Described by the band as “an almost live representation of the Lou Barlow + the missingmen live show,” the band’s new digital EP = Sentridoh III (Merge Records) is another step forward for Lou Barlow, and his first release with new backing band the missingmen (guitarist Tom Watson and drummer Raul Morales). With new cuts, rocking [...]

As Doug Martsch and the rest of Built to Spill walked to the front of the stage at the beginning of their show at First Avenue in Minneapolis, they projected a sense of calm, casually slinging their guitars over their shoulders and addressing the crowd. They’d been here many times before, and they’d surely played [...]

You love music, that’s just a fact. But let’s not pretend that music doesn’t come with a host of problems. For starters, there’s just too much of it. I mean, there are only 24 hours in a day and it seems like there’s a great new band popping up every second. That’s 86,400 new bands [...]

Lou Reed once asked, “What becomes a legend most?” No doubt the unfailingly modest Lou Barlow would blanch at being called a “legend.” And yet when you take the long-view, few artists have been as prolific, productive, and influential over the last 20 years. Barlow burst onto the scene as the bass-player in the seminal [...]

Former Dinosaur Jr. member Lou Barlow began the recording process of his new solo album Goodnight Unknown with the goal of making this album more aggressive and denser in the style of his earlier Sebadoh recordings. Barlow turned to Dale Crover of The Melvins to play the drums on six songs, and producer Andrew “Mudrock” [...]