Video: Sebadoh – “Stunned”
From Act Surprised, out May 24 on Dangerbird.
Here’s the second single from the new Sebadoh album. The first was a classic Lou slow burner, and this one is a scuzzy Jake jam.
Loewenstein told Fader, “The incessant bombardment of the senses with media and advertising can lead to a kind of self defensive paralysis. I am completely stunned at this point.”
You can feel that.
Video: Sebadoh – “Celebrate the Void”
From Act Surprised, out May 24 on Dangerbird.
Lou Barlow has teamed back up with Jason Loewenstein and recorded a new Sebadoh album with Bob D’Amico on drums.
Barlow says, “The first line of this song: ‘I get the feeling you don’t feel me’ is pretty good. It could be a line in an Ariana Grande song, I like it. I followed it from there through some general complaints about a composite character in my life, someone I could never crack. Sometimes the walls are too high. If you think about it, the resistance was always there, even in the very beginning. What to do? Pick endlessly at the seams? Replay moments in my head looking for a way to explain it all? No, stop, there is no one answer and that’s OK…Celebrate the void.”
Lou recently posted a funny (and kinda bitchy) story on his Instagram about his original Sebadoh partner:
“Eric Gaffney, then a full fledged member of the band (receiving equal 1/3rd of all (inc. merch) proceeds according t band constitutional decree) made his -own- band t-shirt and sold them discreetly at each show, keeping all profits t himself etc. a brazen move that only a genius such as himself could pull off.. of course we knew what was happening and didn’t say much.. shortly afterwards he demanded 1/3rd of all recording advances t record his own material and -not- tour with th band (ala Brian Wilson) that didn’t go down as well.. to his credit we were never quite th same band after he left, we reached some wonderful peaks of chaos and beauty w him behind th drums and on guitar..”
Good times.
Video: Lou Barlow – “Love Intervene”
From the Love Intervene b/w Don’t Like Changes 7-inch, out now on Joyful Noise.
Many, many years ago Johnny Loftus made me a Sebadoh mix because — for whatever reason — I had totally skipped them over at the time. I had always liked Lou Barlow’s songs on the Dinosaur Jr. albums, but I just never followed the thread. Listening to Johnny’s mix I realized what I’d been missing. Lou Barlow is a really good songwriter! And Jason Loewenstein is good too! (Plus he’s a Jason who goes by “Jake” which is exotic and cool.)
Anyway, that’s how I got into Lou Barlow’s stuff. And now he’s a got a new song. And because he’s old school punk rock, he’s releasing it as a seven-inch like a decent human being.
The Pitchfork Music Fest was doused in rain this year. But that didn’t keep GLONO photographer Alan M. Paterson from getting his feet muddy in order to get some good shots.
We’ll feature more coverage of the bands over the next few days, but for now you can feel like you were there by looking at the following photos…
See the photos after the jump…
Sebadoh at the Magic Stick
Detroit, April 21, 2004
As the world dies, the eyes of God grow bigger. Maybe, but Sebadoh just got leaner. Drifting into solo work since 1999’s frustrating The Sebadoh, principal operators Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein were spurred by some benefit one-offs to break out the old stuff and embark on a “Turboacoustic” tour of America. This isn’t Kiss’s umpteenth farewell, or that Hell Freezes Over bullshit (remember “Get Over It”? Ye gads!); no, Turboacoustic was Just Jason, Lou, and a chintzy silver boom box drummer, the kind you find at a second hand store. The motivation? Maybe the neocons aren’t the only group gettin’ sentimental over 1991.
