The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — There are two teams playing in the Superbowl...let's not forget the east coast rival, the New England Patriots. Here are the 11 Best New England Bands: Boston Aerosmith The Cars The Pixies J. Geils Band Dinosaur Jr. Dispatch MGMT Passi... more info

Stereogum — The Massachusetts punk rock longhairs in California X clearly grew up listening to Dinosaur Jr.; as with that band, their music blurs boundaries between basement-punk fuzz-grit and classic-rock guitar heroics. The band’s sophomore album Nights In T... more info

Stereogum — California X are a Western Massachusetts punk band who learned a whole lot about writing supercharged stoner-fuzz anthems from Dinosaur Jr. Last year, they released their self-titled debut, and early next year, they’ll follow it up with their sopho... more info

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