Dinosaur Jr.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Psycho Killer – Talking Heads

2. Scotty Pippin – Booty Feet

3. Now It’s On – Grandaddy

4. Desiree – Smokey Brights

5. You’re Not – Wet Wings

6. Mornings – Lowly

7. Crank – Palm

8. Be OK – Deep Throat Choir

9. Love Is – Dude York

10. Dundee Man – Spiral Stairs

11. Illegal and Free – Milk Music

12. Springtime – Rumskip

13. The Helicopter Spies – Swell Maps

14. No Light – Meat Wave

15. All For Everything – The Luyas

16. Folios – The New Year

17. Lose – Dinosaur Jr.

18. There Are No Words – The Sadies

19. Fast Canoe – Polvo

20. D – Codeine

J Mascis’ bulldog stars in the Dinosaur Jr.’s new video for “Tiny”

Dinosaur Jr. are getting ready to release a new album called Give Me A Glimpse Of What Yer Not on August 5th through Jagjaguwar. The band previewed the album by premiering “Tiny” on Later… with Jools Holland last month. Now, the band have shared the single’s music video.

Directed by filmmaker Laurie Collyer, it stars J Mascis and Beefy, his bulldog. After he performed at a local roller derby with the rest of Dinosaur Jr., the frontman and his dog skateboarded around town.

Check out the clip and the Collyer’s statement on the video and how she came to know Dinosaur Jr. below:

“Having come of age in the so-called grunge era I was always about not selling out, not buying in, staying true to my identity and living low. Being a freak in a freakscene was where I found home. This meant listening to the music of the moment at maximum volume – Dinosaur Jr. being in heavy rotation on the turntables of me and my people.

“I got to know J Mascis in 2012 when we hired him to compose the score for my film, Sunlight Jr., a love story set among the ruins of the American dream starring Matt Dillon and Naomi Watts. J is nothing short of a creative genius. In the years since our work on this film, I got to know J as a friend. And what I learned is that, aside from music, J Mascis has other passions. Bulldogs and skateboarding among them. When a friend of mine told me there was such a thing as skateboarding bulldogs, I took it from there and came up with the idea for Tiny.

“J’s dog, sleeping outside his rehearsal room dreams up the perfect day with J. He wants to skate without falling down or crashing. He wants to skate with J. He waits patiently outside the roller derby for J to finish his gig. The rest is history. Enjoy Tiny!”

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Blue Moon – Beck

2. Plastic Soldiers – Portugal. The Man

3. Superstar – Sonic Youth

4. When You Sleep – My Bloody Valentine

5. She’s Lost Control – Joy Division

6. Walk On the Wild Side – Lou Reed

7. Rock & Roll – The Velvet Underground

8. September Gurls – Big Star

9. Sparky’s Dream – Teenage Fanclub

10. Sometimes Always – The Jesus and Mary Chain

11. Uncertain Smile – The The

12. Radio, Radio – Elvis Costello and the Attractions

13. Boredom – Buzzcocks

14. Into Your Arms – The Lemonheads

15. Out There – Dinosaur Jr.

16. Lips Like a Sugar – Echo and the Bunnymen

17. I Need Some Sleep – Eels

18. Splitter – Calexico

19. 100 Other Lovers – Devotchka

20. Holland, 1945 – Neutral Milk Hotel

Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist