Thank God for shiftless, neurotic, pothead New Englanders. In the late 1980s, Lou Barlow, lately laid off from his day job as bassist for then-indie powerhouse Dinosaur Jr., hooked up with fellow "noise-terrorist" Eric Gaffney to expand his home-recording project, mindlessly dubbed "Sebadoh" after a nonsense word he coined while stoned, into a proper touring band. A steadily growing cult pursued the group (teenage Jason Lowenstein quickly joined as touring drummer) well into the... more ›