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  Lou Barlow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Knox Barlow (born July 17, 1966) is a musician from the USA credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Lou Barlow was born in Dayton, Ohio, but was raised in Jackson, Michigan and Westfield, Massachusetts.
Barlow is widely considered to be among the most prolific and ground-breaking indie musicians of the 1990s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lou_Barlow   (845 words)

  
 Lou Barlow : EMOH : The Ratio : Review : Darryl P. Domingo
As is well-documented, Lou Barlow recorded most of his previous solo material on eight-tracks, four-tracks, and, occasionally, on one-tracks “at home,” and the stripped-down, sparse, and often spotty results have come to be representative of “do-it-yourself-ishness,” of what it means to be lo-fi.
If Lou Barlow fans have liked, or have at least said that they liked his previous albums because of their stripped-down, sparse, and spotty quality, many have disliked, or have at least said that they dislike his latest album because it seems to eschew these qualities.
Lou Barlow should not, indeed cannot, revert back to his old trademarks: the awkward count-offs, the tape-hiss, the background noise, muddled vocals, sloppy guitars, and incomplete songs.
theratio.org /reviews/b/loubarlow/emoh.html   (999 words)

  
 Lou Barlow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Barlow, who told me last year that Sebadoh had never played well in front of a Boston audience, marked the occasion with one of the best solo sets I've ever seen him do.
The show opened with Barlow's buddy Mark Peretta, an honorary member of the Deluxx Folk Implosion, performing half-formed joke songs with Steve Matthewson, a guitarist who traveled in the same circle as J Mascis back in the mid '80s, when Barlow was playing bass in Dinosaur Jr.
The bill was rounded out by Steve Westfield (the first performer Barlow claims he ever saw play) and his little big band, who came on directly before Barlow, and the art-punk hardcore outfit Fat Day, who topped off the night by unleashing a deft and deafening assault of thundering bass, drums, guitar, and, yes, trombone.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/01/08/LOU_BARLOW.html   (1065 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Lou Barlow
The album proves Barlow to be as sharp, creative and wistfully beautiful a songwriter as always.
Barlow credits his new mates' enthusiasm as critical to his musical revival, giving him hope for the road ahead.
Lou Barlow, Fixture, Alaska, Early Mart, Xiu Xiu and Bunkbed perform Thursday (Oct. 10) at the Gaslighter Theater, 400 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.03.02/loubarlow-0240.html   (744 words)

  
 Lou Barlow: Emoh (2005): Reviews
Barlow fails to write an indie rock standard, something he usually manages once per album, but EMOH still exceeds expectations.
Barlow's precious melodies and don't-wake-the-baby vocals never reach fertile ground, making Emoh more Dashboard Confessional (or maybe Dadbored Confessional?) than anyone may be comfortable with.
Lou's still a solid songwriter, though this is a bit too smooth and mellow for my tastes...
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/barlowlou/emoh   (888 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/loubarlowandhissentridoh
Arguably the most prolific songwriter of his generation, Lou Barlow was also the one of the most influential; thanks to his lo-fi legacy, any geek with a guitar, a four-track machine and an unrequited crush on a girl could become an underground pop star.
Lou, my wife and I agree, you wrote some of the most amazing material over a span of many years.
Lou, its about time you checked your page, I have an awesome Freed Man vinyl you autographed I love it and the folk implosion rocked me, write back, you are awesome.
www.myspace.com /loubarlowandhissentridoh   (566 words)

  
 erasing clouds music review: lou barlow's emoh
I'm not being sarcastic; Barlow's songs this time around are very much akin to the kind of intelligent, honest, sensitive, carefully crafted songs that she likes to sing.
Part of the appeal of even the most complicated and muddled collection of Sentridoh or Lou B. home recordings was that in the middle of a mess of sounds and ideas there'd be a perfect melody, usually accompanied by a clear expression of loneliness, love, lust or anger.
Even when he's steering close to 'serious singer-songwriter' mode, Lou Barlow is always keeping a sense of humor and taste for the unconventional - witness his earnest cover of Ratt's "Round and Round" or the album-ending ballad about a cat.
www.erasingclouds.com /wk405emoh.html   (468 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/loubarlow
For good measure Lou throws in his own interpretation of a classic hair metal anthem of the 80’s, which is priceless to say the least.
Lou Barlow might not be a household name, but in the world of indie-rock he is a superstar; no matter that this probably makes very little difference to him.
I love Lou Barlow's music and it's really nice to be able to use this profile to throw it on from time to time.
www.myspace.com /loubarlow   (1115 words)

  
 fakejazz: Lou Barlow - Emoh (Merge)
The lack of a full time band has given Barlow time to more fully realize these new solo recordings, however the songs aren't any better than the cast-offs that made their way on to the old Sentridoh albums.
Lou's best songs, ten or twenty years ago, showed him struggling to find love and excited to finally find it.
Barlow makes the song seem maybe even sentimental and charming, if you ignore the terrible cliches like "arrow through my heart." Throwaway "The Ballad of Daykitty" also is pretty charming, mostly because Lou is so unashamed of devoting a song to kitty he adopted.
www.fakejazz.com /fake/archives/2005/01/lou_barlow_emoh.php   (635 words)

  
 Sub Pop Bands: SEBADOH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 1987, Lou Barlow completed a tape titled Weed Forestin, a 30-minute collection of acoustic songs recorded on his recently-acquired 4-track cassette recorder.
Lou was in Dinosaur at the time and during some time off from touring he and Eric compiled another tape under the name Sebadoh.
Bob Fay was once again asked to replace him and in december, Jason, Bob and Lou entered the studio under patient guidance of Tim O'Heir and recorded material that, with 4 songs recorded with Eric in the spring of 1993, comprise this album Bakesale.
www.subpop.com /bands/sebadoh/lou_barlow_letter.html   (585 words)

  
 Yale Herald Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lou, who comes to Toad's tonight with bandmates Jason Lowenstein and Bob Fay, is sensitive to such a charge.
Mitigating factors: Lou's heartfelt regrets to fans posted on the SebWeb page ("My sincerest apologies to audience members in Toronto, Boston, Chicago...") and the constant, thrilling possibility that J Mascis might emerge from the wings wielding a Jagstang, never one to spare the guitar and spoil the child.
Barlow for a starry-eyed Herald reporter, dangling an indie rock dilettante's dream-come-true before her and then snatching it away with malicious, C. Montgomery Burnsian glee, leaving her to piece together a concert preview and a broken heart, with only a press kit to guide her.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxiii/1.17.97/ae/barlow.html   (548 words)

  
 Pitchfork: Lou Barlow: "Home" [Track Review]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Like the rest of Lou Barlow's forthcoming LP Emoh, "Home" is a hi-fi, polished effort, sounding like a folkier companion to The Folk Implosion's One Part Lullaby.
Lou Barlow has used lot of names and affectations in his career but now that he's recording under his given name, he's using a new gimmick here: confidence.
Lou Barlow To Perform Elliott Smith Tribute at ATP Pacific 2003
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/track_review/30029/Lou_Barlow_Home   (231 words)

  
 Bass Player - Lou Barlow Jurassic Rock
Barlow, who switched to bass from guitar when he joined Dinosaur Jr., worked closely with drummer Murph to develop a foundation for singer/guitarist J Mascis’s slacker anthems and feral guitar soloing.
Barlow’s distorted, chordal strumming style was an indispensable part of the group’s wall of noise.
His first collaboration, with lo-fi melancholics Sebadoh, began while Barlow was still in Dinosaur and helped kick off the home-recording revolution with a prodigious output of home-baked audio collages.
www.bassplayer.com /story.asp?storycode=9810   (660 words)

  
 Splendid: Departments: LiveLine: The Decemberists, Lou Barlow, Norfolk & Western
Barlow, once of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, author of impossibly beautiful, tossed off songs like "Skull" and "Rebound", was uninspiring on this occasion.
Barlow told a story about how he and Eric Gaffney once came to a Buffalo Tom concert to heckle, an evening that ended with Gaffney up on stage singing EL&P's "Lucky Man" while Buffalo Tom played a song that sounded like it.
The last song was dedicated to Barlow's dad, who was in the audience and had a birthday the next day.
www.splendidezine.com /departments/liveline/decemberists/default.html   (920 words)

  
 Splendid Magazine reviews Lou Barlow: EMOH
Yes, that's Lou Barlow singing about kittens in no fewer than two songs.
EMOH is a bit of a rebirth for Barlow, musically and lyrically, in its striking positivity.
Forgoing the darker territory he mined in Sebadoh and Folk Implosion, Barlow's first record under his own name is an exceedingly hopeful, mature outing.
www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=11089846231434384   (379 words)

  
 Lou Barlow - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Sebadoh and Folk Implosion main man Lou Barlow exposes more of his sensitive side on his first true solo offering.
Having been a leading figure in underground rock for close to 20 years, Barlow is known for his emotionally uneasy, devastatingly personal songwriting--and for his ability to turn this inner turmoil into gorgeous music.
Recorded in studios as far flung as Nashville, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, Emoh captures the essence of a talent that has made Lou Barlow one of the most respected and influential songwriters of his generation.
music.download.com /loubarlow/3615-8592_32-100591273.html   (293 words)

  
 Treble: Lou Barlow - EMOH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lou Barlow is synonymous with indie rock and, chances are, he made an impact on your own musical listening at some point in time.
His gentle, sensitive baritone glides over the lovely melodies of ballads like "Legendary" and "Royalty." And, yet, Lou Barlow the rocker comes out in the more densely produced tracks, like "HOME" and "Caterpillar Girl." And "Morning's After Me," one of the album's quieter tracks, is Lou at his most graceful.
But being the diligent home-taper that he is, it's not exactly the sort of thing we'd expect from Barlow, particularly on a solo release.
www.treblezine.com /reviews/452.html   (421 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Music: Review - Lou Barlow
Any kid who fell in love with early Nineties guitar pop might reference Lou Barlow or Sebadoh as their first crush.
Barlow's quirky brand of dork rock – whether it was with Dinosaur Jr.
Barlow is a prolific bugger, and after years of lo-fi bedroom recordings, we have his first official solo album.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-03-18/music_phases11.html   (277 words)

  
 Lou Barlow : Lou Barlow and Friends: Another Collection of Home Recordings - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Lou Barlow : Lou Barlow and Friends: Another Collection of Home Recordings
Another Collection of Home Recordings isn't all that different from Lou Barlow's first collection -- it's still him composing songs that are either slight or significant on his portastudio, with the occasional help of some friends and family members.
However, Another Collection serves as a more effective introduction to Barlow's insular world since it has more flashes of humor than the previous record.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,207658,00.html   (211 words)

  
 Remote Control - Artist - Lou Barlow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Emoh is the first, official solo album from Lou Barlow: the bard of lo-fi, erstwhile leader of Sebadoh, The Folk Implosion and Sentridoh and former bass player for Dinosaur Jr.
For followers of Lou Barlow, who’ve been there since Sebadoh formed in 1987, it’s certainly been a while.
Lou’s previous solo collection, Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings (Smells Like Records, 1994), and the many self-released Sentridoh recordings have hinted at the Lou’s personal vision, but this is the record for which many Lou Barlow fans have hoped, yet dare not hope.
www.remotecontrolrecords.com.au /artistDetail.asp?ArtistID=309   (548 words)

  
 EMOH by Lou Barlow CD
The title of Lou Barlow's 2005 release EMOH is a clear play on the style of indie rock--prominent in the late 1990s and 2000s--that emphasizes personal, confession lyrics and plaintive singing.
The name is a more than a little ironic--Barlow was playing "emo" music with his band Sebadoh as early as 1989, and has since steadily turned out many recordings that combine sensitive songwriting and lo-fi experimentalism.
Barlow's facility with poignant acoustic ballads is in effect throughout the record, with a fine roster of guest musicians adding shimmer and texture (even on his stately cover of Ratt's "Round-N-Round").
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6819147/a/EMOH.htm   (405 words)

  
 Domino: Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Before Beck, Cat Power or even Pavement, Sebadoh was rocking the underground as "the quintessential lo-fi band of the '90s" (All Music Guide) and Lou has become hero to young singer/songwriters with their hearts on sleeve and a punk-rock fire in their loins.
For followers of Lou Barlow, who've been there since Sebadoh formed in 1987, it’s certainly been awhile.
There is much to recommend here — an amazing songwriting growth in a long-time hero, the instantly recognisable warmth of a much-loved voice, a brace of tunes you don’t have to wade through the tape-hiss to hear...
www.dominorecordco.com /artist.php?artist=194   (486 words)

  
 Lou Barlow - AOL Music
Even before his acrimonious departure from Dinosaur Jr, bassist Lou Barlow was recording his own material.
Self-recording is one of those things that Lou Barlow and Sebadoh are known for;...
Download, listen and watch Lou Barlow music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 VH1.com : Lou Barlow : Artist Main
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Arguably the most prolific songwriter of his generation, Lou Barlow was also the one of the most influential; thanks to his lo-fi legacy, any geek with a guitar, a four-track machine and an unrequited crush on a girl could become an underground po...
Lou Barlow To Implode On Stages Across U.S. [Thu.
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 YouTube - Lou Barlow - Round-n-Round (promo clip)
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Bob Mould & Lou Barlow "Believe What You're Saying" Live 94
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 Lou Barlow on Rhapsody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Infamous for punching himself in the face with his own fist, Sebadoh's Lou Barlow has now attained a sliver of the same kook-cred as Daniel...
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 Official Ticketmaster site. Lou Barlow tickets, dates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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