Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. are among the most lasting and foundational acts of alternative music. They were largely responsible for returning lead guitar to indie rock and, along with their peers the Pixies, they injected late-'80s college rock with monumental levels of pure guitar noise. As the group's career progressed, they broke into three distinctive chapters: the indie years of the original trio; the '90s spent on major labels where the band was mostly a solo vehicle for J Mascis' songwriting and guitar wizardry; and the surprisingly strong reunion of the original lineup beginning in ...