We recently had a chance to speak with the band's drummer, the amiable and sharp Murph, the day of his night gig in Seattle, about how his drumming style differs from that of J Mascis and how they ...

Murph (Drummer, Dinosaur Jr.): It’s so thorough. It really encapsulates the beginning to the current time and it’s a really thorough perspective on the band and how we did it, how we do do it ...

You gotta love drummers with easy-to-remember names. Case in point: Murph. That’s short for Emmett Jefferson Murphy III, drummer for veteran rock trio Dinosaur Jr. The son of an African […] ...

Murph (Drummer, Dinosaur Jr.): J’s concept in the early days of being ‘country punk’ was kind of what we were. We would play these weird, twangy, really sloppy punk rock songs.

This week's drum-fill quiz comes from Murph, longtime drummer for the band Dinosaur Jr. A couple of these are pretty easy, but this was otherwise one of the harder ones I've done.

Very few alternative/indie bands survived the ’80s (and then the ‘90s) intact. Three survivors – Jane’s Addiction, Dinosaur Jr. and Living Colour — have teamed ...