Stereogum — To be a festival organizer, you have to know a lot of people. In addition to being the cofounder of California's Desert Daze music festival, Phil Pirrone makes heavy, mind-expanding psych-rock as the leader of the Los Angeles band JJUUJJUU, and their... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The tribute show also included Living Colour, Joseph Arthur, Matthew Sweet, Nicole Atkins, Erika Wennerstrom (of Heartless Bastards), Bettye LaVette, and more. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis is one of the musicians performing at the Music Of Led Zeppelin tribute concert at Carnegie Hall tonight alongside the Zombies, Living Colour, Richie Sambora, O.A.R., and more. Last night, most of the lineup assembled for a re... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Matthew Sweet, Joseph Arthur, London Souls and more also played the rehearsal as a lead-up to tonight's big Carnegie Hall show. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Every year for the past 14 years, Carnegie Hall in partnership with City Winery has hosted a "Music Of" tribute concert where musicians play the works of a chosen artist or group and all proceeds go to charitable causes, usually related to music ed... more info

Stereogum — Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis is a known gearhead, and now you have a chance to pick up some of the gear that he's accumulated over the past several decades of being a guitar hero. Mascis has partnered with online music equipment marketplace Reverb.com to ... more info

Stereogum — Weakened Friends are an indie rock trio out of Portland, Maine whose '90s-reminiscent sound owes more than a little bit to Dinosaur Jr.'s sludgy, laconic pop-rock. So it's only appropriate that Dinosaur Jr.'s own J Mascis contributes his signature gu... more info

Stereogum — Comedy Central recently canceled @Midnight, the comedians-competing late-night show that Chris Hardwicke has hosted for a couple of years. But before it ended, the show at least got to feature professional indie rock goofball going head-to-head with ... more info

Stereogum — Sweet Apple, the band featuring Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, Witch's Dave Sweetapple, and Cobra Verde's Tim Parnin and John Petkovic, is releasing a new album called Sing The Night In Sorrow this week. Today they're promoting it with a video for "World I... more info

Stereogum — J Mascis was on Marc Maron's WTF podcast today and, as Pitchfork points out, he talked about how much he likes Adele. "I got into Adele through The Voice," he admits, which is sort of weird considering she's been inescapable for a decade but, hey, if... more info