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 ...

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.

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 […] ...

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 ...