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• • • • Website Members Past members Bob Fay Sebadoh ( ) is an American band, currently signed with. Sebadoh were formed in 1988 in,, by and bass player. Along with such bands as and, Sebadoh helped pioneer, a style of characterized by low-fidelity recording techniques, often on four-track machines. The band's early output, such as and (both released 1990), as well as (1991), was typical of this style. Following the release of in 1993, Gaffney left the band. His replacement, Bob Fay, appeared on (1994), but was fired before the sessions for the band's major label release (1999).

The band then went on a 14-year recording hiatus, during which time members pursued other projects while occasionally touring as Sebadoh. The group returned in 2013 with the and a full-length album titled, which were both self-recorded. Lead singer says of the band's resurrected sound, 'We kept to ourselves during the recording and didn’t have much, if any, outside intervention. That, to my mind, makes it a true Sebadoh record and aligns the style of Defend Yourself with our early releases.' Contents • • • • • • • History [ ] Lou Barlow was the bass player for alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. In the late 1980s.

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While both Barlow and leader wrote songs, Mascis' material dominated the group's output because Barlow was intimidated by the guitarist's songwriting efforts. Barlow spent progressively more time recording his own songs at home. Wiringpi Serial Port. Barlow and released the cassette in 1987 on under the name Sebadoh, which was a Barlow often muttered in his recordings.

Both Barlow and Gaffney contributed songs to (1988) cassette. Homestead Records head heard the cassette release of The Freed Man and released it as a full-length album on Homestead in 1989. Soon after the cassette's release Barlow was kicked out of Dinosaur Jr.

Over time Sebadoh's releases became a way for Barlow to address the issues of control that manifested as the tension in and his ejection from Dinosaur Jr; Barlow said 'I got a lot of hatred out just by writing those songs.' Joined in summer 1989, the first release that he played on being the 'Gimme Indie Rock' single in 1991. Only ten 'band' shows were performed throughout Western Massachusetts, Boston, and New York over the period 1989-1990 before the third album was released.

After touring with in 1991, they signed to ( in the UK and in Germany) in 1992, and released the two EPs and released just two months apart. These EPs had their track listings truncated and shuffled around and made into the American full-length release. Their fourth album was released in April 1993. The same year, the band's 'Soul and Fire' EP humorously described the band's musical goal as 'driving dozens of college-age lemmings off the cliff of limited imagination.'

Concert at in, 2007 Following (1993) Gaffney left the band. His replacement, Bob Fay, appeared on (1994) and the follow-up in 1996. Fay was fired before the sessions for (1999) and replaced by, a friend of Loewenstein's from Louisville. Following the tour to promote this album, the band went on hiatus, with Barlow concentrating on his other project, the, and Loewenstein working on material for his debut solo album At Sixes and Sevens, released in 2002. The two reunited to play concerts in late 2003 and early 2004. In March 2007, the 'Sebadoh Classic' lineup of Barlow, Gaffney and Loewenstein went on tour together for the first time in fourteen years. This coincided with a new series of reissues which repackaged some of the early albums with extra discs of unreleased tracks.

First came a reissue of, then, and. The reunion tour continued into 2008, and in May included a live performance of (1993) in its entirety as part of the curated series at London's Koko venue. In 2011 Sebadoh toured in support of reissues for their Bakesale and Harmacy albums.

Though Bakesale was reissued on time, as of June, 2015, Harmacy has still not been reissued. Taking the place of Gaffney on drums was, who plays with Loewenstein in both Circle of Buzzards and. In March 2012, Lou Barlow reissued the early recordings of Weed Forrestin' on the Sebadoh bandcamp, available in a digital download, double cd, vinyl, and deluxe edition with the Child of the Apocaylpse sessions as a cassette tape.

Fifty copies of 'Weed Forrestin' came as a surprise bonus with purchases of the limited edition re-release of Dinosaur Jr.' S first three albums in a cassette boxed set released by Joyful Noise in 2012. They were chosen by of to perform at the festival that he curated in March 2012 in Minehead, England. In July 2012, Sebadoh released on the Sebadoh bandcamp, available in a digital download. CD copies were only available at the shows of their 2012 tour.