J Solo dates Announced – Australia, US, Canada

Posted on October 6, 2011

J will tour Australia in December and January, with shows in New York, Boston and Toronto in November. Check out the Tour Dates page for details.

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Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster

Posted on September 7, 2011

Squier honors alt-rock godfather and Dinosaur Jr. leader J Mascis with a striking new Jazzmaster guitar model that delivers as much massive sound and performance as its namesake. The pickups, hardware and finish are all specified by Mascis himself for tremendous tone and value.

The J Mascis Jazzmaster features a basswood body, C-shaped maple neck, rosewood fingerboard with 9.5” radius and 21 jumbo frets, two single-coil Jazzmaster pickups with three-position switching and dual tone circuits, gold anodized aluminum pickguard, aged white plastic parts (knobs, switch tip, pickup covers), Adjusto-Matic™ bridge with vintage-style floating tremolo tailpiece, vintage-style tuners, chrome hardware, Vintage White finish and J Mascis signature on the back of the large ’60s-style headstock.

CLICK HERE for more information on the guitar and where to purchase it.

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1991: The Year Punk Broke DVD

Posted on August 31, 2011

Dave Markey‘s documentary ‘1991: The Year Punk Broke‘ will be available on DVD for the first time on September 13, 2011. The film is a documentary following Sonic Youth on tour in the UK along with Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, Gumball and The Ramones.

New DVD Trailer

The DVD includes
• Over 60 minutes of additional material, a total of 160 minutes!
• 40 minute sister Bonus Movie entitled “(This Is Known As) The Blues Scale” with previously unseen mind-blowing Sonic Youth & Nirvana performances (including “Inhuman”, “White Kross”, “Orange Rolls, Angel’s Spit”, “Eric’s Trip”, “Chapel Hill”, and “In Bloom”) and plenty of revelatory and rockin’ (and hilarious) never before seen off-stage and on-stage material
• 2003 Panel Discussion (on the film) at the Arclight in Hollywood, with Thurston Moore, Dave Markey, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, and J. Mascis
• Complete audio remaster directly from the original source tapes / Uncompressed PCM stereo
• Complete picture remaster
• Rough Edits “Mote”, the never before seen “Flower” & an alternate version of “Teenage Riot”
• Theatrical trailer
• Subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, & Brazilian Portuguese

You can pre-order it here.

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Fuzz Munchkin

Posted on August 19, 2011

The Fuzz Munchkin is a limited edition clone of J Mascis’ fuzz pedal. Reverse engineered from J’s original pedal and built at Tym guitars, these are exact clones using the exact component values and transistors as is in J’s original. Sounding somewhere between a Ramhead and a version 3 with more “clarity” this will get you closer than any other pedal on the market to the live Dinosaur Jr. sound.

The Tym Fuzz Munchkin also has the added advantage of a “bypass” switch which will give you J’s rhythm and lead sound in one pedal. It comes in a new Tym stainless steel enclosure with custom artwork designed by J Mascis and Tym guitars. Limited to 300 units worldwide and available ONLY through Tym guitars.

For more about the pedal and to read the three-part story of how it came about, CLICK HERE.

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Limited Several Shades of Why Prints Available

Posted on July 25, 2011

Marq Spusta, the artist behind the Several Shades of Why album art and Dinosaur Jr.’s Farm album art, has posted a limited number of prints of the Several Shades of Why album cover art, signed by both the artist and J Mascis HERE.

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