Lou Barlow News

Prolific singer/songwriter/musician Lou Barlow seems to be bringing things together of late, rather than fragmenting further into additional side projects.

"I'd be happy if 'relaxed, weird and inscrutable' was on my tombstone," says indie rocker Lou Barlow.

TRURO artist Daryl Waller, aka Swifty, has designed the sleeve for the new album by Lou Barlow, best known for his work in such glorious American bands as Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh and Folk Implosion.

The signs on the doors of the Pageant box office and entrances said it all: "Earplugs are available for purchase at the bar and soda areas." The occasion? Dinosaur Jr.

Lou Barlow was having his way - no ifs, ands or buts. "I was just absolutely inflexible about it," Barlow said of assigning himself as opening act for Dinosaur Jr.'s fall tour.

Lou Barlow's inability to get a song in edgewise for J. Mascis Band, a.k.a. Dinosaur Jr., led to both his ouster and some fantastic sides for his burgeoning Sebadoh project.

JOE PERNICE reads from It Feels Good So When I Stop at Word on the Street, EYE WEEKLY Music Stage, Queen's Park.

No doubt, apologies are a large part of the Lou Barlow canon: Apologizing, wanting someone to apologize, etc.

No doubt, apologies are a large part of the Lou Barlow canon: Apologizing, wanting someone to apologize, etc.

Twice a week, Jessica Suarez 's Progress Report updates you on what your favorite bands have been doing.

Indie rock icon Lou Barlow has just announced the release of his new album, Goodnight Unknown , which is due in October on North Carolina-based Merge.

Taking some time out from the resurgent Dinosaur Jr., Lou Barlow's releasing his first solo album since 2005's Emoh this fall.

When Lou Barlow released his first "proper" solo album, Emoh , in 2005, he told me it was a "completion of a journey." Barlow had made piles of ostensibly-solo albums as Sentridoh and Sebadoh in the early-'90s, and issued the ultra-scarce live set Lou Barlow Plays Waterfront in '95, but, years removed from those hyper-prolific days, he stood behind ...

Lou Barlow apparently hasn't been kept busy enough with the Dinosaur Jr. reunion and all those Sebadoh reissues hitting stores lately.