perform a short set, including “Kracked” and “Sludgefeast” live on KEXP at Home via YouTube:ĭinosaur Jr. Perhaps its most iconic song is “Little Fury Things,” which, as they did in Tuesday evening’s encore, the band still includes in almost every set they play the set also included “Kracked” and “Sludgefeast,” which sounds exactly like its title. The trio released their first album, Dinosaur, in 1985, but it was 1987’s You’re Living All Over Me, that really made their mark on the music world. The band is often cited as a precursor to the grunge bands that broke through in the early 90s, and they toured with Nirvana. They are often credited with returning lead guitar to a place of prominence in indie rock, and J Mascis has been listed in Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest guitarists. J Mascis (guitar), Lou Barlow (bass), and Murph (drums) - formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1983. Ryley’s songs tend to run on the long side, so he played just a handful of tunes in his set, which ran a bit more than 30 minutes, and focused on his latest album, this year’s Course in Fable.ĭinsoaur Jr. On Tuesday evening, he appeared as part of a quartet that also included guitarist Bill MacKay. While you might not hear a lot of superficial similarities between Walker’s music and Dinosaur Jr.’s, Ryley said that their music “means the world to me.” A native of Rockford, Illinois, Walker emerged from the Chicago experimental and improvisation scene with an eclectic sound that had roots in English fingerstyle folk, world music, and even the jams of the Dave Matthews Band, whose songs Ryley devoted an album to. On Tuesday evening, they lived up to that reputation when they appeared at a sold-out 9:30 Club, with Chicago guitarist Ryley Walker opening. has established a reputation as one of the best, most innovative alternative rock bands - and one of the loudest.
0 kommentar(er)
