Billed only as Special Guests from I’mlikeso, HI (get it?), J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph showed up to headline the Secretly Canadian/JagJaguwar/Dead Oceans & Youtube showcase. Most people seemed to know that Dinosaur Jr. would be showing up---even the drunken fan who had spent the last songs of the previous set accosting the members of Akron/Family---so I almost felt woefully uninformed. But being surprised by a band who has been rocking out before since before I was in elementary school is one of the distinct pleasures of SXSW, and there was another surprise in store that even the drunken heckler didn’t know about.
Dinosaur Jr.’s set up took longer than the entire previous set, and the Marshall stacks kept on coming out until they walled in the entire Mohawk Patio stage. People crushed in to the stage and on balconies on three sides. When the set list was posted up on the stage, a wave of excitement went through a very broad range of superfans, with looks ranging from holdover 90s grunge, the excessively tattooed, former and current skaters, all the way to clean cut indie afficianados.
As soon as J, Lou, and Murph came on the stage, there were some interesting exchanges with fans expressing their adulation: “We love you J,” “Muuuuurph!,” and “you’re okay too Lou.” Lou, sardonically and behind a huge mop of hair: “Fuck you.” A man in the crowd: “I’ll fuck you Lou!”
With “Been There All the Time” and “Back to Heart,” the set covered songs from the “comeback” album “Beyond,” but it was clear from the fan response that interest in Dinosaur Jr.’s music never really went anywhere in the long hiatus. Still, the biggest response was for the old favorites, with “Feel the Pain” provoking an already rowdy and generally intoxicated crowd into a frenzy.
Nostalgic for the glory days of the Alternative scene, fans moshed and crowd surfed, which seemed shockingly aphoristic to fans who might have come to the band much later. Most of the press photographers circled their wagons in the front center---shielding each other from the drunken masses being flung into them and spilling tallboys of Lonestar in every direction. And then, if all that weren’t enough, Kevin Drew came out to sing on “The Wagon,” showing that even though Dinosaur Jr. has been around for while, they are still on top of the scene, whatever we might call it these days.
Set List:
Tarpit
Been There All the Time
No Bones
Back to Heart
Little Fury Things
Out There
Feel the Pain
The Wagon
Kracked
Sludge
Freak Scene
Gargoyle
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This comment stream is so meta. Great review Kelly.
by chris on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 07.50 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
no prob. The whole album is excellent, combining some of the harder sonics of Los Angeles with the meat of his debut and obviously difficult to summarize in only 50 words… 
I’d say it’s on par with the debut, but better than Los Angeles.
by kelly on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.23 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
By the way, I really liked the mp3 posted. Thanks.
by Joshua H on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.17 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
WHO WROTE THIS...PUKE ! “WHO WROTE THIS...PUKE ! “Picture yourself coasting your bike past space funk palm trees, homeless harpists, vintage video arcades, electronic drum circles, and 60s psychedelic singers who’re waiting for the bus. Cosmogramma is kinda like that if someone suddenly tripped you just as you’re starting to enjoy the ride. But in a good way.””
by Joshua H on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.17 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
you’ll notice the author’s name under title.
by kelly on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.11 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
WHO WROTE THIS...PUKE ! “Picture yourself coasting your bike past space funk palm trees, homeless harpists, vintage video arcades, electronic drum circles, and 60s psychedelic singers who’re waiting for the bus. Cosmogramma is kinda like that if someone suddenly tripped you just as you’re starting to enjoy the ride. But in a good way.”
by HKD on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 06.10 pm from the entry: Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - Buy It
i saw them open for the Cave Singers, not very original, the crowd was not into it either, frankly i think they suck
by rigamarole on Tue Mar 16, 2010 at 11.30 am from the entry: The Dutchess & The Duke Tour Dates, Y'all
