Kevin and I were walking back to the hotel in Austin during SXSW 2004 when we passed a guy with long gray hair carrying a guitar that looked familiar. It was late, like 2 a.m. late, and my flight out of Austin was leaving about 5 hours late. Dazed and confused after 4 days of music, beer, BBQ, and very little sleep, I did a double take and said, “Holy shit. That was J Mascis!” Three hours later, in the Austin airport, I passed Mascis once again, this time he was sitting in a chair and was nose down (as in, he was asleep) in a Stephen King book.
Mascis has been excorcising his metal demons as the drummer in the band Witch. Now two CDs deep into their career – the most recent being March ’08’s Paralyzed – Witch is hitting the road for a week or so with Tee Pee Records labelmates Earthless.
Check out the stoner-metal goodness and get Mascis to sign the rare Dinosaur Jr. 7″ you bought off eBay at one of the following shows:
2/20 Toronto, CA The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern
2/21 Montreal, CA Les Saints
2/22 Providence, RI AS220
2/23 Boston, MA TT The Bears
2/24 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
2/25 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg
2/26 Washington, DC DC9
2/27 Asbury Park, NJ Asbury Lanes
2/28 Baltimore, MD Ottobar