter earlier this year, and now they're following... more info

Stereogum — You keep thinking Fred Armisen’s schedule is so busy that he’ll have to stop appearing in random indie rock music videos, but no, he never does. Yesterday, Armisen’s buddy J Mascis, the Dinosaur Jr. guitar hero, released a beautifully weary sol... more info

NME — Dinosaur Jr frontman's latest solo LP features Cat Power more info

Stereogum — The great Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis is famous for blazing, melodic, eardrum-rupturing, feedback-drenched solos, but his dazed, muttering, tired-of-the-world voice is just as essential a piece of his band’s sound. And on his own, Mascis has lat... more info