My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of ...

How can you reunite when you’ve never broken up? Lou Barlow doesn’t understand why reunions are treated like such a big deal. “Some people are like, ‘gosh, you’re so old and you’re still playing music ...

In 1984, Lou Barlow started an indie rock crew called Dinosaur Jr. with J. Mascis and a drummer nicknamed Murph. Four years later, after endless tension, a trio of amazing albums, and a ton of alt-guy ...

Barlow released a slew of solo records, reactivated his other '90s project the Folk Implosion and toured and recorded with the reunited Dinosaur Jr. Loewenstein, meanwhile, also joined whimsical indie ...

Everything went pretty well in Lou Barlow’s childhood until he turned 12. That was when the auto industry collapsed and brake-maker Bendix transferred his father from Jackson, Mich., to Westfield, ...

The staggering gamut of cred Lou Barlow boasts in the hardcore, post-punk, lo-fi and indie rock realms toes past the line of the ridiculous and the legendary. In the early ’80s, Barlow obliterated his ...

A prolific songwriter, Barlow and his bandmates wrote some of the most emotionally poignant rock music of the ’90s, and the sonic quality of his recordings influenced a new generation of musicians ...

Among other things, rock 'n' roll is a form of cultural baggage that depends upon something other than music for its impact. But the career of Lou Barlow is an example of how the weight of that ...

Before forming Versus, Richard and Ed Baluyut played in NYC indie rock band Flower, who traveled in similar noisy circles to Sonic Youth and Swans and released two albums and an EP before calling it ...

Sebadoh, one of independent rock’s forefathers, will swing through their hometown of Northampton, Mass. during their first tour accompanied by their original lineup in fourteen years. Founding members ...

Sebadoh singer/guitarist Lou Barlow has a big few months ahead of him: Wednesday night the band kicked off an East Coast tour in New Haven, Sub Pop is releasing a double disc expanded version of the ...