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Lou Barlow was the bass player for
alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr in the late
1980s. While both Barlow and leader J Mascis
wrote songs, Mascis' material dominated the
group's output because Barlow was intimidated
by the guitarist's songwriting efforts.[1]
Barlow spent progressively more time
recording his own songs at home. Barlow and
Gaffney released the Weed Forestin' cassette
in 1987 on Homestead Records under the name
Sebadoh, which was a nonsense word Barlow
often muttered in his recordings.[2]. Both
Barlow and Gaffney contributed songs to
1988's The Freed Man cassette. Homestead
Records head Gerard Cosloy heard the cassette
release of The Freed Man and released it as a
full-length album on Homestead in 1989. Soon
after the cassette's release Barlow was
kicked out of Dinosaur Jr. Over time
Sebadoh's releases became a way for Barlow to
address the issues of control that manifested
as the tension in and his ejection from
Dinosaur Jr; Barlow said "I got a lot of
hatred out just by writing those songs."[3]
Jason Loewenstein joined in summer 1989, the
first release that he played on being the
"Gimme Indie Rock" single in 1991. Only ten
'band' shows were performed throughout
Western Mass, Boston, and New York over the
period 1989-1990 before third album, the
appropriately-named Sebadoh III was released.
After touring with fIREHOSE in 1991, they
signed to Sub Pop (Domino in the UK and City
Slang in Germany) in 1992, and released the
two EPs Rocking the Forest and Sebadoh vs.
Helmet released just two months apart. These
EPs had their track listings truncated and
shuffled around and made into the American
full-length release Smash Your Head on the
Punk Rock. Their fourth full length album
Bubble and Scrape was recorded Summer/Fall
1992 and released in April 1993, which sold
10,000 in its first week of release -
confirming that the band were now established
indie rock favourites.
Concert at Webster Hall in New York City,
2007
Concert at Webster Hall in New York City,
2007
Sebadoh III (1991), helped draw further
attention to Sebadoh as proponents of the
lo-fi movement. Following 1993's Bubble and
Scrape, however, Gaffney left the band. His
replacement, Bob Fay, appeared on the band's
most acclaimed and consistent effort, 1994's
Bakesale, which saw the emergence of the
songwriting talents of multi-instrumentalist
Jason Loewenstein, and the follow-up Harmacy
in 1996. Fay was fired before the sessions
for The Sebadoh (1999) and replaced by Russ
Pollard, a friend of Loewenstein's from
Louisville. Following the tour to promote
this album, the band went on hiatus, with
Barlow concentrating on his other project,
the Folk Implosion, and Loewenstein working
on material for his debut solo album At Sixes
and Sevens, released in 2002. The two
reunited to play concerts in late 2003 and
the spring of 2004.
In March of 2007, the "Sebadoh Classic"
lineup of Barlow, Gaffney and Loewenstein
went on tour together for the first time in
14 years. This tour continues into 2008, and
in May will featuree a live performance of
1993's Bubble and Scrape in its entirety as
part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated
Don't Look Back series at London's Koko
venue.
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| Sub Pop Records - Freewave |
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Sub Pop recently came up with a brand new
format that will hopefully sweep the nation's
music stores into a frenzy, this phenomenon
is called the freewave. With appearances by
The Shins, Kinski, Mudhoney, and many of the
employees of Sub Pop Records who helped to
invent the freewave, this video should help
you learn a little bit more about what
exactly the free wave is
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