Stereogum — Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis casually announced his new album Tied To A Star on Late Night With Seth Meyers a few months back and shared the spry “Every Morning.” The world-weariness of his latest song “Wide Awake” has more in common with t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Kevin Drew w/ BSS at Williamsburg Waterfront in 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew released his new solo album, Darlings, earlier this year, and has already come to the US to open Feist's solo tour and... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Witch at Santos in 2012 (more by Sarah Coulter) Witch -- the stoner rock band that features Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis on drums, his Sweet Apple bandmate Dave Sweetapple on bass, King Tuff main man Kyle Thomas on vocals/guitar, and... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — (photo via @bonbonoiseau) Tickets for the BrooklynVegan Northside showcase featuring Operators, Little Big League and Motion Studies at Baby's All Right are on sale now. Tickets for the Black Prarie show at Rockwood Music Hall are on sale now. Ticket... more info

NME — The Dinosaur Jr man will release his second solo LP this August more info

Stereogum — J Mascis’ band Sweet Apple bring together a lot of alt-rock vets on their new album The Golden Age Of Glitter, as evidenced on the previously released “Wish You Could Stay (A Little Longer),” which featured Mark Lanegan. In the video for “Let... more info

Stereogum — More than three years ago, Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis released the casually great mostly-acoustic solo album Several Shades Of Why, an album you should absolutely check out if it flew under your radar. Last month, while he was sitting in with Fre... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Yesterday (6/9) we mentioned that Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis would be revealing a song and more details from his upcoming solo LP, Tied to a Star, today and here they are. The album will be out August 26... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher J Mascis w/ Dino Jr at MHOW last month (more by Caroline Harrison) Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis will be releasing a new solo album, Tied to a Star, at some point this year which follows 2011's... more info

Stereogum — J Mascis is sitting in with the 8G Band on Late Night With Seth Meyers all this week, and it turns out that arrangement is at least in part a way to alert the public to the imminent release of a new Mascis solo album. Last night, almost in passing, M... more info