2012: The New Silver Age

Posted by Lance Davis - September 26, 2012 - Bob Mould, Dinosaur Jr, Merge Records, Mission Of Burma, Off!, Redd Kross, Superchunk

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Welcome to the new and improved Adios Lounge. If you were wondering why I hadn’t updated the site in a few weeks, you now have my official explanation. Well, that and laziness, but mostly this fancypants redesign from Kelley Chambers at Runs With Pixels. I love it and I hope you do, too. It’s funny, […]

Amps Have Been Lowered to Half-Stack for Jim Marshall

Posted by Lance Davis - April 7, 2012 - Dinosaur Jr, J Mascis, Jim Marshall, Marshall Stack

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Jim Marshall, creator of the Marshall stack, died Thursday morning at the age of 88. Of all the men who pioneered rock music between 1964-67, including fellow innovators like Leo Fender and Les Paul, and musicians like Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix, it was Marshall who fathered LOUD.As fundamental as Gibson and Fender guitars were, […]

An Epiphany in One Dark Night

Posted by Lance Davis - February 27, 2010 - Dinosaur Jr, Fastbacks, Muffs, Visqueen

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One of the good things about living in Los Angeles is that occasionally a band like Dinosaur Jr. will play a free show. “Wait, free??? Are you sure it’s not the cover band, Dinosaur Jr. Jr.?” This was my first time seeing the Dinos since June 14, 1991 at the Hollywood Palladium … with Nirvana […]

Ringing the Doorbell in Your Mind

Posted by Lance Davis - August 4, 2009 - D. Boon, Dinosaur Jr, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, J Mascis, Mike Watt, Minutemen, Ray Charles, Richard Manuel

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When in doubt: Minutemen. That’s a personal code and I’m passing it along to you free of charge. Don’t forget it. Etch it in your brain. Not many people got a code to live by anymore. To that end, I’ve found that playing Double Nickels On The Dime at least once a month is […]