Jenny Charlesworth

Jenny Charlesworth is an arts and culture journalist and online editor at Today's Parent. She regularly contributes to The Straight, Concrete Skateboarding and The Grid. A music and pop culture enthusiast, Jenny has written for The Wire, The Globe and Mail, Spinner, Paste Magazine, Montecristo Magazine, The Block, HUCK Magazine and The Tyee. She lends her expertise to CTV National News. In 2010, Jenny was a member of the Polaris Music Prize Grand Jury.

My interview with J Mascis featured in Concrete Magazine

The awkward pauses around J Mascis’ devastatingly short responses are just long enough to convince you that he has little interest in talking to Concrete about his new solo venture, Several Shades of Why. that’s the assumption you’d make, at least, if you weren’t familiar with the bespectacled oddball at the center of Dinosaur Jr. [dinosaurjr.com].

Despite nearly 30 years in the music industry – a tenure which has seen the amherst, massachusetts native align himself with bone- rattling bands like Witch, Upsidedown Cross and most recently Sweet Apple, in addition to his main gig alongside Lou Barlow – Mascis has never gotten the hang of self-promotion. Nor has he had to. It’s not the witty quotes or magazine covers that won him a legion of fans. Mascis’ force lies in the dizzying guitar solos, the thundering wall of noise and that unmistakably voice, forever raspy and crackling.

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