Coming To Your Local Bandstand: Dinosaur Jr.

We saw Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis outside the club he was playing with his new (not nu, umlaut over the "u") metal act Witch Friday night talking on a cell phone of all things. There's really nothing as un-slack looking as a musician sitting outside a club on a cellie, and the sight caught us off guard. Remember all those articles in the early '90s dubbing Mascis the pontiff of the slack generation? Anyway, more recently we read somewhere (we think it was an interview of Lou Barlow) that Mascis' relatively active last year or so is due to his taking on new, more hands-on management. We don't care what's behind it, we're just glad to have seen the original lineup of Dinosaur rock the Middle East in December. Life affirming, it was. Anyway, Dinosaur has a few weeks' worth of dates slated before heading over to host a segment of the All Tomorrow's Parties thang in the U.K. in May. We've got the U.S. dates listed below in a handy chronological format. Do yourself a favor and show up for one of these.

03/29 -- Dallas, TX -- Gypsy Tea Room
03/30 -- Austin, TX -- Stubb's
03/31 -- Houston, TX -- Warehouse Live
04/01 -- New Orleans, LA -- House Of Blues
04/02 -- Tallahassee, FL -- The Moon
04/03 -- Jacksonville, FL -- Freebird Cafe
04/04 -- Myrtle Beach, NC -- House Of Blues
04/05 -- Washington, DC -- 9:30 Club
04/06 -- Carrboro, NC -- Cat's Cradle
04/07 -- Asheville, NC -- Orange Peel
04/08 -- Atlanta, GA -- Variety Playhouse
04/09 -- Nashville, TN -- City Hall
04/10 -- Memphis, TN -- Young Ave Deli
04/11 -- Indianapolis, IN -- The Vogue
04/12 -- Columbia, MO -- Blue Note
04/13 -- Lawrence, KS -- Liberty Hall
04/14 -- Boulder, CO -- Fox Theatre
04/15 -- Boulder, CO -- Fox Theatre
04/16 -- Salt Lake City, UT -- The Depot
04/18 -- Eugene, OR -- WOW Hall
04/19 -- San Francisco, CA -- Great American Music Hall
04/20 -- Los Angeles, CA -- The Troubador
04/21 -- Los Angeles, CA -- The Troubador