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Dinosaur Jr Frontman J Mascis Releases “J + Friends Sing + Chant for Amma”

at All Major Digital Retailers Via Baked Goods Records December 2

On December 2, 2008, “J + Friends Sing + Chant for Amma” will be released digitally for the first time at all major digital retailers on J Mascis’ own label, Baked Goods. The album is a collection of devotional songs dedicated to the living Indian Saint, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma).

Amma is a humanitarian and spiritual leader who has dedicated her life to uplifting suffering humanity through her embrace, which she offers to all regardless of caste, creed or religion. In the past 30 years she has hugged more than 24 million people throughout the world.

Amma has also started a vast range of humanitarian projects, including orphanages, charitable hospitals and free homes for the homeless. All the proceeds of Mascis’ CD go towards this cause. For information about Amma visit www.amma.org.

The CD finds Mascis both on electric and acoustic guitar, playing original devotional songs, including “Help Me, Amma,” “Amma What Now?,” “Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu,” “Please Remember That I’m Here” and “Take Me Home.”

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu” is a Sanskrit mantra meaning “May All the Beings in all the Worlds Be Happy.” The final song, “Ayi Giri Nandini,” is a metalized version of a Sanskrit hymn by Adi Shankaracharya. Written around 1300 years ago, the hymn sings the glories of the Divine Mother as she slaughters the demonic forces of Mahisha Asura, the Buffalo Demon. Mahisha Asura symbolizes the dark negativities of humanity: greed, anger, laziness, pride, etc.

“This self-released disc represents the most beautiful and nakedly emotional music J Mascis has ever created… it’s as powerful as anything ever wrought by Dinosaur Jr, with the crucial difference that it soothes the soul instead of warping the brain.” – Jason Ankeny, allmusic.com:

TRACK LISTING:

1. Please Remember That I’m Here
2. Help Me Amma
3. Lokah
4. Take Me Home
5. Amma What Now?
6. Heavy Metal Ai Giri Nandini

www.amma.org / www.myspace.com/jmascis / www.myspace.com/bakedgoodrecords

J Mascis & Friends Sing and Chant for Amma Concert on December 13th. Check the Tourdates page for more info.

Related show

• Artist: J Mascis
• Tour: Solo
• Date: 12/13/08
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: J Mascis in Brooklyn, NY
• Venue: Go Yoga
• Address: 112 North 6th Street
• Country: US
• Admission: $20 Advance / $25 at the door.
• Notes: J Mascis and Friends Sing and Chant for Amma Very special Charity Concert
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On Friday, November 14th, at 7:30PM, local Pioneer Valley musicians will be hosting An Evening of Music in Memory of Melissa Rich Mulcahy, who died unexpectedly on September 13th. She was a dear friend to many musicians in the community and an avid supporter of their endeavors. The concert, to be held at the Northampton Center for the Arts in downtown Northampton, is an opportunity to celebrate her tremendous spirit and her love of music. All proceeds from the event will go directly to her family.

The concert will start off with special performances by such local favorites as: Winterpills, Lo Fine, The Fawns, Spouse, National Carpet, School for the Dead, Aloha Steamtrain, Spanish for Hitchhiking, Haunt, The Claudia Malibu, Sitting Next to Brian, Jason Bourgeois, Trallfazz, The Caroline Know, The Humming Field, Zeke Fiddler, Steve Westfield, The Drunk Stuntmen, and others. New Haven-based musicians, Mr. Ray, The Mountain Movers, and Jeff Greene (Butterflies of Love) will feature in the latter portion of the event, along with a special performance by renowned Dinosaur Jr. front-man, J Mascis.

There will be a number of items raffled off throughout the evening, including an electric guitar autographed by participating musicians, handmade crafts, gift certificates, and CDs. Additionally, the merchandise area will feature arts/craft items produced by friends of Melissa Rich Mulcahy, in addition to albums and t-shirts donated by the bands.

Advance tickets are available at Pleasant Street Video in Northampton, and the Apollo Grill in Easthampton (Eastworks Bldg.), as well as online at rubwrongways.com. Ticket price is a suggested donation of $20.

For more information about this event please contact:

To make a donation visit: http://www.rubwrongways.blogspot.com/

J. Johnson
jj@designfarm.net
413.977.6581

Related show

• Artist: J Mascis
• Tour: Dinosaur Jr
• Date: 11/14/08
• Time: 7:30pm
• City: J Mascis in Northampton, MA
• Venue: Northampton Center for the Arts
• Address: 17 New South Street
• Country: US
• Admission: $20 Donation
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“For a misfit guitar, the Fender Jazzmaster has managed to hold its own through a half-century. On Friday night at the Knitting Factory, this guitar mustered the college-radio guitar heroes Tom Verlaine (of Television), J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.), Nels Cline (of Wilco) and Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth) for a concert to celebrate its 50th anniversary. In their hands it was a guitar suited both to fine detail and blistering noise.”
Read the rest of the review @ the New York Times
* Richard Termine for The New York Times

There are lots more pictures up at Brooklynvegan

WFMU is pleased to announce that the station will be broadcasting and streaming live from the huge All Tomorrow’s Parties festival (curated by My Bloody Valentine) next weekend up at Kutsher’s Resort near Monticello, New York. As of now, WFMU will be live Saturday and Sunday (September 20/21) at the site, but our ability to be there Friday may change as well, stay tuned. On board: Yo La Tengo, Polvo, Dinosaur Jr, Growing, Harmonia, Om, Mercury Rev, Lightning Bolt, Bob Mould, Low, Wooden Shjips, Silver Mt. Zion, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spectrum, and more! Before MBV fans get too worked up, we should mention that our broadcast permissions have all been given subject to the bands’ approvals and some are still pending/in channels of communication. But as you can see above, we’ve worked out things with a mighty healthy chunk of the weekend’s unbelievable roster. We’re still hammering away on this and making preparations for a dual-stage broadcast; news may change day to day, so please stay tuned to our site and airwaves for listings of exact set times we’ll be able to carry. The festival, by the way, was rumored to be sold out, but as of today is not, so please check in with ATP for more info. If any WFMU listeners have tickets and would like to help out the station in some capacity during the weekend we’d love to hear from you.

Show Schedule/Times

FRIDAY 19TH SEPT – DON’T LOOK BACK

STAGE 1 BUILT TO SPILL – 11.20PM – 12.50AM
THURSTON MOORE – 9.15PM – 10.30PM
TORTOISE – 7.45PM – 8.45PM
MEAT PUPPETS – 6.00PM – 7.00PM
BARDO POND – 4.30PM – 5.30PM

STAGE 2

PATTON OSWALT – 10.30pm – 11.15pm
EUGENE MIRMAN – 10pm 10.25pm
MARIA BAMFORD – 9.30pm -9.55pm
JOE DeROSA – 9.00pm – 9.25pm

SATURDAY 20TH SEPT – CURATED BY ATP

STAGE 1LIGHTING BOLT – 12.45am – 1.30am
SHELLAC 11.30PM – 12.30AM
LES SAVY FAV 10PM – 11PM
POLVO 8.45PM – 9.30PM
AUTOLUX 7.30PM – 8.15PM
EDAN with Guest Dagha 6.05PM – 7PM
FUCK BUTTONS 4.45PM – 5.35PM
THE DRONES 3.30PM – 4.15PM
APSE 2.15PM – 3PM

STAGE 2

THEE SILVER MOUNT ZION 9.45PM – 11.15PM
LOW 8.15PM – 9.00PM
OM 6.45PM – 7.45PM
HARMONIA 5.30PM – 6.15PM
WOODEN SHJIPS 4.15PM – 5.00PM
GROWING 3.00PM – 3.45PM
ALEXANDER TUCKER 1.30PM – 2.15PM

SUNDAY 21ST SEPT – CURATED BY MY BLOODY VALENTINE

STAGE 1MY BLOODY VALENTINE – 12am – 1.30am
DINOSAUR JR. – 10.00pm – 11.00pm
MOGWAI – 8.15pm – 9.15pm
YO LA TENGO – 6.45pm – 7.30pm
MERCURY REV – 5.30pm – 6.15pm
EPMD – 4.15pm – 5.00pm
ROBIN GUTHRIE – 3.00pm – 3.45pm

STAGE 2

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – 10.45pm – 11.45pm
BOB MOULD – 9.15pm – 10.00pm
TRAIL OF DEAD – 8.00pm – 8.45pm
SPECTRUM – 6.45pm – 7.30pm
LILYS – 5.15pm – 6.00pm
GEMMA HAYES – 4.00pm – 4.45pm
WOUNDED KNEES – 2.45pm – 3.30pm
LE VOLUME COURBE – 1.30pm – 2.15pm

The band has added a few new dates to the tour.

• Sept 19 – Toad’s Place – New Haven, CT
• Sept 20 – Revolution Hall – Troy, NY
• Sept 21 – ATP Festival – Catskills, NY
• Sept 24 – The Stone Pony – Asbury Park, NJ
• Sept 25 & 26 – Terminal 5 – New York, NY *with Built to Spill & The Meat Puppets
• Sept 27 – Orpheum Theatre – Boston, MA *with Built to Spill & The Meat Puppets

See the Tour Dates Page for more info.

As you may (or maybe did not) notice, we are updating the site and will be doing a live redesign during the process so you may find that some areas are not working but may be working upon return as well as changes to the design.  We still have to clean up a lot of the old content as well.  The background image on the site was taken by the talented Andrew Workman.

Thank you and we hope to see you at the shows! Jeremiah

Pitchfork brought the noise to Chicago’s Union Park for its fourth annual music festival last weekend, and as promised, PFTV’s got the footage to prove it. Straight off the Jumbotron, here come the highlihts. Check back all this week (and next!) for more.
Go to Pitchfork Live to check out the rest
* 1: Animal Collective: Fireworks/Essplode
* 2: Vampire Weekend: A-Punk
* 3: Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
* 4: Hold Steady: Stay Positve
* 5: Dinosaur Jr.: Freak Scene
* 6: !!!: Must Be The Moon
* 7: Times New Viking: Teen Drama
* 8: Apples In Stereo: Energy
* 9: Les Savy Fav: We’ll Make A Lover Of You
* 10: Fleet Foxes: English House
* 11: Dizzee Rascal: Sirens
* 12: Dodos: Fools
* 13: Caribou: Melody Day
* 14: Public Enemy: Rebel Without A Pause
* 15: Sebadoh: Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)
* 16: Mission Of Burma: Trem Two

September concert in New York and new Fender web page celebrate one of the coolest guitars ever …

To celebrate the rich five-decade legacy of the ultra-cool Jazzmaster guitar, Fender is throwing an ultra-cool 50th Anniversary Jazzmaster Concert on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, at New York’s famous Knitting Factory nightclub. The artist lineup that evening is as cool as the guitar itself, with performances from acclaimed Jazzmaster masters Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Nels Cline (Wilco) and Tom Verlaine (Television), with special guests Norton Wisdom and Edison Glass. Additional special guests are always an exciting possibility, too.

The event will also feature Fender guitar displays and graphics, videos and a Jazzmaster guitar giveaway. And rather than being an invitation-only event, Fender’s 50th Anniversary Jazzmaster Concert is open to the public on a club-capacity basis.

New York’s Knitting Factory, located at 74 Leonard St., is the perfect venue for this auspicious musical occasion. The famous nightclub is a downtown music destination that gives just the right nod to the Jazzmaster guitar’s initial late-’50s jazz intentions; it also provided a welcoming home to the experimental scene of the ’70 and ’80s that spawned great Jazzmaster-wielding groups such as television and Sonic Youth.

Fender introduced the Jazzmaster in 1958 as a high-end alternative to its omnipresent 1950s elder siblings, the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars. Curvaceously sleek and boasting an abundance of controls and chrome, the Jazzmaster became an unexpected hit with youthful players who were blazing new trails in surf and garage pop music. Well more than a decade later, the Jazzmaster was rediscovered be new generations of edgy new guitarists who loved its great looks, versatile sound, affordable price and subversive cool. The guitar continued to attract those who dared to be different; the boundary pushers and the up-and-coming fringe talent.

Even a brief look at the instrument’s 50 years shows that whenever rock music experienced major stylistic shifts, the underdog Jazzmaster was always right there—be it surf, punk, new wave, goth, shoe-gaze, grunge, indie or any other subgenre in which the guitar was prized. The guitar remains a star instrument in the Fender galaxy, with three new models—the J Mascis Jazzmaster, the Elvis Costello Jazzmaster and the Classic Player Jazzmaster Special—introduced in 2007-2008.

A detailed history of the Jazzmaster and more information on the September 2008 50th Anniversary Jazzmaster Concert can be found online at our Jazzmaster anniversary page.

via: Fender.com

Related show

• Artist: J Mascis
• Tour: Dinosaur Jr
• Date: 09/12/08
• City: J Mascis in New York
• Venue: Knitting Factory – New York
• Address: 74 Leonard Street
• Country: US
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This Is All I Came To Do

Almost Ready

The talent lineup for I’m Not There:

In Concert, a live celebration of Haynes’ Bob Dylan film, consists of:
Calexico
Swell Season: Glenn Hansard & Marketa Irglova
The Roots
My Morning Jacket
J Mascis
Yo La Tengo with Buckwheat Zydeco
Mason Jennings
Joe Henry
John Doe
Michelle Shocked & Jimmy LaFave
Mark Lanegan
Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Al Kooper & Funky Faculty
Ian Ball & Olly Peacock (Of Gomez)
Lee Ranaldo & the Million Dollar Bashers

Buy the soundtrack @ Amazon