- Harmacy · 1996
- Harmacy · 1996
- Bubble and Scrape · 1993
- Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) · 1994
- Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) · 1994
- Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) · 1994
- Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) · 1993
- Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) · 1993
- Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock · 1992
- Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) · 1994
- The Sebadoh · 1999
- III · 1991
- Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) · 1994
Essential Albums
- Bakesale was the first Sebadoh album Lou Barlow recorded without wild-card foil Eric Gaffney. Absent Gaffney's eccentric influence, the band hardened into a taut indie-rock power trio. “Licence to Confuse” and “Magnet’s Coil” rank among Barlow’s most adrenalized and melodically concise songs; the downcast “Not a Friend” and effervescent “Skull” are among his prettiest. Meanwhile, bassist Jason Loewenstein relishes his promotion to Barlow’s new right-hand man, turning in the joyously anarchic “S**t Soup” and the white-knuckled “Drama Mine.”
- Sebadoh’s Sub Pop debut compiles material from two 1992 EPs—Rocking the Forest and Sebadoh vs. Helmet—that capture their split personality at its most pronounced. On one hand, you have violently upchucked blasts like “Cry Sis” and a post-hardcore corruption of Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” that betray their affinity for DIY punk pranksterism. But amid the warm ’n’ fuzzy rush of “Brand New Love” and corroded jangle of “Vampire,” you hear Lou Barlow emerge as indie rock’s foremost hapless romantic.
Albums
- 2019
- 2013
- 1999
- 1996
- 1993
Music Videos
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019
- 2018
- 1995
Artist Playlists
- Charting the rise of the lo-fi masters.
Singles & EPs
- 2015
- 2013
About Sebadoh
One of the key bands of the '90s lo-fi movement, Sebadoh embraced intentionally raw and unsophisticated home recording as the element that tied together their self-conscious sentimental pop with their noisy experimentalism. The project began in 1986 as an outlet for Dinosaur Jr. bassist Lou Barlow when he was feeling limited by his role in his main band. When Barlow was kicked out of Dinosaur Jr. in 1989, he joined with drummer/songwriter Eric Gaffney and multi-instrumentalist Jason Loewenstein to cultivate the weird and disparate chemistry that produced indie rock classics like 1991's III and 1993's Bubble & Scrape. After releasing the major-label effort The Sebadoh in 1999, the band went on a 14-year hiatus, its members focusing on other projects before regrouping in 2013 to work on new collections of their distinctively vulnerable and high-strung songs like 2019's Act Surprised.
- ORIGIN
- Northampton, MA, United States
- FORMED
- 1986
- GENRE
- Alternative