Dinosaur Jr.

Blowin’ Up

The second single, shared on July 29, 2026 with a lyric video by Rena Johnson: a rollicking jam written and sung by Lou Barlow, which the band’s label describes as a pointed, timely attack on the current regime. Track five on There Near.

Dinosaur Jr.: J Mascis, Lou Barlow, Murph. Recorded in short bursts over a year at Bisquiteen Studio, Amherst, Massachusetts, with Ken Mauri on piano and organ. From There Near, the thirteenth Dinosaur Jr. album and the first since Sweep It Into Space (2021), Jagjaguwar, August 28, 2026. Sources: Consequence, Jagjaguwar. Photograph: Carol M. Highsmith, July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C., July 4, 2007. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (public domain).